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I broke Microsoft copilot

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I wonder if internally the emoji's are added through a different mechanism that doesn't pick up the original request. E.g. another LLM thread that has the instruction "Is this apologetic? If it is, answer with exactly one emoji." After this emoji has been forcefully added, the LLM thread that got the original request is trying to reason why the emoji would be there, resulting in more apologies and trolling behaviour.

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ArchLinux doesn't boot after computer lost power during system update

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This is the command I used after unlocking the luks device in a rescue environment and confirming it not mounting further:

sudo btrfs rescue zero-log /dev/mapper/luksroot

After that, I could mount again and boot.

Here's more info on the command, to verify advice is sound: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/btrfs-progs/btrfs-zero-log.8.en.html#zero

EDIT: For me it didn't happen during an update, btw. You might still need the chroot approach to make the system bootable again.

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With the creation and use of ChatGPT and Bard, I bet ELI5 community and subreddit have had less posts, because people can just ask them instead.

Interestingly, as ChatGPT might be trained on these ELI5 questions and as a result they are asked more infrequently, it might get worse over time or out of date on these types of questions by its own doing. I especially wonder how bad this influence will get on subjects that you'd normally search stackoverflow for.

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Open source phone

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Wikipedia is financially pretty stable, afaik. Not saying you shouldn't donate, but you might want to look into what happens with it. It won't necessarily be used to cover costs of running the website.