Hi, I’m lana a non-binary person cursed with being french. I like to produce garbage code, cooking and gardening. My body is holding together with tape and denial and I’m all out of tape.

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  • Search engine where already doing great at giving you answer to by description. For specialized question the wiki or documentation dedicated to your field will be much better. You have no guarantees that LLMs will not generate garbage so you have to check the source (if they exists) so just read the source it’ll waste less time and energy.

    Human are much more than 'automatic plagiarism bias machines’ … don’t dare to equate an autocorrect with life.


  • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoJust Post@lemmy.worldLLM hallucinations
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    18 hours ago

    … You are deliberately missing the point.

    When I’m asking a question I don’t want to hear what most people think but what people that are knowledgeable about the subject of my question think and LLM will fail at that by design.

    LLMs don’t wastes a lot, they waste at a ridiculous scale. According to statista training GPT-3 is responsible for 500 tCO2 in 2024. All for what ? Having an automatic plagiarism bias machine ? And before the litany of “it’s just the training cost, after that it’s ecologically cheap” tell me how you LLM will remain relevant if it’s not constantly retrained with new data ?

    LLMs don’t bring any value, if I want information I already have search engine (even if LLMs degraded the quality of the result), if I want art I can pay someone to draw it, etc…






  • I didn’t find anything about security updates on the website so that worries me even more.

    I now software dev cost a lot of time, effort and money ( being a dev myself ) but they are a lot of way that are far better than keeping updates from user. IodéOS and Murena being two examples.

    They ask users to drop 60€/year for potential features updates. Even if this include security updates this is very expensive.


  • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLinux Phones@lemmy.caLinux Phone from Finland
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    23 days ago

    After the first year, you can choose to continue your subscription and support Sailfish OS development further. Even without renewal, your device will continue to function, but future software updates and commercial component upgrades will not be available.

    This worries me a lot. Pay for updates is not a consumer friendly model.









  • It’s hard to read because it’s a manual made for technical users.

    On Linux most of the software is made by freelance developers who often forget that all users are not technical and even if they are they don’t want to be forced to interact with technical stuff. For the same reason I don’t want to daily-drive gentoo, sometimes I don’t want to read the manual.

    I happen to be a contributor on multiple FOSS project and most didn’t have a docs directory in their repo or website, let alone an user guide. That’s fine for a CLI program to rely on wiki/manuals but graphical apps should have a user guide on their website. Working on documentation is a thankless job in FOSS spaces.


  • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zonetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinux is too hard
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    1 month ago

    RTFM is not a working formula. Because most people skip reading the manual for one simple reason, the manual is hard to read.

    I remember my early arch days when asking a question about an issue I’m having was always met with a wikipage I already read but did not understand.

    Rather than pushing for a magic manual, the best is to provide sane default or point to tutorials.


  • The center will lead to the alt-right again. Look at Bayrou who talk about “subversion migratoire”, Darmanin telling lepen she’s soft on imigrants or even Macron rolling the red carpet for the alt-right.

    ( Note : liberals are not leftist in Europe, they are center right, the left would be socialist ) Outside of France it’s the same, liberals are all too happy to welcome fascist if it help protect the establishment. In France we even have a saying for that : “Plutôt Hitler que les Front populaire” ( meaning people in power would prefer Nazi to a change in hierarchy, “Rather Hitler than the popular front” ).

    All of that to say, don’t hope centrist will do anything other than open the door when fascism come.