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by spudlyo 2y ago
The main problem I had with living in a Gnome desktop environment, is with the keyboard. I'm not willing to abandon my use of Emacs control+meta sequences for cursor and editing movements everywhere in the GUI. On macOS, this works bec
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by spudlyo 2y ago
> I suspect Linux is going to go in a broadly similar direction. Linux is pretty diverse, there are still distributions out there that haven't adopted systemd.
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> being responsive to an increasingly sophisticated adversary "Those who refuse to give up essential Liberty to purchase temporary Safety deserve to have to deal with the GNOME desktop user experience." I miss macOS sometimes.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I'm done with macOS, I've migrated to Linux for my general purpose computing. With every new release of macOS, Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass, increasing Apple's control over what software can be run on ma
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Here I am trying to talk about society's shifting attitude towards fantasy role playing games, and here you are disagreeing strongly, bringing the conversation around to your hobby horse topic centered on your animus towards Wizards of
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The future has turned out to be even weirder that I could have imagined as a D&D obsessed 80s kid. I remember trying to explain to my father the benefits of role playing, engaging your creativity in world building, and that kids and adu
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Segfaulting atop and another trip down the rabbit hole (2014)(rachelbythebay.com)
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by spudlyo 2y ago
At a previous gig, atop was running fleet-wide (> 1k servers) as sort of a resource monitoring tool of last resort, in a similar way as is described in this article[0]. I left a few years ago, but if memory serves, this thing was baked i
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by spudlyo 2y ago
He's quite a character! I found a great video[0] of him speaking for over an hour to a classroom filled with former students. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLcWl_NCMY
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by spudlyo 2y ago
If you find this article fascinating, and are intrigued by the possibility of learning to speak a dead language like Latin, I'm here to tell you that it's probably a lot easier than you think. To start off, there is a textbook tha
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Speaking broadly, the publishers who hold the copyrights on these materials have often behaved poorly. From overbroad DMCA takedown demands that chill fair use, to threatening libraries, students, and scholars with lawsuits and stiff penalt
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by spudlyo 2y ago
> However this will absolutely be poisoned over time because marketing will always creep in until it dominates the HTTP source. I often remind myself that we are in the golden age of LLMs, like the pre-enshitification days when Google wo
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Considering how many as many CPU cycles and iops that Spotlight robs from you on a regular basis, you might as well get some use out of it.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Anything done to strengthen fair use is in my opinion a positive outcome. Happy to see copyright holders go toe-to-toe against a bully their own size. If both OpenAI and entrenched IP interests get bloodi
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by spudlyo 2y ago
His ability to speak out of both sides of his mouth is why no one trusts him, and why I find it so uncomfortable to agree with anything he says.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Granted, Readium LCP[0] may be one of the less odious DRM solutions out there for eBook contents, however it's still DRM. Handcuffs are still handcuffs regardless of how comfortably they fit. DRM is in my view is too often used as a cu
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I also switched from Firefox to LibreWolf, both on Linux and on macOS. I'll likely use the latest Chrome just for banking and other high security tasks, but for my normal browsing LibreWolf seems to work fine.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
that’s my current idea, use two different ocr models and diff the results to spot check for errors. at these prices why not?
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I want to rejoice that OCR is now a "solved" problem, but I feel like hallucinations are just as problematic as the kind of stuff I have to put up with tesseract -- both require careful manual proofreading for an acceptable degre
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Can one be a full fledged netizen sans email account?
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by spudlyo 2y ago
He mentions in TFA that he had a bug tracker for PuTTY before git forges were a thing, one might have gotten this from context.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Whenever AR glasses with ad-blockers are available, I will be an early adopter.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Not entirely sure. I now flush all non-allowlisted cookies on browser exit after moving to LibreWolf, so I'm less concerned than I was about that sort of thing.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Huh, I thought for sure the article must have made the rounds here at some point, but I presumed the de-duper would catch it.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Right!? There is also a popup ad on that very site. Here is a tip that I just recently learned that has improved my browsing experience with uBlock Origin. In the settings menu under "Filter Lists" there sections under the heading
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by spudlyo 2y ago
You wouldn't run an ad blocker on your car... > But the problem could presage a more significant issue for future drivers. Last year, Ford filed a patent for an in-car advertising system that would use the car’s speakers and display
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Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads(kbb.com)
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I personally hold that intellectual property isn't property, and is increasingly becoming a net negative to humanity as a whole. I see AI as an accelerant in the erosion of IP's relevance and enforceability. With AI being able to
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I do some language learning study at roughly the same time every morning with gum. I spike it with 1mg dose of Nicorette (which I get by cutting a 4mg square into quarters) for its well documented effects on learning and cognition. It hadn&
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by spudlyo 2y ago
If you're interested in moving over to LibreWolf, I also submitted a thread[0] to /r/LibreWolf for recent Firefox refugees asking for suggestions and comments on how people dealt with the transition. It has nearly 100 comment

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