dactylotheca

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[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

HaVe YoU ConSiDeReD thE PoSSiBiLiTY that I'm not pro-AI and I understand the downsides, and can still point out that people flock like lemmings (*badum tss*) to any "AI bad" post regardless of whether it's actually good or not?

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 33 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Or are you yet another bot lost in the shuffle?

Yes, good job, anybody with opinions you don't like is a bot.

It's not like this was even a pro-AI post rather than just pointing out that even the most facile "ai bad, applause please" stuff will get massively upvoted

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can't just say something like that and not elaborate, goddamn

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 49 points 1 month ago

Don't forget trying to kill e2e encryption like what the EU wants to do, both to "catch criminals" and "protect the children"

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/the-end-of-encryption-as-we-know-it

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 93 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I bet this was some sort of gen AI mishap: "translate this campaign text to Latin", because of course Latinos speak Latin, and it's called Latin America too!

Although this would be twice as hilarious if they hired a translator who just went "🤷 ah well, money is money"

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 points 1 year ago

I've only done it the "manual" way but I don't think the script was even a thing the last time I installed Arch, which must have been close to 15 years ago now.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Oh it's not quite as "from scratch" as some people make it out to be. It definitely can be more work than most distros, but mostly it's pretty straightforward and you generally just follow some wiki guide or another when picking "components" to install and I think nowadays you can use prebuilt binaries too (I haven't used Arch in a good while.) There's really not all that many moving parts, most of them are sort of a package deal – if you want to use X, you have to install Y and Z. It really is more like building a PC from parts.

Now, if you actually want to build a Linux system from scratch, there's the very surprisingly named Linux From Scratch project

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 13 points 1 year ago

Academics, think tanks and magazines are buzzing with conversations about how to undo the damage wrought by half a century of misguided economic policies. On the right, that debate has already spilled out into the public view.

Well, if vocally campaigning to make shit much worse qualifies as "spilled out into the public view", then yeah I guess it has

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought he'd understood why it was better for him to drop out of the race, but I guess that was overly optimistic of me

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 6 points 1 year ago

I'd be a bit nervous about those rockets

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised I haven't seen any "trump for Harris" generated images yet in this thread.

It'd mean having to give money to Musk

 

By Jon S. Stumpf

May your signals all trap
    May your references be bounded
All memory aligned
    Floats to ints rounded

Remember ...

Non-zero is true
    ++ adds one
Arrays start with zero
    and, NULL is for none

For octal, use zero
    0x means hex
= will set
    == means test

use -> for a pointer
    a dot if its not
? : is confusing
    use them a lot

a.out is your program
    there's no U in foobar
and, char (*(*x())[])() is
    a function returning a pointer
    to an array of pointers to
    functions returning char

 
 
 
 

Guess it's sort of appropriate that you have to pay for crushing dystopian sadness

 
 
 
 

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ

A fairly in-depth and "dense" C3 talk about the AGC that covers the architecture and instruction set, the hardware implementation, peripherals, and the system & mission software.

Really interesting stuff if you're into retrocomputing and/or computers that got people to the fucking Moon, and if you're not the sort of person who turns into an unskippable cutscene when the AGC is mentioned, you'll probably learn a lot. If you're like me and you are that sort of person, you'll probably enjoy the talk anyhow.

(book tips: The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation by Frank O'Brien for AGC details, and Digital Apollo by David Mindell for a general overview of the automation in Apollo)

 

cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/3091267

https://lastplacecomics.com/

That "What am I pregnant with??" absolutely sent me

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