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ordnung, to random German
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📢 Short announcement for chaos.social users 📢

We just made a minor change to our rules:

The sentence “Provide credit for creative works that are not your own.” was moved from the “Best Practices” section up to the proper rules.

We also expanded it to clarify our stance on AI generated content: “That includes marking AI generated content clearly as such.”

You can always find our full rules at https://meta.chaos.social/rules

fnord,
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@ordnung Could you clarify how to handle creative works of unknown origin, like memes for example?

fnord, to random
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Politikern ständig vorzuwerfen sie würden versagen, ohne dabei zu berücksichtigen, dass ihre Ziele halt einfach nur nichts mit ihrem Amtsauftrag zu tun haben, finde ich zunehmend ermüdend und naiv. Wissing ist kein Idiot, sondern ein Saboteur. Der "versagt" mit Absicht. Darin ist er sogar sehr erfolgreich. Können wir die Diskussion bitte mal dahin lenken, wie man solche Leute in Zukunft von wichtigen Ämtern fernhält? Das wäre meiner Meinung nach deutlich zielführender.

scy, to random
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So, if it's called birdfeeding because you're feeding birds, what exactly is breastfeeding then?

fnord,
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@scy And what is baby oil made of?

fnord, to random German
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the lack of a real ?: operator in Python still bugs me.
"okay" if success else "error"
looks horrible!

I came up with:
{1:"okay", 0:"error"}[success]
which I like marginally better, I guess.

Does anyone know of a nicer way to put this?

fnord,
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@scy Good point about the non-lazy evaluation.

fnord,
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@scy
Nice, that's even shorter :-)
Yeah, it is not that bad; more of an annoyance than a problem. Still, having the condition in the middle seems odd to me. Also, it does not scale that well - consider for example
a<min?min:a>max?max:a
vs.
min if a<min else max if a>max else a
But admittedly, one can probably get used to it. 🙂

fnord,
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@scy Readability depends a lot on what you're used to, I guess. It is sometimes hard to let go of my c(++) upbringing. 🙂
Of course, it was just an example. I usually have a function minmax() for this purpose, if I need it more than once.

tuxedocomputers, to linux German
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👨‍💼👩‍💼Ultra portable office companion👩‍💼👨‍💼
Affordable office notebooks in an ultra aluminum chassis, in 14- and 15-inch, for easily handling and tasks.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/de/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/Alle.tuxedo#12915,12920

fnord,
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@tuxedocomputers Are you planning to offer smaller devices than 14" in the future? In the 10"-14" category on your website there are currently only 14" devices, which seems a bit odd, tbh. :-)

fnord, to random German
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Viele Leute finden die Zeitumstellung doof, aber eine Abschaffung ist nicht in Sicht. Ich schlage daher als Kompromiss vor, zur Abmilderung der unangenehmen Effekte zusätzlich noch eine Frühlings- und Herbstzeit einzuführen, welche jeweils nur um eine Halbe Stunde versetzt ist.

fnord, to random German
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Huh, apparently switched to an open core model a while back, and the good people at CodeBerg e.V. made a fork called . Maybe I should switch?

fnord,
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@Codeberg I will definitely have a look. What would be the recommended migration path? Is it too late for a drop-in binary replacement? If yes, can I import Gitea repos somehow? (Preserving issues etc)

fnord,
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@Codeberg If anyone else is wondering: Migration turned out to be super easy. This helps: https://forgejo.org/docs/next/admin/gitea-migration/
On top of that, there is a function for migrating repos from GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and others. 👍

Aakerbeere, to random German
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💬

In der "ANALOGEN Welt" verboten!

Warum ist es in der "DIGITALEN Welt" erlaubt???

fnord,
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@Aakerbeere Evtl. weil das Risiko von Eskalation zu physischer Gewalt durch Werbefirmen im Allgemeinen eher gering ist? 🤔
(Versteh' mich nicht falsch, natürlich gehört der Scheiß verboten. Aber ich denke die meisten Stalkingopfer würden lieber von Unbekannten getrackt, die nur deren Kauf- und Wahlverhalten beeinflussen wollen.)

fnord, to random
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Ich habe Fragen.

fnord,
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@scy Calm down, put down that soldering iron, let's talk.

fnord, to random German
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Es is ist dringend notwendig, dass wir uns eingestehen, dass wir die Inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Rechtsextremen leider völlig verkackt haben.
Ich bin total dafür, ein gutes Brandschutzkonzept zu haben, aber es brennt schon. Wir müssen jetzt erstmal das Feuer löschen.

fnord,
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@Ihazchaos "Wir" als Gesellschaft haben es jedenfalls nicht geschafft, die AfD in der Bedeutungslosigkeit zu halten. Aber siehe meinen anderen Post - ich habe das wohl nicht optimal formuliert.

fnord,
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@Ihazchaos Da bin ich bei dir. Bei der Auswahl dieser Menschen [mit Regierungsamt] haben wir aber schon als Gesellschaft komplett versagt. Ich finde es sehr frustrierend, wie leicht man die Leute offenbar dazu kriegen kann, gegen ihre eigenen Interessen abzustimmen. Aber ich schweife ab. Fakt ist: Wer jetzt noch sagt, dass wir die AfD nicht verbieten, sondern es erstmal mit Inhalten versuchen sollten, will dass die AfD bleibt, weil er sich einen Vorteil davon verspricht.

thomasfuchs, to random
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People need to read more old books.

This is from one that's near 50 years old and explains succinctly why replacing humans with AI is bullshit--even if the AI can think on the same level as humans (current AIs can't, and will likely never be able to).

(Weizenbaum was a computer science professor at MIT and famously invented the ELIZA bot, so yes, he knows what he's talking about.)

fnord,
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@thomasfuchs How can choice be anything else but a computation? I think I get your point, but the argument seems to rely on the assumption that humans are somehow non-deterministic, in a good way?

fnord,
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@thomasfuchs How on earth could you give a human the exact same input twice? You can't rewind a brain to an earlier state, can you?

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@thomasfuchs Nah, I think I get your point (something along the lines of "it's bad to replace humans with ai for important decisions", and I totally agree, at least for the forseeable future), but I think there are better arguments than "humans are so special that no machine could ever be as good at certain things".

fnord,
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@x2ero @thomasfuchs How so?

fnord,
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@thomasfuchs @x2ero Fist, let me back up for a second, because I feel like I sometimes come across as rude or overly opinionated, which is not my intention. If you are not interested in this particular discussion (since it's not the topic you originally posted about), that's perfectly fine. Just say so, or just don't reply. But if you are: Why do you think we aren't deterministic?

fnord,
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@thomasfuchs @x2ero I'm not sure about the pointlessness (on a global scale, sure, but on a personal one, maybe not), but that would not affect if determinism is true, at least not without an argument why everything being pointless could not be possible, right?
Regarding quantum effects: I agree, there probably is something like true randomness which could affect brains (and maybe computers too?). Would it be appropriate to call that partially random input to an otherwise deterministic system?

fnord, to random German
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The Mirror Cube is delightfully evil, because it totally fucks up my muscle memory, forcing me to know what I'm doing. Back to re-learning some algorithms, I guess. 😀

fnord,
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@sirjofri Oh, I never tried that. Sounds like an interesting challenge!

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