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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations

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  • Career-Ending ‘Game Of Thrones’ Injury Led To $9.4M Settlement: Why Stuntwoman Thinks It Exposes Everything That’s Wrong With Her Profession

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  • Two months after suffering her injury on the final season of Game of Thrones, Casey Michaels was one of 80 performers asked to contribute £300 towards a gift for Irlam for keeping the team safe. Although they were told the collection, which potentially raised £24,000, was voluntary and would “not impact any future employment,” Michaels believes the opposite is true. “Everybody knew there would be repercussions for not paying,” she says.

    This Rowley Irlam comes across like a corrupt, arrogant arsehole.

  • Okra and fenugreek extracts remove most microplastics from water, finds research

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  • I'm guessing by the recipes you mean Southern USA. I thought okra was from somewhere in Asia, but Wikipedia tells me it's from East Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea and "East Sudan" - which is kinda funny as there's a Sudan and South Sudan).

  • Me attempting to hide my imposter syndrome at a tech conference I just attended

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  • Dickbutt? Getting /r/HighQualityGifs/ vibes

  • Yet Another Dangerous TikTok Trend (YADTT)

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  • btw, you wanted cue not queue, as in cue cards, that's my cue, cue the music.

  • Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

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  • Are you saying you think it's ridiculous to end support "already"?

    I think it's likely that anyone still using 486s isn't updating software anyway, so it's unlikely to matter aside from niches like retro devices. Luckily, open source means that if there's a genuine desire there'll probably be a fork to provide it.

  • user floo writes a pulp novel on cryptocurrency theft

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  • Thanks, I knew I'd seen it before somewhere.

  • Mustard

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  • Nothing dates it more than the reference to Boing Boing.

  • Debugging images

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  • Then the UK's equally dumb: it was 10:04 pm BST (GMT+1) cos daylight savings is a thing in most of Europe too. At least it's synchronised across Europe[The EU is planning on killing daylight savings but I have no idea if the UK will do the sensible thing and go along when/if this happens] so you just need to remember that most[thanks for making it more confusing, Mexico] of North America changes a few weeks earlier.

    Also, the UK says GMT/BST which is nice and clear - calling both EST and EDT "Eastern Time" makes even more of a mess!

    And yes, I've just rediscovered you can use footnotes, why do you ask?

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • The duplicate content thing is kinda impossible to solve perfectly. Some people will tell you it's a feature, and it can be interesting to see the different instances' comment sections (especially after moderation), but yeah it can be annoying to have your feed dominated by a few stories.

    The default web front-end will merge crossposts, but won't if they're multiple posts to the same URL. I think some of the apps do have that deduplication as a feature, but I couldn't tell you which.

    I remember the same problem from my Reddit days, but there wasn't generally so many similar, overlapping communities.

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • From the Lemmy docs:

    • Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
    • Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published

    My default is set to

    • Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities

    This is the newest sorting option, I think, and it helps me not miss posts from the smaller comms - particularly ones where people are asking a question and there's been no engagement. Ideally I'd like to have Mastodon-style lists so I could have "quiet comms" or something and check them all every so often.

    I will switch to new or top 6h/24h if I've been on recently and just want to see what's fresh. Top all time or 1y if I'm looking at new-to-me comms so I can see what type of thing to expect from it.

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • There's no algorithm here*, so use the different sorting options (for both posts and comments), as well as setting your favourite as default once you see what works for you.

    * the different sort options are of course algorithms, but I mean there's no automatic, manipulative system like YouTube's "The Algorithm", Facebook, TikTok, etc.

    Voting doesn't tune your algorithm, so I'd say only use downvoting for things that are low quality, trolling, in the wrong sub, duplicate posts, etc. Your votes aren't private, by the way - although Lemmy itself doesn't display voters' names, that info is in every server's database, and some other software in the Fediverse does show them.

    There are quite a few apps available, I like Voyager on Android and I stick to the default website on my computer.

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • I think scaled is better than hot otherwise you'll never see anything from your small communities.

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • Sometimes I get downvotes that make no sense, so I just chose to believe it was an accident.

  • atlwiki - All Things Linux Wiki

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  • btw, you've typoed the name: altwiki makes me think it's an alt-right version of Wikipedia.

  • PewDiePie promote Linux to his millions of subscribers

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  • I don't think people should downvote this Linux-related content that's in a Linux sub just because it's been posted on different servers in the Fediverse. People are too free with their downvotes.

  • Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key

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  • Oof, that's embarrassing for a "hacker" distro. I guess they have too many red teamers and no blue.

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • Case insensitive is more intuitive

    Are these the same filename?

    • ΑΓΑΘΉ.txt
    • αγαθή.txt

    What about these?

    • MY-NOTES-ON-Δ.txt
    • μυ-notes-on-δ.txt

    Databases have different case-insensitive collations - these control what letters are equivalent to each other. The fact that there's multiple options should tell you that there's no one-size-fits-all solution to case insensitivity.

    This issue is only simple and obvious if you don't know enough about it.