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  • I use Hugo, it's not super complicated.

    You basically just define templates in pseudo html for common content (header, nav panel, footer, etc), and then you write your articles in markdown and Hugo combines the two and outputs actual html files.

    You also have a content folder for js, css, and images which get output as is.

    That's about all there is to it, it's a pretty minimalist static site generator.

    Hosting wise you can just put it on github pages for free.

  • AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
  • Well yeah, I'd hope so, that's the entire point.

    Catcha's data collection always was with the intent for training ai on these skills. That's "the point" of them.

    It's reasonable to expect that the older version of captchas can now be beaten by modern ai, because they're often literally trained on that exact data to beat it.

    Captcha effectively is free to use on websites as a tool because the data collection is the "payment", they then license that data out to people like OpenAI to train with for stuff like image recognition.

    It's why ai is progressing so fast, captchas are one of humanity's long term collected data silos that are very full now.

    We are going to have to keep progressing the complexity of catches as it will be the only way to catch modern AIs, and in turn it will collect more data to improve it.

  • AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
  • Not quite.

    It's mostly wisdom of the crowd, as it always has been.

    As long as you mostly click the same squares most other people click, you pass.

    You often at random get 2-3 images because 2 of them are actual checks, but the third is a new image that you auto pass and they're using it to gather data on what the average clicks are on it.

  • Trump calls for prosecution of Google over search results he says favor Harris
  • If you want to win an election, Google might be arguably the worst possible company to directly threaten, not gonna lie.

    Pretty sure uf they wanted to, they could wbd your political career with any manner of ways.

    I bet trump's Google search history would be devastating if they threatened him with releasing it to the public, lol.

  • AI Catches Student's Eye-Roll, Expels Her Faster Than You Can Blink
  • What in the fake news is this?

    Alexa Turing

    Middleton High School

    Jessica Nguyen

    Mr. Peterson's

    algebra class

    "Our AI doesn't make mistakes," he declared, his smile as frozen as a crashed computer. "If it detected 37 eye-rolls, then that's a clear violation of our new zero-tolerance policy on micro-aggressions."

    This is clearly fake as fuck, wtf even is this site?

    Seems like a bunch of AI generated garbage meant to incite people.

    Ew.

  • "My AI girlfriend told me that my novel sucks"
  • This continues to boil down into that tired argument that an amalgamation of human behavior is distinct from how humans actually behave, but since no one can actually prove how humans produce thoughts, it follows you can't actually prove that an LLM actually works or doesn't work any different.

    So I dont really dig into that argument.

  • "My AI girlfriend told me that my novel sucks"
  • To be honest, the one thing that LLMs actually are good at, is summarizing bodies of text.

    Producing a critique of a manuscript isnt actually to far out for an LLM, it's sorta what it's always doing, all the time.

    I wouldn't classify it as something to use as concrete review, and one must also keep in mind that context windows on LLMs usually are limited to only thousands of tokens, so they can't even remember anything more then like 5 pages ago. If your story is bigger than that, they'll struggle to comment on anything before the last 5 or so pages, give or take.

    Asking an LLM to critique a manuscript is a great way to get constructive feedback on specific details, catch potential issues, maybe even catch plot holes, etc.

    I'd absolutely endorse it as a step 1 before giving it to an actual human, as you likely can substantially improve your manuscript by iterating over it 3-4 times with an LLM, just covering basic issues and improvements, then letting an actual human focus on the more nuanced stuff an AI would miss/ignore.

  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB
  • Because having people download static map data for the entire planet just to play a game is untenable.

    You shouldn't have to download the entire planet though.

    The game 100% should support installing local specific areas you wanna fly around, that anyone could then keep a copy of.

    If a user wanted to cache an entire 8 TB of the entire world on a drive, they should be able to just do that (and thus have forever support without worrying about internet services staying online)

    At least, as a snapshot of what the world looked like in 2024.

    I don't see why users shouldn't have the option to locally HD save the data if they want to, to avoid maxing out their internet bandwidth in one sitting.

  • Billie Eilish endorses Harris: ‘Vote like your life depends on it’
  • She has so much more sway than The Chicks had at the time, by such a huge amount.

    The Chicks were already controversial, and had always been so.

    But Dolly is the fucking queen of country, people revere her.

    How many Dixie Chicks lookalike competitions were you seeing right before their career nosedived?

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    Unique Linux gaming situation
  • Despite Steam being proprietary, Proton (it's emulation system) is so profoundly stable I feel like it's a necessary evil at this time.

    I haven't found a single "windows" game yet in my library that doesn't work with steam

  • Has anyone else noticed Zip-locks have changed?
  • Yeah this is just noticeable because most products weren't even resealable, they just expected you to seal em yourself with a clip, twist em, put em in a container, etc.

    Now they are adding cheap resealable zips to the bag, which is nice in theory but the bag material has to be strong enough to support it.

    Actual ziplock baggies themselves are made of thick plastic that can take a bit of abuse.

    But cheap paper plastic hybrid materials a chip bag us made of can't handle that sort of load, so it becomes the fail point.

  • What is the best value, out of the box PC gaming solution?
  • Regardless of budget, I have found the following setup has afforded me all the comfort upsides of mobility and console gaming, with none of the performance downsides.

    1. Build a standard desktop gaming pc to your budget, setting aside ~$150, give or take.

    2. Make sure it's wired into your network and not using wifi. Setup Steam on it as usual.

    3a. (Console experience) Buy a Google TV with Chromecast, or whatever it's called now. Install Steam Link app on it and connect it to your gaming pc. Get a Bluetooth compatible Xbox controller, connect it to the chromecast. Enjoy a console experience with your gaming pc. If you have the chromecast on a wired ethernet lime you'll have maybe 1ms of input lag, very playable.

    3b. (Laptop experience), buy a dirt cheap laptop, install steam on it, use Steam Streaming fu ctionaloty to stream from gaming pc to laptop. If you plug the laptop into ethernet you should have sub 1ms input lag.

    This let's you get all the horsepower of a gaming pc, at gaming pc hardware prices, but the portability of a laptop and/or couch gaming comfort of a console.

    And since it's all centralized to your 1 "server" machine, of you make changes in setup A (ie change am in game setting or etc), it'll persist even if you swap over.

    IE if I change my settings or preferences on the console, I'll persist that over on my laptop and won't have to change it again.

    Furthermore no network save game synching needed, no waiting for a game to download a second time, no need to update the fane multiple times, etc.

    It's all centralized to your own core machine and everything else is just a thin client.

    PS: this works with the Steam Deck too, you can stream from gaming pc to steam deck and use it as a thin client 👍

  • AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds
  • It scored a 47% vs the humans 81%

    That's already pretty compelling that it's scoring so well considering how this tech is still so new.

    It's very rapidly catching up.

    Also keep in mind they were using a more generic ML model and not one specifically tuned to this task.

  • In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content
  • Who determines what is disinformation?

    A jury, for a given case

    Who determines that the information is endangering lives?

    A jury, for a given case

    If Trump wins the election do you want him determining these things?

    I wouldn't put it past him to try and do that, knowing him.

    But that's not how laws work. Determining if a given case is or is not disinformation would be up to a jury to deliberate, based on facts presented by the lawyers.

    As that's how the justice system works. Or us supposed to at least.

    And yes, proving it is disinformation is super hard, so the prosecutor must have a pretty iron tight case. You'd likely need witnesses that can attest to the defendant outright admitting to the act, or their behaviors that signal intent, or evidence on their devices, etc.

    This is exactly how Libel and Slander / Defamation cases work right now, you have to prove the defendant knew they were lying and or making a story up intentionally which is incredibly hard, cuz the dependant can just go "I really thought that was the truth!"

    For example in the Heard v Depp case, they had to pull evidence of her doctoring photos and using makeup to really sell the case and win the jury over.

    So it's a huge gap to cross...

    But...

    If you do cross it, I believe the penalty for it should be pretty severe. Especially if the defendant was:

    1. Endangering people's lives with bad advice And/Or
    2. Posing as an expert without actually being one

    IE those people that dress up like a doctor or nurse or etc and then sell extremely bullshit stuff on social media. That should straight up result in some prison time if they gave out genuinely harmful disinformation.

  • In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content
  • When they lead to harm, they do indeed end.

    People often forget the right to free speech isn't prioritized over other human rights in pretty kych every first world country.

    Otherwise stuff like Libel and Slander wouldn't make sense legally. As well as hate speech laws.

    Your right to free speech comes after peoples rights to safety from harm, and how that's worded varies country by country, but feel free to Google up on it for your specific case.

    It's why stuff like advertising laws, misinformation and disinformation laws, etc can work too.

    Free speech isn't right #1, which some people just can't seem to wrap their head around I guess. This isn't even new, it's been like that for ages.

    How do you think snake oil salesmen could be prosecuted if they were allowed to just say whatever they want?

    Why do you think it's possible to have legal repercussions for threatening to shoot up a school, or bomb a plane?

  • Self Hosted Database ERD Manager?

    Im looking for some form of self hosted application, ideally dockerized(able), that can connect to and manage an existing database (Im not picky on the DB type, Postgres prolly best though).

    However Id like if it manages it via a nice well designed ERD. The closest I have found so far is PgAdmin but unfortunately it's ERD leaves a lot to be desired. It's kinda clunky, and it cant "diff" against your existing database to produce a migration script, all it can do is produce a script that expects you to totally drop the existing DB and re-apply the schema from scratch.

    Something like Luna/Moon would be cool, but every example I look up seems to be an application you install locally on your machine and interact with directly, as opposed to a web interface.

    If you know of such a tool let me know!

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    I feel like I am crazy, where is the login?

    I just downloaded the app, its loading posts just fine from lemmy.world, but where on earth do I login?

    Clicking on Profile and Submit just tell me they wont work unless I am logged in. Ideally these two CTAs should instead redirect to login if you are not logged in.

    I am looking all over this interface and I am either totally blind or completely unable to find the login option, is it buried somewhere or am I crazy?

    Edit: Nevermind found it, top of the burger menu, I think maybe the UX of that button could be made a bit more visual, it at first glance with the icon looked like just a title.

    Perhaps add a big green + symbol on it so it pops more for adding your account? The dull blue and lemmy icon aren't what I normally would associate typically with a login button, so it totally didn't pop out at me. Legit took me a solid 5+ minutes to notice it D:

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    What is the planned solution for cross-host link sharing?

    Right now there seems to be a bit of an issue where if I want to share a link to a lemmy post with a friend, but if we call different servers our "home", even though both of our "homes" have a roughly similar copy of the same post, there currently is no easy way that I perceive for us to navigate to "our" copy of that post.

    This becomes further of an issue when it comes to search engine parsing. For example I use lemmy.world as my "home" server, however when I find information on google it may link to the fedia.io or whatever "sources" link.

    For reading this is no big deal.

    But if I want to respond to the post, I now need to somehow figure out a way to re-route to the lemmy.world copy of that post to make my submission with my user account.

    I think ideally what we need to consider is perhaps one of the following:

    A: a browser plugin that can automatically detect and redirect to the matching version of the post for your server

    B: OAuth support, so I can OAuth login to any lemmy server with my credentials from my "home" server via an OAuth v2 token

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