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by fao_ 11mo ago
Sure, but they're conflating interior thoughts and experiences with exterior words and actions, which is partly the point of the piece.
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by fao_ 11mo ago
Conversations has an issue where the main tool for reading a backup on a computer (ceb2txt (so, say, I can properly and correctly archive a text dump archive of a person I loved who died)), will not work for me. I filed a support request an
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by fao_ 11mo ago
Yeah I was about to say the same thing! I leave my steam deck plugged in all the time (it is my main computer) and the battery still popped (valve replaced it for free ofc)
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by fao_ 11mo ago
Part of this is driven by necessity, for example, cellular network chips are typically binary blobs, etc. as mentioned, the heart rate sensor is a binary blob and that's likely because there are no good OSS solutions for those componen
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by fao_ 11mo ago
> If you fail, figure out what you did wrong, and improve, that's competition. I very much disagree, it's a collaboration between yourself now, yourself in the past, and yourself in the future. You aren't competing with yo
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by fao_ 11mo ago
You do not have to compete with yourself, or anyone, to get better. Getting better comes from collaborating : - Being attentive to your practice (i.e. recording, going over your work, etc.) - Asking, and taking the advice of other peop
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by fao_ 11mo ago
> How else can you get 20+ years to slowly build a software business? It used to be normal to build a business slowly over 20 years. Now everyone grabs for the venture capital, grows so fast they almost burst, and the venture capital ine
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by fao_ 11mo ago
As yet, Valve is the only company I know of doing this, and it's paying off in dividends both for Linux and for Valve. In just 5ish years of Valve investing people and money into Linux- specifically mesa and WINE, Linux has gone from a
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by fao_ 11mo ago
I've met people like them in the office. My first job, people were deadnaming Chelsea Manning in the internal chat. One time I got stuck in a lift with two other people and they assumed I was a guy, and started talking about which of t
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by fao_ 1y ago
How do I opt out of this tool? I do not want anyone reviewing my code or projects to use or engage with it and it is explicitly against the TOS of those projects. It would be nice if this tool screened for a robots.txt or something of the s
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by fao_ 1y ago
How often do you open up your device to check for bombs? I don't think the point is that it's not difficult to screen for, the point is that most people will not think to or do not have the means, the time, the knowledge, or the w
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by fao_ 1y ago
> When challenged on the extent of this intelligence collection, Cohen stated with absolute certainty that he alone knew the scale of the operation: "You know how many equipment I mean treated equipment that we have in these countri
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by fao_ 1y ago
Mentally rename the "further reading" to "citations", then?
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by fao_ 1y ago
> Has the situation changed on AI code legally speaking? lol, l m a o, essentially people who use LLMs have been betting that courts will rule on their favour, because shit would hit the fan if it didn't. The courts however, have co
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by fao_ 1y ago
well, it'll work until late 2026 at least :/
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by fao_ 1y ago
The burden of proof is on people stating that an AI has a theory of mind, not on the reverse. Until recently it was highly debated on if dogs have theory of mind, and it took decades of evidence to come to the conclusion that yes, they do.
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by fao_ 1y ago
Of course it's difficult for Linux to support devices when a) the OEMs have contracts with Microsoft, b) the OEMs are writing drivers for windows, and c) Linux developers have to reverse-engineer said drivers to provide a modicum of su
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by fao_ 1y ago
Ubuntu used to be "hot shit", but I don't think I'd recommend it for any reason these days, especially since it doesn't support Flatpaks. Pop_OS!, Fedora, etc. are all better and much more stable, and I can&#x27
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by fao_ 1y ago
> There is no comparison. Linux suffers from "not my department" syndrome. If some component in the stack borks the install you are in hell trying to fix it and risk breaking something else. > > Windows for all its fault
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by fao_ 1y ago
Probably not 2026, but sure, by 2030. A fair chunk of the younger generation do give a shit about privacy (see also: torrenting on the rise again), Linux is mostly unattended with respect to configuring things these days, and things like &q
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by fao_ 1y ago
All the lamentations of having to tinker with Linux to get it to work properly are rapidly approaching a nuclear level irony bomb...
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by fao_ 1y ago
maybe the person you're responding to used chatgpt to extract a section of text to be critical of it? lol
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by fao_ 1y ago
Google's been doing this since at least 2022 and... well, nobody really cares.
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by fao_ 1y ago
No, what is absurd is everyone having their data tracked and sold, including minors.
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by fao_ 1y ago
It's very easy to forget to challenge your assumptions, and one of those assumptions is "more data = always good"
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by fao_ 1y ago
As per the wiki article someone else listed — the compose key was available on keyboards back in the 1980s (notably it was invented only 5 years after the Space Cadet keyboard was invented!). Some DOS applications did have support for it.
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by fao_ 1y ago
Whoops, yep that's the one
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by fao_ 1y ago
On Linux I just type (in sequence): compose - - and it makes an em dash, it takes a quarter of a second longer to produce this. I don't know why the compose key isn't used more often.
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by fao_ 1y ago
For Android I use Seal ( https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/ and https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal ), which is absolutely wonderful and has just the right amount of resolution of t
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by fao_ 1y ago
I'll give this comment more or less exactly the level of seriousness as it deserves, and say: lol

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