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James R Kirk
I’m not Admiral Patrick of the former dubvee.org I just play along to waste the time of those who believe they are successfully harassing him.
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Technology@lemmy.world•NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions / As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subsc…English
571·1 day agoAnd Lina Khan is in NYC now!
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Linux@programming.dev•The AI Pascal’s Wager: Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project?English
1535·2 days agoThis is the wrong question to be asking. “Is the code good” is literally all that matters when writing software that others will use. Slop is slop no matter if it comes from a person or an LLM. A human should be reviewing all code.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."English
372·4 days agoHonestly I think the real takeaway is how much media was already just slop used to sell ads to begin with.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Home Assistant Automation for freezing warningsEnglish
71·4 days agoBased on the title I thought this was a halting problem question and was like “oh dang OP is NOT going to like this answer…”
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Calibre-Web-Auto v4.0.7 - Important Security Fixes, Much Faster Kobo Sync, KOReader → Hardcover Progress, a Refreshed Login & Mobile Layout and more · crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-AutomatedEnglish
6·5 days agoSmall nitpick- this project isn’t Calibe-Web, it’s a fork with extra features; the idea being that you don’t also need to be running Calibre.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Calibre-Web-Auto v4.0.7 - Important Security Fixes, Much Faster Kobo Sync, KOReader → Hardcover Progress, a Refreshed Login & Mobile Layout and more · crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-AutomatedEnglish
2·5 days agoThat’s a great way of putting it. I think in the future it will be helpful for when folks have some personal specific need. But for anything approaching even the simplest infrastructure it just doesn’t work.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Calibre-Web-Auto v4.0.7 - Important Security Fixes, Much Faster Kobo Sync, KOReader → Hardcover Progress, a Refreshed Login & Mobile Layout and more · crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-AutomatedEnglish
5·5 days agoCWA is the example I always point to as to why vibe coded software doesn’t make sense for broad use. CWA updates are slow (but detailed) which inspires many folks to “fork” it with vibe coded apps, but since CWAs last update in Feb, several vibe coded “competitor” projects have risen and fallen.
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Technology@beehaw.org•How would you integrate AGI into society?English
1·6 days agoAll good points, and kind of what I was getting at with “rock bottom of greed”. I also wonder how long (or really short) the period of time will be from when AGI is more capable than any human but still under the control of some humans, and when it becomes able to outmaneuver any kind of constraints or guardrails mankind could conceivably throw at it.
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Technology@beehaw.org•How would you integrate AGI into society?English
3·6 days agoOn paper I would agree but a difference between this and a Geneva convention is that a true AGI, once created, could in theory be able to outmaneuver any human constraints put upon it. Laws barely restrain humans as it is.
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Technology@beehaw.org•How would you integrate AGI into society?English
2·6 days agoI think about this a lot and I don’t have a good answer. In theory, “free labor” from machines can mean that all humans are free to work on whatever they want, whenever they want to without sacrificing a comfortable life. (ie: “I don’t want AI to make art and music I want it to do my laundry so I can make art and music”).
But I also don’t think that having a universal “safety net” (baseline) will eliminate human greed or desire for status. Not everyone can have a mansion. A social movement is needed that shifts values and priorities to smaller, more personal goals.
And as you’ve highlighted, getting from here to there requires some big assumptions. My fear is that global civilization will have to hit some kind of “rock bottom of greed” before we collectively are able to move on.
Me too lol I thought What’s Up Docker was for auto updates. What does it do?
I recently switched to Dockhand from Portainer and I like it a lot more, it’s much cleaner and straightforward. It also auto-updates so you might be able to ditch whats up docker too.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•how do you manage your server?English
1·7 days agoEverything is in docker or a virtual machine that starts on boot. Docker containers are managed with Dockhand’s web ui. Once a month I ssh and “sudo apt upgrade” but that’s it.
I tried to use olivetin to avoid having to ssh but I ran into errors I haven’t had time to investigate yet.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Update: I turned my old Motorola E5 Play into an actual WordPress serverEnglish
9·8 days agoThis is awesome I appreciate you sharing all the details with us
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Technology@beehaw.org•New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operationEnglish
311·8 days agoMy pet peeve is when legit news orgs call them “Prediction markets” because they are literally just gambling apps.
When someone complains about flatpak being bloated I always assume this is what their system is.
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Technology@beehaw.org•DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.English
1·9 days agoA while back I had a free month of dashpass but even with the money “saved” it was still about the same as if we actually dined out and tipped.









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