Ephera
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Ephera@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Why are there no hard forks of Firefox, Chromium, WebKit, or other browsers?
1·6 days agoI don’t think that’s quite right. The Linux kernel, Firefox and Chromium all sit around 30 millions lines of code, last I checked, so if you add the rest of the operating system, it should still have more lines of code than the browser.
But yes, similar order of magnitude.
Oh, interesting. Now I wonder, if that’s why Germany and friends adopted it that way. We all imported our numerals from the arabs after all…
Ephera@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?
71·7 days agoI’ve found that I’m actually less hungry throughout the day, if I skip breakfast. So, even when I then have lunch, I’m satiated much quicker.
My working theory is that my stomach shrinks when empty, in particular throughout the night. So, if I don’t shove down breakfast in the morning:
- My stomach can shrink even smaller until lunch.
- There is less empty space in the non-stretched stomach, so less hunger.
- When I do eat lunch, the smaller stomach fills up quicker, meaning I shove down less food for lunch, too, and therefore my stomach doesn’t get particularly stretched until dinner either.
Ephera@lemmy.mlto
Verkehrswende@feddit.org•Autofrei leben – geht das auch als Familie auf dem Land?
3·7 days agoDas Auto vor der Tür ist immer verfügbar – und das prägt das Nutzungsverhalten und man verliert den Bezug zu möglichen Alternativen. Zum Beispiel auch dazu, wie schnell man mit dem Rad oder zu Fuß auf Kurzstrecken ist.
Finde generell immer spannend, was für Vorstellungen Leute entwickeln, also nicht nur Autofahrer.
Letztens hat sich auch ein Kollege mit “Gute Fahrt!” verabschiedet und ich hab noch so geantwortet “Joa, ich laufe, aber danke!”.
Dann hat er mich auch erstmal ungläubig angeschaut, und noch gefragt “Also zum Bus, oder?”. Obwohl wir zwei Stunden vorher noch gequatscht hatten, dass er viel mit dem Fahrrad macht und ich gerne zu Fuß gehe.Irgendwie die Vorstellung, dass ich jetzt tatsächlich von der Arbeit nach Hause laufe, war dann doch zu abstrus.
Ephera@lemmy.mlto
Opensource@programming.dev•Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing
3·7 days agoTheir point is that the maintainer did not sign a contract that requires them to perform maintainer duties. They can choose to stop doing it at any point. They can choose to axe a feature that you deem essential. They can choose to rewrite the project in COBOL for the fun of it.
You may not like it, but that is how it is.
The only legal document involved is the license and any open-source license I’ve seen so far, has stated that the program is provided as is.This is the license under which rsync is provided: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
See sections 15 and 16.The only way you get to have a say in the matter, is by forking and becoming a maintainer yourself.
That’s not a PeerTube video. It’s just a podcast…
Ephera@lemmy.mlto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Were low-bass singers a thing before amplification?
3·7 days agoI mean, not everyone has to train their voice to sing low notes. If it’s just your natural range, you won’t have much choice but to sing bass.
Anecdotal, but I’ve also had to be called back the one time I was singing in a choir, because I was too loud compared to the rest.
To some degree, I imagine that’s a physics thing, due to having a larger (resonance) body and being able to push more air through the longer vocal cords. But of course, you also simply don’t need to be as present as the melody on top.
Nah, I first saw this photo many years ago…
Clap has an entry in their cookbook for a REPL:
- Derive-API: https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/_cookbook/repl_derive/index.html
- Builder-API: https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/_cookbook/repl/index.html
Of course, this works best for simple stuff, where you just have individual commands to parse.
For a Python-style REPL with a full-fledged language attached, I would not use that approach.
There’s probably some REPL languages implemented in Rust already out there, where you can look at their approach.
Ephera@lemmy.mlto/c/cybersecurity - Cybersecurity News & Discussion@lemmy.ml•Meta confirms thousands of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
3·7 days ago“The tool itself worked properly and functioned as intended; however due to a bug in a separate code path, the system did not properly verify that the email address provided by the individual requesting a password reset matched the email address associated with that user’s Instagram account,” said Meta in its breach notice.
Why is the chatbot providing the e-mail address in the first place? It should just have a function it can call that triggers an account reset mail to be sent for a given account, with no other parameters.
This statement reads like they wanted to shield their use of AI from critique, but in making it, they’ve admitted to a level of carelessness which could very well get them sued under the GDPR. What a load of hubris.
I kind of want to try it now, though. It’s a thing to fry rice before you cook it, so maybe you can also do that with oatmeal?
Ephera@lemmy.mlto
History@lemmy.world•Italian teenagers discover 1,800-year-old Roman luxury house underneath their high school gymEnglish
4·8 days agoWell, it’s usually not the contractors that are most affected, but rather the land owners.
But yeah, archeological findings or WWII bombs can shut your construction down for months, if not forever.
What’s also always loved, is when your building or a neighboring building is so old that it’s declared a cultural heritage site.
My grandparents’ house came with a section of medieval city wall. They used it like an attic, because they weren’t allowed to put heating into there or anything like that, and you basically always needed a permit for structural changes.
Ephera@lemmy.mlto
Medicine@mander.xyz•University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans
2·8 days agoThe use of artificial intelligence in biology really isn’t new, though, and they’re likely not talking about LLM-style AI, but rather something like a genetic algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm
Hmm, seems to work like you want for me. Using Plasma 6.6 with the icons-only task manager…
Coming at it from the Rust ecosystem, I’d primarily opt for uploading release binaries somewhere. You don’t particularly need a setup script, since Rust programs are generally self-contained.
Publishing a package in addition to that really isn’t hard, but would be my secondary choice, since users are not likely to have
cargoon their system.
Well, andcargocompiles on the target machine, which is great for supporting unusual architectures, but you may have C libraries included where it’s just a gamble whether you can compile them on a given target system.
Should perhaps add that you can generally run Linux distributions off of a USB stick for that first impression.
Just follow a tutorial for how to install Linux and when you see the actual installer on screen, you can just close the installer without installing and then click around in the UI.
It will be slow, because it’s running off that slow USB connection, but otherwise this is pretty much the operating system as it is when fully installed.
Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.
Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.

























Yeah, I very much feel like most uses of that lighting have no idea that it’s the bi flag colors and rather just think it looks cool.