Ulrich
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It’s being badly damaged by thousands of lazy AI-written merge requests to the extent that many have stopped accepting them entirely.
It’s also effectively DDOS’ing many open source sites (and the rest of the open internet), straining what limited funding they have.
So I would say a resounding yes.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Closed apps catfishing as FOSS via Google's AI results?English
2·4 days agoBreaking news: AI is worthless. Stop using it.
By that rationale, no machine is “private”, as they store all of your personal files and documents! 😬
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Technology@beehaw.org•He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.English
6·2 months agoI appreciate the summary but the full story is worth reading/watching/listening, IMO (I listened). Especially regarding the legal details. About how he was convicted on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, even though he’s not a bank and handled no money at any time, and even though legal precedent says otherwise.
Maybe Trump will pardon him.
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Linux@programming.dev•KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant IntegrationEnglish
13·2 months agoWhoa, okay that is pretty cool.
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Linux@programming.dev•KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant IntegrationEnglish
14·2 months agoWhy wouldn’t you?
This integration will likely require some level of effort to get working, and what benefit do you get from that that you can’t get from opening the application in a window?
Perhaps HA can use that big GPU of yours for local LLM type stuff?
…huh? HA is typically run on a server. If you want to use your GPU to perpetuate AI disinformation, you can plug it into the server. But KDE is a workstation product…
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Linux@programming.dev•KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant IntegrationEnglish
33·2 months agoYes I did read that. What kind of integration? And why would you want such a thing?
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Linux@programming.dev•KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant IntegrationEnglish
51·2 months agoI’m confused. What does KDE have to do with HA?
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Open-Source Developers: Share Your Privacy-Friendly Apps & ToolsEnglish
41·2 months agoNo one here is interested in your Reddit community.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage businessEnglish
1·2 months agoif you actually need a work truck, the Lightning is deficient in the #1 thing that makes a work truck a work truck.
yeah…no
The “#1 thing” depends on the application. It can be power, towing capacity, payload capacity, just a bed in general, the massive amount of electrical power available to power tools, passenger capacity, cost of ownership, etc. etc.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage businessEnglish
1·2 months agoI think we can all agree its >1% but also a small number. That small number is plenty for them to keep making them. But alas, most of those folks did not buy them.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage businessEnglish
7·2 months agoWho said it was going very far? He tows them back and forth from the Marina to other water bodies in the local area or to customers’ homes.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage businessEnglish
12·2 months agoThose giant crew cab monstrosities are the best-selling vehicles in America.
The problem is that F150 buyers are the very largest anti-EV meatheads. It’s the wrong market for such a vehicle.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage businessEnglish
39·2 months agoQuite the contrary, the Lightning makes an excellent work truck for those who actually need work trucks. I know a couple people who use them that way. One of them owns a boat dealership and uses it for towing large and heavy boats every day. The other owns a construction business.
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Linux@programming.dev•Fedora 44 Could Work Nicely "Out Of The Box" On Snapdragon-Powered Windows ARM LaptopsEnglish
51·2 months agoWhich laptops are going to be sold with Fedora “out of the box”?
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Technology@beehaw.org•If GPT (decoder-only transformer) models are text predictors, then why keyboard apps on PCs/phones don't have GPTs as text predictor options? They can be more accurate than the widely used N-gramEnglish
14·2 months agoThey are, and have been since before GPT existed
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Linux@programming.dev•pearOS Is Back, Now Based on Arch Linux and Featuring the KDE Plasma DesktopEnglish
4·2 months agoArreviderci
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Linux@programming.dev•pearOS Is Back, Now Based on Arch Linux and Featuring the KDE Plasma DesktopEnglish
1·2 months agoIt’s just a meme distro.

It’s because we’ve realized these people are a completely lost cause.
The rise of these platforms increased the ability of politicians’ ability to disinform and manipulate people ten fold.