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f_devd··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Farmer advocates are not climate activists, surprisingly they have a negative correlation
f_devd··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
> they can probably scrub through the data to find out whether there have been any mentions of the similar approach

They did check and it was in the trainingset but they could not confirm if it was the /cause/ of it, which is a bit of a cop out.

f_devd··on I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
> no right to a trial before your rights of travel being revoked

I'm not sure what exactly this refers to (because of the paywall), but revoking right of travel before trial is fairly common, it the US it would be classified as detained without bail. And happens when there is a reasonable concern for flight risk before trial as seen by the judge.

f_devd··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
How much time? Doesn't seem like the trend is reversing
f_devd··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
It's not a single political front, they have members (those who sponsor hosting), they decide by vote
f_devd··on Stop Using OpenCode
Unrelated citation?
f_devd··on Keygen.music
Ngl the weird UI bugs made me think it must be made by AI, either that or the developer has very skewed frontend skills where gradients are fancy but sliders & interactions are broken.
f_devd··on Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy
> Chips?

Only ST, NXP, Nexperia, Osram, and a bunch more obscure ones. It's not a boom, but it's far from a wasteland

f_devd··on Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims
Inject some adversarial priming as is in actual usage, and you can probably get that number to >=95%
f_devd··on Async Rust never left the MVP state
Because if you go down the callstack eventually you won't get the await keyword anymore; you'll get the actual 'waiters' and 'wakers' which define your scheduling
f_devd··on SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock
Except there is little cooling or power in space, depending on your position in orbit you could only have one of those at a time.
f_devd··on Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago
I think they mean that a non-observant visitor cannot tell the difference between both situations
f_devd··on HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)
Wouldn't be surprised if they have their own internal PBX system with a SIP trunk
f_devd··on Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications
That sucks, but also probably the best vindication for their strategy; any other mcu and you just wouldn't know.
f_devd··on Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy
Always a bit jarring to see a devboard stacked on an otherwise neat board. Looks promising though.
f_devd··on Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy
A UPS-style grid connected inverter (with phase balancing) would be significantly more complicated by also significantly more useful. More in the critical/specialized part category, rather than near-commodity (like MPPT/BMS)
f_devd··on CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC
There is no "who", once stabilizing institutions 'fall' the only remaining option is social pressure (which can come in various forms) but that does require a critical mass as it's very much reliant on network effects.
f_devd··on SMLL: Using 200MB of Neural Network to Save 400 Bytes
Having worked on compression algos, any NN is just way to slow for (de-)compression. A potential usage of them is for coarse prior estimation in something like rANS, but even then the overhead cost would need to carefully weighted against something like Markov chains since the relative cost is just so large.
f_devd··on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
> Isn't it the employees' responsibility pay for their union membership?

No, contributions are handled by the employer/company

f_devd··on ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people
One likely source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/sam-altmans-worldcoin-beco...
f_devd··on US threatens EU digital services market access
Remind me to never look at twitter replies again, by far most counterproductive threads I've seen
f_devd··on Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils
No, it's gc-like. Up to 4x slowdown iirc
f_devd··on Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter
Where do you detect malice? The claims are quite accurate.
f_devd··on Be Like Clippy
> I have no idea why I should be against using LLM

It highly depends on your own perspective and goals, but one of the arguments I agree with is that habitually using it will effectively prevent you building any skill or insight into the code you've produced. That in turn leads to unintended consequences as implementation details become opaque and layers of abstraction build up. It's like hyper-accelerating tech-debt for an immediate result, if it's a simple project with no security requirements there would be little reason to not use the tool.

f_devd··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
I never started for similar reasons
f_devd··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
I have the same with journals, but the video archiving has actually come up a few times, still fairly rare though. I think the difference is that you control the journal (and so rarely feel like you need it's content) while the videos you're archiving are by default outside of your control and can be more easily lost.
f_devd··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
I would a agree a careful and very small amount of above brainrot in post-training could improve certain metrics, if the main dataset didn't contain any. But given how much data current LLMs consume and how much is being produced and put back into the cycle I doubt it will miss be missed
f_devd··on I made a small LED panel
A more modern approach of doing the same to use polymerized quantum dots (I believe it emits wide spectrum white when a voltage is applied), and passing that through a quantum dot film to get any specific wavelength.
f_devd··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
I do not think this is the case, there has been some research into brainrot videos for children[0], and it doesn't seem to trend positively. I would argue anything 'constructed' enough will not classify as far on the brainrot spectrum.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2024/05/17/why-kids...

f_devd··on Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
Hey. That's sounds like an awful experience. Btrfs has some rough edges especially since a lot of maintenance tasks are "manual", and you are right to try and address it. And it's annoying that becomes personal for some people with too much time.

For my perspective, my experience with btrfs has been flawless through 11 machines and at least 3 major releases on each without any maintenance but it could just be I'm not hitting the worst case (only use snapshots on 2 machines, raid on 3). And I've only used btrfs since fairly recently (~4 years now). I've had to recover one drive of a friend using the method I outlined before as he filled the entire drive with media. For me the trade-off of a few rough edges but more functionality & flexibility than other filesystems is worth it.

For your update issue, I think you're mostly correct; the package manager likely assumes the filesystem is not snapshotted (i.e. it will reclaim disk space), while btrfs with snapshots/CoW will use the entire size of written files unless it's in the same snapshot.

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