JohnFen

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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Huh? I'm not seeing it...
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Does that include institutional users? My employer pays for copilot on all of our systems, but the actual usage rate is very near zero. I know because management regularly shares the usage stats and complains about nobody using it.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> He said the company's tech ensures that the "state and its agents can see only what ought to be seen, and functional audit logs, to ensnare both external and internal threats". He needs to prove it, because this statemen
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> I have not the foggiest clue how it is used - but I cherish it. It's easier and more straightforward than you might expect. I encourage you to learn to use his slide rule, in large part because you might find it fun, but also to h
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Not in a few years, but now that you've reminded me, I should pick the habit back up.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I agree, Wayland is a much larger problem.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I hope that's true, and remains true. I mean, this is not exactly the most important issue in the world. I love KDE and hope it remains usable to me, but if things keep going as a fear, there are other DEs that I can live with.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
For now, but the writing on the wall seems clear. > The focus of the KDE team is clear, as stated in the referenced Reddit thread, where a KDE developer replies that the goal is to rely on systemd for more tasks in the future. This means
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
KDE's decision to move toward only supporting systemD systems is a real loss and saddens me. KDE has been my favorite DE for years. I guess all good things come to an end, though.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> What do you think of this idea? I think it eliminates the whole purpose and value of the voting.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Authoritarians have a very strong tendency toward insecurity and weakness. Being cruel and violent, plastering their name on everything, putting their picture up everywhere, and building ridiculous monuments to themselves are all pathologic
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
As if the DHS cares about your ID.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Users don’t delete immediately. They mute notifications first. Almost all app notifications are worthless noise. Unless I know I need notifications from an app (which is rare), I mute notifications on install. If I've forgotten, t
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> To get an idea maybe you could throw about a pound of rotten orange peels onto hot barbecue coals, add some used cigarette filters, and stand downwind :( Oh, I think I have a clue. In the course of my life so far, I have lived near a s
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
When I was a kid, orange juice from concentrate was a regular part of my life. As an adult, now that I think of it, I can't remember the last time I drank orange juice at all.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I hadn't really thought of this aspect, but now that he pointed it out, this is a thing I greatly value in older cars as well. In all probability, I'll never own a modern car again, mostly because I object to machines I own phonin
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> There's still an abacus school (I'm in the US) I remember being taught how to use an abacus when I was in grade school. Not kidding. I'm not so old that they were used anywhere in real life. I believe the whole point was
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Yes, I do. At my workbench, I find them much faster and more convenient than using my phone or a computer.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Gotcha. I don't play multiplayer games or want the other features that people here have mentioned, so my current understanding is that it's safe for me to ignore the Galaxy application.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Ah, thank you very much!
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I'm genuinely confused about all this. Can someone help me out? I've been buying and playing games from GOG on Linux for a very long time with no need for GOG Galaxy -- which is a thing I know nothing about. Since this announcemen
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Technically speaking, every food that exists will kill you if you eat enough of it.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I don't do this to force me to take breaks, but it does that as a side-effect. I am constantly drinking plain water while I'm working, which makes me get up to relieve myself every couple of hours.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> The distinction some people are making is between copy/pasting text vs agentic action. I think there is no distinction between the two for liability purposes.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
They teach me to distrust literally everything that comes from the executive branch.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Where do you think the line should be drawn between AI assistance and human judgment? I 100% don't want genAI to be making any medical decisions, nor do I want a doctor who just accepts what genAI says as reliable fact. But for me
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I honestly don't think that Microsoft even knows what a good "overall experience of Windows" consists of. That's the charitable take. The uncharitable take is that revenue generation will trump user experience every day
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> AFAIK this is not illegal, just annoying. This is illegal in my state. > What's HNers feelings on this. My feeling is that the operator of the fleet is responsible for what the cars in the fleet do. If a Waymo car is violating
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> “The AI hallucinated. I never asked it to do that.” > That’s the defense. And here’s the problem: it’s often hard to refute with confidence. Why is it necessary to refute it at all? It shouldn't matter, because whoever is produ
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> On a side note, every dev should be forced to code on average consumer computers. This is important, but only if they're developing consumer software.

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