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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> If you know better just hack it your way. Linux is an open platform. The GP already knows about FOSS. He uses OpenBSD and Guix and in his own words this is his "small, happy place". Guix in particular is an excellent example
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
For all its problems, WSL is the single greatest power feature that Windows has ever had. Debian itself is a superpower.
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> I can use Linux but I have decades of Windows muscle memory and I do a bunch of DirectX programming. I see a likely inversion of motives here: you earn your living coding or otherwise are deeply vested in Windows, so you are committed
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
The objections seem clear: tight-coupling of prompts to models, and model neutrality in the TOU. From https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213 : "A personal example: I created a system
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Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)(aruljohn.com)
154 points by heresie-dabord 6mo ago|104 comments
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> what's going to happen when companies figure out how to inject ads into ... everything and everywhere eyes are looking? In this sense, it has been adversarial from the start.
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
If it helps: https://radicle.dev/ There is no an explanation of what Radicle is/does in the announcement.
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
I've had a similar notion that Time () is a necessary test function. Maybe it's because of the limitations of human cognition. (We have biases and blind-spots and human intelligence itself is erratic.) I find it's helpful to
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> "a broken clock is right twice a day" and homo sapiens, glancing at the clock when it happens to be right , may conjure an entire zodiac to explain it.
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
From TFA: > The browser now ships adblock-rust, Brave's open source Rust-based ad and tracker blocking engine. It makes sense that Mozilla would test this. The amount of Rust code in Firefox is already at 12%. https://4e6
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their... tolerance for abuse .
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> these "laws" contain so many internal contradictions Also notice how many of the so-called _software laws_ are actually statements about human behaviour and people-problems . Confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Sunk-Co
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> advertising is how folks make money on the web, the surveillance state will persist. It is more pernicious. Those in the state who want to surveil will enlist those who want the obscene revenue from pervasive advertising. Working toget
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> arm desktop are still not a thing The desktop market is not the only product space anymore. Apple has had brilliant success with its ARM processors, proving that ARM is more than capable. Before Apple's switch, Chromebooks had bee
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52eaHKtX0ks
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Artemis II returns to Earth, splashdown in four hours(cbc.ca)
36 points by heresie-dabord 6mo ago|6 comments
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
Excellent point. Suddenly Corporatron finds it easy to censor content in its product. But why must we limit ourselves to simplistic, false dichotomies such as "Good vs Evil", "Education vs Ignorance", "Community Wel
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> Somehow that just doesn't land the same. I fear that a modern colloquial rendering would disappoint yet further: our besties tune
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> has a huge network of family in Tehran. This isn’t some abstract thing to her. If the huge network of family in Tehran is clamouring to be bombed, I will concede your point, Sir.
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
For this command in particular, one can add a cheap bar chart with awk: git log --format='%ad' --date=format:'%Y-%m' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{printf $2" "; for (i=1;i<=$1;i++){printf "-";} pri
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> censorship [...] that prevent people from hearing all perspectives A casual conversation is not to be held to the rigour of legal or legislative opinion. But perspectives , like other sorts of opinions , are not all equal in value. S
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> then we all have lost. Yes, we have lost sound leadership and stability. Pakistan has brokered the cease-fire in a war started by the US for no good reason. The current US administration was supposed to be non-interventionist. It is ha
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Artemis II astronauts officially set record for human's distance from Earth(scientificamerican.com)
12 points by heresie-dabord 7mo ago|0 comments
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
Gnumeric, since 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnumeric
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
"Come now, don't exaggerate," said numerous apologists. "How bad can a bad person possibly be?" It would seem that a bad person, elected to the highest office, surrounded by equally corrupt appointees, can do harm o
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> barriers to producing documentation--should be minimized. Writing well is difficult enough! Writing is a demanding kind of encoding. At the same time, we all expect but rarely get good, accessible, searchable documentation. Why? The
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
Because without the network effect of adequate education, scientific understanding doesn't scale. What does scale, unfortunately, is arrant nonsense.
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> The rich got rich exactly by contributing to society and humanity. Pardon me, but this seems to be a local optima trap too.
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> The idea that rich people have something to say What is (or used to be?) implicit is that a person who has the means to be free of subsistence activities will/should take the time to *acquire a quality education and make an even
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
In one interview, Mush called it the "empathy exploit". This is the kind of person who would benefit from being raised and humanised in a village where people co-operate. Because then, as countless others have discovered, bluster

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