Posts by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
(DIR) Post #B4aVB5OBM5ixm0YYJk by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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A little linguistic puzzle that I thought of. I'm not really much of a linguistics person, but I know a lot of people here are.The challenge ist to make a chain of words, where the source word is translated from language A to language B, and then has a different meaning in language A. Then the output word is again translated from language A to language B.For example: English -> Germandiverse -> diversdivers -> Taucher*innenTaucher*innen -> (not a word in English, so can't be translated to German)In the example, the chain length is two.If a chain causes a loop, then you get points for each 'connection' that doesn't include the one that causes a loop.There's probably a bunch of other edge cases I haven't thought about because, again, I'm not a linguist, or even a language nerd.Oh and please don't use computers to try and programmatically find the best solution. That's boringggg.Longest chain wins.Good luck~
(DIR) Post #B4vQLWGTrpgEZVGgqm by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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I want to convert a bunch of FLAC files to OPUS, keeping the folder structure and all metadata (including the cover art). Does anyone know the best way to do that? All the finished scripts I found don't fulfill all of those requirements.Needs to be something for Linux
(DIR) Post #B574kFuJxEWrz7oPwG by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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I just watched someone be confused why they couldn't add their SSH key to GitHub.so they UPLOADED THEIR PRIVATE KEY TO CHATGPT TO ASK WHY IT DIDN'T WORK
(DIR) Post #B5CFLqhC6s4y812KVk by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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anyone in/around Aachen got tension straps ("Spanngurte") that I could borrow tomorrow? Trying to move a washing machine
(DIR) Post #B5IUJWjQ1soztOBgWG by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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So this article about a recent study is floating around my feed at the moment: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605261432630Basically, the gist is that "95.1% [of surveyed men] reported having recently used at least one of the strategies to [force] a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented."Which is fucked. Extra fucked that the study only asks about the last 4 years. So these are all recent occurrences.But there are some things I would like to note:- The study is not, and does not claim to be, representative. That "95.1% [of surveyed men]" should not and cannot be extrapolated to all men. The rate for men in general is probably still staggeringly high, but I seriously doubt it is that high.- Before the survey, "The consent form indicated that the survey wasmen’s opportunity “to provide their side of the story given that we have heard so much from women”" which would presumably make the demographic that does not force women to have sex, run the fuck away from the survey.- There is an error in one of the tables, probably because the data was at some point written out by hand, instead of being copy-pasted from an automatically generated table. This doesn't directly mean anything about the quality of the data, but it is a bit odd that this happened. I've contacted the authors to clarify what happened here.To be clear, I still think this study is valuable. As the article says: "This is one of the first studies to our knowledge to directly survey men anonymously about recent attempts to force an unwilling and nonconsenting woman to have sex." That's incredibly, incredibly valuable.The scientific community needs to start focusing on the perpetrators of sexual violence - because those are the people who need to change, to help ensure the safety of everyone. And this study, despite its flaws, takes us all one step closer to that.Disclaimer: I'm an amateur sexologist, which is a fancy way of saying that I find sex and sexual relationships very interesting, but I have zero formal qualifications. I'm also not an expert in interpreting academic writings. I may have missed or misinterpreted something important.
(DIR) Post #B5LnOsEjyxFEdmysOO by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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@upcloud is so hip, cool and woke huh?
(DIR) Post #B5MddABXF74tydcHoW by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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Are longsee covid tests still the best ones to get?(I need cheap tests and several running in parallel, so one of those fancy machines isn't an option unfortunately)
(DIR) Post #B5a7BOjH66GIelYNcG by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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I heard there was a FLINTA Cruising in Berlin. Does anyone have any more info on that?:boost_requested:
(DIR) Post #B5p2uVzxKhFfpgRuKW by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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Xint Code is the team behind the copy fail bug. And they're clearly using this as advertising, so I'm going to help them:Xint Code is an organisation that cares more about advertising, than properly disclosing a security issue. They could've waited another month, or informed linux distributions about the issue in advance, so that by the time anyone hears about it, it's already patched.But nooooo, they just had to make all the sysadmins run around patching their infrastructure urgently.*Xint Code: a security company you probably don't want to work with*
(DIR) Post #B5vuMM8q2BrptEWYDI by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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@domi upload the chunks of data to DNS with a really long TTL, then periodically pull them from someone's cache, and get them re-cached
(DIR) Post #B64GDf63wTpCKQAGIK by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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Kein GottKein StaatKein Fernsprechapparat
(DIR) Post #B69tNdNG4NspssklYO by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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ok I've decided: whenever I get a funny domain idea, I'll just post it in this thread instead of buying it.
(DIR) Post #B6IFmnc6tA898Zmh1c by LilaHexe@fedi.lilahexe.top
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My advice to incoming graduate students is very simple: AI is the Trillion Dollar Zombie, and extended use is likely to lead to your brain being eaten. The Zombie feeds in small bites, so it can be hard to detect, but every time you offload your decision-making and analytical powers to the machine, you are letting it take a nibble.You might think this is an extreme stance, far outside what we commonly hear in mass media. I think it is a reasonable way to treat a poorly understood public health threat, and AI is very much a threat to our well-being. While the technology is still young, we are already seeing in the news the awful effects on people in the tail end of the distribution of users. People who use AI heavily for counseling or romantic relationships tend to go right off the deep end. Their brains have been eaten. We even see effects on MathOverflow - people who are convinced that they have proved some big problem, and some AI has told them they are right and even helped to write a plausible-looking paper. Similar to other public health threats like heavy-metal poisoning, we initially only see direct effects with certainty on the tail end of the distribution, and normal effects are likely to be uncertain and depend on other susceptibility factors. This is not a reason to conclude that it is safe for normal levels of use. Indeed, we should learn from the history of how we have treated public health threats in the face of fat wallets, and listen more to people with small voices who sound alarms.(mathoverflow.net/a/511268)