Dropbox link

I think Reddit is using AI modbots that really don’t like external links that have superficial similarities to links used by scammers, I was also banned for something kind of similar.

Tried this briefly, can get the game itself to run but run into a .net runtime error trying to launch the editor on linux. It’s a neat concept and I hope it succeeds

wonder why the tub overflow isn’t working

edit: oh good this is already being discussed in great detail

Could also go with accusing them of projecting and rescinding the offer on that basis

Would make sense except they have different clothes and get grey hair

If anyone was wondering looks like they are estimating the combined cost of the components to be $12,905.34, with the servo motor and lidar being the most expensive parts.

If his services are affordable and it isn’t homeopathy I will forgive Dr. Mario his crimes

I like this, but it is really stupid

One option is to do this for them, and just send the link to the instance most suited to your current audience when recommending using Lemmy, rather than trying to explain what instances are, because they don’t need to know that to use it.

https://youtu.be/7md_gd3HuMQ?list=PLKkxnBwFOJGKYQo3EGYjE4FhJUbBq_2U5

The imperfect answer is to diversify. If you think there is a real risk that you get screwed by the organizations you are trusting your money with, keeping some portion of your wealth in any of those things you are ridiculing is a rational choice to hedge against that risk.

Those are all also risky, but the risks are different as they are (mostly) about your personal security rather than trustworthiness of institutions, meaning you have a lot more protection from being completely wiped out in a single event.

A lot of people didn’t like how I initially worded my response, something like “good luck figuring out what committed by me or by Claude now that the co-authorship is gone”. But really, that’s the point. To this day, I haven’t had a report pointing to a specific piece of code saying “this is AI generated nonsense hallucination”, all the concerns have been about the broader use of AI. It doesn’t mean the code is perfect, some bugs were found. But those bugs were pretty much on the same level as some found in human submitted patches.

Seems reasonable to not want to give extra ammunition to people who just want to harass the project about any use of AI as opposed to contributing anything constructive.

I like that the link is to a comment under the article rather than the article itself

The utility of gun rights as a potential defense against tyranny isn’t proven to be zero by the existence of tyranny, because guns are not a complete solution. I think it’s likely they would be rounding up more people by now, with less expense and difficulty, if Americans didn’t have guns.

People who, like me, are worried, need to start thinking about concrete actions to take before it’s too late: where to develop such distros? which channels to download and distribute them from? And so on

My ideal outcome here is that this stuff sparks a renaissance in covert, anonymous software development and distribution, and various infrastructure to support it. Ideally this should be standard; your work may at some point in the future be deemed illegal, at which point you can be forced to comply if you haven’t protected yourself from the start. The most obvious solution is to manage a project as if it was already illegal; carefully conceal your identity before it’s technically required to do so, then when draconian laws show up just carry on as normal.

An advantage of github is that its social network type features give you ways to make more educated guesses about whether a project is legitimate vs a malware trap. It’s great that it is not difficult to find alternative hosting for git repos to evade Microsoft’s censorship, but I don’t think there exists an ideal alternative solution for trust infrastructure, which is extra important for anything piracy related.

“man if I had a goth girl I could just pee in her mouth instead of the bathroom” joke. Like that could even be funny to me I guess but this format just felt… Like they drew her on her knees first and invented a scenario around it after.

The focus of the comic is more on the male character with more panels showing his face and emphasizing his escalating reactions to being teased with various techniques (the squiggle line on the dialogue bubble in the third panel, the head turn line, the poses etc). What I like about it is how it depicts a relationship dynamic between them where he gets easily embarrassed, the goth girl doesn’t, and she takes advantage of this to mess with him. It’s obviously meant to be titillating but to me it does not seem like the sort of comic that has no substance other than that.

The problem with C as a language for learning is that the error messages are not very specific or descriptive and often you need extra context to understand what is happening. Messing up memory management can result in inconsistent gremlin-like behavior from your programs, it can get very tricky. I had a pretty difficult time when I got to classes that taught C compared to other languages, but the main thing was just that I needed someone to look over my work and explain things to me because unlike with other languages, the self-service ways of figuring it out were much more difficult and it’s easier to get stuck with no idea what to look into next. I ended up begging people online for help with understanding what was going wrong with my programs to supplement the limited amount of time the professor and TAs were available, really grateful to those guys as I probably would have failed it otherwise.

Anyway I would just say that if you do really want to go with C, I think you should be willing to put in more time to explain things to students one on one because many of them may need it.

I don’t like the thought of first-party javascript being able to fingerprint me either though

Afaik even Tor can be vulnerable to some kinds of fingerprinting, if javascript is turned on, which is required to use some websites, I’m thinking of this as something that could be used in conjunction with Tor