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How would you enforce a pay-it-forward scheme?
  • Technically, "enforced pay it forward" is called credit. Your debt would then be "the amount you still have to pay forward".

    Of course, this defeats both the spirit and the purpose of a pay it forward scheme.

  • How can we make Linux more appealing as "just works"?
  • "Just works" is not a mentality imposed by Microsoft, and has nothing to do with loss of control. It's simply (a consequence of) the idea that things which can be automated, should be. It is about good defaults, not lack of options.

  • LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
  • It's not an article about LLMs not using dialects. In fact, they have learned said dialects and will use them if asked.

    What they did was, ask the LLM to suggest adjectives associated with sentences - and it would associate more aggressive or negative adjectives with African dialect.

    Seems like not a bias by AI models themselves, rather a reflection of the source material.

    All (racial) bias in AI models is actually a reflection of the training data, not of the modelling.

  • Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  • It's certainly good, I'm not arguing that. My point is, if the wine team is interested, they can fork the unmaintained project, and work on that. Eventually, people will switch over to the active fork. What Microsoft is doing, is helping the process along, and making it easier. So it's good, and helpful - but not really a "donation" to winehq.

  • Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  • I guess it's simply the framing: It was a not very actively maintained open source project. So they've decided to turn it over to a new maintainer. Calling that 'donation' is a bit pushing it

  • Is NixOS at the advent of an implosion? | Community inquiry on recent drama
  • In September the NixOS constitutional assembly should finish their work, and the community will be able to elect governance. I'm guessing that's when the drama will start getting resolved.

    In the meantime, there are multiple maintainers that have left because of the drama - which is more troublesome than the board members leaving - but nixpkgs has a LOT of maintainers, and there are new ones joining all the time. It's still healthy and won't implode so quickly.

  • Running a business using linux
  • They are major concerns, but they aren't the only reasons people would use Linux, and also not everyone who uses Linux does it for these reasons. For example, while I care about them, my most important reason for using it is utility features such as my tiling WM.

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  • OK. They have a brain to feel them with. If you're objecting to imprecise terminology here, I'll give you the point, but I don't think that affects my basic point any (I'm not a biologist, I meant insects and the like - though don't take that as definitive either; maybe someone knows an insect with a brain, too).

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  • Not three same person, but the demarcation between what should be OK to eat, and what - not - they baked most sense to me, is the capacity to experience pain or emotions.

    So I see no substantial moral difference between eating plants or invertebrates, for example - neither can feel harm.

    That said, fish and chicken can experience pain or emotions the same as cows and pigs.

  • How does L4sBot choose which articles to post?

    This is a meta-question about the community - but seeing how many posts here are made by L4sBot, I think it's important to know how it chooses the articles to post.

    I've tried to find information about it, but I couldn't find much.

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