Are you talking about The Pearl, by chance? It’s one I haven’t read, yet, but if you’re talking about another story, I’d like to read that, too!

Did he throw him out? Last I knew, he basically gave Kent a blanket “no,” forcing him to go his own way.

Not arguing, just asking.

Which DE? CachyOS has several options. The “Open With” menu option works great for me, but I’m running Gnome on CachyOS.

Flatpak doesn’t always work correctly, because you may need to explicitly allow the app container to access certain system services and paths. You can usually do this easily in a program like Flatseal. Most apps should work correctly, however.

In recent tests that I’ve seen, KDE has better touchscreen and multitouch support. It’s long been thought that Gnome was gunning for the touchscreen market, but they got overtaken, because their release cycle is slower.

But I use a Wacom tablet with Gnome, and I agree that the pressure support is great.

I think they’re still a pretty small operation, and I’m just grateful that I have a functional alternative to Goodreads.

They’re talking about Twitch’s own internal moderation, not streamer-specific mod tools.

A streaming suspension applies to violations occurring during a livestream. This penalty blocks the user from going live and temporarily disables chat on their channel.

It was not. Poe’s Law.

They’re a complete stranger, and there are actual people who unironically say stuff like that, even on the Fediverse.

Omfg, don’t talk to Meta’s chatbot. Period. Don’t use Facebook.

I can’t believe it’s 2026, and people still think Meta somehow has any neutrality—after it’s been demonstrated time and again that they aren’t just accidentally bad, they’re actively malicious.

Sigh of course it’s a Nordic thing. I should have guessed. White nationalists also love other Heathen/Norse symbolism.

Good to be careful, so thanks for educating me.

Can you explain why you feel that way? “Hyperborea” is not a term I’m familiar with vis a vis Nazism.

Join an instance without downvotes, and you’ll never have to care about them again.

Thanks for the reference!

That very much depends on my use case. For example, I have a laptop that needs to have maximum uptime, so I use a periodic atomic distro that’s just under bleeding edge.

For my daily driver, I like to tinker and customize, so I trade that stability for openness and a bleeding edge, relying upon btrfs snapshots as a first-line backup should the OS shit itself.

Because I’m tired of people making flimsy arguments for why LLMs are “akshully really good and underrated.” I’m tired of regular people, wittingly or unwittingly, carrying water for the billionaires who are currently fucking over the economy, the environment, and even entire supply chains in an effort to show—against all evidence to the contrary—that LLMs are much more than fancy chatbots.

It has been an incessant drone of sloppy arguments and omitted facts, and I am tired, boss.

Obviously, my mini-benchmark only had 6 questions, and I ran it only once. This was obviously not scientifically rigorous. However it was systematic enough to trump just a mere feeling. … If and when AI usage expands from here, we might actually not drown in AI slop as chances of accidentally crappy results decrease. This makes me positive about the future.

Spoken like a true AI apologist. You ran one test, and you extrapolated your results to an optimistic outcome that conspicuously matches what you wish to be true. Not scientifically rigorous? Bruh, this is the very definition of confirmation bias.

If this is actually a hypothesists you want to test, maybe contact some computer science researchers to see how to best design an experiment. Beyond that, this is virtually the same as flipping a coin once and drawing a conclusion about how often heads is the outcome.

I know it sucks, but drunken starfish got me lol

NYC Mesh!

https://www.nycmesh.net/

There’s likely others, but this one has been around for about a decade and is still operational.

Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There’s already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn’t seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.

Anyway, somebody working for Microsoft isn’t proof positive that they share the values of Microsoft (unless you’re in upper admin); you’re not guilty by association. People generally need to work to eat in this capitalist hellscape, and FOSS doesn’t tend to pay well.

I don’t know that I’d be on board for clamping to zero. You would have to decide if you are going to have a weighted zero (i.e. secret negative tally), and if so, why bother with clamping? If not, why have downvotes?

Scoring just demonstrates popularity. It’s a voluntary poll, and it has no bearing on the quality or validity of someone’s comment. I’ve seen good posts go unnoticed, and I’ve seen bad ones get lots of points. Voluntary polls are almost useless as a metric, and especially for a system like this one where all you have to do is click a button, it’s even less useful than one where you are required to write a statement about why you voted the way you did.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t be allowed to have downvotes as a way to gauge popularity, if that’s a metric they want to use to filter their content, nor do I think they should be forced to experience the Fediverse my way. I am however saying that reporting helps everyone, regardless of whether downvoting is enabled or not (plus it has the added benefit of potentially removing content that doesn’t belong; server space is a premium here, after all). We have options here on the Fediverse, and it’s a small ask to use the reporting feature and not assume there’s a “correct” or “standard” way to experience Lemmy. We can create something better than Reddit.