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What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?
  • "You can not buy intelligence"

    But the product of appearing intelligent is sold: private Education. Also you need to be able to afford the right condition: Not starving to death to appear intelligent, afford food & afford some water without lead contamination (since lead in the water lowers IQ), lead pipes where used for drinking water in poorer areas ... Also research and innovation costs lot of upfront capital investment and connections nowadays.

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  • Yep I had a cheap no-name trumpet, it rested for a few years in the basement without proper maintenance. One of its 3 buttons was not press-able any longer ~ rusted shut or something. Meanwhile the Yamaha still worked, well oiled and all. Lesson: always unscrew the buttons of your trumpet & Yamaha Buttons do not rust that fast I guess....

  • How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow
  • Points that could improve the 1. point "Technology":

    • Make it possible to follow single users. Often I see some high quality content by users posted on communities to get drowned out by low effort posts ... Though on average high quality users post to high quality communities. Make it possible to follow/subscribe to a single user, making this place more like twitter without the character limit. A similar point about singular users carrying Lemmys usefulness on the back was made by cabbage@piefed.social
    • Introduce hashtags, to make it simpler to follow/ search interests. At the moment I do not see the niche communities I see on reddit thrive but broad categories that are hard to break up: Technology, Politics. While on reddit you would see multiple large active communities/bubbles related to politics with widely differing ideologies. This may be fixed by time and scale though...
    • Since every user is tainted by the server they log in to, it is easy to assume the ideology because he joined server lemmy.X .... make a way to hide that information, idk if that is technically compatible with lemmys design though ....
  • Has avoiding Cloudflare become Impossible?
  • Stupid Question:

    How do I find out if a website I use is hosted over cloudflare? The noscipt javascript blocker extension shows in some cases I blocked some cloudflare javascript. For example on the lemmy.world instance it shows a script labeled "cloudflareinsights.com" that I block. That apparently provides visitor analytics

    According to them on insights:

    Our edge sees all requests made to a website, regardless of whether it’s cached or uncached, the user has adblock, or they turned off JavaScript. This enables us to [....]

    On other sites it shows a "confirm you are human" check-box labeled with the cloudflare brand (if I activate javascript for that site) -- according to cloudflare wikipedia that service is known as Cloudflare Turnstile. This is how I currently see if cloudflare is involved.

    Another interesting thing I noticed on stackoverflow is email protected which confirms to me stackexchange also uses cloudflare somehow.

    I guess you could detect a Reverse Proxy by cloudflare based on its IP-Adress ~ but I do not really know how to look that up perhaps the following stack overflow answer might help using the tools nslookup and whois... Any other hints on this?

    nslookup www.monero.town whois -h whois.arin.net n <IP-Adress from prev command> | egrep 'Organization'

  • Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
  • Also:

    • Our product might be wrong sometimes, in those critical moments when the system encounters a new unseen problem not in its training dataset.
    • Our system might output a lot of junk data by design or accident robbing your clients time
  • Wahl-O-Mat Matches Your Position Against Political Parties Positions (EU Elections)
  • But does this not centalize power to the team who develop the Wahl-OMat? They could scew the results in multiple ways:

    • Imagine they put in a bias to automatically substract some "overlapping percentage" points of your favorite party
    • Overvaluing certain question topics while ignoring other topics. Topics enter and leave public discourse over time, Wahl-OMat needs to adjust accordingly.

    There should be multiple Wahl-OMat services to choose from imo...

  • Frieren's Villains Are The Perfect Solution For One Of Anime's Big Issues
  • I agree that Frieren villains are unique, to emphasize some other points:

    • Demons are depicted as this alien species that works on a completely different set of rules: Their fake emotions seem to have evolved genetically into them and they are incapable of changing their nature. They are to humans what Wolfs are to Sheep -- Alpha Predators.
      • Also demon-kinds social hierarchy being based on Magical power level is interesting completely going against Frieren hiding her power level.

    But in a way Demon mirror Frieren as well, as she herself mentally diverged from humanity over 1000s of years.

    The villains in Frieren are quite similar to Dragonball villains who are non human mos of the time. During combat they find out about their similarity to the heroes.

  • My impression of github since switching to Linux
  • I also had the same experience; sometimes the flatpak package is the most useful one, since its newer Version now supports feature X by default.

    Meta: This is a great meme in text form. This shows memes do not always have to include images.

  • Background-check giant confirms security incident leaked millions of SSNs
  • Most important point for me:

    the prevention and consequence models in place today clearly do not disincentivize mass aggregation of data

    Yep decentralization is key to avoid these kind of problems... A single point of failure will have consequences some day.

  • True?
  • lmao my etc/nixos/configuration.nix file is a mess, I have a huge list of programs and programming languages I use in packages = with pkgs; [ .... no flakes no modules.... so the meme does not check out for me.... but at least I got i3-window manager working using the wiki

  • True?
  • Let me summarize the glory of the meme for people who do not get all the distributions references in textual form (and as a check if I get the references): The image shows the branding image of a bunch of operating systems and Linux distributions with memes ... descriptions follow -- left to right top to bottom:

    • Debian: Smiling old men with tea meme, since it is so standard 0815
    • Arch Linux: Overweight NPC meme in his room Anime collection in background
    • Ubuntu: Money Meme (because big Cooperation sponsors Ubuntu I guess?)
    • LFS (Linux from scratch a Distro where you build everything from scratch to learn how the linux system works): it has some Spongebob meme where Computer science P.h.ds get instructed by a wise snail who is an LFS user
    • Manjaro: guy who looks cool from the front but his ass is visible in a mirror behind him
    • Open-Suse: Chad-Meme (I guess the creator of the meme loved suse)
    • Linux-Mint: Weird guy who wants to be cool with a skateboard... I guess since Linux-mint is so easy to use??
    • gentoo linux and void linux: Stone age survivor in the woods with old tools (since you build everything from scratch with simple tools in these distros)
    • Garuda Linux: guy with flashy LED-strips built into his shoes and expensive gaming laptop trys to be cool with sunglasses
    • Pop-Os/Ubuntu: They are clones of each other, since they are all debian/ubuntu based
    • fedora: Psychopath American Psycho movie meme
    • Kali: Hacker with sunglasses on Laptop guy meme
    • Windows: Guy with a clone of himself behind him holding a gun. (viewing the Candy-Crush advertisement in the start-menu be like:)
    • Nixos, OpenBSD: Lonely guy sitting on a chair, staring into the void, he seems to be at peace.
    • Apple: Golden luxury toilet, 5 stars
    • Tux sits on a white Porsche racing car overtaking chromeOS sitting in a spongebob meme car, Apple with a cool Porsche red racing car behind.
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