Sorry guys I’m out of the loop - could someone explain this?

I think learning how to make packages for package managers is also becoming less popular :(

Even learning how to do the simplest thing possible that is easy to package by anybody - something like a tarball or zip - is becoming less popular :(

omg that is sssooooo exaggerated like 1000% take that back pls

Back in 2005, I never would have thought YouTube would be so popular as it is now. But here we are over 15 years later. Teens probably think Facebook is uncool, and apparently they're not all on Instagram "almost constantly" the same way as TikTok. Yet there is YouTube, chugging along, hugely popular for young and old.

Cross-platform clients, yes, but that's only a (small) part of the way there. For example, Signal is actively hostile to other client implementations just like Apple is with iMessage, unfortunately :(

I’ve found this feature mostly reliable. Those times where it doesn’t work, or I’m travelling, or don’t have phone reception is kinda annoying. But being able to just use my Mac is fantastic.

It’s really about interoperability of systems, protocols, services, and clients. Since we’re both using Lemmy I assume we both understand at least a bit about the significance of interoperability.

I think it’s a shame that effort is put in to reverse engineering.

I don’t think it is clear that everyone wanted to follow to Microsoft: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want-to-work-for-microsoft-2023-12

Hey no problem :) I totally understand and read through the linked README. FWIW I find the fact that Lemmy is in Rust, pretty... tricky. Getting Lemmy to run on my OpenBSD server started with a couple of crazy segfaults!

Time to turn your laptop into a router! Let's say you've got 2 network interfaces on your laptop, eth0 and wifi0. wifi0 is joined to your university WiFi as normal. Connect your iPad to your laptop via ethernet (with a USB-C adapter).

iPad -> usb-c-ethernet -> eth0
wifi0 -> internet

Rather than setting up a DHCP server or IPv6 stuff, I'd just configure the wired interfaces manually. Let's use the network 192.168.69.0/24. Laptop will be 192.168.69.1, iPad will be at 192.168.69.2. On the laptop:

ip addr add 192.168.69.1/24 dev eth0

On your iPad, go to Settings -> Ethernet:

• address: 192.168.69.2
• subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
• router: 192.168.69.1

Curious to see if that works. We haven't set up DNS or DHCP or done any sysctl for IP forwarding or any nftables.

How can we test if it works? We can set up a TCP listener using nc(1) on the laptop that the iPad's web browser could hit. On the laptop:

nc -l 8080

On your iPad, open Safari and browse to http://192.168.69.1:8080

Curious to see if that all works!

See also:

• http://man.openbsd.org/nc
• https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip.8.html

Did you just ask a question about a question asking about asklemmy?

Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.

"As part of integration planning, and following an organizational needs assessment, we identified go-forward roles that will be required within the combined company."

Totally devoid of any humanity. Corporate jargon freaks me out. It shouldn't, but it really gets to me.

On reddit and now lemmy, I can engage with other people in both appreciation and discussion on and about things I don't really get to otherwise, at a depth I don't really get to otherwise.

Nicely worded. The microblog format never "clicked" for me the same way these threaded discussions do. Now I have a way to say why - thanks!

I think if I was born in a different decade I would have enjoyed Usenet or mailing lists.

Relevant article: Tailscale have an account on hachyderm.io https://tailscale.com/blog/2022-11-16-fediverse/

I don't know about other people, but I find these comments noisy. I'd rather just see replies to the post from actual people.

whoopsie

Ah yeah this hits a nerve for me: the idea that some individuals are the arbiters of medical science and knowledge. Answers to questions like "why should I brush my teeth" is something to be found in a textbook, hopefully at a public library, not to be dispensed out by some individual with fat fees.

I think IRC is a bit healthier because it is a direct interaction and there is no upvotes or any fake internet points involved.

Totally see what you mean. The points and "likes" can be tiring. In a Lemmy client I made, I don't even bother rendering the votes. This helps. But I havent implemented threaded replies (yet?).

If there was a way to interact with Lemmy more like a mailing list I'd be using that instead.

Some channels from a quick search:

• https://netsplit.de/channels/?chat=offtopic
• https://netsplit.de/channels/?chat=casual

“Reproduction of the Disney logo is clear trademark infringement. I would imagine that is why the AI might be jumbling the logo,” Andrew White, partner at IP law firm Mathys & Squire, tells The Financial Times.

Doesn't seem clear to me.

I'm allowed to sketch out the Disney logo by hand, right? But I'm not allowed to place their trademark on any of my own products or services.

Microsoft's tool reproduces the Disney logo. Searching "Disney logo" in Google Images also reproduces the Disney logo. I can print the logo from my shitty black and white printer to my heart's content, right?

From Bing's terms of use, section 7:

Use of Creations. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, the Microsoft Services Agreement, and our Content Policy, you may use Creations outside of the Online Services for any legal personal, non-commercial purpose.

Think about how and why you joined in the first place, and see if that is being fulfilled. For example, I joined because I wanted to be able to practice communicating with people in writing and to share some of my stories. Interacting on here still gives me that feeling. It's not the same sense of community I get from the programming language community in my city. But there's a little bit of something here that I can't seem to find elsewhere yet.

You mentioned "isolating addiction". If you have that feeling it's time to take a break.

I think the author themselves needs to hear it!

A few years back people who had HTC Vives and whatever else seemed pretty keen to let people have a go. Sharing interests and all that. Maybe you can ask around in your local area somehow?

Interesting - will look into Friendica. I just hacked up the latest stable release of Lemmy to run on OpenBSD but it’s not something I think I want to maintain long-term. Looking for something that will last a while, kinda like email but maybe not that long!

My colleagues back in the early bitcoin and cryptocurrency days were mining across any spare infra and customer servers they could get their hands on. Back when you could do it with just CPU.

Haha no worries mate I totally get you. One of the best things about LLMs when I’ve played with them is it exercises my ability to write questions and requirements

Way to make me feel silly for having both an account on both a Mastodon server and a Lemmy server! ;)

Let’s say a function, about 20 lines. Something too small to warrant an external dependency but tricky enough that you don’t want to keep rewriting it.

I have things like a function to read through a file of newline delimited text of key-value pairs separated by whitespace. It skips comments (lines beginning with “#”), and returns the pairs. I’m happy to do a little copying instead of having a little dependency.

Alpine Linux might be good, too. It’s different. But that makes it a great exercise. See https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.html

Same. And for me it’s not just the security enhancements. You can find race conditions, poor assumptions about the underlying system, poor documentation… Software portability is more than just getting software to run on loads of systems (if that makes sense!)

About 10 years ago. I browsed subreddit where people posted screenshots of their desktops. A French person would post regularly, and I was following the journey of how minimal their setup was. Eventually they moved to BSD. I had no idea what it was, but once I started reading into it I couldn’t stop. I installed it on an old Dell laptop that someone was throwing away and I loved how easy the OpenBSD installation was. Been running it on my laptops and servers ever since.

It’s funny. Sydney has, at least internationally, of being a warm sunny place. But it’s not really that hot compared to the rest of the east coast. It’s another 2500km to Cairns!

I mean, I get it. But... damn.. can you imagine the relative computing power required to read a text file versus asking a LLM to generate that same text?

I got a T480s for approx. 350USD. Battery life is fine and parts are cheap. Can't really fault it... I guess the screen could be brighter? Great little machine.