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(Emphasas mine.)

So shitposts are fine?

I’ve been training my whole life for this.

Sometimes we purposefully make computers do nondeterministic things on purpose. Hardware random number generators, for instance.

But not counting those situations, speedrunners often call some of the “other factors that just absolutely cannot be accounted for” kind of stuff that rethnor is talking about “RNG”.

But even aside from that, there are some even less deterministic cases. Also from speedrunning, there’s the famous SM64 upwarp that my have been, but probably wasn’t a cosmic ray, but very likely was some kind of hardware failure that wouldn’t be accounted for by only considering how the N64 is supposed to work (given processor architecture and such).

But an example I find even more interesting. There was a Defcon presentation where someone registered domain names that were one bit different from very frequently used domain names, kindof like typosquatting, but these were for domain names that no human was typing. These were domain names that computer programs were hitting, and the domain names weren’t derived from user input. But his one-bit-off domain names got a significant amount of traffic. Just from random memory corruptions and such due to some variety of weird hardware failures.

I’d be skeptical of anyone I know claiming that they’d actually personally encountered something they knew to be truly non-deterministic in hardware that wasn’t in some way temporarily or permanently faulty or damaged in some way, but I think it is a thing that can happen in computers. And some of that nondeterminism comes from sources that actually do act at quantum scales were true nondeterminism isn’t unlikely to have sway.

Reminds me of https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

(I can’t get that link to work right now. Maybe it’s down. So here is the same story on the Wayback Machine.)

I must know. Until I do, I won’t know whether to be awestruck or horrified.

Probably just that he’s already spent 4 years getting a bachelor’s degree and only now finds out it’s insufficient to land a job and now he has to do more school and cross his fingers that improves his job-seeking situation. (It should, but so should a bachelor’s degree.)

Honestly, “what’s wrong with a master’s degree” is almost as good a question, except that it would likely require going into more debt than trade school would.

I didn’t check your spelling either, but I think you did about as good as I could have. Lol.

Ah. Ok, yeah. That makes sense. I just wanted to make sure you weren’t advocating for doing more security checks on the client and thinking that would improve security at all. But I see you were saying quite the opposite.

Hey you, sit down and listen.

Don’t be flippant and don’t be dismissin’.

Think you’re a Flash encyclopedia?

Eating, breathing Macromedia.

Think you’re cool saying “all your base”?

Get that Xiao Xiao out of my face.

You gotta be kidding me with that crap.

Animutation’s where it’s at.

client side security

What do you mean by this? Like, MTLS or requiring people to install client certificates in their browsers, or installing certificates in some other client application. Or something else?

And who are/own the clients in question? These aren’t B2C sort of customers, are they?

This title kindof makes it sound like she was killed because she was investigating Trump’s crimes. (Perhaps even by Trump cronies, or at least in support of Trump.) But as far as I can tell, there isn’t really any evidence this assassination has anything to do with Trump specifically. Though I don’t know if it’s known how likely whoever replaces Gloria Alexandra Bravo Cedeño is to follow through on the investigations into Trump war crimes that she started.

Another source for this story: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/16/ecuador-prosecutor-shot-and-killed

Ah! No worries.

I think most communities do that by selecting from active/productive contributors in the group. Another option might be to pin a meta post in this community asking if anyone’s interested in being a mod. If that doesn’t get you any results, what I would probably do is wait a while and see if activity/user count/post count/etc ramp up and then try again. I don’t know of any “Looking For Mods” kind of communities on Lemmy or anything.

Well, I’m one of the oldest moderators on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world, but that community has a lot of moderators and I think the pretty significant majority of them (like me) was appointed mod without any prior conversation about it. And most of those mods aren’t active or anything. And there’s no way/place for us to really discuss anything or come to any consensus. So I don’t know that there are any mods that really “speak for” the community except maybe @VerbFlow@lemmy.world, the founder of the community.

I wrote about my worst AI experience here. (Hopefully that doesn’t come across as trying to promote another anti-AI community. I’m thrilled to see more communities appear.)

To be fair, much of it is displaced anger at Discovery for this.

As dual_sport_dork said, you really shouldn’t worry about it, and you’re probably better off not having anything to do with Admiral Patrick, but if you really wanted to pursue it, you could PM Admiral Patrick and (very nicely) ask him how you ended up on the list and ask him to remove you. (Right now, he’s probably getting flooded with messages that are likely to generally piss him off (more so than usual), so it’s definitely worth being extra nice if you want that to have any chance of success.)

Oh sweet. Perchance if I 🥺👉👈 fill my posts with keywords like “what would the french do” and “crossposted from https://anarchist.nexus/”, famed boot licker Admiral Patrick will declare death to me and try to remove me from reality and then maybe I can be part of the list of proletairat freedom unit users in his “policy.json” list where I can claim Tesseract is censoring me. Hey @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world: ACAB.

Edit: Oh wait. Has the host that serves that “policy.json” file disappeared? My machine is saying “could not resolve hostname.” Hmmmm. It may be too late for me.

Quote from the article.

Last season ended with the Star Trek friends fending off a Kingon farmer’s corn crops from little pink aliens

Kingon

“Kingon?” KINGON!?

Which is it? Either:

• Scouts mispronounces the name in a “baby talk” way.
• “Kingons” are a distinct species from Klingons.
• Scouts changed the name of Klingons.
• That article was written by someone who apparently lives under a rock so huge that they’ve never heard the word “Klingon” pronounced.
• That article author typoed.

Whichever it is, I’m pissed.

Archive of the article as proof that it says “Kingon” in case they fix it.

Edit: They fixed it.

Is it too late to get on the list?

Yas! This is very much needed. I’m surprised not to see LLaMa in the list.

I also want to see isitreallyfoss.com in the list. (Of course the answer is “yes”. It’s under AGPL. But it feels like a conspicuous absence.)

Edit: Oh, also, I’d love to see licenses included on that site as well as projects. Like FUTO’s Source First License 1.1 (with a big blinking red “NO” of course), for instance.

Is there a story I’m missing? Did some company bribe the president and make claims of false positives regarding cyclosporiasis?