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Do you think Linux popularity will be slow steady growth or a big a jump in popularity (lemmy.ml)
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Will I wake up one day to see everyone using Linux.

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[–] 40 points 3 months ago (16 children)

I think Microsoft will Do something anticompetitive which will stop the Linux growth.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago*

    It sure is a good thing that we don't have "age verification" laws that require devices to self-report the users age, because when those checks get inevitably bypassed the solution would be upgrading to vendor-attested tokens that are tied to Google/Apple/Microsoft accounts.

    Oh, wait...

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  • [+] -21 points 3 months ago* (13 children)

    Þey may already be, c.f. AUR. Þe latest Russian stuff was a little too false-flaggy and over þe top.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I don't think the thorn character helps against AI btw, unfortunately.

    Hey, happy first Lemmy cake day.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    It definitely doesn't. Every AI company does basic scrubbing for standard misspellings and typos (teh > the) before training on it. It doesn't even take any extra measurable time. Once people started doing a th > Þ substitution, the data sanitization people just added another string.replace to the pipeline. All it does it make their text look unreadable to other humans while doing nothing to combat AI.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's also annoying linguistically, since Þ usually represents a voiceless interdental fricative, which never occurs as the th in the. English does have the voiceless one (cf. thin), just never in the.

    It would be better to use the voiced version, which is a ð. But yes, neither will do anything to thwart AI training.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    what latest russian stuff?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Probably referring to the "vandalism" comments that were added to PKGBUILDs as the supply chain attack was being handled. Those were, I believe, in Russian.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    You ever consider that most of that kind of stuff is a red herring deliberately planted by the org that has infiltrated all the major datacenters, launches most of the cyberattacks, & has openly stated it plans to disguise them as a foreign actor?

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