Human Centipede is a tour-de-force

I’d take it one step further; Feminist Appropriating Radical Transphobe

That little rat a has been by my side so long (Debian + XFCE) 🐀❤️

A mutation that severe might indicate chemical or radioactive contamination. Fry’s home in 1999 was a real dump

I recall using Web Spider on Netscape Navigator circa 1997 or so. Then Yahoo! was the big deal for a few years before Google

The -p <port> option can be used to specify the port number to connect to when using the ssh command on Linux. The -P <port> (note: capital P) option can be used with SFTP and scp.

Why is it that the switch on ssh is -p but in scp/sftp it is -P?

This has caused me a real headache in the past as ssh doesn’t throw an error message when you use a switch like “ssh -P 8080”

“an sequel”? Tell me I haven’t been saying it wrong this whole time 💀

They briefly mentioned government cheese on the post. The story of “government cheese” is actually quite interesting itself. There’s an Omnibus podcast episode about it https://www.omnibusproject.com/200

Also “Does the ToS have a binding arbitration agreement”

I imagine there’s code to do something like currency conversion or maybe rewards points calculation so the displayed amount is not actually the number used for the final total

I misunderstood what “war machine” meant.

I heard phrases on TV like “it cost $1 billion dollars per month to keep the war machine running” and “the US captured 100,000 barrels of oil per day to feed the war machine” and I thought this thing must be some epic beast.

The terrorists better watch out! We’re sending the war machine! It must have, like, sawblade hands and tank tracks and breathe fire and have machine gun turrets.

Imagine my disappointment when I learned that THE WAR MACHINE was just a metaphor and not a Mecha Godzilla

I set mine up in 2009 and it is shocking to me how this is not the standard

Your sweet aunt René well deck you in the fuckin’ face!

Few things will get an adult to hit a kid as quickly as that kid questioning their religion. This, from people who insist “God is love”

I think I understand how it works.

Remember that LLMs are glorified auto-complete. They just spit out the most likely word that follows the previous words (literally just like how your phone keyboard suggestions work, just with a lot more computation).

They have a limit to how far back they can remember. For ChatGPT 3.5 I believe it’s 24,000 tokens.

So it tries to follow instruction and spits out “poem poem poem” until all the data is just the word “poem”, then it doesn’t have enough memory to remember its instructions.

“Poem poem poem” is useless data so it doesn’t have anything to go off of, so it just outputs words that go together.

LLMs don’t record data in the same way a computer file is stored, but absent other information may “remember” that the most likely word to follow the previous word is something that it has seen before, i.e. its training data. It is somewhat surprising that it is not just junk. It seems to be real text (such as bible verses).

If I am correct then I’m surprised OpenAI didn’t fix if. I would think they could make it so in the event the LLM is running out of memory it would keep the input and simply abort operation, or at least drop the beginning of its output.

What, no Debian on that list? Are you telling me that even after all these years I still haven’t landed???

TIL about error 418:

“I’m a teapot This server is a teapot, and it cannot brew coffee.”

Apparently it was originally added as an April fools joke way back in 1998 but technically it is a valid error message that sites can actually use!

S_E_N_D

N_U_D_E_S

How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!

I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn’t actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job

Suppose you were saying that about me. How would I prove you wrong? How could a thinking being express that it is actually sentient to meet your standards?

Maybe an app like FakeStandby would work.

If your device has an AMOLED screen it should be basically the same as having the screen turned off. You could just disable the screen timeout and use FakeStandby to turn off all the pixels without actually “turning off” the screen