I was gifted a 9 inch pullman loaf pan and after many attempts, I finally filled the corners!

There appears to be a few bad actors in the Lemmy community spreading ragebait for personal gain

In fact, the same mechanisms added at the beginning to catch bad human written code are the exact same that catch bad AI code

1. No, the Linux kernel DOES NOT use AI to automatically approve code for inclusion. As far as I can tell, there are no plans to do so
2. The Kernel actually has a huge number of maintainers. As part of the process, all patches are reviewed by a human who provide feedback as part of the process, and patches get bounced back and forth multiple time.
3. Patches don't just magically go straight to master. The maintainers generally have their own branches where it goes to, then it goes to staging trees like Linux-Next. It goes through many eyes, and many tests by the end. The idea that AI code is overrunning the kernel is rediculous
4. Maintainers also check that the code meets coding guidelines and is written properly, and solves the problem they are trying to solve. Yes, they also ensure the code isn't slop
5. LLM's though might be used to identify obvious problems with the code (which they are VERY good at), or even identify code that doesn't follow coding guidelines.
6. The only thing that matters is the human who submitted the code, as they should be checking the code submitted anyway (including LLM generated code)

Writing bad code isn't something new, and isn't unique to LLM's. Coders (and it seems some "journalists") have been writing slop since computers were invented.

The process hasn't gotten less stringent (probably even MORE stringent as there is an additional set of robotic eyes that can also check), and the same mechanisms that were put in place to catch badly written code 10 years ago, are still there now.. With no changes.

I don't feel comfortable stealing journalism but there are a pair of interesting articles (in the Leaders and International sections) which I'd recommend if you have access through a school or library!

I've been working on this for a little over a year. It's called TuxTalk. You hold F8, talk, let go, and it types what you said into whatever window you're in. Everything runs on your own computer, nothing gets sent anywhere.

It used to be called TalkType. Turned out another company owns that name, so it got renamed a few days ago.

By default it uses the Parakeet speech model, which is fast even on the processor, and it can use your graphics card if you have one, AMD and Intel included. Whisper models are there too if you need more languages. I use it on KDE Plasma under Wayland, and it works on GNOME and X11 as well. There's an AppImage, a .deb and an .rpm, and it's on the AUR.

Full disclosure, I build camper vans for a living, so this is a hobby project. It's free and MIT licensed. What I'd really like is feedback, especially from anyone on a distro I haven't tested.

There's a short video on the site: https://ronb1964.github.io/TuxTalk
Code: https://github.com/ronb1964/TuxTalk
Questions or problems: https://github.com/ronb1964/TuxTalk/discussions

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Imagine being dead, buried and just a skeleton right now. That'd be pretty fun, wouldn't it? Haha...ha. I hate myself so fucking much.

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Influential Israeli political strategist Nevo Cohen is working on an unnamed election campaign in Brazil amid the ongoing presidential elections featuring Israel ally Flavio Bolsonaro.

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Brazil’s far right has long had ties to the Netanyahu government. Netanyahu has referred to Jair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president now imprisoned on corruption charges, as his brother.

Jair Bolsonaro’s sons, who are also influential in Brazilian right-wing politics, make regular trips to Israel.

One son, Carlos, was investigated by Brazilian authorities for establishing a parallel intelligence agency to spy on political opponents and journalists in partnership with the Israeli surveillance company Pegasus.

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For those unaware, Linus Torvalds this year has deeply cast his lot with the hyperscale LLMs for development of Linux code, dismissing arguments that this is an abdication of responsibility over that code base.

An Israeli surveillance technology firm has run a large-scale operation to infect mobile phones with spyware using online advertisements to hack the devices, researchers said on Thursday.

Had to evict a big ass spider from my room today and was reminded of this meme template. At least it's easier to evict spiders than cats, the latter don't fit in measuring cups.

I make this wok oil to fry noodles and rice. In the Netherlands, Chinese restaurants, with a little help from MSG, use this for their Bami and Nasi.

Ginger Garlic Onion Sunflower Oil

Fry until everything is like pictured, medium heat as it will slowly release flavors into the oil evaporating the water in the ingredients. Takes about 30 minutes. I use the fried ingredients to marinade meats after cooling to room temp.

Sometimes I add star anise, cinnamon sticks, cardamon, peppers...wok oil is truly best making it yourself, I don't buy prefab ever.