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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope you don't have any plans this evening.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RTFB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Along with other things said here, people tend to “forget” that there’s a real person on the other end.

  I vaguely recall Nicholas Christakis talking about a study they made, where they created a bot which would simply remind people of the fact that there’s a real person on the other end, and they found that it would help. (That study was done in some university platform and is centuries old in internet time, though. I think he spoke about it about 6 years ago on podcast with Sam Harris.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When it comes to identifying the server, hostname the first thing that counts. lemmy.world or mastodon.social or google.com are three different hostnames. At this point you can basically treat the period as no special character, it’s just part of the funny world. This basically answers your question: those are two different domains, ie. for all purposes, different instances.

  However, your computer does not really connect to hostname but to IP address, so the next important thing is to translate the hostname to an IP address.

  Aside: a valid hostname does not even have to have period in it. For example, localhost is a valid hostname! But generally hostnames without periods don’t get translated to any useful IP addresses. localhost is probably the only one widely used hostname but your OS will translate it to a special IP address which marks your own device.)

  So to translate the hostname to IP address is done using so-called DNS. So before you can connect, your computer already knows an IP address of a DNS server, and asks it to translate the hostname to IP address. Technically, this is still not where the period is strictly important.

  Where the period does start to be meaningful is when you think about: so we have billions of IP addresses, billions of hostnames, how do we organize it all? Who is going to maintain the huge massive list?

  So it works like this: There are dozens of organizations, each of which is assigned one or more “top level domains” (TLD). Then they are responsible for maintaining lists of all hostnames ending with those domains. Many of these organizations are local to certain states. For example, in Czech Republic, where I live, we have organization called CZ.NIC which maintains all domains ending with .cz. So it’s up to CZ.NIC how it manages permissions and gives out the domains. In this case, basically anyone can register any free domain ending with .cz, and what this registration means is that now they can get a server with an IP address, run whatever they want and have the registered domain name point to that IP address.

  Note that other organizations may decide to add additional rules. For example .uk domains are managed with extra rules, where non-government (commercial) entities are normally allowed to register only .co.uk and other .uk names are not handed out easily. I don’t actually know the details about .uk but my point is that if you are going to think about a hostname and how to begin to understand who owns it, first thing that matters is the TLD, and from that point the rules might be slightly different. To be fair, I haven’t seen much variance between this; almost all public TLD’s I’ve seen were either “simple”, meaning myname.tld or this thing that UK does (also New Zealand, from the top of my head).

  One almost universal rule is, though, that if I, say, register seznam.cz with NIC.CZ, then I automatically get not only seznam.cz but also any address I can possibly come up which ends with .seznam.cz. foo.seznam.cz, bar.seznam.cz, www.seznam.cz, I can now start organizing my servers using this whole infinite space, with any number of extra periods. I could totally start a business and start promoting my server foo.bar.baz.whatever.cz on billboards, as long as NIC.CZ grants me whatever.cz.

  So back to your question: mastodon.social and piefed.social are two completely different domains. All we know that they have in common is that whoever registered them, had to deal with the same organization; that is whoever maintains .social.

  So TL;DR: there’s really nothing that suggests that they would be the same instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not casually stealing comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s even worse that the stolen comment got much more engagement than the original.

  I’ve seen her comments all around YouTube, and this always seems to happen to her. (I’m assuming it’s because they are the most insightful, informative yet still on point.) Don’t give up Barbara, some of us are seeing through the scam and rooting for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so sorry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it AI though? I thought AI’s are blocked from using celebrity faces.

  I assumed someone made it with AI using unspecified faces and then photoshopped in the real ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also in my experience LLM can often propose solutions which are working but way too complex.

  Story time: just yesterday, in VueJS I was trying to iterate over a list of items and render .text of reach item as HTML, but I needed to process it first. Note that in VueJS this is done by adding eg. <span v-html=“item.text”></span> where content of the attribute is the JavaScript expression needed to get the text.

  First I asked ChatGPT to write the function for processing the text. That worked pretty well and even used part of the JavaScript API which I was not aware about.

  Next, I had a “dumb moment” when I did not realize that as I’m iterating through items I can just say <span v-html=“processHtml(item.text)”></span>, that’s all I really needed. Somehow I thought (or should I say, “hallucinated”, ba dum tsss) for a moment that v-html is special or something (it is used differently than the most abundant type of syntax). So I went ahead and asked ChatGPT how to render processed texts while iterating.

  It came with a rather contrived solution which involved creating another computed property containing a list of processed texts. I started to integrate it into the existing loop: I would have to add index and use that index to pull the code from the computed property, which already felt a little bit weird.

  That’s when it struck me: no, no, no, I can just f*ing use the function.

  TL; DR: The point is, while ChatGPT was helpful I still needed to babysit it. And if I didn’t snap from my lazy moment, or if I simply didn’t know better, I would end up with code which is more complex, more surprising, which means harder to reason about for both humans and LLM’s. (For humans because now it forces you to speculate about coder’s intent, and for LLM’s because it’s less likely to be reminiscent of surrounding code in its learning data.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but what if the bus is moving, on the road… Like in the middle of a desert (…wait… but still…)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.”

  ~ Enerkin Ionwalker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have lots of music which I got basically for free, and a lots of music for which I paid.

  My general attitude towards music is that I’m in it to explore, learn and enjoy the indescribable human connection that I get through, and only through listening to someone’s little “message in a bottle”. Doing this for many years (I’m 44 so over 30 years now) I’ve learned that training my brain on multiple styles and genres, the connection can always get deeper and more rich.

  So I would not be able to ever say a purchase was not worth it, because I would always assume such decision to be rushed. I had too many experiences when I listened to something, didn’t quite like it, but later I somehow “grew into” it, and then I learned to love it for years and years.

  Different music ends up playing different roles in my life. Some albums end up teaching me a genre or a style, some end up acting like a gateway drug, some end up as a “stand in” for whole genre. Some end up as “holy relics” of who I was, and are re-visited from time to time to see whether I’ve changed and how. Some end up on a shelf and get re-discovered, some end up on a shelf forever.

  (That “stand in” part is kinda tongue-in-cheek, but it sometimes almost works; eg. I would never set out to get a Dub album, but Dub Guerilla is one of the 100 best things I’ve ever heard, and it’s just so darn satisfying that it satisfies all and any of my Dub needs.)

  Sometimes my brain can be just really petty about things, like completely disregarding an album because of a track or a section which I feel is a mistake. Sometimes I just know I will need much more time, sometimes I feel certain things might remain hard to get into maybe forever.

  Don’t get me wrong, somewhere among those piles, there are really things that I won’t ever care to pick up, and perhaps would not purchase them again, but it almost never has much to do with number of listens. It might be things that I just got with bad expectation (ie. not listening upfront) or things that I enjoyed because of content (eg. lyrics) but I have changed and moved on.

  Other times music is best experienced live, for some bands the “spirit” simply cannot be tamed, let alone reproduced. Sometimes I get album from band directly after a show and then end up never feeling it again from the CD, but then again, I would say it was not worth it, because it’s still a great way to “tip” the artist, and sometimes it will just work out.

  (A bit more related to the OP: Incidentally, just today I broke my all-time record by spending about 20 EUR for V​í​n by Janus Rasmussen, and for reasons completely unrelated to OP and the price (but related to a sub-thread) I also did something I would never do normally–put one of the tracks on repeat for several hours. That’s not to brag about money–it’s just funny how it ended up accidentally as “$ per listen” experiment, although )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ‘87’ by Janus Rasmussen, by the way

  Also by the way, I got the album and it was the most I spent per minute of track ever (and my collection is hundreds of albums) – the album was 18 EUR (plus tax!), but then again, Icelandic economy, and I love to support artists, and I do love that song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my music routine generally implies having a song or two on repeat for the day because they are a form of stimming for me

  I’m not on spectrum on anything (anything diagnosed, anyway) but your comment inspired me to try and have a favorite tune on repeat for several hours, just to see what effect it would have on my ability to focus & anxiety, both of which are things I tend to struggle (although in my case it’s more related to insomnia).

  Interesting experience, nicer than I would expect. Normally my music routine is to try and keep things diverse, but I do tend to get distracted by the need to choose what’s next (and radios can have own problems, alghough soma.fm is awesome.) This sort of removed the issue.

  I do wonder how I will feel like when I turn it off, then in dreams, and then tomorrow. 😁

  (It’s ‘87’ by Janus Rasmussen, by the way, and even after hours I’m still loving it!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $10/hour entertainment budget

  So… worst case you spend $87,600 per year? (assuming you want to be entertained during sleep as well…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  panel 3 is useless, he was clearly wasted and fell asleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, you just made this no doubt question far, far more interesting!

  …and what if it was running AWAY from the sun!

  Here, Fixed it for ya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they were just superstitious, they did not know how huge the sun was.

  But we know now so ALL HAIL THE SUN GOD!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign of the times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  trying to keep up with the vaping industry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no the “xyz be like” phrasing implies means it’s parody

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, it has to be cultural. I’m from Czech Republic, but born close to Slovakian/Hungarian border. Where I come from, the spinach would be the suspicious ingredient.

  Cucumbers, Balkan cheese, tomatoes, pepper, maybe onion would make it much easier to blend in the crowd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me understand littering⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no justification, it’s part of a broken culture.

  As a Czech citizen living in a city, I see it happening all around me. By far not for everyone, but for a lot of people treating trash properly is considered a fool’s errand, virtual signalling, try-hard, you name it. This toxicity is unfortunately too common in the culture, and lot of people (including me) are just afraid or tired of being seen as a try-hard. It’s especially “awkward” to clean up.

  Obvious littering is one thing but I recon most of the trash floating around is due to “practical littering”, where people, if trash cans are full, will just “neatly” place their beloved trash next to the can, kiss it goodbye and walk around as if wind does not exist. I’m probably too cynical but sometimes I imagine the same people going judgemental when they see trash caught up in bushes.

  As for cigarette butts, that’s just dumb. I don’t think I’ve seen someone toss something like a plastic bottle or a bag on the ground, just like that, more than 5 times in my life, but with cigarette butts I see them all the time – most often just before they jump on a tram or a bus. (I’m strongly against violence and bullying, but rationality aside, to be honest, there’s a part of me that is wishing they had to pick it up and chew it.)

  (Goddamn, about 2 weeks ago, someone must have left some balls of yarn outside, next to a trashcan, on straight street. I was walking to grocery shop and some kind of thread was unrolled along the pavement for, i kid you not, like 150m. It was bizarre. Could have been some serious TikTok/YTShorts material if someone wanted to make a “goody PSA”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wait, why spinach? (text-only answer, please)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every August⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i would love to be in that camp, fall is great, it’s just too depressing that winter is coming soon.

  few more summers like this one and i’ll start getting depressed on Spring, because of looming Summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the urge to go to the bathroom increase when we get home?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve observed this multiple times with number 1.

  As to anyone, it has happened to me many times over the course of my life, that after having to hold it for too long, the last minutes, seconds, end up a total rush against the time. There’s always this dramatic arc of making it just for the last second.

  But I asked myself: if the urgency was merely function of the continuous kidney/bladder function then statistically, why would I almost always make it just by the lastest milisecond, and I would certainly lose the battle if my bathroom was 2 cm further. Clearly this is risky, esp. considering that sometimes things happen like the bathroom happens to be occupied or you can’t find your key or your zipper is stuck or something dumb, robbing you of that critical few seconds.

  I’ve learned that to save myself from the unnecessary drama and rush, I can actually sort of convince myself that there is extra, say 10m between me and my bathroom. Just try to “lie” to my body a bit, about how far the right place is, or make up some vague extra steps as necessary to enable truly safe disposal. And it almost always gives me an extra few minutes.

  It’s certainly one of those things when the signaling around the body is much more strategic than we would think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the urge to go to the bathroom increase when we get home?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ok so i just need to check out Slack and i can (and pretty much will have to) hold it for next hour or so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually the leaning tower of Eiffa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we put up with this crap?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They used to be also fascinated by plastic.

  I bet their smiles would not last long realizing that the 5g bag of pretzels has 2g of plastic (and that’s just the tip of the plastiberg).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  forget the hair, but the questions must be precise and well-formed :D

  seriously (ish), if the hairdresser holds my hair 2cm away from the skin and asks if this length is ok, and their finger is like 2cm thick, i don’t know if they mean 2 or 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly specific example, but I believe you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay this is gonna be the last thing I say on this - a lot of the struggle that women today face comes from the idea that women only exist in relation to something or someone else, like children or a partner.

  The thing is, in so many ways we all only exist in relation to each other. So you’re on to something, not necessarily exclusive to sex or gender, but yes that part is hard. And much worse because it also means that others are going to try and shape that relation and the power is barely ever balanced. It does help to realize that not all people are like that, but these things are really knowable, and everyone’s situation is unique.

  Eg, your role is to start a family, wear makeup and take care of your appearance so that you are perceived as attractive and therefore valued

  Honestly, that part is infuriating to me as well. and I hate what it does to women. My personal feelings about what makes a woman attractive / free are my own, but I find it somewhat offensive how boldly people make assumptions about it and even start to normalize or ostracize others for following standards.

  Not sure if we can do about it in general, but I do appreciate people who don’t just bow down to the masses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the work hasn’t been done to show this is the sole cause

  sure but why is it relevant? OP isn’t saying that it is the sole cause.

  careful with the straw, you might accidently build a straw man out of it :)