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That’s not what I thought /hj meant.

Ah, so worse. Cool.

In my experience, devs who want to “keep politics out of it,” typically don’t want their politics challenged.

Sorry, one of the hyperlinks in the article (“pretending to be oblivious”) linked to a toot that was preceded by this toot which says:

I am sorry but the last paragraph about accessibility is complete and utter bullshit. Jesus fucking Christ.

I don’t know what’s worse, giving the metux more attention or not having a clue what you write about.

There isn’t any " remarkable levels of anti-X11 sentiment from Wayland proponents since the announcement" either. Your perception of reality is so wrapped its basically an Ouroboros by now.

Emphasis mine

Is “metux” a distro, or a bad pun on “Me Too?”

Well, yeah. Isn’t that the stated goal?

Eliminates reliance on any single source for core updates, plugins, themes and translations, enabling federation across the ecosystem from trusted sources

[…]

Brings together a fragmented ecosystem by bringing together plugins from any source, not just a central source, while creating a foundation for modern security practices.

Builds security into the supply chain, including improved cryptographic security measures, enhanced browser compatibility checking, and enabling reliance on trusted source security salts.

Linux Foundation announcement.

If I were to ask my Magic 8 Ball “Is the word ‘difinitely’ misspelled?” 100 times, it’s going to reply in the affirmative over 16% of the time. Literally double. This would also be “the very first experiment in this use case, done by a single person on a model that wasn’t specifically designed for this.”

It’s not impressive.

The issue with hallucinations…

This is the real problem: working under the false assumption that there are two kinds of output. It’s all the same output. An LLM cannot hallucinate in the same way that it cannot think or reason. It’s fancy autofill. Predictive text.

You can use it to brainstorm creative solutions, but you need to treat its output for what it is: complicated dice rolls from the tables in the back of the Dungeon Masters Guide. A fun distraction. Implausible fantasy 9 times out of 10.

In 100 runs only 8 correctly identify the targeted vulnerability, the rest are false positives or claim that there are no vulnerabilities in the given code. … [The] signal to noise ratio is very low, and one has to sift through a lot of wrong reports to get a realistic one.

It was right 8% of the time when presented the least amount of input to find a known bug. Then, when they opened it up to more of the codebase, its performance decreased.

I’m not going to use something that’s wrong over 92% of the time. That’s insane. That’s like saying my Magic 8 Ball “could be used as a useful tool for helping to detect vulnerabilities.” The fucking rubber ducky on my desk has a more reliable clearance rate.

The future of web development is XHTML. Get on or get left behind.

Transitional XHTML resulted in extremely organized (if verbose) DOMs and delivered features that took forever to show up in HTML5.

It also sniffed out the sociopaths who capitalize elements and close their tags out of order. Fucking …

<p><strong><em>Evidence of low moral character.</strong></em></p>

This is actually a technique to capture an honest answer from a respondent. Ask the same question a few different ways here and there, then take the average of the answers. (It could have been executed better in this survey, though.)

That way is old and busted, here’s the new hotness (anchor positioning).

Hey @dgerard@awful.systems, care to weigh in on this “train wreak [sic] of an article?”

Is there a community I can find more of this type of thing?

The man who killed Google search is required reading at this point.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Edition. It’s amazing.

Related.

Videogaming, porn and gambling gave boys such dopamine hits that anything else they did felt boring.

Kids these days don’t understand the rush of dumping their entire allowance into 15 minutes of Street Fighter, comitting borderline felonies while riding bicycles around the neighborhood, and then going into the woods to jerk it to that one Playboy before going over Steve’s house to worship the devil.

they are trying to do some mouses with mandatory AI software bits.

But Logitech software is already terrible.

Please, boil the ocean to give me a pleasant, factually dubious reply.

@joshuaboniface on Mar 8, 2021

Thank you for this list. We are aware of quite a few, but for reasons of backwards compatibility they’ve never been fixed. We’d definitely like to but doing so in a non-disruptive way is the hard part.

Holy fuck what a reply.

(I assume this thing is opposite the hole water comes out of. Sometimes emitters look like rigatoni pasta inside a hose, sometimes they look like stapled-on Band-Aids, but they always cover the hole from the inside. I’m assuming yours is the latter. If there’s no hole on the other side of that, then I don’t know what that is.)

Basically, if a clump of not-water enters the hose from the source, this thing will stop it from trying to squeeze through the hole and instead loop back around to the source or kinda spread out along the entire run.

From the other direction, if a plant sticks its roots in the hole, it’ll feel the plastic and try to take root somewhere else. Most plants don’t like to work that hard to root into stuff, so basically anything will dissuade them from entering the hole. (There are some exceptions, and those exceptions are total asshole plants who will root through anything anyway, like bricks and shit. You have to nuke those plants back to the source before you even start laying tube.)