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Just another Reddit refugee

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Wait, the events are real? 🤯

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If people are interested in an lightweight terminal-based music player, they can try CMUS (https://cmus.github.io/).

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Someone said it was explicitly written with Windows in mind, so the Linux port will probably take some time. Converting all the Win API calls will take some time.

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I have managed to convince IT that Linux is essential for my line of work.
My work goes smoothly while I watch my Windows colleagues raise the most absurd tickets for their problems.

"Yeah, it's a known issue. This needs access to Microsoft servers but our firewall won't allow it. You need to connect to a hotspot to resolve this."

"You need to install a package for LaTeX for a different font? Better raise an RFC and get it approved by your supervisor"

"md5sum? Never heard of it. Please justify the business requirement for this tool"

Meanwhile Linux go brrr

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~/ is more cozy

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p/q=q

So q=√p

Works with a lot of numbers ☝🏻🤓

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The site should now be just called "Formerly Twitter"

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If you make B less risky, you’ll get a new category of people. If you make it more risky, you’ll lose categories.

Can you explain what this part means? What do you mean by category here?

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What's wrong with using extensions?
Are you sad that your phone doesn't have features and you need to use the app store?

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This is BS by the ISP. My ISP advertises they give 140 Mbps, I get 140 and sometimes 150 Mbps. Maybe during peak hours I may get slightly less, like 130. But it's not supposed to be drastically low, like 80-90.

However, the user must also consider that some issues are beyond the ISP's control, like how loaded the destination server is.

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I call it the "My wife gets railed daily by other men. But I'm happy because at least I own the marriage certificate." thing

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"Help us Linus, you are our only hope"

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Ads will continue till the users fall in love with ads

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Don't you know? Some calculations can only be done locally. They are too complicated to be performed over the cloud. It needs to be done on your i3/4GB RAM PC.

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Electron: I am in this comment and I do not like it.

Jokes aside, MS Office now auto-generates clipart and various other assets via GenAI which obviously is via cloud. They can do feature parity if they want to. But often with MS products, their products use so much legacy libraries, it's a huge pain for the devs to find their corresponding web-libraries.

I'm pretty sure Office still uses a random API which uses ie6.

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn't use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don't agree to their terms, then I don't get access to their new products. That...

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Those who want the link without the trackers

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/gigabyte-aorus-fo48u-4k-ultra-hd-47.53-oled-gaming-monitor-black-10234612.html

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👍

AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources (www.tomshardware.com)

In the wave of AI controversies and lawsuits, CNET has been publicly admonished since it first started posting thinly-veiled AI-generated content on its site in late 2022— a scandal that has culminated in the site being demoted from Trusted to Untrusted Sources on Wikipedia....

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But wait, isn't AI the future?

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Ben Swolson

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Insert "It's a private platform. He can do whatever he wants" comment

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100% agree. I just find it utterly hypocritical that he proclaimed himself at "a free-speech absolutionist" and cries like a little baby the moment someone says something bad about him.

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It is an ergonomic and familiar solution for users who want to elevate a command without having to first open a new elevated console.

Yeah Microsoft, how exactly is it familiar for Windows users? 😜

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THERE IS TREASURE TO BE FOUND ON THE SEVEN SEAS!

Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany (alexwlchan.net)

Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s stated as pure fact, with no supporting evidence or explanation. We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not...

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It's a rerun!

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Printer out of cyan ink

Mark Zuckerberg says sorry to families of children who committed suicide — after rejecting suggestion to set up a compensation fund to help the families get counseling (arstechnica.com)

Mark Zuckerberg says sorry to families of children who committed suicide — after rejecting suggestion to set up a compensation fund to help the families get counseling::CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord, and X testified at hearing on child safety.

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Apology from any billionaire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

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    Dread girl design is super cool!

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    The maker is probably not aware of the current battery sizes

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    While making such devices, one should be grounded to reality to avoid making such mistakes

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    "You're breaking my heart DNS, Anakin!"

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    ahh shit...here we go again

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    The Dacia Sandero!

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    Why use MS-DOS? Why don't we just re-write it in Rust?

    Edit: I should have mentioned /s in my comment. It's never a good idea to rewrite a mission-critical software.

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    If you take this job, you’re obsolete. Getting the next job will be tough.

    There is a meme that COBOL programmers still make bank to this day because no one learns COBOL and old enterprise systems run on COBOL. How much of this is true?

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    Adobe: 🤢

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    RIP Nitter ​:ablobcatraindepressed:​

    Now the token generation method for guest account is not working anymore.

    You can still use your twitter account token for nitter but it will get banned immediately ​:ded:​

    Source : https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1913362376

    #x

    cc : @technology

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    Now witness the power of this fully open-source social media platform!

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    Meta could in theory do this

    Meta can do this only because it owns all the 3 companies. No private entity would want to exchange user-data with others.

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    I was checking up on this topic. Turns out that 2D printing is harder than 3D printing. Getting the ink to properly settle on the paper and the nozzle are the hardest tasks.

    Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.” (www.ajc.com)

    Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.”::An expert witness for plaintiffs seeking to bar Georgia's touchscreen voting machines showed a crowded courtroom how he could tamper with election res

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    Electronic voting for deciding a conference/meeting venue is fine, but anything involving governance over a large body of people is a strict no-no.

    Reason: if other nation states are interested in tampering with the election, they can easily do it with the amount of resources they have. Paper vote is a distributed system which is very hard to tamper AT SCALE.

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    When I was your age, I was already 15

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    Oof!

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    • The browser
    • Electron apps
    • Prefetching
    • AI shit/telemetry

    Other than a browser, I had none of these on my Linux machine and I could comfortably run on 4GB of RAM

    Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term (fortune.com)

    Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

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    If you do, you’re in for a world of hurt as hallucinations and training issues will almost certainly give you some headaches

    I think the next wave of work will be a huge bunch of mechanical turks to fight against hallucinations. These jobs will barely pay above minimum wage and you will be instructed to either tag data or generate new "pure human sourced" data.

    Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists (arstechnica.com)

    Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists::Customers may "misunderstand the consequences of canceling," cable lobby says.

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    Consequences?

    Is the button an unsubscribe button or a button for a guillotine?

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    I am in this post and I don't like it

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    Just adding to your point, when F1 drivers were asked to play a racing sim, they could not perform like real life because they said no matter how good the sim is, it doesn't provide the feedback of a real car.

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    When you have read the walkthrough

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