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by RunSet 5d ago
You are incorrect. Chrome was widely bundled with third party installers for much of its history. https://www.osnews.com/story/25184/adobe-tricks-users-into-d... https://www.labnol.org/software&#x
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by RunSet 5d ago
> What exactly is missing from macOS that makes you feel the need for Linux? For starters, the source code.
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by RunSet 5d ago
https://www.LokiList.com is more in the spirit of Craigslist casual encounters but it might also be used to plan strictly platonic group activities.
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by RunSet 7d ago
Chrome attained its user base not by merit but by paying third party Windows installers to bundle it.
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by RunSet 8d ago
> Social constructs are bought and paid for by the wealthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
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by RunSet 10d ago
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter" - Sam Altman[0] "Can you define intelligence?" "Yes, it is this many moneys." [0] https:/&#
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by RunSet 10d ago
Why is there still demand for Chinese student visas at universities in the USA?
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by RunSet 10d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qdvm6h8WKg
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by RunSet 12d ago
In practice "web optimized" is a soft copyright control where the image is read-only to the extent the only readily available software that can open it is a web browser.
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by RunSet 12d ago
> 100% e2ee encrypted and decentralized and open https://getsession.org https://docs.getsession.org/contribute-to-the-session-networ...
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by RunSet 13d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20081003111457/http://www.linuxg...
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by RunSet 13d ago
I understand why people value the code John Carmack has released but I do not understand why people value his public statements. "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id"[0] &q
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by RunSet 17d ago
That training data does not preserve provenance seems a "smoking gun" in terms of intent to plagiarize.
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by RunSet 18d ago
Semi-related. I wonder why Mac OS does not provide any setting to keep the laptop running with the screen closed. You either need to use third party software or connect a dummy HDMI dongle. Both of which cost additional money for a function
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by RunSet 23d ago
> In traffic, energy used over a specific period of time (power) translates into speed. In this case, the critical quantum will appear as a speed limit. Wherever this limit has been passed, the basic pattern of social degradation by high
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by RunSet 25d ago
> Let. People. Enjoy. Things. Except silence, which is so unnatural that it should be disrupted and criticism of its disruption should be silenced.
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by RunSet 25d ago
I understand why people value the code John Carmack has released but I do not understand why people value his public statements. "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id"[0] &q
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by RunSet 25d ago
Paint.net was originally MIT licensed but the author closed its source because people did not give him credit. Note: The MIT license does not require credit. https://blog.paint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-
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by RunSet 25d ago
Should add a full page click through slop warning to each page on the site. Also give credit to the LLM that made it in the "Brought to you by" section at the bottom.
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by RunSet 28d ago
> EasyEffects does take up a tiny fraction of CPU power (I’m talking 0.1-0.2% according to KDE’s System Monitor), but I have never seen it have any noticeable performance impact on anything. 0.2% of WHAT?
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by RunSet 28d ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low%20cunning
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by RunSet 28d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20060117081147/http://www.blockl...
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by RunSet 1mo ago
Also a bit frustrating that wiimotes work on Windows, Linux and Intel Macs but not on Apple Silicon, apparently due to its half-baked bluetooth stack. https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/12662
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by RunSet 1mo ago
> Maybe an analogy could be about using metal detectors as a layer to reduce bank robberies. A more apt analogy might be game developers who demand admin rights so they can install a rootkit to detect "cheating".
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by RunSet 1mo ago
At least as likely LLMs will be used to create more labyrinthine paperwork to stymie attempts at getting government to serve the taxpayer.
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by RunSet 1mo ago
I will believe that "AI will do all the work" when private prisons stop contracting inmates to do slave labor and employers stop hiring undocumented migrant workers.
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by RunSet 1mo ago
"What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...
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by RunSet 1mo ago
"Meta denies wrongdoing in settling claims" It is like contending with that monstrous child from the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life". It's good what you did to those children, Mark. And it's a g
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by RunSet 1mo ago
> I can imagine this being cleverly integrated as a primary feature of a game (this must already be in the works). Ideally as a small model able to run locally alongside the game. https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/CUJO
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by RunSet 1mo ago
> In civil forfeiture, assets are seized by police based on a suspicion of wrongdoing, and without having to charge a person with specific wrongdoing, with the case being between police and the thing itself, sometimes referred to by the

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