I suspect that LLMs do pretty well with troubleshooting Linux thanks to those manuals and old forum posts. After using them to troubleshoot Linux based devices, I tried the same thing on Windows and it struggled to figure out what commands to run.

Windows is a mess to configure and troubleshoot, even with the help of LLMs. Microsoft could have spent their investment trying to fix that, but I don’t think they have.

“Copilot can troubleshoot your computer” could have been a selling point, but they’d have to admit that windows 11 is a buggy mess

That’s fair, and it was a poor example on my part.

If one treatment is much better, then yes that one would be preferred. Generally when there are two treatments being weighed, both will have consequences (else one would obviously be better).

My point was that knowing things about a person, outside of their physical biology, can get better outcomes. It should never be REQUIRED for the patient to share it, but we should educate medical staff about their community so that they can use that information when it is helpful.

Some other examples, that aren’t specific to gender

• knowing what pronouns to use would make the patient trust the provider more and feel more comfortable
• if you know the patients literacy level or knowledge of medical terminology, you can adjust your explanations
• if the patient belongs to a group that might have an aversion to a particular treatment, you know to either spend more time explaining it or to let them know another option is available
• if you know the patient is poor, then you might take that into account when recommending treatments. Even in publicly funded health systems, the lifestyle recommendations might not apply to every person

At the same time, the person shouldn’t be making assumptions based on someone falling into a particular group, and they should confirm whatever it is they are checking for.

IMO, knowing about gender is less important in places where it doesn’t carry as much cultural weight. As another example, if someone identifies as a woman in a culture where they don’t want to be alone with a male figure, knowing their identity might remind the staff to bring someone else who identifies as a woman into the exam room.

Gender, and other factors that aren’t as “medically relevant”, may help the staff pick between two treatment options. The patient’s comfort and happiness can affect their overall wellbeing.

Say someone grows up in a culture where their gender (or some cultural group the person can belong to) usually has long hair. A particular treatment may have two options:

• shave the head
• something that doesn’t involve shaving the head

Knowing what gender (or other group) the person belongs to might inform their decision.

Note, this is about why medical staff might want to know about gender identity and not the original question of how many legal genders we should have.

It’s intentional disinformarion. This is a war, and wars are rife with propaganda

The problem is that this could also end up furthering disinformation.

If a user without tech knowledge interprets this news as “the fake right wing bots were shut down”, but still sees accounts on their social media posting during that time, they might start to believe that those accounts are real people in their community.

I hope there was a dip in social media bots, but I don’t want to be saying that unless I see more evidence for it. The existing evidence mentioned in the article has been followed up with clarifications / retractions by the people that shared it

• Cloudflare clarified what their graph represents
• The Czech member of Parliament, who shared a popular post, “has since said he ‘did not present it as a clear fact’”
• “Zelensky’s office told BBC Verify the president was “talking about the atmosphere on social media” rather than a fall in bot activity. It added it had seen “reports of fewer provocative and hateful comments” from many social media users.”

To be clear, I appreciate your explanation and I agree that it’s plausible. It is also possible that both things are true (they use data centers, but the fake accounts people were monitoring are running out of different data centers).

Since a lot of people here (myself included) also misinterpreted the recent news, here are some excerpts for those who haven’t read the article.

If I had to guess, I’d say that you don’t need a data center to run a social media bot that spits out the same generic inflammatory lines all day.

Claims that Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres reduced Kremlin-linked bot networks have spread widely online, but experts have told BBC Verify there is no evidence the attacks have significantly reduced them.

Viral social media posts have claimed there has been a significant drop in influence operations in recent days, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggesting on Monday there was “less hate, less division and fewer provocations” online because of “fewer bots”.

But claims these attacks have affected Russian disinformation operations, including accounts posting supportive messages about groups including the Make American Great Again (MAGA) movement in the US and the far-right AfD party in Germany, appear to have come from a misinterpretation of data produced by tech firm Cloudflare.

Some social media users have been sharing charts of Cloudflare data which show bot activity using Yandex’s network has declined.

While bots are commonly associated with fake social media accounts that may post false, divisive and inflammatory content, they are also used to automate tasks like scanning web pages so they appear on search engines.

Cloudflare clarified its data includes all automated internet requests to websites hosted on its network, including bots crawling websites for information.

The company also said the drop off was “not necessarily bot behaviour on social media platforms”.

Researchers from dTeam, a US-based group that tracks Moscow-linked influence operations, told BBC Verify there has not been “any traffic change from known Russian accounts and bot clusters on any platform”.

They added that if the offices of known groups involved in these operations “were in flames then we would see a change”.

Bots linked to pro-Kremlin influence operations like Storm-1516 and Matryoshka - both of which BBC Verify has previously reported on - were still active on social media on Tuesday, evidence shared with BBC Verify by dTeam shows.

Neat!

Do you have any recent news on how Sal & mander.xyz are doing?

Also feel free to post on [email protected] too :)

How does this one compare? I remember the 2L ones.

Now I’m curious how the tornado changes with different size / shape bottles

I had one of these years ago, and they usually start to leak after a while regardless. It doesn’t provide a good enough seal with disposable bottles, and swinging it back and forth seemed to wear it out over time.

Does it prevent the initial .gitignore from being commited too?

For example, what if a file name had sensitive information. It’s bad practice, but someone might want to ignore the file while also hiding the ignore rule itself.

/test/fake-person-first-last.json
/test/real-person-first-last.json

Someone might want to selectively omit the second file while keeping the first, but not show what they are hiding.

I was thinking manually written and scheduled posts, the only difference from now being that a post gets pinned on a particular day

Although someone would also need to make a judgment call about what community to give that extra promotion to, which might create unnecessary controversy

We could definitely do that over in [email protected], especially if someone is willing to help plan that out. Since Piefed has scheduled posts, it should be possible to schedule out posts for different communities

I recommend this site to compare all the apps across various platforms

https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I think Interstellar and Voyager are available on both android and Linux

Personally I would suggest picking different apps on each, since it’s all the same backend data. A mobile focused app may not behave as nicely on desktop.

You can likely also run some of the alternative UIs as PWAs or full apps, but I haven’t explored that yet

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

It depends on how the person is sharing the image.

If they upload it directly or link to the image file on a website that supports it, then it will appear nicely. Otherwise you might need to click on it in order to see it

Oh wow that’s neat

Does the ecosystem have something like Mealie and Tandoor, where a nontechnical user can drop in a link to add a recipe?

Oh wow that’s embarrassing, I must have been saying it wrong this whole time.

I’m sorry about the other errors as well, I blame being tired while trying to get the shields.io icons working through trial and error. They don’t have the best support for alternative git platforms: https://shields.io/badges/gitea-forks

I think it should all be fixed now: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis#mlmym

Oh I see what you mean

I guess it’s hard to say which one is more likely to kick off a wider war. I was thinking along the lines of 911 and using terrorism to sell it to the population. But I can also see how the opposite could be true, especially if there are legal mechanisms on how the country needs to respond

The problem with Tor is that, to some, it can seem a bit intimidating. Sure, you can opt to use the Tor Browser, but that only protects your web browsing, so it’s not global protection on your desktop.

There is, however, a simple app you can use to gain global anonymity/encryption for all of your desktop apps that send data packets beyond your LAN. That app is called Carburetor, and it’s only available for Linux.

I’m also curious how good/safe this is + if usage like this is something that the Tor network can handle.

Wouldn’t a terror attack also be an act of war on British soil?

Being accurate is important, especially when misleading claims can lead to a war getting even bigger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims

With how hard the trump admin is pushing this, I’m going to need more evidence before repeating their talking points.

It depends on the type of community.

If its only one person but they’re sharing neat photos or articles about a topic, then yes I’ll still subscribe. Some of my favorite communities on here have one or a few dedicated users. Over time more users do begin to post, even if the majority of the content is by one motivated person.

I wrote that line 😄

The situation was still ongoing at the time of that change, and I figured that a new user doesn’t want to read a bunch of lore if they’re just there to pick a UI. Anyone that is curious can ask here or simply search for it