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@ artifex @piefed.social

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  • Real name online?

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  • For some accounts I do. For most I don't.

  • Etobicoke

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  • I really like this, there’s something uncanny valley about it. I think the harsh lighting and firm shadows make it look like a computer render from the 1990s.

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    RFK Jr ridiculed as he promotes strange fitness initiative topless with Kid Rock

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  • Good call, good call. How could I forget so many A-listers?

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    RFK Jr ridiculed as he promotes strange fitness initiative topless with Kid Rock

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  • Ah right. Does it say something that I totally forgot she existed?

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    RFK Jr ridiculed as he promotes strange fitness initiative topless with Kid Rock

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  • Is Kid Rock literally the only celebrity they have at this point?

  • Do you read books on your phone?

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  • Get a used kobo. An aura or h2o can be had for $50 or less on eBay and will do all that you need, has a battery you can actually replace, and has an active 3rd party software community if you find the default (perfectly good) software lacking.

  • Turning Our Back on Clean Energy | Why does MAGA hate the planet?

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  • caring for the planet makes capital accumulation more difficult, and that’s what the oligarchs are concerned about. I think most MAGAs are just brainwashed by them.

  • Is "web archiving while browsing" a thing?

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  • Huh. This seems like one of those "this must exist" situations, but I can't think of anything that does this, and a brief search suggests there may not be. The closest I could find was The Internet Archive's Archive-IT, though it's not an exact match. Otherwise, Archive Webpage , a pricey paid-for option (which seems like a terrible idea) appears to be the closest. OSS/self-host like Archivebox and Linkwarden don't really do this (though you can save/send a current tab to them), and apart from that... I don't really see anything.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Oh, nothing, but the complaint is "too much groupthink", and users on that instance tend to have a lot of solidarity and surface issues and topics that a fair chunk of the lemmy user base probably don't usually see in their other social feeds.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Mute lemmygrad, hexbear, .ml and maybe blahaj and see if you still feel the same afterwards.

  • When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech

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  • Of course! What a novel idea! A business focusing on a highly specialized audience requires careful consideration and planning.

    Shall I switch to deep-planning mode so I can charge you 10X the tokens?

  • When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech

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  • Great observation! You’re absolutely right! It does sound like it was written by an LLM.

  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • I disagree with this. Maybe one of the few good things to come out of LLMs is that a smart developer doesn’t need to care as much about language, because the AI can abstract so much of that away. If you’re a good problem solver, it’s much easier to switch from PHP to Java to Python and let the AI handle the language specific details (up to a point, and not always optimally)

  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • Become more product centric. In my company product managers have been mocking more features because they can talk it over with an AI who builds it, even if only a prototype. I think that ability to describe what a system should do will continue to be valuable for a while and is something that LLMs are still not very good at. They can talk about UX, but their “experience” of a product is always going to be different from a human’s.

  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • This is it for me. Rubber duck programming with an AI is like talking to a brilliant idiot engineer. They have no knowledge of how things work but have enough “experience” to say “this looks weird, why did you do that?”

  • We need apoclypse-proof software

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  • I understand your sentiment but there’s an unbelievable amount of low-level code that will never get updated and will be fine for the lifetime of whatever system it’s in. If you drive an ICE car there’s a chance it will never really need an ECU update. The microcontrollers in most of your home devices, from washing machines to sprinkler systems, probably can’t even be updated. We’re capable of building software that lasts more or less forever, but it often has to be paired to specific hardware and made for specific use-cases.

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  • Yes, do it!

    As for CRTs, I did a big electronics slim-down a few years ago and only have one CRT left. Any time I have to move it I’m reminded of why LCDs so easily won out, even when they were dimmer, slower and so much more expensive for a while.

  • I created a public activity tracker for the matrix protocol network

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  • This is very cool. Have you uncovered any hidden gems with it yet (eg genuinely active nice communities, etc). My brief experience with matrix left me feeling that either a) either all of the activity on matrix was for matrix-related things, or b) it was just impossible to actually find active communities.

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  • This is awesome. You should see if you can fit all of this into one of those giant Motorola “portable phones” from the early 1990s for an extra hit of retro-tech goodness (though digital and with 1,000,000x the bandwidth)

  • science @lemmy.world
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    Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

    futurism.com /health-medicine/alzheimers-mice-cured
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike

    www.pcgamer.com /games/survival-crafting/what-the-f-modding-arch-sorcerer-casually-invents-minecraft-x-hytale-crossplay-defies-laws-of-god-and-man-alike/
  • Economics @lemmy.world
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    Will 24/7 trading have a similar kind of negative effect as the introduction of 24/7 news did?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    I don't understand how Moxie Marlinspike's Confer "Private LLM" works

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

    hothardware.com /news/autofocusing-smart-glasses-with-eye-tracking-tech-could-make-bifocals-obsolete
  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Aging Weakens Immunity. An mRNA Shot Turned Back the Clock in Mice.

    singularityhub.com /2026/01/08/aging-weakens-immunity-an-mrna-shot-turned-back-the-clock-in-mice/
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    Aging Weakens Immunity. An mRNA Shot Turned Back the Clock in Mice.

    singularityhub.com /2026/01/08/aging-weakens-immunity-an-mrna-shot-turned-back-the-clock-in-mice/
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    Five-Year-Old Mini Brains Can Now Mimic a Kindergartener’s Neural Wiring. It’s Time to Talk Ethics.

    singularityhub.com /2025/12/25/five-year-old-mini-brains-can-now-mimic-a-kindergarteners-neural-wiring-its-time-to-talk-ethics/
  • Science @mander.xyz
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    Five-Year-Old Mini Brains Can Now Mimic a Kindergartener’s Neural Wiring. It’s Time to Talk Ethics.

    singularityhub.com /2025/12/25/five-year-old-mini-brains-can-now-mimic-a-kindergarteners-neural-wiring-its-time-to-talk-ethics/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Build Your Own Glasshole Detector

    hackaday.com /2025/12/02/build-your-own-glasshole-detector/
  • science @lemmy.world
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    Bees Can Tell Time: New Study Reveals Shockingly Advanced Insect Intelligence

    thedebrief.org /bees-can-tell-time-new-study-reveals-shockingly-advanced-insect-intelligence/
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    MIT Neuroscientist Proposes Brain Waves are the Hidden Engine Behind Thought and Consciousness

    thedebrief.org /mit-neuroscientist-proposes-brain-waves-are-the-hidden-engine-behind-thought-and-consciousness/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

    david.coffee /cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnels
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    “Magic-Angle” Graphene Superconductor Research May Herald “The Holy Grail of the Entire Field”

    thedebrief.org /magic-angle-graphene-superconductor-research-may-herald-the-holy-grail-of-the-entire-field/
  • Science @mander.xyz
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    Dark Energy Debate Reignites As Study Finds Universe's Expansion Is Actually Slowing

    hothardware.com /news/universes-expansion-may-be-slowing-and-it-could-rewrite-dark-energy-theory
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    Dark Energy Debate Reignites As Study Finds Universe's Expansion Is Actually Slowing

    hothardware.com /news/universes-expansion-may-be-slowing-and-it-could-rewrite-dark-energy-theory
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    Scientists Use Novel Materials That Mimic Wormholes and Multiple Realities to “Transcend the Limitations of Physical Dimensions”

    thedebrief.org /scientists-use-novel-materials-that-mimic-wormholes-and-multiple-realities-to-transcend-the-limitations-of-physical-dimensions/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

    hothardware.com /news/scientists-claims-4k-and-8k-tvs-arent-noticeably-better-than-hd-to-the-human-eye
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

    hothardware.com /news/scientists-claims-4k-and-8k-tvs-arent-noticeably-better-than-hd-to-the-human-eye
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime

    arstechnica.com /space/2025/10/california-startup-to-demonstrate-space-weapon-on-its-own-dime/