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For the dudes here... What "girl" song you secretly love?
I avoid modern pop music in general… But I’m sorry, I will always have a soft spot for “Baby one more time” by Britney....
Which adaptation do you think has surpassed its source material in quality?
What is YOUR top 10 list of all time best video games? (kbin.social)
Any platform(s).
Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good
I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...
Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?
Obviously it was a good thing that it was banned, but I’m just wondering if it would technically be considered authoritarian....
What's the best wax-on-wax-off-style advice you've heard that you can attest as being helpful in certain situations?
Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?
Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....
I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?
What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)
I hate to go as cliche as “surprising absolutely no one,” but really, this is not a surprise.
Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+ (www.gamingonlinux.com)
What would you ask to a potential partner in a partner compatibility survey?
If companies could put ads inside our anuses do you think they would?
That’s crazy I don’t think they would
XZ backdoor in a nutshell (lemmy.zip)
In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel? (upload.wikimedia.org)
Bonus points if there’s a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.
To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?
Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?...
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Who in history (either present or in the past) do you think has had the biggest positive impact on humanity?
What is a story were the main villain actually turned out to be the good guy?
Since the Turing Test seems NOT to be an accurate way to check for true AI, what is? What's will be the indicator that tells us it's arrived? I can't imagine; everything seems falsifiable.
Edit: After reading the discussion, I figured I’d let GPT4 speak for itself:...
[Urgent] How do you know your computer or phone isn't spying on you ?
This maybe a dumb question but i became paranoid all of a sudden and wanted some answers because i can’t find it anywhere else nor can i sleep without it. Like even if i did flash linux on a lets say amd laptop couldn’t the chip itself be spying on me ? Also i understand bootloaders are stored or rom is there a way to know...
Are there goldilocks zones for tidally locked planets?
A tidally locked planet does not rotate in relation to its sun. One side is always day, one, always night. This is caused by tidal forces pulling all planets towards this same equilibrium, so it’s completely stable once it does occur…a tidally locked planet at an earthlike distance from the sun would be scorching heat on one...
PowerDeleteSuite still works for nuking your Reddit history (github.com)
No API required. Kinda slow, but just leave it running overnight if you have a lot. Make sure you run it from old.reddit.com/u/me/overview
Devs of lemmy, do you find ai chatbot helpful?
Do chatgpt or other language models help you code more efficiently and faster? Is it worth spending your money for it?
Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses (arstechnica.com)
While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.
Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?
Ok let’s give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I’m a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write “good” code, readable and so....
Are there any studies done on how much linux can save governments money if they do a whole migration?
Is there a scientific ,logical or theoratical answer to the "what comes first chicken or egg question ? I know it's suppposed to be a paradox but i wanted to know if there is one. if there is share ?
EDIT : It seems as no one understood what i was talking about and maybe its my fault for not elaborating . I always thought chicken was a metaphor for this paradox and not really meaning chicken as a specific spiece . So my question is how did the ancestor of chicken came to be if it was born (egg) wouldn’t it need a parent or...
Thinking about making the big switch – recommend me a distro!
Hey all, I’ve been thinking about making the jump from Windows to Linux as my daily-driver and I’ve been struggling on what distro to use....
Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Timothée Besset, a software engineer who works on the Steam client for Valve, took to Mastodon this week to reveal: “Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical’s repackaging of the Steam client through snap”....
Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex... (lemmy.world)
Image shows a tweet with the header “and people STILL try to convince me Linux and Windows are better when the DATA clearly shows otherwise. SMH” with an image attached showing the following:...
What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it?
What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?
I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.
Fellow atheists: How do you know your senses and reasoning are reliable and valid? How do you know that you know anything? Solipsism vs Nihilism
Just looking for other answers to this....
Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop? (www.tomshardware.com)
Thanks to @redcalcium for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.
Why don't rabies infected humans act like rabies infected animals
This always puzzled me. Why don’t humans act much more aggressive or crazed like its often depicted with animals. Afaik there’s 2 types of rabies, “dumb” and “furious” so my question is more towards the 2nd type. For example, we never hear of rabies causing a human to accidentally bite another human so why is that?
Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (ludditus.com)
This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I’m not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I’m sharing it.
Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)
Adam Mosseri:...
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)