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Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article)
  • ooo, that does sound handy!

    Looks like OBS is the goto. Thanks.

  • Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article)
  • Which app do you use for screen recording? That's the only thing keeping me on X11.

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    To separate Email address from being an online identity, a concept I thought up, detailed by ChatGPT,
  • I apologise for my dismissive tone earlier. Thanks for putting your idea out there 🙂

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    To separate Email address from being an online identity, a concept I thought up, detailed by ChatGPT,
  • ...aaand this is why chatgpt is no substitute for expertise.

    It's "generative" AI, in that it generates lists of words that fit together. But it has no actual understanding of anything so the stuff it generates is totally surface, middle-of-the-road whatever-you-want-to-hear.

  • How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better?
  • With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving

    https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

    I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.

  • grow a garden. put up solar panels. go vegan. living a solarpunk life is an act of radical activism. the personal is political
  • If going vegan is too much for you, just stop eating beef and switch to soy milk.

    The emissions per calorie from beef are way way higher than any other form of meat.

  • Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm? Scientists are already busy trying to understand whether 2023’s off-the-charts heat is a sign that global warming is accelerating.
  • The IPCC report must be agreed upon by representatives from every country. Including Saudi Arabia, and USA. So you can imagine how "conservative" it is compared to reality. Anything slightly uncomfortable gets negotiated down to the point where the oil-producing countries are fine with it.

    The 195 member countries of the IPCC sign off on different parts of the report. The summaries for policymakers are “approved,” meaning that “the material has been subject to detailed, line-by-line discussion” between the member countries and the authors. The synthesis reports are “adopted,” which implies “a section-by-section discussion.” And the full report, which this year runs nearly 4,000 pages long, is “accepted,” which means both parties agree that “the technical summary and chapters of the underlying report present a comprehensive, objective, and balanced view of the subject matter.”

    https://qz.com/2044703/how-governments-of-the-world-have-responded-to-the-ipcc-report

    If people find the IPCC reports alarming as they are, imagine how alarming the draft from the scientists is before the Saudis, Russians and Americans get out the black markers.

  • Israel 'stealing organs' from bodies in Gaza, alleges rights group
  • The article claims it's source is Euro-Med Monitor but https://euromedmonitor.org makes no mention of organ harvesting. No press release, blog post or anything.

    Lots of other ghastly stuff though, holy shit.

  • Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws.
  • As long as a deleted post is no longer visible in the publicly-accessible parts of the site, that would be enough verification for me.

    I don't know how the GDPR authorities verify compliance with mainstream proprietary closed source apps, do you?

  • Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws.
  • Yes, although the server will not ignore the deletion activity if that server is running Lemmy. We're talking about Lemmy here, not the fediverse as a whole. OP singled out Lemmy in the post title and said "lemmy devs are not concerned with..."

    I'm sure there is more to be done in this area. It'd be great to know for sure which software treats deletion activities properly (I'm really unsure about Kbin, I think it does not) and which does not so instance admins can make informed decisions about who they federate with. Perhaps this information could be made available right within the UI that Lemmy admins use to control their instance, rather than an obscure documentation page somewhere...

    IMO having deletes federate should be part of a minimum standard all fediverse software has to meet (plus mod tools, spam control, csam filters, etc) before it is allowed to federate but obviously we're nowhere near having that sort of social organisation.

  • Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws.
  • OP is simply incorrect.

    I'm coding a Lemmy alternative right now and have been testing this functionality out extensively. Deletes of posts and comments certainly federate, I've seen the AP traffic to make it happen. Also, the docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html#delete-post-or-comment

    I haven't tested what happens when the 'delete account' button is clicked... Mastodon solves this by sending a 'delete this user' Activity to every fediverse instance so there's nothing about ActivityPub that makes removing an account and all it's posts in one go impossible.

  • EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act says that "Companies that do not comply with the new obligations risk fines of up to 6% on their annual turnover [i.e. revenue before expenses] in the European Union."

    According to https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/, twitters revenue was $4 billion in 2022. Let's assume it's $2 billion now. Also on that page, it shows half the revenue comes from USA, half 'rest of world', let's assume that means EU. So $1bn. 6% of that is $60 million. Per year.

    Not exactly a killing blow, I guess. But paying that money has to come out of profits so this makes turning a profit significantly harder.

  • EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation
  • Context:

    Elon Musk’s X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material.

    https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusive-the-x-files-how-elon-musks-new-rules-allow-hate-to-flourish/

    X is so fucked.

  • How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
  • Never, I have Mastodon for that.

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  • Fair enough. I apologise.

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  • In the 5 months since you joined beehaw, you didn't make a single comment or post until now. And the first post you make is to defend literal Nazis.

    Uh huh. Tell us more about your "concerns", please. You seem real invested in the health of beehaw /s

  • Kbin badly needs a facelift
  • If you turn off infinite scroll then this won't be a problem. Buuut then you won't have infinite scroll.

  • Feature Requests/feedback from a Kbin magazines' moderator.
  • Good ideas 👍

    However due to the way activitypub works there is no way to know how many people on other instances are reading a post, only on the same instance.

  • How do we feel about federating with Threads?
  • Lol we know they're problematic already tho.

  • How do we feel about federating with Threads?
  • Meta has already pulled plenty of destructive shenanigans. What makes you think this time will be different?

  • Google’s DeepMind finds 2.2M new substances in materials science win
    arstechnica.com Google’s DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win

    Trove of combos is >45 times larger than number unearthed in entire history of science.

    Google’s DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win

    Trove of combos is \>45 times larger than number unearthed in entire history of science.

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    The Grug Brained Developer - A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained

    this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer

    grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused

    grug brain developer try collect learns into small, easily digestible and funny page, not only for you, the young grug, but also for him because as grug brain developer get older he forget important things, like what had for breakfast or if put pants on

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    Alexithymia is very common among people with autism
    www.healthline.com Alexithymia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

    Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

    Alexithymia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

    Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

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    Former Proud Boys leaders sentenced to 17 and 15 years for US Capitol attack
    www.theguardian.com Former Proud Boys leaders sentenced to 17 and 15 years for US Capitol attack

    Joseph Biggs, who played leading role on January 6, gets 17 years in prison and former chapter leader Zachary Rehl 15 years

    Former Proud Boys leaders sentenced to 17 and 15 years for US Capitol attack

    Joseph Biggs, who played leading role on January 6, gets 17 years in prison and former chapter leader Zachary Rehl 15 years

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    From 'Barely Works' to Pythonic Code in 5 steps

    In this video, we adapt a clumsy, non-Pythonic API into an easy to use, easy to understand Pythonic one. We use magic methods such as getitem\, len, enter, and \exit to make our objects a context manager and support the len() function and square bracket indexing. And in the end, we turn what once was ugly, difficult to maintain code into something that other developers would actually want to use.

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    Rawhiti Pork is dumping effluent in our rivers and it could take years to stop them
    www.rnz.co.nz Could take years to shut down polluting piggery - council

    While the "volume and frequency" of the discharge has decreased, effluent is still leaving the Waikato farm.

    Could take years to shut down polluting piggery - council

    In the photo on RNZ there are two overflowing tanks with a bank behind them. You can spot the tanks on Google Maps, next to the middle shed:

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    The Web Is Fucked
    thewebisfucked.com The Web Is Fucked

    The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

    The Web Is Fucked

    The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

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    Download large file in Python with beautiful progress bar (TUI)
    python.study Download large file in Python with beautiful progress bar

    In this article, we will explore the use of the tqdm package to create beautiful progress bars in the console while downloading large files from the internet.

    Download large file in Python with beautiful progress bar

    In this article, we will explore the use of the tqdm package to create beautiful progress bars in the console while downloading large files from the internet.

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    Python Web Conf 2023 Talks + Tutorials

    Watch 80 talks, tutorials, and socials from Python Web Conf 2023 on Six Feet Up's YouTube channel. Explore videos about Python, Django, Kubernetes, AI/ML, Big Data, CI/CD, Serverless, Security, Climate Tech, and more.

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    A way to organise a very large Python monolith
    blog.europython.eu Kraken Technologies: How we organise our very large Python monolith

    By David Seddon from Kraken Technologies. Hi, I’m David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: a Python application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read that right: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including tests. I do this along with

    Kraken Technologies: How we organise our very large Python
monolith

    Hi, I’m David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: a Python application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read that right: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including tests. I do this along with 400 other developers worldwide, constantly merging in code. And all anyone needs to make a change - and kick start a deployment of the software that runs 17 different energy and utility companies, with many millions of customers - is one single approval from a colleague on Github.

    Now you may be thinking this sounds like a recipe for chaos. Honestly, I would have said the same. But it turns out that large numbers of developers can, at least in the domain we work in, work effectively on a large Python monolith. There are lots of reasons why this is possible, many of them cultural rather than technical, but in this blog post I want to explain about how the organisation of our code helps to make this possible.

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    Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design

    In this article, we propose that there are inevitable and unexpected impacts of technologies on both the human mind and society as a whole. For most of history, the process of tech design has either assumed that such second-and third-order effects do not occur or that tech innovation is net positive. This approach is called “technological orthodoxy”, and it views technology as neutral with regard to human values. This must change if humanity is to survive in a world of ever-increasing technological presence and complexity.

    At this moment in history, it is essential that we adopt an approach to design that accounts for how tech affects the way people think and behave. This is axiological design. Axiology is the philosophical study of value, including both ethics and philosophy of mind. Axiological design is the application of principled judgment about value to the design of technology. This is not a single approach, but a general model for design that focuses on how technology is inextricably linked to our view of the world and our activities within it.

    Tech affects power dynamics in society, forms ecologies and habitats, and shapes the thoughts, values, and relationships of those using it. We must start to take tech seriously, before it changes our world in ways that may not be easy to repair.

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    AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66% (3 study average)
    www.nngroup.com AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66%

    Using generative AI (like ChatGPT) in business improves users’ performance by 66%, averaged across 3 case studies. More complex tasks have bigger gains, and less-skilled workers benefit the most from AI use.

    AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66%

    Using generative AI (like ChatGPT) in business improves users’ performance by 66%, averaged across 3 case studies. More complex tasks have bigger gains, and less-skilled workers benefit the most from AI use.

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    Federating down-votes?

    Only up-votes on posts and comments are federated. Is there a technical reason why (limitation of ActivityPub?) or is it a social reason?

    My reading of the Activity Streams spec is that while 'Like' (used for upvotes?) is a standard Activity that all clients understand, there is no 'Unlike'. But we can define new types of Activity:

    > > > The Activity Vocabulary defines a small number of Activity types that are common to many social Web applications. This specification stops short of defining semantically specific properties for most of these activities. External vocabularies can be used to express additional detail not covered by the Activity Vocabulary. > >

    > > > ... implementations are free to introduce new types of Activites beyond those defined by the Activity Vocabulary > >

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    Cropping Images with CSS While Keeping a Focal Point in the Center

    To crop an image effectively, it’s important to prioritize a specific part of the image and preserve the essential content around it. One way to achieve this is by identifying the image’s ‘focal point’ - the part of the image that is most important - and cropping the image around it.

    In this post, I’ll walk you through my technique for cropping images with CSS while preserving the image’s focal point.

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    New AI tool can help treat brain tumors more quickly and accurately, study finds
    www.theguardian.com New AI tool can help treat brain tumors more quickly and accurately, study finds

    Machine learning can help with analysis of gliomas, most common brain tumor, and reduce time patients are in operating room

    New AI tool can help treat brain tumors more quickly and accurately, study finds

    Machine learning can help with analysis of gliomas, most common brain tumor, and reduce time patients are in operating room

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    kglitch kglitch @kglitch.social

    Admin of https://kglitch.social, an experimental Kbin instance.

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