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  • Pretty sure it's an autocomplete (like copilot or something)

    They were typing

    progress != "Hold"

    And the ai autocomplete suggested

    progress != "Hold onto your butts!"

    Hence why the completion part is in grey (it's a suggestion)

  • Internet use is associated with greater wellbeing, global study finds
  • It sounds like they controlled for that and did a bunch of different statistical models to break it down by different demographics and economics. That said, I'm finding it hard to find the original paper. It's not linked to in the article or any of the AP versions I found. Nature has a link to Google scholar but that comes up with nothing and it's not referenced in the researcher's publications on the Oxford site yet. Maybe it went to the press already but the actual article isn't out yet?

    It does sound very broad though and difficult/impossible to draw any causation. Still interesting through as it does kinda show that any negative causative link that might exist between well-being and internet use is not strong enough to outweigh other positive factors that are correlated with it (even non-causative ones).

  • ._.
  • But what volume would it be? Is it a small amount of glitter or a lot? What's the g/cm³ of glitter? What about tiny bits of uranium? I feel like all the little bits of air between the glitter particles would lower the density compared with just a solid block of uranium which would increase the volume but....

    I feel like someone should put some numbers in this thread.

  • Lobster(ule)
  • I was going to come up with something fun and clever to keep it going but the next line of the real song starts with "cream-coloured ponies" so I think we should probably just leave it here after all.

    There are some of the internet's things that we don't need to enumerate.

  • Dead Internet Theory is Correct in More Ways Than One
  • I don't think that's universally true. Most parts of Australia I've been to have the same nuance of "females" often being used by assholes in a demeaning way and seen as somewhat dehumanising in some contexts (but not all).

  • C++ creator rebuts White House warning
  • Yeah, I like his argument about profiles maybe going to be able "e.g., to eliminate most range errors relatively soon."

    Well maybe C++ could be considered safe "relatively soon" then but not right now.

    Like he says: "Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines, and peoples’ notions of which aspects of safety are important differ."

    That said, I don't really consider C++ to be inherently unsafe, there's a lot that goes into secure programming in any language. Just because you can't write to an array out of bounds in python doesn't mean your code is magically immune to vulnerabilities and just because you can in C, it doesn't mean your code is magically vulnerable to RCE from some buffer overflow.

    I also don't really trust myself to write perfectly safe production C++ though. I feel like it's still too easy to feel like you know exactly what you're doing and accidentally miss something small (hence the many thousands of memory safety CVEs in professional software).

  • How does lemmy differ from reddit?
  • Best is very subjective.

    .world is a good general purpose instance for just about anything. I think it has the biggest population at the moment, so communities there are likely to get at least some engagement.

    For "general discussion" it doesn't really matter. The instances are federated so you'll likely get general discussion in comments from lots of people from lots of instances anyway, wherever your community is based.

    Some people get almost nationalistic about their chosen instances or have grudges against people from certain other instances. There's sometimes inter-instance politics with some servers defederating with others or threatening to for various reasons. It's kinda fun to watch in a popcorn drama kind of way. For the most part, the instance doesn't matter.

  • Any suggestions for a gigabit modem?
  • That's pretty cool!

    Although that's probably what op is actually asking for, I don't think it's a modem. It's a router with an access point.

    It does have SFP for a fibre connection and pcie and USB for you to potentially add a modem or whatever else you want.

    I'm guessing OP is just looking for a wifi router? Otherwise we'd need to know what kind of modem they're looking for, like Cellular? VDSL? HFC? Satellite? It depends on the internet connection. Different parts of the world need very different kit.

  • CNN reporter: Biden camp focusing on ‘crazy shit that Trump says’
  • Yep, 100%. It's probably safe to call it like it is and he doesn't have a great track record with lawsuits at the moment. That said, they might still just not want to take the risk if their research is showing that painting him as a fool who you wouldn't want in the job is more effective with people who might change their minds.

  • CNN reporter: Biden camp focusing on ‘crazy shit that Trump says’
  • There absolutely isn't a good case and he'd probably lose because he's a rapist, but there's potentially enough wiggle room there that such a lawsuit might not get thrown out immediately which is potentially expensive and could get ads taken down while it proceeds.

    I could be wrong, maybe they do run ads based on the rape but they might not think it's worth the risk for the reward if ridicule is more effective in their research.

  • CNN reporter: Biden camp focusing on ‘crazy shit that Trump says’
  • They've almost certainly considered doing that but I suspect it's a legal thing. Saying "Trump is a rapist" can be seen as claiming that "Trump was convicted of rape" which is not true so it gives them space to sue over a knowingly false defamatory statement (whether he'd win or not, it would be expensive and might halt the ads while it was being litigated)

    Saying "Trump was found liable in a civil sexual assault case" doesn't have as snappy a ring to it and leaves Republicans saying bullshit like "well if he was really a rapist he'd be in jail/it's just corrupt civil court judges trying to make him look bad."

    But saying "look at this silly footage showing that Trump is a numpty. What a silly crazy clown man" is depressingly more effective at making swing voters not want to vote for him. "Trump is evil" works for people who know he's evil but "Trump is a fool" works better for people who are willing to believe that the "evil" stuff might be overblown lies from his opponents' smear campaigns.

  • English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense
  • True! It's not just a Latin thing and Slavic languages have it too. I wonder where it came from originally. Probably one of those Proto Indo European things. Though it's in some Indigenous Australian languages too (though not all) so might be even older?

  • English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense
  • Yep. Most Latin languages have gendered nouns. Italian, Spanish, German etc. All have masculine/feminine objects.

    Eg. In Italian a fork is feminine (la forchetta) but a spoon is masculine (il cucchiaio). A table in your living room is a boy (il tavolo) but a table that you're eating lunch on is a girl (la tavola).

    It's bizarre.

  • OpenAI says mysterious chat histories resulted from account takeover
  • They're not files, it's just leaking other people's conversations through a history bug. Accidentally putting person A's "can you help me write my research paper/IT ticket/script" conversation into person B's chat history.

    Super shitty but not an uncommon kind of bug. Often either a nasty caching issue or screwing up identities for people sharing IPs or similar.

    It's bad but it's "some programmer makes understandable mistake" bad not "evil company steals private information without consent and sends it to others for profit" kind of bad.

  • Irish unification coming this year!

    Apparently as a result of terrorism according to Data. Brexit 2 Northern Ireland edition coming soon?

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  • Totally agree on all points!

    My only issue was with the assertion that OP could comfortably do away with the certs/https. They said they were already using certs in the post and I wanted to dispel the idea that they arguably might not need them anymore in favour of just using headscale as though one is a replacement for the other.

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