WolfeReader

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by WolfeReader 4mo ago
I agree with your overall opinion, but not sure why you had to bring LLMs into a topic that has nothing to do with them.
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by WolfeReader 4mo ago
"It’s not realistic for a corporation, even a multinational titan with a large staff, to track down and compensate even the living authors" Then they shouldn't use those materials to train their LLMs.
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by WolfeReader 4mo ago
LLM corporations should be paying authors to read their books and benefit from them. Instead, Anna wants the corporations to send money to Anna ? It's hard not to read this as giant offense to the authors. I didn't think anything
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by WolfeReader 4mo ago
How about you buy some books from actual authors who actually wrote them?
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by WolfeReader 4mo ago
"This" being the post on Anna's Archive. It basically says, "Don't pay the authors for their work. Please pay US for their work."
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by WolfeReader 4mo ago
Vivaldi has been doing exactly this for years now
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by WolfeReader 4mo ago
"If you only use Apple devices, it’s really solid." It's not a good idea to become dependent on a single corporation's products.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
That's not a good reason to avoid using ad blockers.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Unlike a lot of communities, yours at least started on the correct side. Better to ban outright, than to slowly realize that you should have banned it.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
He's stating a fact. Turn on showed in your options and scroll to the bottom of the comments on any popular story. There are so many agentic users here.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
It was on a work computer, and my next job was a lot less permissive about letting us run our own OS. My personal computer is too gaming-focused to be a good candidate for Qubes.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Stories can't be downvoted.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
This makes me miss running Qubes a few years ago, and keeping BitWarden in a separate VM from everything else. I've never felt as secure as when I had that setup.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Browser-based password management serves the purpose of locking users into a specific browser; I'd much rather have the freedom to switch browsers at will without the cognitive tax of securely moving all my creds every time I want to
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Bitwarden has taken investor money, sadly. It's still in good shape for the moment. But the time will come when they place profits above other needs; it's a matter of when, not if.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Please use a dedicated password manager, instead of a browser-based one. KeePass is likely the best going forward.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
"I thought about using fossil many times but it seems codex and claude have deeper integration with git." Don't let "agentic" "coding" be the reason to avoid fossil. Fossil and other VCS are much easier fo
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Yes, things that are not LLMs continue to be useful and interesting even though LLMs exist. I hate what AI hype is doing to peoples' brains here.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
I was a loyal magit user for a decade. Now I use jujutsu from the command line. It's actually really nice.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
I have to use Windows for work. With WSL, it's actually perfectly fine! Which is really more of an endorsement of Linux than Windows.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Git is noticeably slow on Windows. Git is built to run on top of Unix commands, which work great on Linux and Mac. For Windows, the commands have to be installed separately, and there's a performance penalty for each call. Individual G
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
I've had two Pocketbooks and never encountered these issues. Sounds like you had some bad luck.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
Kobo works with Libby if you use Adobe Digital Editions as an intermediary. From the Libby web page, you have an option to download the ASCM. Load that onto ADE, and you have the book. Then plug in your Kobo and transfer the book. It even r
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
I truly hope you're buying books as well - authors (and editors, illustrators, translators, etc) should be rewarded for their art.
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by WolfeReader 5mo ago
The Kindle scene is a disaster that shows the dangers of prioritizing DRM. Meanwhile, I'm buying DRM-free books and keeping them in Calibre and reading on KOReader. It's a great experience.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Mercurial has a more consistent CLI, a really good default GUI (TortoiseHg), and the ability to remember what branch a commit was made on. It's a much easier tool to teach to new developers.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Everything you said after "with paper" applies to ebooks, provided you get them without DRM. Your objections are to DRM, not to ebooks in general.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
First, let me step on my own foot for the sake of accuracy: people retain information slightly better when they read paper than screens, so textbooks definitely aren't an example I'd go with. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.go
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Cherry picking is just convenience for something that anyone could do manually. If it didn't exist in the VCS, people would do it anyway and make tools to do it. Fossil's implementation is the best, since a cherry-picked commit al
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Speaking as a former Darcs user (Darcs is another patch-based VCS that Pijul draws inspiration from): "This is a useless property because the graph is only encoded at the patch layer. In the real world you have far more semantic depend

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