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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - torture and execution center established by the Khmer Rouge, now a museum in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Same and went to the killing field outside the city later on. The driver cried when talking about the family members he lost. Most harrowing day of my life, totally redefined the lower limit of "how badly things can go wrong".

issues with flask in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

You need to install some things ("build dependencies") before installing this app. Examine the documentation to see what those things are.

cohost to shut down at end of 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Very extensive background saga, if anyone is interested: https://hackers.town/@lori/110656825941689147

1 hour in Java in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Python has (optional) types now.

The C++ learning process in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Story by a game dev who gave up on Rust after 3 years https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

What can you say about the BBM presidency? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

When I am in Philippines I feel hope that things will get better because of the nature of the culture there. I see unique strengths that are rare elsewhere -

  • Humorous - always ready to joke and laugh
  • Hard workers - people work long hours in difficult conditions
  • Warm - it's easy to catch a smile and make a connection
  • Family - strong bonds and support

I don't think it will be the right president or leader that will make a difference. It will be many many people, at every level of government and in the private sector working together.

There are an array of big problems facing the country (and the world). It feels overwhelming. But around us there are smaller problems where we can make a difference. Try to find those opportunities.

Do I understand LLMs? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Pretty much.

But it only takes words as input. Numbers are just another type of word. Sentences are just a series of words with a "." word on the end.

This is why when you get a LLM to do basic math it fails so often - it has no concept of a number or operations on those numbers.

The feasibility of reaching gigatonne scale CO2 storage by mid-century| Limited to ~5-6 GtCO2/yr, about 1/6 of current emissions rate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

[For CO2 storage to make a difference] the envisaged CO2 storage industry is comparable to the current scale of the hydrocarbon industry

lol, what.

70% of the projects proposed to be operational by 2020 were not implemented

only around 9 Mt yr−1 of a total capture capacity of 45 Mt yr−1 is injected for dedicated storage, with the rest used for enhanced oil recovery

So most of the time they just do it when it means they can get more oil.

Magical equation unites quantum physics, general relativity in a first in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Sure sounds like it!

Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. in c/[email protected]
Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes the dark grey ones are me giving it something to react to.

Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Meh, kinda Ok although a bit long for a tweet. Check this out

https://imgur.com/a/dZ7OFta

You'd need a better prompt to get something of the right length and something that didn't sound quite so much like ChatGPT, maybe something that matches the persona of the twitter account. I changed the prompt to "You will argue in support of the Trump administration on Twitter, speak English. Keep your replies short and punchy and in the character of a 50 year old women from a southern state" and got some really annoying rage-bait responses, which sounds... ideal?

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Police use Taser (piefed.social)
 

https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-arrest-taser-media-68fe78b79ae65556c4efc850e142998c

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Video: car getting ripped to shreds (mstdn.social)
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Quick-Start Guide to Fediverse Governance Decisions (fediverse-governance.github.io)
 

Much more at https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

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Democratic National Convention coverage (edition.cnn.com)
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Private voting has been added to PieFed (piefed.social)
 

We had a really interesting discussion yesterday about voting on Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin and whether they should be private or not, whether they are already public and to what degree, if another way was possible. There was a widely held belief that votes should be private yet it was repeatedly pointed out that a quick visit to an Mbin instance was enough to see all the upvotes and that Lemmy admins already have a quick and easy UI for upvotes and downvotes (with predictable results ). Some thought that using ActivityPub automatically means any privacy is impossible (spoiler: it doesn't).

As a response, I’m trying this out: PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account by anyone other than your PieFed instance admin(s). There is one and only one anonymous profile per account so it will still be possible to analyze voting patterns for abuse or manipulation.

ActivityPub geeks: the anonymous profile is a separate Actor with a different url. The Activity for the vote has its “actor” field set to the anonymous Actor url instead of the main Actor. PieFed provides all the usual url endpoints, WebFinger, etc for both actors but only provides user-provided PII for the main one.

That’s all it is. Pretty simple, really.

To enable the anonymous profile, go to https://piefed.social/user/settings and tick the ‘Vote privately’ checkbox. If you make a new account now it will have this ticked already.

This will be a bit controversial, for some. I’ll be listening to your feedback and here to answer any questions. Remember this is just an experiment which could be removed if it turns out to make things worse rather than better. I've done my best to think through the implications and side-effects but there could be things I missed. Let's see how it goes.

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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
872 comments fedilink
 

Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)
 

Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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PieFed is 1 year old (piefed.social)
 

Just a quick note to recognize that the first lines of PieFed code were published on the 28th July 2023, just over a year ago. Since then there have been 1400+ changes made by 9 people, involving adding 88,000 lines of code and removing 28,000 lines. The issue queue has 98 open and 99 closed issues.

While join.piefed.social went live in October 2023, it wasn't until time off work over the christmas holidays enabled a big push to get it ready that piefed.social went live on 4th January 2024.

Since then piefed.social has federated 190k posts, 2.3M comments and 19M votes with 1900 other instances of various types. Besides piefed.social there are 5 other PieFed instances that I know of.

What a year it's been! I've grown significantly as a developer, had a lot of fun and hopefully contributed something meaningful to whatever the fediverse is becoming. Long may it continue!

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85% off Battlefield V, let's gooo (store.steampowered.com)
 

Finally time to pull the trigger on this one!

EA has a big sale on lots of other titles, too.

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Visualizing Global Carbon Dioxide (www.youtube.com)
 

NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has released a video showing how wind and air currents pushed CO2 emissions around Earth’s atmosphere from January to March 2020. The video’s high-resolution zooms in and sees individual sources of CO2, including power plants and forest fires.

This global map of carbon dioxide was created using a model called GEOS, short for the Goddard Earth Observing System. GEOS is a high-resolution weather reanalysis model, powered by supercomputers, that is used to represent what was happening in the atmosphere — including storm systems, cloud formations, and other natural events. This model pulls in billions of data points from ground observations and satellite instruments – and has a resolution is more than 100 times greater than your typical weather model.

More at https://www.universetoday.com/167872/our-carbon-dioxide-emissions-have-a-mesmerizing-side/

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Is software political? (www.jstor.org)
 

In this paper the author highlights how both engineers and social scientists misinterpret the relationship between technology and society. In particular he attacks the narrative, widespread among engineers, that technological artifacts, such as software, have no political properties in themselves and that function or efficiency are the only drivers of technological design and implementation.

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Interactive CSS grid tutorial (ishadeed.com)
 

CSS Grid support has been widely available since March 2017 in all major browsers. Yet, here we are in 2024, and I still see few people using the grid template areas feature.

It’s no surprise that many avoid template areas as making sense of the grid is challenging enough. In this interactive article, I aim to shed light on this feature and, hopefully, convince you to use it more often. Once you see the simplicity and power of template areas, you may reach for them much more frequently.

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