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by gradientsrneat 7mo ago
A Google partner is selling 3000 USB sticks with Linux distribution (ChromeOS) installers? Honestly that's not a lot. It probably won't make a dent in either ChromeOS or Linux without considerable marketing effort and the right us
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by gradientsrneat 7mo ago
A middle ground would be to implement E2EE but have messages signed (and ideally organized in a Merkel tree), so that if a DM is reported there's cryptographic proof that the accounts sent the messages.
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by gradientsrneat 7mo ago
Make sure you don't have add-ons like this enabled on any webpage you plan on inputting text, as depending on how the text input is implemented, you may have your words swapped without realizing it. But if those substitutions are appea
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by gradientsrneat 7mo ago
> (g) This title does not impose liability on an operating system provider, a covered application store, or a developer that arises from the use of a device or application by a person who is not the user to whom a signal pertains. So, th
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by gradientsrneat 7mo ago
Notch already sold Minecraft to Microsoft before 1.7.10 was released.
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by gradientsrneat 8mo ago
That was a CCP group compromising the Notepad++'s underlying hosting provider; not really much to be done there aside from switching hosting providers. The update validation was also improved, and there's also scoop if you don&#x2
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by gradientsrneat 8mo ago
I wonder to what extent these articles weren't written by principled tech freedom advocates and are just ads, because they can't seem to go more than a few paragraphs without mentioning the AI buzzword. It doesn't matter if t
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by gradientsrneat 8mo ago
Given the timing, it's unlikely this generation of Intel integrated graphics makes use of Nvidia RTX chips. So, the gain on integrated graphics this generation seems impressive, given that graphics isn't Intel's strong suit.
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by gradientsrneat 8mo ago
There is US precedence for this, for example IBM. They didn't have cheap genetic testing back then, but they made do with the technology they had.
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by gradientsrneat 9mo ago
I've seen ultra-processed food mentioned in other countries as well. It's a buzzword with no meaning. Pasteurization saves lives. Flash-frozen foods retain more nutrition in transit, while freezing seafood kills parasites. And eve
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by gradientsrneat 9mo ago
Mars does have an atmosphere. It's much less dense than Earth's, but its enough to have weather. Pretty good joke though.
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by gradientsrneat 9mo ago
They still aren't honest about the fact that the official VSCode distribution isn't fully open source because, for example: you can't have VSCodium connect to the official plugin repository. It also isn't the only editor
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by gradientsrneat 9mo ago
I know this is missing the point (qubits vs bits), but still I find it amusing that today's mass-produced computers are called "classical" even though transistor behavior is dependent on quantum tunneling of electrons.
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by gradientsrneat 9mo ago
"poetic justice" is the same mentality as people writing articles glorifying rich Chinese criminals for using South America's drug trade for money laundering because something something Opium War. In either case, it's no
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
Remember when the word, "zine" used to have the connotation of a hobbyist project, because most people couldn't afford/justify the cost of printing full-sized magazines at scale? Rather than a tool of mass-distributed pr
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
Is there a way to permalink to a specific microblog post?
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
In the United States specifically, deaths from violent crime have mostly been trending down over the past few decades, with the exception of a year or so.
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
W stands for Watts, which means Joules per second. The energy usage of the human body is measured in kilocalories, aka Calories. Combustion of gasoline can be approximated by conversion of its chemicals into water and carbon dioxide. You ca
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
Why should Codeberg be held to a higher standard than GitHub?
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
For those that don't get the reference, this is referring to the "Universal Paperclips" clicker game (inspired by Cookie Clicker) where you try to make as many paperclips as possible.
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
iirc Steam also removed a Hong Kong game at the behest of the CCP. Which sucks. But as far as game companies go, there are worse.
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
Way too many social media CEOs claim that if they just force their users to dox themselves, that it will somehow prevent all the toxic engagement. You need look no further than Facebook to see where it goes. Not only does the toxicity not g
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
"I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone" has got to be the most Millenial excuse I've heard to date.
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
IME Lemmy is more predominantly far left although a very small userbase. Mastodon has islands of different culture on both the left and the right that don't interact much save a few of the largest instances. Some of the medium-sized on
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by gradientsrneat 10mo ago
My low-information answer is that I'd suggest trying both and make heavy use of the keyword muting feature.
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by gradientsrneat 11mo ago
See also: Maslow's hierarchy of needs
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by gradientsrneat 11mo ago
Yea and the use of the phrase "severe repression" in the article is arguably a bad faith euphemism given that millions of Muslims have been detained by China while women were forcibly sterilized, which is genocide by the United Na
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by gradientsrneat 11mo ago
I will add, the news websites didn't start paywalling just because of LLM scrapers. They started doing it after certain parts of the GDPR passed, because they could no longer sustain themselves as much from targeted advertising and dat
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by gradientsrneat 11mo ago
After reading about what Rupert Murdoch did in Australia to try to claw money from search engines for simply indexing pages from news websites, I do understand that it's possible to go too far in favor of the "news" organizat
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by gradientsrneat 11mo ago
The cynic in me says it will make no difference, because Tencent, Tim Sweenie, and the rest of the Epic Games stockholders care about money; not software freedom.

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