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  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • does not involve technologically regressing.

    The fallacy that technological progress is inherently good is simply flawed. You could say "instead of relying on Spotify, and instead of "technologically regressing", learn open source alternatives and host your own Jellyfin server!"

    But what was wrong with "technologically regressing" exactly? A MP3, CD or even tape recording player will: always work, sound great, require zero user friction, never receive updates or security flaws, not depend on a convoluted self hosted setup.

    Do you want to listen to music or impress Lemmy? There's absolutely no argument to be made that requires accepting all tech simply because it's tech.

  • Personally I'm grateful to not need 3rd party packages

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  • Sure. Doesn't change anything about my comment though, Winget is relatively new and unknown for most users.

  • Personally I'm grateful to not need 3rd party packages

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  • It is functionally similar to running a random installer you found

    So basically how Windows users have been acquiring their software for the last 30 years.

  • Just a little... why not?

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  • Gemini will also attempt to provide you with a help line, though it's very easy to talk your way through that. Lumo, Proton's LLM, will straight up halt any conversation even remotely adjacent to topics like that.

  • Just a little... why not?

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  • That's what people (and many articles about LLMs "learning how to bribe others" and similar) fail to understand about LLMs:

    They do not understand their internal state. ChatGPT does not know it's got a creator, an administrator, a relationship to OpenAI, an user, a system prompt. It only replies with the most likely answer based on the training set.

    When it says "I'm sorry, my programming prevents me from replying that" you feel like it calculated an answer, then put it through some sort of built in filtering, then decided not to reply. That's not the case. The training is carefully manipulated to make "I'm sorry, I can't answer that" the perceived most likely answer to that query. As far as ChatGPT is concerned, "I can't reply that" is the same as "cheese is made out of milk", both are just words likely to be stringed together given the context.

    So getting to your question: sure, you can make ChatGPT reply with the training's set vision of "what's the most likely order of words and tone a LLM would use if it roleplayed the user as some sort of owner" but that changes fundamentally nothing about the capabilities and limitations, except it will likely be even more sycophantic.

  • Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

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  • Users make abhorrent weird workarounds for that, like running a PC software that uses a free temporary developer license to re-license an app on your phone, that then uses that license to resign other apps ""automatically""

  • Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

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  • Haven’t really run into any issues with them

    This has been changed if you're lucky enough to have a recent Android version, but not long ago any gallery app sideloaded from external sources couldn't be set as the system gallery, meaning managing pictures was really annoying because any changes required a pop up confirmation.

  • Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

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  • If Google is sad, I'm happy

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • The FSF (and RMS himself) wanted an alternative for online payments for ages, without crypto. An anonymous buffer layer between your payment method, like a credit card, and the vendor. I believe something was eventually released but it never took off, because unlike something like a NFC Wallet, vendors would have to natively support GNU's version.

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • I wouldn't mind not having a native Linux drive client if they didn't block rsync, which used to work, and now does not. What a stupid decision.

  • Don't Even Get Me Started On The Usefulness Of Learning How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid

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  • The literal Science Memes community was mocking higher education and the thread was full of people trying to convince others to never go to college. It's bizarre how strong the anti-education sentiment is around here.

  • Voting

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  • white isn’t a race it’s the social construct that means the absence of race

    All "races" are social constructs, there are no biological races for our species and the way we define social races isn't even uniform across different cultures.

    means the absence of race

    And that is actually a profoundly racist statement that roots many portions of white supremacist ideology.

    why it’s literally impossible to be racist against white people

    While it's quite easy to argue that white people are in no danger of becoming ethnically prosecuted in most of western society, your statement that it's impossible to be racist against white people is got a built in logic contradiction and is therefore invalid by nature. Even without the contradiction, all it takes to take down a blanket statement like that is finding a counter-example, and that's so trivial I could find historical examples in less than five minutes.

  • Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal

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  • Yep, it's a great idea

  • Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal

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  • Eh, that's the problem with email - it's much harder to change and migrate, because you can't guarantee others will use your new email, much less find out who somehow still has the old email to send messages to and expects a reply from.

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  • If someone on a dist wants to maintain a package then let them take the heat if it is broken.

    That's quite literally what happened and why this guy is moaning though. Nobody asked him for an Arch build, people distribute it themselves on the AUR and he's annoyed anyway.

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  • In his defense, a LOT of emulator maintainers have this sentiment about RetroArch, so I can’t fault him too much for that one in particular.

    Then release your emulator as a paid app for iOS with a closed source and go nuts. Otherwise it's like going out naked during a rainy day and shouting you're getting wet.

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  • The developer also had a massive drama with RetroArch because, wait for it... "RetroArch users complain too much!" so that's actually a common sentiment coming from them and it's absolutely not restricted to Linux. He hates Linux users, Android users, RetroArch users... at this point I wonder why even publish this as a public user facing project at all, he clearly hates users.

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  • If you don't want to see your software packaged in ways outside of your control, is it smart to publish it with a license that allows it to be packaged in ways outside of your control?

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • N is polarized - but it assumes the device will retain the grounding middle pin, which forces a specific orientation. If the device uses two pins, or the user cuts out the middle pin, there's no physical size difference to prevent inverting the polarity.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • Brazilian Type N looks like it's not a big deal, but the shape and depth are actually extremely good - you get a fantastic connection that never wobbles but also comes out when you need it without having weird pins or moving locks that always end up failing in some other designs. It's also compact and stacks nicely.