If you don’t want to see so much China and Russia-glazing, just block yogthos and jackeroni, that should cut it down about 40%. I personally don’t mind agendaposting because I can tell from the get-go who it’s coming from. There are prolific anti-China agendaposters too, for example from an account named Scotty.

Right but essentially the Anthropic Marketing team made extraordinary claims about what Mythos is, pretended like it’s too dangerous for public use, that it can find and patch vulnerabilities undiscovered by human researchers for 20 years, etc. etc. but it’s own technical team and big firm partners haven’t brought forward evidence that it’s all that much. It’s probably not useless, and it might be an improvement in some ways to its other models, but having an “additional researcher” is not really something that is too scary for public use.

It’s like if a drug company was hyping up a miracle drug, but it’s really just acetaminophen and ibuprofen in a different dosage combination. It treats pain and fever fine enough, and maybe better in some cases but not as game changing as they say.

☁️✊️😠 “We didn’t need a robot’s help, we were perfectly capable of accidentally sudo rm -rf /* ing our disks on our own!”

I’ll be honest, I don’t like the way AI is pushed and speculation ruining the price of computing, but it has helped me once or twice. For example I used someone’s vibecoded driver patch to get a relatively ancient audio interface working, which was the last thing that I would have missed using Windows for.

Congrats on making the jump! Have a nice time with us on Lemmy and Piefed.

Biggest for me is no promoted garbage. Second is that I can have more indepth conversations than on Reddit. Your replies can get seen if you post on “Hot” even if they’re not cheesy one-liners. Quality of discussion is far better than my last few years of using Reddit full time (until 2023).

Once in a while I glance at the Reddit website and there’s just so much short form video on the front page that it’s so annoying to know what’s going on.

Of course the more popular discussion topics (USA, tech, politics) are largely going to be the same as Reddit.

One advantage of this model is that moderation is more tailored to the instance topics of interest, without losing too much of the wider sphere. So .world can handle most of the popular general topics, but mander can handle moderation of topics from a more scientific lens, .dbzer0 can handle the intricacies around copyright law, .blahaj zone vehemently protects users right to call themselves whatever they wish, so on and so forth. With Reddit, if the site admins don’t like something you do, you get shut down no matter whether the community there accepts it or not. Here, if that happens and is unpopular, people can leave and go to another domain without leaving the federated network. Another is that servers hosted in countries outside the USA (feddit.de, lemmy.ca etc.) don’t necessarily have to follow USA law, while Reddit does.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/164

TIL it has purposely not been implemented by the main developers in over a decade for ideological reasons. There are scripts and forks to enable it by default.

Aside from the point that Jellyfin is meant to browse your own personal collection of files usually after the fact…

Some file formats like mkv do work even if partially downloaded, so if you’re downloading a torrent for a free libre open source movie, choose the option to download chunks in sequential order, and I think there’s a way that you can watch while downloading.

Well just like a MATLAB plotting program “draws” lines and curves and stuff, Claude is a programs that puts together various reasonings based on the mathematician’s input.

An actually interesting use of artificial intelligence being able to accomplish something, when put in the hands of expert mathematicians. Definitely a lot of coaxing it back to doing the task correctly but it is pretty cool that it can solve problems (even if they are math nerd ones) in a way that are independently verifiable.

While I’d prefer better off-by-default and making AI opt-in, this is the next best option. Good job Mozilla.

I’m not due to replace my Samsung Xcover with a headphone jack and removable battery for a while yet, I got it in March 2024…

But when I do in a few years, I’d like the Jolla phone as its app support probably has matured at that point.

Part of the issue is that the latest version of Samsung’s OneUI completely removes the option to unlock the bootloader. More technical info on the (xda forum).

I’d say it’s to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that’s smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.

It’s not ready for full rollout until Microslop gets Slopilot to put sponsored apps back into it.

(Not me but) if someone wants a chromium based browser, what should they choose?

It’s not any more sus than running any FOSS project binaries obtained from github. And OP wants to test a bunch of live environments, so that’s not really a security-critical environment.

I’d suggest it’s collective laziness over any even potentially malicious intent. The author listed about the 180 blobs they are aware of, the vast majority from FOSS projects.

Filters exist in Piefed so I hear, and you can already block instances and communities and users you feel are too American focused.

!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca

If it’s not topic specific, try this one?

I get it, even with link posts and memes sometimes I’m not sure if I’m posting it in the right places, or if I have to trade off potential traction with how closely related it is.

A solution I’ve employed sometimes is to post to two spots:

• first in the niche community where it feels a best fit, even if it shows like 12 subscribers…
• then crosspost to a more popular one for visibility with a link in body text to the other one, to help other people discover the niche community.

That way you don’t feel forced to only participate in the popular instances and communities.

E.g. !boardgames@sopuli.xyz then !games@lemmy.world

E.g.2: !vancouver@lemmy.ca then !canada@lemmy.ca

E.g.3: !rant@lemmy.sdf.org then !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

https://programming.dev/post/39695120

Some person on the fediverse has made an open source PDF editor… their other posts say its browser based. I haven’t tried it but this seems to fit your request.

Bazzite is great out of the box. My favourite part is that the menu automatically suggests flatpak apps you might want to install without getting in the way of your existing apps.

No matter the distro (since there’s plenty of good ones out there), help your friend set up Winboat and you’ll be all good.