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  • It’s unfortunate because it does make people very mad about when it’s used even legitimately. I am not a programmer, I am a system administrator, and I run a local model. And don’t worry, I have full off-grid solar too, so I’m not increasing energy demand. That aside, it is incredibly useful for helping me save time and brain space on documentation.

    especially these days where documentation is scattered, fragmented, might not even be available other than on like Discord or something stupid, being able to have my local model, which has the ability to search the web, be able to just pull up documentation where I already pretty much know the process at a high view just need the finer details brought to the front of my brain. so I will know if it’s making shit up or bullshitting me easily, this is incredibly useful and saves so much time.

    especially when you’re dealing with like setting up a bunch of different security through things like apparmor, namespaces, LXC, seccomp etc. It’s just so much to keeping your brain at once. Its easy to have enough in there to know whether the answer it’s giving you is correct or wrong and its great at then taking your step-by-step process and formatting it nicely for something like a wiki.js instance which makes documentation take no time at all so I actually do it so that in the future when I need this again I can just go to my documentation that is now actually completed.

    But people using it for code generation or art generation have made the whole thing so controversial that it’s difficult to use it for its actual best case, which is basically just a really good documentation search engine.


  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule
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    It’s the alternator that handles running load, not your battery, and the difference is negligible. The alternator is not like a battery where it can super accurately adapt its load. Most alternators are just on or off. Some of them have a couple states that they can clutch through, but even then, you’re not making a huge difference on the strain of the electrical system.

    Without a sharp cutoff, it’s not the intensity only that’s the problem. The color temperature also makes a very big difference. Bright white or blue light is much more damaging to people’s nighttime vision. So even if it’s a lower intensity, it’s still causing more harm. If it’s not properly aimed and cut off from being right in their face.


  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule
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    As far as I’m concerned, LEDs should be illegal. Except for specifically in projector housings with projection lenses that have been properly aimed. Those are the lenses and housings that give your light a razor-sharp cutoff point, and when aimed properly, it means that you will not blind people.

    I did this for my car. I live very rural. There’s no such thing as city light pollution, much less streetlights. So when it’s dark, it’s dark dark. And there are deer, elk, and all other manner of animal based hazards. I went through the trouble of making sure to aim my lights in such a way that on the standard lights my cutoff is just below the side mirrors and rear window lines of the average family sedan, not an SUV or anything like that.

    When I turn on my high beams they are oh hey look it’s high noon in front of me for like a mile. But the standard lights were specifically configured to not do that. Unlike all the other people in my area that simply put massively bright LEDs in their completely normal light housings that do not have the ability to make a sharp cut-off so all they do is blind literally everyone like assholes regardless of high beams.







  • Those exact type of issues have existed in the past it’s why the FBI uses ad blocking and recommends that it’s used for security. There have been several browser vulnerabilities over the years that required absolutely no interaction from the user whatsoever it simply had to load the data.

    The whole reason that manifest V3 was such a big deal for unlock origin is that it prevents it from intercepting and stopping the initial connection to The domain in the first place it can only remove it after it’s been received and even that was limited. On Firefox everything is still normal it’s able to completely stop the browser from ever reaching out in the first place




  • I’m very tired of the rhetoric that Arch is only meant for tinkerers. If all you do is have plasma steam and a web browser it’s no more or less likely to break than any other distro. You could go your entire life without ever looking at the terminal.

    And while yes this malware is a problem it is specifically in the aur, the arch user repository an unofficial repository not officially supported, just don’t use it. Unless you need a weird piece of software generally related to some type of specific hobby you’re unlikely to ever even want to look at it anyway.