Airport introduces time limit on hugs
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    lily33
    1d ago 50%

    What if you arrive early, didn't do online check-in, and have to wait for the check-in desk to open? It maybe I don't understand what you mean by "drop-off area".

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  • Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"!
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    lily33
    2w ago 100%

    If we wait for AI to be advanced enough to solve the problem and don't do anything in the meantime, when the time finally comes, the AI will (then, rightfully) determine that there's only one way to solve it...

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  • British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses
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    lily33
    3w ago 84%

    Actually, much of that description, perpetuated by dystopian novels, is pretty far off the mark - and it's the kind of mischaracterization that makes it harder to fight back against authoritarian governments.

    The fact is, the vast majority of people in authoritarian states live ordinary lives, just like everywhere else. That's part of what makes these governments so resilient. If everyone in there lived a nightmare, they wouldn't last for decades, they'd collapse at the first sign of instability. After all, there are a lot more people than government officials.

    For example, a canny authoritarian government won't disappear anyone who steps out of line. Instead, they'd provide a "safe, legitimate" way to step out of line, that's well regulated and doesn't pose a threat to the government, but serves as an outlet. And most people will be satisfied with it. That's both more subtle, and more effective, that instilling fear in everyone's heart.

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  • Help me decide if I can switch to Linux, I have some questions
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    lily33
    3w ago 100%

    To add about the distro framgentation, and particularly:

    If I run into a software I need and it specifically indicates it’s for another flavor of Linux than the one I run, how likely is it that I can get it to work on another distro without any real trouble?

    You might have. Some software is distributed as a portable binary and can run on any distro. However, many installers are distro-specific (or distro family-specific, since they're made for a specific package manager). For example, a software packaged for Ubuntu as a .deb file would install fine on Ubuntu or Mint, and probably install fine on Debian, but if you want to install it on Fedora or Arch you'll have to manually re-package it.

    Most distro-specific software usually ships debian or ubuntu package - so you might go with that for that reason. Or Arch/Endeavor: while you'll rarely see an official Arch package, most often someone will have already re-packaged it and put it on the AUR.

    That said, for the major distros, the desktop environment makes much more difference than the distro.

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  • How would you enforce a pay-it-forward scheme?
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    lily33
    1mo ago 100%

    Technically, "enforced pay it forward" is called credit. Your debt would then be "the amount you still have to pay forward".

    Of course, this defeats both the spirit and the purpose of a pay it forward scheme.

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  • Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive
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    lily33
    2mo ago 94%

    Indeed. Linux audio also allows control characters like backspace to be part of a file name (though it is harder to make such file as you can't just type the name). Which is just horrible.

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    How can we make Linux more appealing as "just works"?
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    lily33
    2mo ago 100%

    "Just works" is not a mentality imposed by Microsoft, and has nothing to do with loss of control. It's simply (a consequence of) the idea that things which can be automated, should be. It is about good defaults, not lack of options.

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  • LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
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    lily33
    2mo ago 100%

    It's not an article about LLMs not using dialects. In fact, they have learned said dialects and will use them if asked.

    What they did was, ask the LLM to suggest adjectives associated with sentences - and it would associate more aggressive or negative adjectives with African dialect.

    Seems like not a bias by AI models themselves, rather a reflection of the source material.

    All (racial) bias in AI models is actually a reflection of the training data, not of the modelling.

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  • Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
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    lily33
    2mo ago 100%

    It's certainly good, I'm not arguing that. My point is, if the wine team is interested, they can fork the unmaintained project, and work on that. Eventually, people will switch over to the active fork. What Microsoft is doing, is helping the process along, and making it easier. So it's good, and helpful - but not really a "donation" to winehq.

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  • Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
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    lily33
    2mo ago 100%

    I guess it's simply the framing: It was a not very actively maintained open source project. So they've decided to turn it over to a new maintainer. Calling that 'donation' is a bit pushing it

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  • This is a meta-question about the community - but seeing how many posts here are made by L4sBot, I think it's important to know how it chooses the articles to post. I've tried to find information about it, but I couldn't find much.

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    I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of a license is that it gives me permission to use/distribute something that's otherwise legally protected. For instance, software code is protected by copyright, and FOSS licenses give me the right to distribute it under some conditions. However, LLMs are produced by a computer, and aren't covered by copyright. So I was hoping someone who has better understanding of law to answer some questions for me: 1. Is there some legal framework that protects AI models, so that I'd need a license to distribute them? How about using them, since many licenses do restrict use as well. 2. If the answer to the above is no: By mentioning, following and normalizing LLM licenses, are we essentially helping establish the principle that we *do* need permission from companies to use their models, and that they have the right to restrict us?

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