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  • After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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  • The age of Notepad having a paywall has arrived, with the simple writing software now prompting users to sign into a Microsoft account to access new tools such as Rewrite, a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to rewrite highlighted text.

    It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account, and users can go as far as removing the Rewrite icon completely from Notepad.

  • The Daily Beast reports on "provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month"

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  • They are getting bolder and don't feel the need to hide it at all. And why should they? It's only a "controversial salute" now. Next up, racism and xenophobia rebranding to "controversial views"

  • is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father?

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  • By definition it is selfish I'd say. BUT! Huge "but" here, like you wouldn't believe - sometimes it is alright to be selfish. Sometimes you just need to put yourself first. This is most definitely one of those times.

  • Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books.

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  • There are also countries where it is not - for example where I live last I checked downloading is legally ok, though some would say it is a grey zone moraly. It's the distributing of a copy without proper licensing deals and stuff that's illegal.

    So downloading of illegal copies using torrents would be illegal in most cases as you would be seeding and thus providing the illegal copy to others.

    Direct download is a-okay in the eye of law as long as it is only for your personal use

  • Dudes

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  • Both Legs, hands down.

    Congratulatioms, you have no limbs now

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  • I will provide a point of view of someone who is a bit more pro "live service game" concept.

    While I agree these can be scummy it depends on the game. I see them as evolution of the subscription model on which most MMORPGs functioned back in the day (and few big ones and several niche ones still do). You used to pay monthly sub to be able to play the game, now you have the opportunity to pay for the season pass. Depending on specific game you get content for free (no neex to pay the sub to access the content) and alonv with the content they will launch a season pass which gives you some goodies for playing. Gives them engagement numbers and expectable revenue stream.

    In the above model, I usually decide whether I like the content that they bring and if I would realistically play it enough to get majority ofnthe rewards from the pass (because, and this isnthe worst part - once the season ends in 99% of the cases the pass goes away and its rewards are gone forever if you didn't have time to earn them). Then there are also games like Destiny where the content is not free but tied to the pass, so you basically purchase x months of content (+the rewards from the pass).

    There are many shades of season passes - some could be considered fair, some are alright, some are ignorable and some are bad. All of them are made to make money - which in a live service game is I think fair, as they need to fund the ongoing developement. It all depends on the way they want to takenyour money: can be used as a nice bonus you can purchase if you are enjoying the game - in which case I'm fine with it. It can be used so they want to manipulate you through various way to feel forced to purchase - in which case I'm very much oposed to it.

    Though I think we all agree that the part when the rewards you purchased are only available temporarily is a scam and shouldn't be a thing - and I do realize I will be called out here for sometimes purchasing them. I try to view them as simply making a voluntary payment for the content I got from the devs. And the rewards tied to it a bonus.

  • Even without the USA, Nato would still win in a fight

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  • I don't like presenting things as black and white but I also feel the same - if US is no longer part of NATO we should expect them to be in opposition to it.

  • Chernobyl reactor shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says

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  • So you're telling me there is a chance

  • Chernobyl reactor shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says

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  • I mean... not 0 but pretty damn close to it (semantics, I know)

  • is proton still a viable alternative?

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  • I'm quite happy with the products. Not as happy with the company after the event you mentioned. I upgraded my plan not long before that happened (they had a pretty good deal going) so I will stay with them for now but I will need to consider what to do once the prepaid time is up.

  • Valve fixes up The Finals and No Man's Sky VR with Proton Experimental

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  • That makes much more sense :D

  • Valve fixes up The Finals and No Man's Sky VR with Proton Experimental

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  • Can't imagine Finals in VR, that has to be motion sickness galore

  • German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours

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  • Sea(gate)^2

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  • My favorite use of AI was mentioned in one of the trainings we had on AI in my work. First they explained how you can just give AI some bullet points on what you want to say and it can write a pretty good sounding email. And one of the next tips was that you can feed AI lenghty emails to condense them to simple bullet points.

    Can't make this shit up.

  • What are your thoughts on AI?

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  • I'm a layman in terms if AI but I think it can be a useful tool, if used in proper context. I use it when I struggle to find something by regular internet search. The fact you can search in a conversational style and specify as you go on what you need is great.

    I feel it is pushed into contexts where it has no place and where it's usefulness is limited or counterproductive.

    Then there is the question of the inproper use of copyrighted material which is terrible

  • Looking for the spelling / translation on a certain Polish word

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  • Ok, I'm not Polish (hopefully somebody Polish will chime in soon) but from neighbouring Slavic country so tried to figure this out with some translator help. My gues it's something like "tam idzje" (or close to it, might not be comoletely gramatically correct), but pretty butchered - I understand your father doesn't speak the language but probably heard someone in family as a kid say it and tried his best to mimic them? I'd expect it not sounding quite right.

    I think I can get reasonably close to pronouncing "tam idzje" weirdly enough for it to sound something like "yadja".

  • Right out of a children's storybook

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  • Not sure if trolling or serious tbh

  • Peertube is now available on f-druid

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  • Even minor revenue cut is a revenue cut, that's true. The creators would need to be believers, or YouTube would need to do a fuck up.

    Realistically though, best we can hope for for now is them crossposting to both YouTube and PeerTube

  • Peertube is now available on f-druid

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  • Might be wrong but doesn't majority of the money come from sponsors and such? I was led to believe ad revenue was just a nice little bonus.

    Biggest issue probably will be how small it is so it would not be worth it to sponsors.