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𓀐 @2z~pEr=R: Is coding dead?+

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𓀐 @wM-Zue=y: Does anyone have experience with magnetic keyboards? Is it true that they will never do the "clatter" thing where you press "a" and it types "aa" because of dirt and whatnot, like mechanical keyboards do? I'm fucking tired of looking for the tiniest speck of dirt ruining my typing experience. I hear optical keyboards are also supposedly "immune" but they have problems when the sun shines on them too much?+

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𓀐 @GjWdGq5o: So if I understand correctly, Wake on Lan was introduced in 1995-8. Was there a way to power on computers remotely inside a LAN before that?+

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𓀐 @TG9SpL2C: >Girlfriend wants to play PC game for free >Friend tells her how to torrent it. >Wasn't told she should use a VPN (I guess she assumed she already had one) >Torrents the whole thing without a VPN >I tell her to stop seeding. Explain that copyright trolls can get her internet shut off if she's not careful >Mfw I realize I'm gonna have to babysit her in how to set one up >I'll have to make sure it's bound to her torrent client going forward so her IP doesn't leak on any torrent swarms going forward Why does the thought of guiding her through this irritate me a little? This stuff is common sense to me but I guess I have to be reminded not everyone cares enough to learn this stuff like I do. Would a basic AI like Gemini or ChatGPT be able to coach her through the process or would it be better that I babysit her throughout the setup process? I want to help her but I hate that I feel irritated about this.+

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𓀐 @Eq*onJFs: So there was nothing else before it?+

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𓀐 @AUoiwrsK: Does the quality of code matter these days? They have accused AI of doing poor quality coding, but when I see these AI console games ported to PC by Claude and see much superior they work in my PC to emulators which have been coded and maintained for decades and still are far from perfect, I start to get my doubts about quality of code.+

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𓀐 @C9_LT?XL: If we consider that technology can only keep getting better and more efficient with time, what's stopping a psychopath from eventually causing catastrophic damages by using a sufficiently powerful AI model running locally on a regular phone? Eventually AI has got to get to that point where an anthropic or openai frontier-tier model can run locally on anything, right? This whole AI thing has me a bit queasy and I won't stop thinking about things like these.+

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𓀐 @ng3aqVYY: Can someone explain to me what this means? I have 1x16gb sticks of ram but only have 16.1GB available? I only have 2 ram slots so i dont have them in the wrong slots before anyone asks that I have XMP on+

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𓀐 @ARzr3kZY: Thanks for replying, but there are still things beyond malicious software, like being able to create contagious human viruses the likes of which we've never seen before, or the technology evolving to the point where it'd be feasible for someone to make an "ASI" or "AGI" or whatever name they use to call it in their garage. I'm a layman so maybe reaching that point is impossible due to some limitation and I'm completely off? I don't know, it just feels like every day there's a new thing to worry about. Sam and Dario don't seem to be hitting the breaks on their "world-ending" product in any meaningful way so maybe there's something they know that we don't and I'm just working myself up over nothing.+

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𓀐 @QFMhJ?Mh: My friend wants to sell me an 8tb internal hard drive for $225, a seagate ironwolf. Should I take it?+ 1

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𓀐 @+W~AFsJt: Check diskprices.com. Back before the components crisis, about $14/TB was a good deal, nowadays it looks to be more like $25/TB. (Filter out SAS drives unless you have SAS connectors.) Yours is $28/TB which is not terrible, but it does look like there's some drives which you can even buy new at that price, so it's not a steal or anything. In general the things to look at are >SMART readouts, make sure there's no issues but also check e.g. total power-on hours to get an idea of its wear >cross-reference with the Seagate official table of which drives are SMR, to make sure it's not >do you even need to hoard 8tb of data for anything or is it a "just in case lol" impulse buy SMR, for reference, is cheaper but makes overwriting data VERY slow. It's acceptable for backups or long-term storage where your data will pretty much be write-once, but it's always worth less than a proper CMR one. If you do want the drive for backups or whatever, you can try asking your friend for a cheaper price. That or grab one of the deals from diskprices+

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𓀐 @e=tHn=WZ: how do I stop this stupid bullshit. it randomly blocks safe websites even AFTER the website loads, it goes to this page. allternatively recommend me a better browser than firefox+ 1

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𓀐 @ZJotFL?4: pls help I downloaded Vivaldi and it happens on there too they're literally just normal websites like tumblr and reddit and stuff+

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𓀐 @ezFaLKPA: Wtf is going on at Intel? Are they just burning money over there these days or something?+

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𓀐 @dU4jArou: Aint ""0%"" a fixed cut off voltage? And where does the percentage even come from? Isn't the device only aware of voltage? (I have this 4 year old electric moped and I hate the percentage display, why can't we have voltage for all battery powered devices? The small lithium ion battery is already showing marks of wear and percentages are seemingly a bit more out there compared to when the bike was brand new)+

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𓀐 @vY*ZE?SP: Why does SVT-AV1 (I don't know whether it's the encoder or AV1 itself) blur so much? Even with some experimentation with various parameters, it still seems so blurry. I know older encoders like x264 were notoriously prone to macroblocking and would frequently waste energy on high frequency information like grain and other noise, but final encodes still look much better to me because of how much sharper they are, even if that's at the cost of some errors here and there. Is AV1 just blurry or what?+

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𓀐 @2LGqF6tH: do you guys document your setups / write down what software you use in a list? i feel like i need to in order to remember all the stuff i should reinstall whenever i switch OS. I have a dotfiles repo but thats more for config setup+

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𓀐 @mZjPGfnJ: I think this is the css theme, but I'm not sure how you would use it, it's the whole theme including some generic stuff. https://s.4cdn.org/css/spooky.715.css The 23 different skeletons are in this folder: https://s.4cdn.org/image/skeletons/23.gif You would need a userscript to add the skeleton img element in the body element tho+

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𓀐 @2qM9H~-p: Is it possible to 100% clone a drive to a larger drive, including bootsectors, or is the only way to replace the "main" "system" drive is by reinstalling the OS?+

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𓀐 @TR3QFD8H: What are the best schizo messaging apps on F-Droid? I made some internet friends and I want to set up a secondary form of communication with them. A sane person would use Discord, but I'd prefer something with E2EE (not a hard requirement), and I am absolutely not willing to associate my internet life with my phone number or real email address.+

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𓀐 @UuFSFDJU: Basically any LLM with visual capabilities. The frontier cloud models will be best, so it's a tradeoff of whether you want to minimise mistakes or avoid a cloud model reading your files. If you go local, ask in /lmg/ what the state of the art is right now. Keep a backup before you do it, any AI can make mistakes and you don't want "whoopsie I accidentally ran rm -rf ~" to be irrecoverable. Sandboxing often helps but in this case you are actually intentionally making the AI handle your files so there's no way to protect against mistakes, just keep a backup so that later if you find "huh why is this folder missing entirely, did the AI just delete it or something" you can grab it from your backups.+

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𓀐 @2BK+6=CG: >buy 20 TB WD Red Pro drive off Amazon >shipped and sold by Amazon (not a third party), assume all is well >open it up >pic related This fucking thing is fake, right? The lady on the phone for WD verified the serial number but clearly there's no SATA connection and the damn thing was scratched out of the box.+

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𓀐 @3_GW8T5i: what do i want for christmas this year?+

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𓀐 @n3?fu3Z4: I have an 8yo Asus laptop i5 7th gen, Geforce 930mx,12mb ram, 1tb HD I use it for video editing, photoshop and stuff that is quite heavy use. I was considering buying a new machine, but I'm trying to save. AI is telling me to buy an SSD would solve most of my problems and make my machine faster. Is that really so? Is it worth to fix it with an SSD? Any brand recommendations?+

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