https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/327:_Exploits_of_a_Mom
SQL sanitization joke. Won't affect most databases today.
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Disclosure: I've done very little UI/UX.
Google's Material Design (wikipedia) is much more widely-adopted across OSes/Flutter/the web (see how many websites have that dropshadow topbar and ≡?); Microsoft's Fluent (wikipedia) is Windows-first, but is usable anywhere.
Both are based on responding to user actions. Fluent uses lightup acrylic (translucent) canvases (e.g. hover? border glowy.)
while Google's Material uses paper-esque whitespace, navbars, dropshadows, and round corners. (e.g. scrolling? dropshadow appears on nav)
Think Microsoft Teams vs. Google Drive.
They're both full-fledged but Material You is way more common judging by places such as the F-Droid ecosystem on Android. As for which is "better", Material You supposedly has better colorscheme flexibility since it 'wants' to adapt to e.g. user wallpapers. But other than that it's really just preference (or whether relevant tooling exists :P). I know some devs use Material You for a predictable, unified look across Android apps, while others bend them to their will to reduce animations or whatnot.
If you're designing something, make sure you keep your own self in the mix too. Breezy Weather uses Material Design, but it's more customized to have a unique feel than, say, TrackerControl (which also uses Material).
Solitaire 2: Collectors Edition. 175k hours
NOOOOOO HOW DID I GET SHITTYMORPHED ON LEMMY
CRYPT-- oh, you mean how the nice tutorial peeps have affected us.
Vimjoyer has increased the adoption rate for flakes on NixOS. And also NixOS use in general.
Mental Outlaw has probably contributed to new Gentoo users, quoth the meme, but Gentoo is still a dying breed compared to its heyday in the early naughts.
Fireship has made people -- particularly CS students I believe -- more comfortable with trying out new programming languages. (The "I'll check out the Fireship video first" approach. But then again, ChatGPT has arguably had the same effect across undergraduates... that's a digression)
Asahi Lina's longform Rust dev work, while less of a network effect, has had its own substantial effects within the Asahi Linux "Linux on the M-series" sphere. I believe she also helped port a kind of anime mocap engine onto Linux, which could over the longterm boost the anime-nerd Linux-nerd center Venn diagram. But that's speculation.
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In a broader perspective, with the combination of SteamOS and large YouTubers trying out Linux, Linux desktop adoption will probably increase more than it has now. I doubt it will pass 10% though with Linux's reputation (tech nerds, compile all day, games don't run, command line -- even though these are improving, it's hard to kick)
- Linus Tech Tips - "Linux HATES Me - Daily Driver Challenge Pt.1"
- SomeOrdinaryGamers - "I Installed The Hardest System Known To Man..."
- not gonna lie I ignored this clickbait but he has "gamers" in his name so he's probably a gamer
Thank you! (˶ˆᗜˆ˵) ✧
A lot of comments here are suspicious of you, so I'm going to try my hand at guessing whether this was AI.
Since GPTs are hilariously bad at detecting themselves, I'll venture on the human spirit!
First, we establish truth 1: this is copy-pasted.
Although Moissanite isn't mentioned twice, everything after "Synthetic Alexandrite" inclusively is mentioned twice. That means this was procedurally copy-pasted. Someone writing on their own would either CTRL+A then CTRL+C and make no mistakes, or not repeat themself at all.
Of course, we can also look at the half-formalized format that indicates something was copied from raw text and pasted into markdown, rather than formatted with markdown first.
Colon:
words words Colon:
words words Colon:
copy-paster spotted
Second, we cast doubt that a human wrote the source.
- AI-isms vs. non AI-isms
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Non-reused acronym definitions.
Garnets like... yttrium iron garnet (YIG)
This is probably taken straight from the Wikipedia's site description for YIG. Usually humans don't define an acronym only to never use it, unless they're making a mistake, especially not for just making repeated structure. So either Wikipedia was in the training corpus or this was Googled.
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5/23 sentences start with "While" (weak ai indicator)
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no three-em dashes or obvious tricolons are overused (non ai-indicator)
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no filler bullshit introduction or conclusion (non ai-indicator)
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obvious repeated structure that you can feel (strong ai indicator)
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Suspiciously uncreative descriptions (ai indicator)
"These stones are not just rare but impossible to find naturally, offering a unique and unconventional aesthetic perfect for someone looking to stand out." (emphasis added)
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Repetition of "unusual" and "rare" rather than more flavorful or useful adjectives (AI indicator)
- We're talking synthetic stuff. Would a human write about rarity?
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Superficial, neutral-positive voice despite length and possible source. If this was pasted from a technical blog, I'd expect it to have more "I" and personal experiences, or more deep anecdotal flavor (AI indicator)
- e.g. use of "fascinating" but doesn't go deeper into any positivities
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Third... let's take a guess
So it was copy-pasted from somewhere, but I can't imagine it being from a blog or website, and it isn't directly from Wikipedia. It has some nonhuman mistakes, but is otherwise grammatical, neutral-positive, and repetitively structured. And it lacks that deeper flavor. So.... it was an AI, but likely not openAI.
At least there aren't any very "committal" facts, so the length but lack of depth suggests that everything's maaaaaaybe true...
I wasted my time typing this
Cool-ass economics fun fact, hell yeah
~or~ ~not~ ~so~ ~fun~
What's the most recent thing that made you laugh? Why your username? Also, do you think wisdom can be taught (vs. making the mistakes ourselves)?
Not sure about the latter, but NZT was the focal "smart" drug in Limitless (a show on the premise "this drug makes u smart but if u stop taking it bad stuff happens")
I saw a post recently about someone setting up parental controls -- screentime, blocked sites, etc. -- and it made me wonder.
In my childhood, my free time was very flexible. Within this low-pressure flexibility I was naturally curious, in all directions -- that meant both watching brainteaser videos, and watching Gmod brainrot. I had little exposure to video games other than Minecraft which ran poorly on my machine, so I tended to surf Flash games and YouTube.
Strikingly, while watching a brainteaser video, tiny me had a thought:
I'm glad my dad doesn't make me watch educational videos like the other kids in school have to.
For some reason, I wanted to remember that to "remember what my thought process was as a child" so that memory has stuck with me.
Onto the meat: if I had had a capped screentime, like a timer I could see, and knew that I was being watched in some way, I'd feel pressure. For example,
10 minutes left. Oh no. I didn't have fun yet. I didn't have fun yet!!
Oh no, I'm gonna get in so much trouble for watching another YTP...
and maybe that pressure wouldn't have made me into an independent, curious kid, to the person I am now. Maybe it would've made me fearful or suspicious instead. I was suspicious once, when one of my parents said "I can see what you browse from the other room" -- so I ran the scientific method to verify if they were. (I wrote "HI MOM" on Paint, and tested if her expression changed.)
So what about now? Were we too free, and now it's our job to tighten the next generation? I said "butthead" often. I loved asdfmovie, but my parents probably wouldn't have. I watched SpingeBill YTPs (at least it's not corporatized YouTube Kids).
Or differently: do we watch our kids without them knowing? Write a keylogger? Or just take router logs? Do we prosecute them like some sort of panopticon, for their own good?
Or do we completely forgo this? Take an Adventure Playground approach?
Of course, I don't expect a one-size-fits-all answer. Where do you stand, and why?
Git cheat sheets are a dime-a-dozen but I think this one is awfully concise for its scope.
- Visually covers branching (WITH the commands -- rebasing the current branch can be confusing for the unfamiliar)
- Covers reflog
- Literally almost identical to how I use git (most sheets are either Too Much or Too Little)
Make your data useless or wrong.
More passively, there's probably an oddly large amount of John Does born on January 1, 2000 ;)
More offensively, anti-image-gen data poisoning such as Nightshade exists. It's well-defended against IIRC so hopefully someone can Cunningham's Law correct me. And this is also more solo of a movement (as opposed to gaining mass support for something)