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Some people are shit parents and often it’s not even their fault that they’re shit parents (e.g. their parents were shit, too, or socioeconomic factors) and they’ve got no way of knowing they’re shit parents as they go along (e.g. their children don’t have obvious signs of having shit parents when they’re with them and they’re better parents than most other people they know). People do need protecting from other people who had shit parents, and it makes sense for the state to do things to protect people from the shitness of their parents.

Banning things for everyone (including consenting adults) is certainly not the most technically feasible, effective or targeted solution, though. E.g. if I were the minister tasked with solving the problem, I’d make sure sex ed classes in school covered everything relevant (they already do, but not effectively enough that it sinks in, so maybe I’d commission a report into why), and legislate that porn sites couldn’t promote potentially harmful fetish content without clearly labelling it as such. I’d also not necessarily focus so much on the effects on teenagers, as it’s not like people magically become able to maturely deal with things they were totally unable to the day before when they turn eighteen, and there are risks if people don’t learn moderation and are exposed to the full brunt of everything all at once. Porn blurs the line between fiction and reality because it contains real nudity etc. so it’s understandable that people without any other frame of reference wouldn’t intuit which bits were exaggerated.

There’s a genuine problem that needs dealing with that this is attempting to address in that lots of women and girls report that sexually inexperienced young men and teenage boys assume they want to be strangled during sex because they’ve learned it from porn, and choke them during sex without asking. Age gating porn hasn’t stopped it, so this ban is the next step.

It also carries a jail sentence for possession, just like CSAM, so you’d be in big trouble if the police ever had to look at your computer for any other reason.

The post title is on English, not French, so the French etymology isn’t particularly relevant.

Also, part of why it’s chain mail in English is to specify that the individual links are made of something rigid. If the definition of maille mattered, it would still fit for something entirely different like a string vest.

We have some windows without curtains, blinds or shutters, so die, I guess.

They strained my actual teeth for a couple of days and led to years and years of overbrushing. These little bastards are not my friends.

Just replies to this two-comment-long chain where we’re now talking about elephants. Did you know that it’s theorised they’re the largest surviving land animal mainly because they’re the only large land animal that co-evolved with humans, so had appropriate fear and awareness to avoid being hunted to extinction, whereas other similarly-sized creatures wouldn’t see humans as a threat, so would be vulnerable.

Once you’re replying to me, someone who’s said their sure Earthwormjim’s comment was specifically referring to a specific kernel patch, you’re in a conversation about that specific kernel patch, whether or not I’m right about that original comment being about that specific kernel patch.

Most of this particular comment chain (and it’s the post-Earthormjim comment chain I said was referring to that one patch, not the whole thread) has been you replying to me after I started talking about it, so it’s been the topic whether or not it’s a non-sequitur from the thread as a whole. When one of the participants in a two-person dialogue thinks something’s the current topic, that’s enough to make it the topic.

The only cromulent coupon is a gun.

It’s been headline news (at least by Lemmy standards), so it’s a safe bet that Earthwormjim91 was alluding to it when he initially brought up Torvalds, and I was referring to it when I initially brought up optimisation. It wouldn’t have been clear to you if you hadn’t known about it already, as no one linked an article or said explicitly that that’s what they were referring to, but for someone who did, it would have been obvious. You wouldn’t expect someone to explicitly say they were referencing Shrek if they said that something had layers or something was sacrifice someone was willing to make when it clearly would only affect other people, and you wouldn’t expect someone to explicitly say they were referring to Trump’s infamous COVID-era press conference if they mentioned injecting bleach.

This comment chain is specifically referencing a single LLM-assisted patch that Linus Torvalds posted to the mailing list for review a few days ago that solves a longstanding performance problem that interacts with enough things parts of the kernel that there are only a handful of people in the world qualified to deal with it, and that none of them have had the time to investigate and fix properly until just now. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-posts-his-first-llm-assisted-patch-to-the-linux-kernel-after-issuing-clear-pro-ai-directives-the-bossman-makes-use-of-ai-tooling-himself

It’s not really gaming the algorithm. There’s no karma here, no one buying high-karma accounts for advertising, and no one chasing attention when the maximum attention a Lemmy post gets isn’t very much because there aren’t very many users, so there’s no point trying to artificially boost engagement. People are just posting things when they’re online and not posting things when they’re offline, and there are few enough users that it doesn’t take many to create a pattern, and it sounds like you just happen to check at a similar cadence to a few anime fans, so keep seeing things right after they’ve browsed and upvoted what they like. I just checked the All Communities Hot feed on lemmy.world with no communities blocked, and only see one anime-related post in the first five pages, so they’re clearly not constantly at the top. Considering the demographics that would typically use Lemmy, that’s a really low number.

It only needs to save a few hundreds of seconds on one computer, or one second on a few hundreds of computers, or a tiny fraction of a second on the number of computers that actually run Linux to save trillions of cycles. A trillion cycles isn’t very many at all. A hundred-word prompt on a frontier model running on GPUs in a datacentre burns much more power than a trillion cycles on a CPU, so for a large Linux kernel patch, trillions is the wrong number by many orders of magnitude. There are also a lot of computers spending a lot of time running Linux, so it kind of balances out. There’s only one Linus Torvalds, and he’s very busy, so it’s likely that if he’d not used an LLM to get this work done, it simply wouldn’t have happened, even if someone had been willing to fund a different human to do it.

Either way, the original point of the post was that LLM-generated code is always shitty (even when it’s not immediately obvious to whoever’s responsible for it that it’s shitty) and so having any amount of it already makes things worse, even ignoring the huge environmental cost. With that context, it is the case that there’s a huge difference between Timmy and Torvalds as Torvalds is famous for having very high standards, so if he’s using it, he might be able to make something that isn’t shitty.

The default sort prioritises posts from within the last few minutes above posts that are hours old with far more votes. If one anime fan posts a handful of things right when another checks their feed, there’ll be anime posts at the top for half an hour or so, as they’ve got the most votes per minute.

Both things are going on at the same time, as Torvalds and Timmy are both paying Sam Altman to pour oil into the river as a byproduct of the service he’s providing. For something as important as the Linux kernel, it wasting fewer CPU cycles as a result of LLM-aided optimisation work might even be net beneficial for the environment once you take into account that it’ll affect billions of computers for years to come. If the end product is shitty, though, there’s no question that it wasn’t worth the environmental damage.

Some Markdown renderers interpret two dashes as an en dash and three as an em dash, so on some Lemmy clients, that might show up as a real en dash.

The sand is pressed harder against the screen if it’s being pressed by another screen than if it’s being pressed by the fabric of your pocket.

Off the top of my head, I’m pretty sure I read it in New Scientist years ago. With some googling, I’ve found lots of people making the same claim in various comment sections, but not anything coming down one way or the other from anywhere especially reputable. I’ve also found some people on a soap-making forum saying that you don’t need preservatives if you’ve made the soap yourself and ensured it’s still alkaline after all the fats have saponified (which won’t necessarily be the case for store-bought soap as they often have extra fats so they moisturise skin a bit).

Most liquid soaps are pretty nutritious for microbes and don’t contain enough preservatives to stop them growing if they’re diluted, so this is probably not a great idea if you’re not buying specific concentrated soap that’s intended to be diluted.