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Is there any, any takeaways at all from the next 4 years that's about to happen?

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  • Don't forget that Trump is completely inept and this time doesn't have any help from people even trying to be "the adults in the room". He's made some huge huge promises and I just don't think he has the ability or the team to make much of it happen.

    • Gimp 3.0.0 RC1 is finally here

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  • Looks like CMYK support is coming, if I read the release notes right. That has been a sticking point for a loong time.

    • Non US citizens, what's the weirdest thing about USA elections, compared to elections in your country?

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  • Being registered "as a republican/democrat" is weird.

    Electoral college is weird AF

    One party trying to stop people voting is weird.

    Queuing for hours to vote is weird.

    Purging voter rolls is weird.

    Rallies are weird.

    Townhalls are weird.

    Flags everywhere is weird.

    The orange one is super weird.

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  • I've had a Tidal subscription for about a year. It's recommendation algo is way way better than Spotify and there are none of those spammy 1 minute tracks that Spotify has because 'artists' have gamed the system.

    They don't have a Linux app but the PWA works fine. Minimize the window to reduce CPU usage (I know that sounds crazy but it actually works).

    • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • ok so the monkeys need to type faster

    • What's something about the fediverse you know but most people seem not to?

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  • Anytime someone says "it has to be that way because that's how federation works" they're wrong. It can be however we want it to be, it's just a choice.

    • What RSS feeds do you follow and why?

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  • Ahh yes, the walled garden trap.

    I self-host a copy of FreshRSS which does most of those things. No Android app but the PWA works.

    Whether you can read the full text in the app or not usually depends on whether the source provides a feed with the full text in it - changing your reader app won't make much difference.

    • What RSS feeds do you follow and why?

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    • Is there an historical reason why female formal dresses have a huge variety of styles compared to male ones where the only acceptable style is jacket with pants?

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  • Most women could not open their own bank accounts or have credit cards until the 1970's. That's just about within the lifetimes of nearly half the people here.

    • What are your AI use cases?

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  • I've been learning docker over the last few weeks and it's been very helpful for writing and debugging docker-compose configs. My server how has 9 different services running on it.

    I use it for python development sometimes, maybe once per day. I'll paste in a chunk of code and describe how I want it altered or fixed and that usually goes pretty well. Or if I need a generic function that I know will have been coded a million times before I'll just ask ChatGPT for it.

    It's far from "useless" and has made me somewhat more productive. I can't see it replacing anyone's job though, more of a supplemental tool that increases output.

    • Does hair in food carry any health risks?

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  • It's not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.

    • What is the most important unanswered question about the Fediverse?

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  • Scalability. Federation adds overhead that increases as the number of instances increases. It is unclear to me when we will hit a wall but it's probably not far off.

    How will we pay the bills. Some instances get enough donations to pay server costs but none get enough to pay for staff or developers.

    Both of those are only really problems if the fediverse grows, which it hasn't for a while now. But that could change at any moment.

    • Launching c/Latvija, the community for Latvia on the Fediverse! Calling all Latvians and those interested in Latvia and the Baltic countries to join and support us.

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    • Does spanking harm child development? Major study challenges common beliefs

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  • when used appropriately

    ...and there's the rub. Far too often it's not used appropriately. And people's ideas of what is appropriate is colored by whether they too were beaten as a child.

    • What technology purchase felt like a major upgrade in your life?

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  • My 486. With colour screen and speakers!

    • Reasoning failures highlighted by Apple research on LLMs

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  • Sorry! I've updated my links now.

    • Lemmy super communities?

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  • Yes. I think something like what Kbin did with it's "Collections" would work fine, where it's basically a crowd-sourced Topic. Currently topics are administered by the instance admin(s) which doesn't scale very well but scaling isn't much of a concern at the moment.

    • Reasoning failures highlighted by Apple research on LLMs

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    • Almost nine gigabytes in size: Windows update 24H2 creates an undeletable cache file

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