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Kind of the same problem with Linux desktop in general and all other sub categories. Freedom equals to mess. I'm fine with that, but most people are not. Most people don't care about freedom, as the cost is too high for them (not in terms of price), which shows in results like these.

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Also have a look at this video demonstration Hacking Windows Recall To See Everything (by Mental Outlaw).

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Big Schweinerei.

thingsiplay ,
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Brand loyalty and also dependency of the tools due to existing projects and files. People invested into a system with huge money and efforts won't switch easily to something new and unknown, starting from scratch.

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I don't know about VivaDesigner (never looked for an alternative anyway), but I hope people know about Scribus. LaTeX is a bit too manual for someone coming from InDesign, so it's not a real alternative in that sense. My point was, that people have projects and files created and maintained with the Adobe software. Unless the programs are 100% compatible with the alternative, it's hard for many to make the switch. Plus they would need to learn a new "complex" tool, and know exactly which one is the right one and is worth switching for years to come.

Just giving people an alternative is not enough to convince them.

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How did he calculate the 70% chance? Without an explanation this opinion is as much important as a Reddit post. It's just marketing fluff talk, so people talk about AI and in return a small percentage get converted into people interested into AI. Let's call it clickbait talk.

First he talks about high chance that humans get destroyed by AI. Follows with a prediction it would achieve AGI in 2027 (only 3 years from now). No. Just no. There is a loong way to get general intelligence. But isn't he trying to sell you why AI is great? He follows with:

"We’re proud of our track record providing the most capable and safest AI systems and believe in our scientific approach to addressing risk,"

Ah yes, he does.

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Games Nexus always top quality. Best day of the year when new products are announced like this. Thanks Steve.

thingsiplay ,
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Digital Image Editor

thingsiplay ,
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I love them all! Here a fork from one of your suggestions:

Nonlinear Visual Image Manipulator - NVIM

thingsiplay OP ,
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Just tried and that's it! I tried a few options before, not sure if I overlooked this or misunderstood. But setting --extractor-retries 2 for testing does indeed only try 2 times. Thank you.

thingsiplay OP ,
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Thank you for the encouraging words. :-)

thingsiplay ,
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It's a bit too early and premature. There needs to be an alternative to fax first.

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It's probably AI generated...

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I'm one of those guys. Searx itself is just a meta search engine, using Google and many other search engines. You don't need to dive into any rabbit hole, just use a pre existing server for easy access. From time to time I switch the instance. You can then still decide if you want go the full rabbit hole and host it yourself, but that is not a requirement. At least its fully open source and your data/search queries are not sent to Google or Microsoft. In the settings can be specified which engines you want to use:

Try it out here: https://searx.space/ and for some information about SearxNG: https://docs.searxng.org/

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d078198a-f92b-4f88-ba07-51c26c5c19c1.webp

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You can turn off Google if you want and use whatever engines you like.

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I was used to the bangs in DuckDuckGo too, but stopped using them. In example I have duckduckgo search engine disabled here, but can still do a ddg only search with !ddg hello . But don't get your hopes too high, because I think it only supports the few bangs and nothing else. It does not support ddg bangs. I registered a DuckDuckGo bang !retro to point to RetroPie forum, but it does not work in Searx.

Edit: It would have been a true banger if we could combine them in Searx like this: !ddg!retro

thingsiplay ,
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I've just tested this in Brave and it works. And it does not require the combination, !retro on its own is enough. Nice!

thingsiplay ,
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Same for side loading apps. If the rest of the world / governments does not care, then Apple won't care in the rest of the world too.

thingsiplay ,
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Reddit has become one of the internet’s largest open archives of authentic, relevant, and always up-to-date human conversations about anything and everything.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says

But refuses to pay the users or at least moderators who build Reddit to what it is now. Instead, it pushes more advertisements and sells data to AI companies for millions of Dollars.

thingsiplay ,
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The license does not apply to posts and replies in Reddit, right? Thank god I created a blog to post about any stuff that I want, without license or restrictions from Reddit. Before the AI breakthrough and what happened to Reddit. But even if so, do AI tools understand such a license text and evaluate if they can or cannot use the material?

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Well the companies and developers don't decide for every single material. In example what I expect is, that they program the scraper with rules to respect licenses of individual projects (such as on Github probably). And I assume those scraper tools are AI tools themselves, programmed with AI tool assist on top of it. There are multiple AI layers!

At this point, I don't think that any developer knows exactly what the AI tools are fed with, if they use automatically scraped public sources from the internet.

thingsiplay ,
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Human Rights are higher than any law. Just because its law in China, does not mean it is correct to follow the law. It is not we decide which laws to follow, but it is universally in entire world the right thing to support Human Rights, regardless of any law.

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It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.

Which does not change the fact that Google does it. So the reason why Google supports China and their anti Human Rights laws is, because of money. That's what we criticize.

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This would probably make the entire world talk about it and it would be worse in China, because this would only anger people and fighting against the country. We won't see that, because Google wouldn't dare. The money is more precious than any Human Right, regardless of law.

Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious

Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks

thingsiplay ,
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I have no one to recommend, but you might find something from this list: https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg-editors

As others recommended, using a web browser to edit is actually pretty cool, especially in Firefox. I myself use Wordpress in the browser instead, which has such a builtin editor.

thingsiplay OP ,
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This is good to know. I usually have a mixed set of applications for stable and non stable, depending on how much I trust the devs for this. If the release of Gimp 3 wouldn't be on the corner, I probably used it too.

I'm on Linux and use Wayland (details not important if you are not familiar with it) and Gimp 3 still has a few issues regarding that. At least based on their own notes, so I will wait a few weeks (or months) longer, because I am not at a hurry at the moment. Can't wait for this massive update and a huge step forward! Glad to hear it is already working well (I would assume that if they are close to release.)

thingsiplay ,
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Trained on YouTube clips

It could have been worse. Imagine trained by Tik Tok clips.

thingsiplay ,
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Money.

thingsiplay ,
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a bad uncanny-valley 75% accurate version of one

Actually a perfect description of what a deepfake is.

thingsiplay ,
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It's likely that they will form a new organization in the US, so they can operate in that country and still have Tik Tok alive. My expectation is that the US based Tik Tok would still interact with the world, but block China.

thingsiplay ,
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Because China is collecting information from millions of US citizens. Plus they control what the US citizens can see and interact with. US has no control over Tik Tok and that scares them. Why are Facebook and X not banned? Because Facebook and X are US based have to comply with the US regulators and share every collected information with the government.

thingsiplay ,
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Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company from China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance Data is collected in China. Not sure what you mean. Why do you think US tries to block Tik Tok?

thingsiplay ,
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I didn't suggest to sale the Chinese company. I suggest to create a new one in the US from the same organization in China. This is a normal practice that is being done for many years by many companies to overcome limitations from those countries.

thingsiplay ,
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None of this changes the fact that the operational headquarter of the company is in China and that they collect data that is send to China. Therefore China gets all the data from US citizen, regardless of who the investor is.

thingsiplay ,
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We need privacy protection laws, not arbitrary bans of apps that do the same thing as US social media apps

The ban of the application is not to protect our privacy, otherwise they would ban US social media apps too.

thingsiplay ,
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Where do you get the information you are spreading? I would like to learn more if you know good sources.

Except the operational headquarters is not in China.

instead of spreading incorrect info.

How can you judge and say it is incorrect, if you don't actually know all details? Your opinion is not much more correct. What you probably mean is, I should not spread info that is not proven to be correct.

They are not sending data to China, they are sending it to Singapore.

but nothing has been proven (not saying it won’t be, but we can’t operate on speculation)

If it's not proven, then you are speculating that China does not get the data as well. If that was correct what you are saying, then the US government would not ban Tik Tok. Especially you follow up with a statement

China can get “all the data from US citizens” outside of TikTok.

which is probably harder and more complicated than just getting it from Tik Tok. ByteDance is a company for collecting information, so its right in the hands of China.

thingsiplay ,
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TikTok is literally a separate entity from ByteDance. They are owned by ByteDance, but they are not the same company and operate separately. Again, you are conflating the two

https://www.bytedance.com/en/products : Our Products > TikTok

So they have access to the user data from TikTok. Why wouldn't they are products from that company? Companies split up and organize together to overcome limitations of the system. This is not fan fiction, it is reality how many companies operate.

I am not the one claiming the data is sent to China, you are.

No, the US goverment claims that. You mistaken this with my opinion. I am just telling the goverment is blocking Tik Tok because they think China is doing this.

Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China (www.washingtonpost.com)

Apple has complied with the Chinese government's request to remove several popular communication apps from its app store, including WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram, due to national security concerns. This action was taken following a directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China. These apps have been crucial for...

thingsiplay ,
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A more correct headline could also be read as: "China pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store from Apple." I know technically Apple pulled them away, but logically it was China. Apple had no other choice. If Apple didn't do it, then their devices would be kicked out of China entirely. And that's something China could do, especially because its a closed garden American company and tech, where they cannot break into.

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Sideload apps only work in the EU. Or does it work in China too?

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)

"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."

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Isn't it illegal to fire protesting workers? At least here in Germany its illegal as far as I know. But it must be a protest event (which it seems to be).

thingsiplay ,
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That reads like something out of South Park. :D

thingsiplay OP ,
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I'm probably the only human using my own software. :D This is basically something like a script to run RetroArch. The idea is to make it easier to play games without the need to explicitly specifying the core name in the commandline. The core will be looked up from a user configuration file based on the file extension of the Rom file. This also makes it possible to run games from the graphical filemanager, if the file extension is associated with this program.

I use this program since years now. This is just a maintenance update. It was developed for myself mainly and that's why I did not bother to make it run on other platforms than Linux.

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I think it's like Windows and Reddit. People don't use it because they like or love it, but because most are there. Sometimes the only way to interact with the developers or find new people in an active community.

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There is this Matrix-Discord bridge, but I don't exactly understand the details and if its one way only. https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/discord/

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