pmontra

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   by pmontra 4y ago

   I have a laptop with both a trackpoint and a touchpad with physical buttons. I bought it specifically for those buttons, but that's another story. I never use a mouse except once every few years, if I have to try some game. Move and cl
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   I thought that everybody knows how the CPU and the kernel manage memory. Everything else follows. However as a very good developer told me once, "I don't know how networking works, only that I have to type a URL." "How i
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   I think that better philosophers than us debated this question for thousands or years but I'll give my take. Suppose that creativity means to find a particular place in the n-dimensional space of all possible ideas. Artists find some i
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   Interesting. It inspired me to make Chat GPT simulate a honeypot on a Linux server. I don't have access to GPT4 yet so I used 3.5 (turbo?). It went fairly well: https://ilconnettivo.wordpress.com/2023/04/05&#x
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   When I was not self-employed my company forced us to use an external monitor, keyboard, mouse and a chair with armrests, because of regulations. I bet those regulations are there for a good reason but after 16 years of self-employed working
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   After years of use wheels wear much stronger materials than wood. When I moved furniture I could immediately notice where I've been sitting for years. I got a Kolon now. Easier than changing wheels.
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   They kind of have it at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ "Kind of" because it seems to be unsupported but I see links to binaries and docker images on that page.
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   It seems that there is no hard limit with ext4. It depends by inode size, disk size, etc. I searched a little and I didn't get any deeper than that. Anyway, df -i reports this about my 2 TB SSD Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mou
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   by pmontra 4y ago

   Furthermore I don't see any fundamental difference between the two cases. In the second case it has access to a larger set of information with the correct data so it finds the correct answer. It can be still parroting, we could have be
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    > India has begun programmes in every front to dispose of Russian military tech I've been wondering about that. I imagined that countries buying weapons from Russia would be worried and considering to pivot to another seller. Maybe
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    To be fair, except developers that have to write HTML generating web apps most people rent some CMS or use one for free (WP or static ones) and don't have to know HTML, even people that were paid to write HTML in the 90s. And about Pos
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    Edit: power unit is actually power supply.
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    We are both wrong, you less than me. The correct term is power supply. A power unit is the hybrid engine of Formula 1 cars :-)
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    It either works or it doesn't. Workarounds are usually permanent. Example: I booted a friend's Thinkpad t440p with an Ubuntu 22.04 pen drive to check that she was OK with it and that there were no issues. All went well (screen, to
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    They are spoken with an Italian accent that fits into the Italian sentence they are used in. I think this is common to all languages, they import foreign words and adapt them at least to the accent of the language. I don't think that t
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    Power unit is alimentatore. All words in my second list are translated in Italian with the words you provided. Yes, database is base di dati but it's seldom used as such. Calcolatore is the calculator app nowadays :-)
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    It would feel weird to Italians too. Made in Italy is a sentence that has a long history and is widely used. Fatto in Italia would be laughed at. Then, if it becomes a law, it will be fatto in Italia. I bet against it.
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    Thinking about a standard computer, accessories and concepts, there are no common Italian words for computer, mouse, touchpad, touchscreen, scanner, web, link, app, database, word processor, bit, byte and the defunct floppy disk. Everything
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    The most important point seems to be "the absence of a legal basis justifying the massive collection and retention of personal data, for the purpose of "training" the algorithms" IMHO that would block every LLM.
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    From the site of the Italian Privacy Authority, in Italian Press release https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d... Order https://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest
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    Italy data protection agency opens ChatGPT probe on privacy concerns(reuters.com)

    12 points by pmontra 4y ago|2 comments
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    This is basically what I was doing in the 80s and 90s, downloading compressed tarballs from ftp sites and compiling them. It takes quite a longer developer time than the package manager approach. That includes the time to learn which sites
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    WiFi is working for me even if I mostly use the Ethernet card. lshw tells me description: Wireless interface product: Centrino Advanced-N 6235 vendor: Intel Corporation I'm using the iwlwifi driver.
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    If and when lab grown meat will be a thing for the masses, Italy will follow suit because "Italy would not be able to oppose the sale of synthetic meat produced within the EU when it does gain EU approval, because of the free movement
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    I moved to Debian 11 and recreated exactly the same quite customized GNOME desktop I had on Ubuntu 20.04. Nothing is missing except snaps.
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    Any idea why with xOrg keyboard and pointer are "laggy and unresponsive"? That's never been my experience, unless some program is stealing CPU cycles. Of course I never used one of these new laptops and CPUs.
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    I'm siding with you. I add that maybe the new keyboard costs a little less than the old one and that's all some managers need to decide between two options.
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    See also the ChatGPT Retrieval Plugin by OpenAI at https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    Vanilla Vim and Emacs are pretty small by today standards. They can run everywhere. Emacs was born text only, BTW. If you start turning on language servers, that becomes the larger part of the editor and the actual editor is just a small fr
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    by pmontra 4y ago

    By the way, is this a possible vector of remote code execution? Probably yes, by definition, but how could somebody exploit it to do some harm to the user of that Blender instance?