I’m not sure why there’s so much confusion.

Because you’re not using the right terminology. ;)

I think they’re talking largely (mostly?) about Markdown. (For instance, in Lemmy, when you stick a newline there, it doesn’t give you a line break in the flow of the text.) And when they say “Carriage Return”, they don’t know what they’re talking about. If I’m interpreting them correctly, I think they just mean “newline”. And when they say “two spaces”, I think they mean two newlines.

I unpinned this post. See here for context.

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I unpinned this post. See here for context.

Yeah, I went ahead and did so. Maybe on a forgiveness-rather-than-permission basis. We’ll see what, if anything, comes of it.

I know the feeling. Truly we are living in the strangest timeline.

I shudder to think of a future in which we’re like “I miss trump”. 😬

This feels super weird. Would they turn liberals away if they showed up? (Or at least tell them to go protest across the street because “this side is for anti-globalists” or whatever.) I dunno, just seems odd to try to create a popular movement specifically by alienating people who would agree with them on that particular issue.

If you take an amphibian out of direct sunlight, that’s a shaded frog.

Summary by Brave Leo AI

I’m not usually one to kink shame, but in this case I can make an exception.

On one single repository.

Do they still use Repo? If so, whether it really qualifies as “one single repository” is a bit open to interpretation.

I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.

Based.

Everybody seems to have a different idea of what you mean by your question. I interpreted it to mean that you’ve got files on your USB stick that you don’t want to lose and you also want to be able to boot off of it.

If I’m right about what you’re asking, the short answer is “yes”. It’ll require some research to get all the pieces put together right. The specifics will probably depend what bootloader you put on the USB stick, what filesystem you have set up on the USB stick, whether the stick uses an MBR or GPT partition table, you’re booting via legacy BIOS boot or EFI, etc. But here’s a place to start: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multiboot_USB_drive#Using_Syslinux_and_memdisk

8.153e-53 cubic parsecs.

81Oz so far today.

But the Internet says it’s true, this is molting not mites.

The person you responded to was referring to why his beak looked weird, not to the lack of feathers on his head. But I didn’t see anything in the article you posted about beaks.

Nah, he’s avant-garde.

Seriously. Why are we still calling him a Democrat?

Just because he hasn’t formalized switching parties, I guess.

If he still caucuses with Democrats, that shit has to be super awkward.

Schiff: “We’d better capitulate even more to the Republicans. It’s always worked out so well for us in the pa-”

Fetterman: “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!! <mocking voice>‘I wanna steal your 3-year-old son’s testosterone.’</mocking voice> That’s what you sound like right now.”

Everyone else: “…”

I’m probably the most anti-AI person I know, but I agree discourse around how “AI is theft” is a bit shallow.

Copyright is often erroneously conflated with plagiarism. While the two do sometimes coincide, they’re very different concerns.

I, myself, believe copyright is so broken we’d be better off throwing it away. (The only thing I believe I’d miss about copyright if I woke up tomorrow and it didn’t exist would be copyleft.) But I do deeply believe in a right to attribution. I don’t think AI is theft. I think it’s plagiarism.

And I believe that listing the names of all those whose works were included in training data for a model would still be a great disservice to the artists buried tens of millions of names deep right after some dumbass “NFT artist”. Meanwhile, asking an LLM or image generating model which training data was involved in generating one particular piece of output it produced is futile the same way as asking a stage strongman which rep at the gym allowed them to lift that car.

And if someone objected that giving what I would consider “sufficient credit” to artists/authors/whoever would make AI models completely infeasible, then my response would be “that’s exactly my point.” If it can’t exist without taking advantage of huge numbers of people without their consent, then it shouldn’t exist at all.

Finally, one more point I want to make is that if AI didn’t make billionaires a huge amount of money, the legal system would have put a stop to the mass scraping of training data and made a very visible example of whoever undertook to do mass scraping in the first long ago. (Never forget what they did to Aaron Swartz for scraping on a vastly smaller scale than OpenAI or Twitter or whoever did to make their LLM models.) As terrible as it is having to deal with the shitty IP laws we have, the greater injustice is that the laws (IP and otherwise) only apply when billionaires want them to.