I believe, (far too) much of the commercial world relies on Cloudflare to solve that problem.

And as for Wikipedia, any AI trainer worth their salt should know that they don’t need to crawl it, because you can actually just download the whole Wikipedia dataset.

Ich muss immer einmal die Wade nach hinten strecken, wie der Mensch im Bild, sonst zerre ich mir die Achillessehne ziemlich schnell. 🫠

There’s somewhat of a historical context, where there were forums at first, where people generally used pseudonyms. Then the broad wave of webpages originally dubbed “social media” happened, which wanted users to use their real names. In that context, Lemmy doesn’t feel like social media.

But the strong distinction for platforms to either be pseudonymous or prefer real identies somewhat seized to exist, because it’s not anymore novel to use your real identity on the internet. For example, TikTok has a mixture of folks showing their face, as well as completely anonymous uploaders.

Instead, the definition is becoming more about: Do you interact with other humans? Which is a definite yes for Lemmy.

If you actually need to run some DEB or RPM or such, people seem to be recommending Distrobox a lot these days.

Habe gehört, der Indie-Bereich soll da deutlich angenehmer sein. Also dass man da die meisten Spiele relativ zügig anspielen kann, und selbst wenn man mal warten muss, dass man währenddessen auch einfach ein anderes Spiel nebendran spielen kann.

Ja, irgendwas muss man auf so einer Messe mitnehmen und für die meisten Sachen wird man als Normalsterbliche*r eben anstehen müssen, aber ich denke mir schon auch, dass ein Spiel gar nicht so geil sein kann, dass es mir das wirklich wert wäre…

Bin so Internet-geschädigt, dass ich dachte, es geht um das Wrestling-Meme. Stattdessen willst du einen Klappstuhl nutzen, um draufzusitzen. Das ist ja völlig wild.

Pacman is Arch’s package manager. The AUR is the “Arch User Repository”, which is just an alternative repository where users can upload whatever they want. (And the comment you responded to is sarcastic, because it happens that there’s malware on the AUR.)

MSI files are actually comparable to Linux packages, from what I understand, in that the program that does the installing (and which gets root/admin permissions for that) comes with the OS itself.

And AppImage files are fun. They contain a filesystem of their own. This filesystem need to get mounted and the contained executable needs to be started in such a way that it thinks the mounted filesystem is the root filesystem.
So, AppImage does need somewhat of a runtime environment and isn’t just a plain executable. But for this particular comparison, they’re still most comparable to self-contained executables, in that they do not need root permissions, because they don’t need to install themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage#Design

“Last meal” is what you eat before being executed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_meal

I don’t want to dismiss your point overall, but I see that example so often and it irks me so much.

Unit tests are your specification. So, 1) ideally you should write the specification before you implement the functionality. But also, 2) this is the one part where you really should be putting in your critical thinking to work out what the code needs to be doing.

An AI chatbot or autocomplete can aid you in putting down some of the boilerplate to have the specification automatically checked against the implementation. Or you could try to formulate the specification in plaintext and have an AI translate it into code. But an AI without knowledge of the context nor critical thinking cannot write the specification for you.

But it producing an average of its inputs does not mean that it produces writing of average quality. That would only work, if writing was random, like the proverbial monkey on a typewriter.

Instead, average quality writing is already very deliberate. Any human that writes is at least superficially aware of what they want to convey and to what group of people. An LLM can try to emulate that, and particularly successfully so when it has a text from an actual human writer on this topic in its training data. But it is incapable of the critical thinking necessary to actually decide in what order and with what level of detail to explain something novel.
Crucially, it does not understand things. It only produces patterns. So, it doubly cannot understanding what is necessary to actually understand things. What information you need to be provided before it clicks. And what information is just noise that distracts from the shortest path to understanding.

Die Feder ist mächtiger als das Schwert. Weil das links ja definitiv ein Mikrophon ist und nichts anderes.

This might fix it on some clients (but probably breaks it on others): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.zip_(top-level_domain)

Yeah, this has been one of my biggest takeaways from this whole LLM thing, just how many people are completely unaware of what constitutes good writing. A good chunk of human communication was apparently upheld by people simply being too lazy to type out many word when few do trick.

And now that laziness isn’t the problem anymore, now that they just have to provide two sentences of information to get a full page of text, they think that’s good. That lots of words mean you put in lots of effort. And lots of effort signifies that what you say is important.

I do expect societal norms to change. That the association of lots of words with lots of effort will fall by the wayside. That people get tired of the noise that LLMs add. But unfortunately, it is going to take a while, because people are so unaware of why writing is good or not.

I mean, unless we define “professional” as really just being able to collect money for it, that still seems extremely short, even if it were a dozen parts with that length…

Yeah, when I’m well in training with a language, there’s certainly a magnitude more stuff that I know off the top of my head, but what really makes the difference is that I know where to look up how to do something and what libraries to pull in.

You don’t need to remember everything to the point, where you could reproduce it without looking anything up. It’s much more important to have a pattern in your head, so that when you do look things up, you can piece back together how it worked from that information you find online.

Well, neither of them extend your average lifespan. You might get hit by lightning before that becomes particularly relevant. But even then, you have a higher chance of surviving, if your body is healthy.

Wollte antworten, dass das so ein Live-Laugh-Love Meme ist, aber fairerweise ist das eigentlich auch nur eine Kapitulationserklärung. Also auch keine Ahnung, was es bedeuten soll.