Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Near the In-n-OutEnglish
151·2 days agoFucking Chief Miles O’Brien appeared in 163 of 170 episodes, Dude

For one thing, there were 173 episodes of DS9.
And while Colm Meaney does appear in 163 of them, he is only portraying Chief Miles O’Brien in 160 episodes: in Far Beyond the Stars he portrays Albert Macklin and in The Emperor’s New Cloak and Through the Looking Glass he only portrays mirror universe Miles O’Brien.
I am curious where the creator of this meme arrived at the number 163, since IMDB incorrectly says that Meaney is in all 173 episodes.
ps:
good meme nonetheless
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•We're catching strays at the No Kings protest!English
41·12 days agoI’m a little hesitant to use that link, wasn’t there recently something about a lot of archive websites using visitors for ddos attacks or something similar?
The archive site recently caught doing ddos attacks was archive.today (which also uses the domains .fo, .is, .li, .md, .ph, and .vn). This is a site run by a pseudonymous individual since 2012. Here is the wikipedia article about them.
The link in my comment above is to archive.org, which is a very reputable organization called The Internet Archive which has been operating since 1996 and definitely would not use its visitors’ browsers for ddos attacks. Here is the wikipedia article about them.
Know the difference :)
Also, btw, while the latter is older, larger, and vastly more credible, the former uses different archiving techniques which enable them to have archives of many things which the latter doesn’t. So, it does continue to also be a useful tool, albeit one of last resort.
I’ll compile from source
yfw you find out getting access to a compiler requires an ID check

Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•We're catching strays at the No Kings protest!English
23·13 days agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20240530005438/https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/israeli-defense-forces-case-study (the original is 404 now, for some reason…)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech SmartphoneEnglish
3·16 days agounfortunately, like its predecessor (Nokia’s Maemo/Meego), Jolla’s SailfishOS has never been (and has never had plans to be) fully free/libre open source software.
many components of it are freely licensed, but not nearly enough to constitute an actual mobile operating system you can use.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month insteadEnglish
7·18 days agowhat happened next? (do the terms actually allow you to cancel it immediately for no cost, or is their $10-per-month-for-nothing offer an alternative to paying a cancellation fee?)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•You're missing at least fiveEnglish
3·19 days ago(well actually) you forgot Poland
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This Phishing email... What is the IP?English
37·24 days agoIt’s good to see someone in this thread who knows what an IPv5 address looks like:
IPv5 addresses consist of four hextets a 16bit each. For the visual representation, those grouping are used. The hextets might be written in decimal, separated by dot '.' characters, or as hexadecimal numbers, separated by colon ':'.It’s long past time to start replacing our IPv4.1 deployments!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•How to disable this blinking light on a WD External Hard Drive?English
1·26 days agobased on the other comments here i had to double check if this thread was in !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml smh my head
POV: You haven’t updated Arch for 5 minutes
Comparing the date on the tweet with the date when arch released go-2:1.26.1-1, it appears that it had been over a week since the last upgrade.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleftEnglish
1·29 days agoFYI, the day after you published this blog post, a spam blog posted… their AI reimplementation of it 🤦
details:
here is a snapshot of (maybe?) the “original” slop post borrowing from your title; i first saw it reposted on this slightly-more-credible-looking (at least if you haven’t seen it in previous search results and already realized it is spam) page:

i tried to archive that page with the repost of it, to avoid directly linking to spam from this comment, but it crashes archive.org’s browser:

i also was curious to see if this spam is in search engines, so i searched for AI reimplementation, and… well, the good news is that your blog post is the first hit and the above-linked spam blog is pretty far down in the results list.
The bad news is that the second hit is to yet another piece of slop/spam evidently also “inspired” by your post:

Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleftEnglish
1·1 month agoNice post. Relatedly, see also malus.sh and this talk by the people that made it (both of which I posted in this lemmy community here).
A couple of minor corrections to your text:
Blanchard’s account is that he never looked at the existing source code directly.
Blanchard doesn’t say that he never looked at the existing code; on the contrary, he has been the maintainer (and primary contributor) to it for over a decade so he is probably the person who is most familiar with the pre-Claude version’s implementation details. Rather, he says that he didn’t prompt Claude with the source code while reimplementing it. iirc he does not acknowledge that it is extremely likely that multiple prior versions of it were included in Claude’s training corpus (which is non-public, so this can only be conclusively verified easily by Anthropic).
The GPL’s conditions are triggered only by distribution. If you distribute modified code, or offer it as a networked service, you must make the source available under the same terms.
The GPL does not require you to offer GPL-licensed source code when using the program to provide a network service; because it is solely a copyright license, the GPL’s obligations are only triggered by distribution. (It’s the AGPL which goes beyond copyright and imposes these obligations on people running a program as a network service…)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Technology@lemmy.ml•"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewriteEnglish
4·1 month agoIt’s a library for detecting which character encoding a string is encoded with.
Here are the docs for the vibe-coded rewrite, and here is the version before it.
The new vibe-coded version also adds language detection; it isn’t clear to me why the current version of the readme shows it classifying the string
"It’s a lovely day — let’s grab coffee."as Spanish with 99% confidence, without any comment in the docs about that being a misclassification, but I guess that if the LLM-authored program says it is then that must be one of those phrases that looks the same in Spanish as in English 👀
your instance has a list of communities federated to it here: https://piefed.zip/communities
the most active community for announcing new communities is !newcommunities@lemmy.world (which includes communities on many different instances, not only .world)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first ladyEnglish
29·1 month agoAs for the significance of Melania Trump presiding over the Security Council meeting, Dujarric called it “a sign of the importance that the United States feels towards the Security Council and the subject.”
🤔
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first ladyEnglish
7·1 month agoIvanka Trump attended the UNGA and had meetings there but did not preside over it.



















this explains the total of 170
as a main cast member he is in the opening credit sequence of every episode, which explains IMDB saying he’s in every one.
but how/where did you arrive at the number 163? i only arrived there by seeing that Memory Alpha lists 160 character appearances (which I see now does single-count Emissary and presumably two other two-part episodes) and then checking the mirror universe episodes to see if there were any without the Chief in them (and finding two) and then remembering Far Beyond the Stars.
anyway i guess either of the numbers in the meme could be correct, but not both at once: 163 is correct if you double-count three two-part episodes, and 170 is correct if you single-count them. 🤓
(and the numbers in my first comment are inconsistent in the same way.)