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  • I tried it and it’s way off for me because it gives too much weight to submitted posts. I don’t have very many submissions so even when I selected recent only, it focused on one guide post for a game I wrote many years ago and made the profile 80% about that. But I guess that’s a problem at some point before the LLM is involved. There are some other similarly non-LLM problems too like making the most used terms section list almost only subreddit names.

    When I limited it to recent comments only it did a better job. It even listed “Humanity’s general incompetence” as the fifth of my “top 3” topics.





  • setsubyou@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldAlias's rule
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    2 months ago

    On Linux, rm can delete empty directories with -d too, not just with -r.

    rmdir is the counterpart to mkdir, which creates empty directories, so of course it can only remove empty directories. After all mkdir can’t create full directories either. There however is rmdir -p as a counterpart to mkdir -p, so if there is something in the directory, you can use that, as long as the something is an empty directory.



  • setsubyou@lemmy.worldtoEurope@lemmy.mlChratheistians
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    3 months ago

    That it works this way is a result of secularization, but what’s your actual problem with it? It’s not unusual for organizations to charge membership fees, and when your members are literally a quarter of the population, it’s not even inefficient. Just to be clear, the state only collects. The money goes to your religious community.

    The actual wtf is where this idea of opting out of the tax comes from. As I wrote, you can’t opt out of the tax. It’s not the tax we’re opting out of, it’s the entire religion and paid membership in an organization. What happens is e.g. my parents had me baptized after I was born, so I was in a position where I was basically “assigned Catholic at birth” and would have had to pay the tax even though I never signed up out of my own free will and even though I never was religious. I left when I was 14, long before I had to pay the tax, and had to pay a fee to make it official. IMO paid subscriptions should always be opt-in, and never opt-out, and there shouldn’t be a cancellation fee. So for me this part is the wtf.

    Anyway, you can be assigned Muslim at birth too, but since Muslim communities don’t use this system you don’t need to opt out to get rid of the tax.


  • You can’t “opt out”. If you’re a member of a religious community that delegates collecting tax to the state, you pay the tax, and if you’re not, you don’t. As far as I know there are no Muslim communities that do this (only Christian and Jewish ones), so Muslims don’t pay the tax. Of course, communities might use other means to collect money from their members that don’t involve the state.




  • I think in the future, it is advisable to use larger distributions where a lot of eyes look at, like Debian.

    This reminds me of the time when Debian broke their OpenSSL and for two years, ssh keys generated on Debian were basically taken from a pool of only 32k different keys…

    That time it was an honest mistake, but it would actually have been a very efficient attack too if it had been intentional. Imagine succeeding at getting your target to use private keys for ssh or ssl etc. from a tiny pool that makes something usually impossible to brute force suddenly trivial. And nobody noticed it for two years.


  • I had one of those laptops (a PowerBook). Yes, it had two slots that could be used for batteries. But that meant taking out the CD drive. Modern laptops don’t have that anymore so I’m not sure where the room for another battery would come from. The other thing is, it lasted at best 4-5 hours on one battery when doing light work. Its modern counterparts last 10-15 hours on one battery.

    The same thing actually happened with phones. But now we literally can’t spend half a minute not looking at them and we also play energy hungry games on them etc. You can still get a phone with replaceable battery though, e.g. Fairphone or Volla.



  • If I want to use my main bank account with wero I have to link my mobile number to it and can’t use it for wero with my other account anymore, because that’s the only way my bank supports it. Only a small number of banks actually let you use the wero app with multiple sources. Makes it completely useless for me. Paypal isn’t the only one that can do that either. Basically everything not made by companies that primarily want to be banks can do this. E.g. Klarna.

    The other thing is that I need something that works outside the EU. That’s where replacing paypal and credit cards is actually difficult. In my own country or in the EU, I have plenty of options.