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@ Dirk @lemmy.ml

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Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

🔗 Me, but elsewhere

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  • Translations are horribly bad! Is there a way to improve them?

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  • For English to German I don’t need machine translations, but yes: English to German translations are even more catastrophic. I sometimes translate from Polish. But I also tried some other languages … None of them produced results I’d consider good by modern standards.

    Translating something to English is slightly better, but if THIS is the best we can have right now, then the best we can have right now isn’t even close to what we COULD have right now (with the right training data and resources).

    I expect there’s a project you can join

    I did a quick research that took longer than I wanted it to take, and the Mozilla Corporation is really good in hiding anything even remotely related to how the translations work and what the community can do.

  • Strengerer Nutri-Score, Danone, Pepsi und Co. nehmen Reißaus

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  • die A is halt n bisschen besser

    Meine erste Überlegung wäre dann, „WARUM ist sie besser?“, und dann würde ich sowieso auf die Nährwerttabelle und/oder Zutatenliste gucken.

    Es ist völlig in Ordnung, wenn Leute anhand des Scores ihre Entscheidung fällen, für mich persönlich ist er aber nur wie ein weiteres Label, was die Hersteller auf die Verpackung drucken.

  • ChatGPT apparently got rewarded for using its built-in calculator during training, and so it would covertly open its calculator, add 1+1, and do nothing with the result, on 5% of all user queries

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  • Malicious compliance is the best form of compliance.

  • Strengerer Nutri-Score, Danone, Pepsi und Co. nehmen Reißaus

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  • Es gibt doch eh nur Rot bei Genussartikeln oder schöngerechnet Grün bei anderen Lebensmitteln. Wo ist das Problem? Abgesehen davon dass da vermutlich eh niemand ernsthaft drauf achtet.

    Wer sich wirklich damit auseinandersetzt, guckt doch sowieso auf sie Zutatenliste und nicht auf irgendwelche Ampeln oder Logos.

  • OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data

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  • can’t figure this shit out!

    Oh they can. They just won't.

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    Mojang forces British Java users to comply with British Online Safety Act and do age verification

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  • So Microsoft finally found a way to kill off the only actually good version?

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • I did, and I just don’t “feel it”. Those is all great software but none of them really fits my specific use case. They all seem to be deeply connected with desktop environments or being just plain old font managers.

    My dream is something like an image viewer, but for fonts. A bit like display from ImageMagick does it, but more like this.

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  • Sounds like you have an awesome dad!

    how is a 36-year-old supposed to act?

    How ever they want!

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • So, what dependencies do the DE font viewers actually pull in?

    The ones specific to that DE, which I do not want.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • Mmmh, nope, only the normal version available.

    The Flatpak version (or KCharSelect in general) unfortunately ignores the font file given on command line.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • KCharSelect

    It just installs kcharselect … and figuratively half of KDE :)

    There seems to be a Flatpak available I’ll check out later when I have time to install hundreds of megabyte of depending other KDE-specific Flatpaks …

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • As far as I know, GNOME and KDE have had font viewers since time immemorial.

    I was talking specifically about web fonts and web font websites which help me not the slightest with my use case.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • Ideally something that allows me to see the characters in a table, sorted by character blocks, like in the LibreOffice “Insert Special Characters” dialog, so that I’m not limited to some predefined text but being able to see all characters.

  • A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

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  • These types of apps became fairly irrelevant with the advent of Web Fonts and sites that already do all of this.

    That’s my point. All of those stupid modern things do not solve my issue of just double-clicking a local ttf file in my file manager to see some text rendered in that font. That is literally all I want to do.

    The fact that you’re asking for whatever tool to not use something like QT or GTK

    I don’t really care what graphics toolkit is used. I just don’t want something that is heavily interconnected with any type of desktop environment due to not wanting to install a metric shit-ton of dependencies 😉

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    A modern and simple font (pre)viewing application seems to be an impossible thing …

  • Alabama library denied funding because it won’t move classic book ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • Only fascist regimes ban books.

  • Mozilla Support Email?

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  • There is none. Mozilla has no support staff reachable by mail.

  • Finding a new registrar/name server for .at

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  • selfhost.eu offers dynamic DNS which works perfectly fine with my router, using their API access as documented by them. It also works perfectly well with Let’s Encrypt integrated in Nginx Proxy Manager.

    • can handle .at domains
    • is not Cloudflare
    • is registrar and name server
    • is European (Germany)
    • supports Nginx Proxy Manager

    They’re in the market since 2001, I use them since ca. 2010 and never had any issues. Their website looks ancient, almost historic. But it’s functional.

  • Can kalories be gaseous?

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  • Can you ELI5 why water has no calories, which is also a unit of energy?

    Calories are a very specific type of measuring energy, especially when used in the context of nutrition. When nutritionists say that water has 0 calories, they mean that water has no nutritional energy.

    But when looking at it from a non-nutrition perspective water has calories.

    When you say, “something has X calories”, it’s a shorthand of saying “something has an equivalent of X times the amount of energy that is needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C.”

    From a physical point of view water ALWAYS has energy (that you can express in calories) because something with mass can never have no energy.

  • Can kalories be gaseous?

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  • But I’m not sure that all matter has energy.

    It has. If it has mass, it has energy, that is a core principle of how matter is defined scientifically.

  • Can kalories be gaseous?

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  • Calories are not “a thing” but a measurement unit for energy. So yes. everything “has calories”.

  • ich_iel @feddit.org
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    ich😮‍💨iel

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    solved

    How to get rid of those stupid background and font color?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Best way to dockerize a static website?

  • /c/cybersecurity - Cybersecurity News & Discussion @lemmy.ml
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    Was there a recent hack/leak affecting Spotify?

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.ml
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    Stock-y alternative launcher for Pixel 7?

  • Hyprland Desktop Environment @lemmy.world
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    Rant

    Why is there no sane way to remap keys?

  • Wayland @lemmy.ml
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    Rant

    Why is there no sane way to remap keys?

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    The OTP you want to use was already used

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Your favorite native Linux games?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How do YOU create your Docker images?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    C’mon, Do Something

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Please don't scare them!