PontifexMinimus

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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
How hard would it be to have a colour screen?
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
Copying one person is plagarism. Copying lots of people is research.
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
> And I hate Electron I'm not a fan of it either. When I say have a web UI, I don't mean electron, I mean the program runs as a web server on some port your local machine and you point you web browser at it. I don't think
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
> Not being able to work offline at all seems like somewhat of an issue. I agree. If it's intended to be a web-based system, why not have it running as a webserver on your local machine? Also, the intention is to have a GUI, or rath
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
You can buy mobility scooters for under £2000. e.g. https://www.mobilitypower.co.uk/product/fastest/ $65k is an obvious rip-off. > Medicare is likely what is requiring a regulation grade wheel chair, not the u
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
Especially when any fine will be merely a rap on the knuckles. From the article: > the company raked in nearly $8.7 billion in sales last year.
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
WTF is a "Multi-modality Vision Language Model"? Does it mean: - a program where you give it a text description, and it outputs a picture - a program where you give it a picture, and it outputs a text description - both of the abo
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
> They are marking some of their own lawfully obtained stamps as counterfeit and by dint of doing so stealing from their citizenry This is called "fraud" and in any properly-run country people would be doing long prison sentenc
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
Incidently, the last Caesar (the Czar of Bulgaria until 1946) is still alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
Reader mode also works for me. (Firefox 122.0 for Ubuntu)
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
> the UN [...] has not accomplished anything meaningful in terms of enforcing actual norms of behavior That's because the UN isn't an actor in its own right, it is merely a forum through which countries can co-operate if they w
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
Archived: https://archive.ph/lTc0o
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
Changing what is taught in business schools will make little difference. You have to change what incentives operate on people.
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
> And is the UK really a "starving population"? Come on. I think it is fair to say there is more food insecurity now than 14 years ago. Five year olds in Britain today are shorter than they were in 2010, amnd shorter than in ot
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
> hard to shoplift when all the shops are shut Food shops weren't shut in the UK during the pandemic. Non-food shops were only shut for a small amount of time, about 1 month or so (from memory).
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
Archived at: https://archive.ph/uVWf4
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
My favourite feature of Firefox is multi-account containers -- great if you have multiple online identities.
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
This reminds me of about 10-12 years ago when a Republican staffer suggested that party's platform should include legalising file sharing, on the grounds that the RIAA and MPAA align Democrat so there's no point in the Republicans
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
Even if NI leaves, it'd be the United Kingdom of England and Wales. If Wales leaves, the United Kingdom of England?
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
This presumes that the EU (1) Understands what this is about (2) cares about its citizens' freedom (3) has enough coherence to actually do something about it It's not obvious to me that any of these apply. The EU is pushing -- in
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
No, but all EU states could use it and other Fediverse-enabled software, and mandate that all big social networks be interoperable.
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
The EU is, glacially slowly, getting round to the position that they need to be in control of their own computing and communications infrastructure.
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
> But why on earth would our institutions be on something they don’t control? I imagine is because they think their message will reach more people on Twitter/Facebook/Tiktok than on Mastodon. The fix for this would be for the E
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
Substack is less garbage than Wordpress (which I stopped using a few years ago when they brought in their new editor).
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by PontifexMinimus 3y ago
> You can always get a dish and connect to your choice of orbital provider, if your ISP - which is regulated - is blocked. The problem is, guys with guns will come to your door, beat you with a wrench, and put you in jail. They have to c
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by PontifexMinimus 4y ago
Indeed. If someone's problem is lack of money, money will fix that problem.
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by PontifexMinimus 4y ago
> I was a very happy KDE user during the 3.3 to 3.5 days [...] So I made the plunge to Xfce, and didn't look back for more than a decade. My experience too. I liked KDE 3.5 so of course the devs had to fuck it up by chasing whatever
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by PontifexMinimus 4y ago
This description gives me a new perspective on software development and I recommend it.
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by PontifexMinimus 4y ago
Agreed. Whether there is rent control, the local authority should be obliged to offer to let houses at the controlled rent to people wanting them, building new houses if necessary.
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by PontifexMinimus 4y ago
Partly that.

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