Deebster
New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.
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Programming@programming.dev•There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science
50·6 months agoGeoffrey Challen, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, plans to offer a new course this fall in which he will teach students to develop software “without writing, reading, debugging, or viewing a single line of code,” he told me.
Is that meant to say reviewing? Either way, I can’t see how this would lead to good results, even with a comprehensive test suite. Security? Scalability? Maintainability?
Have they taken out the AI generated papers? We know that training LLMs on LLM-generated text leads to an absolute collapse in quality, and we also know that AI has been showing up in papers so if they haven’t, then this will be quite unreliable.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman.English
204·8 months agoÉriu, Banba and Fódla are from Lebor Gabála Érenn, Ireland’s creation myth, and they each wanted the whole country named after them (and still can be, poetically). This is a mythologised history, not etymology.
Also, downvoting someone you’re debating with is extremely bad form.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman.English
382·8 months agoThe names Ireland and Éire both derive from Old Irish Ériu, which in turn comes from Proto-Celtic ɸīweriyū meaning “fertile soil”. The Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland, Ivernia, also comes from this same root
Not sure why you’re mentioning Ireland, did you think it was named after Kathy Ireland?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?English
8·8 months agothen unapproved by Lennart Poettering
No, you’ve misunderstood, here is a quote from your own source:
A merge request asking for this change to be repealed was struck down by Lennart
It was a reversion that Poettering rejected, the PR stands.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL there is only one ocean.English
27·8 months agoAlso, there’s things like the Mediterranean that is much saltier than the Atlantic, despite plenty of water flowing back and forth. There’s sealife that’s only found in the Med, like the Mediterranean monk seal.
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Technology@lemmy.world•X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix”English
9·8 months agoAh yes, I see what you mean. OP has posted content from Ten Epstein Revelations You Might Have Missed, which is the article that I see after the Israel/X story.
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Technology@lemmy.world•X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix”English
122·8 months agoYou scrolled past the (annoying) “read more” button and are now on the next article.
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retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Anyone other young people into Retro Computing?
2·9 months agoI think maintaining two accounts is sensible as servers/instances die all the time. I’ve got my subscriptions synchronised between this account and one on infosec.pub.
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retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Anyone other young people into Retro Computing?
5·9 months agoVogager gives you a baby icon (the new account indicator), which makes you seem very young indeed
Yeah, this is most wholesome and relatable thing I’ve seen on Lemmy for ages
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Technology@lemmy.world•2026-01-14: The Day the telnet DiedEnglish
5·9 months agoBad news on the backbone
I couldn’t scan a single ASNI’m trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author uses to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like “berckben”? Pronouncing ASN as “a-sone”?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux, FOSS, and whatever else makes me happy in my homelab
4·9 months agoIn the other post, you claim you’d ordered them from Etsy. Is it your Etsy shop? I’m struggling to see how both can be true.
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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the SiteEnglish
18·9 months agoI had to laugh - that lot have absolutely no clue when it comes to security. Even in a VM I’m not sure I’d trust running Clawdbot (or whatever it’s named this week).
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•What are the metal sticks on aircraft wings for?
541·9 months agoOn a Boeing, they’re zip ties holding them together
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•My self hosted badges of honorEnglish
131·9 months agoedit: FYI, this shop is OP’s shop
Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t Commodore 64).
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•My self hosted badges of honorEnglish
8·9 months agoThese are really consistent, do you print them yourself?
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic
8·9 months ago[he wrote] a sequel to 1984.
I didn’t know this bit of his story. Anyone read it? I’m assuming it’s not very good/coherent but perhaps he was as gifted a writer as he was a coder.
























That elongated, streamlined shell made me assume this was a joke or hoax at first.