#eli5 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eli5, aggregated by home.social.
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someone needs to explain to me how the fediverse works generally and how i keep seeing people in the wafrn feed with all these other fuckass urls, meow dot social, dot gay, dot… like wh- idrek what to ask i just dont know "where" any of these places are
or like, link me a plain language explainer
#hi #… #fediverse #new-to-fediverse #eli5 -
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I'm gonna need an #ELI5 on this one. XD
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Wozu braucht Europa eigentlich "W" als "Alternative zu X"?
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#eli5 the #forkiverse stuff ... Please someone? I'm massively out of the loop on this one. 😂 😂
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Okay, can someone #ELI5 what the #Forkiverse is? :blobcatcomfnight:
At the risk of sounding stupid, is it a fork of #Mastodon, or a (just) a regular Mastodon server called the Forkiverse?
Either way, sounds fascinating!
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"The REAL reason everything sucks now"
Who's really the problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYEAK-Uh-fo
https://piped.video/watch?v=MYEAK-Uh-fo
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=MYEAK-Uh-fo
#uspol #politics #affordability #inflation #trumpflation #stagflation #MorePerfectUnion #ExplainLikeImFive #ELI5
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Explain Linux kernel like I'm 5
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Letztens war es bitterkalt (–7 °C) bei uns, und ein Steinbecken im Garten ist dabei zugefroren.
Soweit, so unspektakulär. Allerdings ist dabei eine kleine Eisskulptur entstanden, die wir so noch nie gesehen haben.
Die Steinschale steht unter freiem Himmel. Da kann also nichts von darüber heruntergetropft sein, oder so.
Wie ist das entstanden? Hat da jemand eine Idee?
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Letztens war es bitterkalt (–7 °C) bei uns, und ein Steinbecken im Garten ist dabei zugefroren.
Soweit, so unspektakulär. Allerdings ist dabei eine kleine Eisskulptur entstanden, die wir so noch nie gesehen haben.
Die Steinschale steht unter freiem Himmel. Da kann also nichts von darüber heruntergetropft sein, oder so.
Wie ist das entstanden? Hat da jemand eine Idee?
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Letztens war es bitterkalt (–7 °C) bei uns, und ein Steinbecken im Garten ist dabei zugefroren.
Soweit, so unspektakulär. Allerdings ist dabei eine kleine Eisskulptur entstanden, die wir so noch nie gesehen haben.
Die Steinschale steht unter freiem Himmel. Da kann also nichts von darüber heruntergetropft sein, oder so.
Wie ist das entstanden? Hat da jemand eine Idee?
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Letztens war es bitterkalt (–7 °C) bei uns, und ein Steinbecken im Garten ist dabei zugefroren.
Soweit, so unspektakulär. Allerdings ist dabei eine kleine Eisskulptur entstanden, die wir so noch nie gesehen haben.
Die Steinschale steht unter freiem Himmel. Da kann also nichts von darüber heruntergetropft sein, oder so.
Wie ist das entstanden? Hat da jemand eine Idee?
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Letztens war es bitterkalt (–7 °C) bei uns, und ein Steinbecken im Garten ist dabei zugefroren.
Soweit, so unspektakulär. Allerdings ist dabei eine kleine Eisskulptur entstanden, die wir so noch nie gesehen haben.
Die Steinschale steht unter freiem Himmel. Da kann also nichts von darüber heruntergetropft sein, oder so.
Wie ist das entstanden? Hat da jemand eine Idee?
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"Garbage In Garbage Out" applies to a lot of things.
🥧 Pie.
🐕 Puppies.
🏛️ Politicians.But this post is about generative AI.
We've already reached the point where the internet is more bot than human, and AI slop trained on human creativity is growing exponentially (along with its power requirements).
You see, generative AI has two main features that make it particularly effective at producing garbage: It has a high output volume and it doesn't give a fuck if it's factually wrong (sounds like most politicians and marketers actually 🤔).
So, to put this in lay-terms...
AI is like your new puppy. You feed it a nice diet of curated posts, it does cute-stupid things that are fun to post pictures of. One day you decide Mr. Sprinkles is ready to be out of the kennel when you're not home. You leave for several hours and return home to find that Mr. Sprinkles has been hoovering down everything in the bathroom waste bin. Not only that, but at some point the lil' rascal ran into the bedroom to hork up half-digested tampons and tissues on your duvet.
You look on in horror as you realize that the waste bin must've been emptied the moment you left the house, and grotesque puppy hork is littered around *everywhere*.
But it doesn't stop there. You hear slurping noises and turn around just in time to see Mr. Sprinkles happily recycling one of the previous piles of puppy puke. You stifle a gasp as you cover your mouth. How long has this cycle been going on? How many times has that tissue gone through the puppy—two, three, a hundred? At this point it's long-since been rendered into homogeneous slop (though you think you recognize a kibble or two and the edge of a Tampax wrapper).
Alright, now imagine it's not just one puppy—it's an exponentially replicating litter of dalmatian puppies with IBS. And it's not just one waste bin—it's the known universe.
Eventually *everything* will be amorphous puppy hork.
#ELI5 #AI #GIGO #GrayGoo #Graphic #PuppyHork #ShortStory #LongPost
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5 years of oslo.town -- a short blog post, but not short enough to be a mere toot.
Click the link, read the words, and share the emotion! It's a celebration!
I'm genuinely happy that we have this amazing little community going on here! It's so inspiring to see it going strong after all this time.
https://coxy.co/4926/5-years-of-oslo-town/
#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonAnniversary #Allheimen #NorskTut #oslotown #MastoHost #AMA #ELI5 #Fediverse
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I just had a #dream where I #eli5 different #elecrical #ligh to ... I don't know exactly who. Not just good old glowers, though. LEDs, fluorescent lights, incandescent lights (including halogen lamps), the works. I learned all this about 15 years ago.... and it has absolutely no bearing on my day-to-day. #brain s are weird!
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NASAのLori Glaze博士が、惑星、月、宇宙船について専門用語を使わずに質問に答えるRedditAMAを実施。日本時間3/9 06:00に開始のようですぽい。 #NASA #RedditAMA #ELI5
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#MastodonMigration
#QuestionForTheRoomThis sentence is on the Mastodon Settings page under Profile\Appearance\VERIFICATION, along w/ How-To instructions.
"You can verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata."What does that mean, though?
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I passed my @[email protected] grad stats class but clearly it’s not enough to grasp #Heisman odds.
#ELI5: Put $2½-3k on USC’s QB to win $100, but put $100 on @[email protected]’s @[email protected] & win $2-2½k? That’s an absurd spread, right? (Or just more anti-@[email protected] bias?)
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In this long-toot: a recipe to detect and deal with "anagram-bullshiters" even if you don't know anything about the problem domain within which they're trying to sell you something.
I noticed that #haskell people and #science people are giving abstractions specific names that are nouns. Sometimes semantic: "functor, bifunctor, lens, prism", sometimes borrowed: "monoid, magma", sometimes of loose semantic power: "monad, joker and clown".
Or was it clown and joker?..
#java people and #engineering people love abbreviations. Just today whilst studying #syseng, I got tripped up by "StRS vs BRS vs SRS". Not because I can't tell stakeholder requirements from system requirements or business requirements, but because I simply got lost in the abbreviations.
But I observed an interesting thing: when you ask a haskeller to explain a monad, a lens or a bifunctor, it's very easy to call #bullshit: they won't be able to give you a concrete answer (no matter how long or #eli5-esque), while engineering bullshiters have that fallback of just spelling out an anagram they learned and explaining it word by word. This is a red flag, but maybe a person is simply bad at explaining or defining stuff?
What I suggest to be able to determine if you're facing an anagram-bullshiter or not is to ask these questions:
1. How would one use XYZ?
2. In which situations is XYZ applicable / usable / optimal?
3. What are the alternatives to XYZ and in which situations are they applicable / usable / optimal?Even if you know nothing about problem domain, you should now have a reasonable amount of information to determine if the person is pretending to be more knowledgable than they are.
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CW: accessibility meta, ownership, site redesign
The design of the DarkPi site is, admittedly, a contrivance of our own, and our sysadmin aesthetic is showing a bit.
What we don't know, however, is whether this site is accessible for assistive aids, like screen readers or other browser accessibility aids.
Going to be doing some research on this, because if I'm asking questions of your disability, knowing the topic before engaging is how we try to demonstrate respect.
However, if anyone who uses an accessibility mode for interacting with sites has immediate thoughts on that matter (regarding tools to test with, paradigms to consider, or a critique of the current presentation of the information, etc), we're listening and would be delighted to integrate your feedback.
