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  • Stop being elitist, spread Linux!

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  • You know back in the day they used to sell Linux distributions on the shelf at software stores. I remember seeing a boxed copy of mandriva next to windows. Home computing used to be a hobby for some but that means there was commercial support at some point.

    I do think that home users of "Linux" will need a commercial alternative that supports all their apps. ChromeOS looks like the current best alternative. If you can get people into chrome books, you're one step closer to getting them onto Linux.

  • Google Cache is being killed off

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  • My dudes, Google is dead. What do we do now?

  • Microsoft CEO calls for tech industry to 'act' after AI photos of Taylor Swift circulate X

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  • MFW they make owning and operating AI illegal before guns

    :: surprised Pikachu face ::

  • George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated Stand-Up Special: ‘A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist’s Work’

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  • I would disagree on the selling point. If you provide something for "free" that is advertisement supported, you sold it to an advertiser.

  • George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated Stand-Up Special: ‘A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist’s Work’

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  • Ive been thinking about this a lot and if you think about this like they are selling a stolen product then it can be framed differently.

    Say I take several MegaMan games, take a copy of all the assets, recombine them into a new MegaMan game called "Unreal Tales of MegaMan". The game has whole new levels inspired by capcom's Megaman. Many would argue that the work is transformative.

    Am I allowed to sell that MegaMan game? I'm not a legal expert but I think the answer to that would generally be no. My intention here is to mimic a property and profit off of a brand I do not own the rights too.

    Generative AI uses samples of original content to create the derivative work to synthesize voices of actors. The creator of this special intention is to make content from a brand that they can solely profit from.

    If you used an AI to generate a voice like George Carlin to voice the Reptilian Pope in your videogame, I think you would have a different problem here. I think it's because they synthesized the voice and then called it George Carlin and sold it as a "New Comedy Special" it begins to fall into the category of Bootleg.

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    I love my Gitea. Any tips and tricks?

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  • Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

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  • I agree with a lot of your points but I do think containers a great solution.

    I've been a really big fan of Universal Blue lately. It presents a strong argument for containerizing everything. Your core is immutable and atomic which makes upgrades seamless. User land lives in a container and just gets layered back on top afterwards.

  • Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

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  • Yeah, I think as the replacement for x before Wayland?

  • Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

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  • I think they are! I'm still trying to do more with ZFS everyday.

  • Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

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  • Ubuntu used to get a lot of undeserved hate but lately the hate feels deserved. Ubuntu has been the face of the usable desktop Linux for a long time and they just keep tripping over themselves every time they try to move forward.

    Their intentions are usually good. A lot of things they propose usually end up being adopted by the community at large (just not their implementation). They seem to just yank everyone's chain a little too hard in the direction we're eventually going to go and we all resent them for that.

    Off the top of my head, there was Upstart (init system), there was unity (desktop), and now snaps (containerized packaging). All of these were good ideas but implemented poorly and with a general lack of support from the community. In almost each case in the past what's happened is that once they run out of developers who champion the tech, they eventually get onboard with whatever Debian and Rhel are doing once they were caught up and settled.

    Valve's lack of interest in maintaining the snap makes sense. The development on the Ubuntu platform is very opinionated in a way where the developers of the software (valve) really want nothing to do with Canonicals snaps.

    On another note: my favorite thing about the Ubuntu server was LXD + ZFS integration. Both have been snapified. It was incredibly useful and stable. Stephane Graber has forked the project now into INCUS. It looks very promising.

  • Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

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  • TBH when I got this exact pop up on my last windows laptop (dell xps13) I actually panicked and installed PopOS on it.

    I didn't feel like distro hopping, I just needed it to work. I guess that shows how I feel about PopOS at the moment.

  • Where will all the electric cars be charged?

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  • I'm actually really interested in this as a project I would like to understand what it would take to get this done. The scope creep in planning seems simply astronomical and I would like to know who the authorities are on city design at the moment.

    I also think there is a cynical side to me that thinks that all the people who do city design take the money they make and dump it into a mc mansion out in the burbs anyway so the motivation of individuals with these skills seems skewed.

  • It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

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  • The one feature that I really liked that's still in chromium other than Google cast is still Web Apps.

    I like to be able to make a desktop application out of a web page. Firefox has this feature with PRISM a while back. Did it ever come back?

  • NSFW

    Can we have a conversation about indie authors and "smut"?

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  • I can't hear you over my audiobook "Pounded in the butt by my own butt" written and read by author Chuck Tingle.

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • Enshittification continues

  • Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing

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  • I'm starting to feel like this headline is some sort of psy-op.

  • Does Wayland really break everything? (Nate Graham's OG post ref'd in the Phoronix article)

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  • How do we as the community turn hope into help? Is there a way to contribute directly to the NVK developers?

  • Berlin’s plan for driverless magnetic trains derided by climate groups

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  • It does and it doesn't. The problem I've seen with all these new transportation products is the goal to create a "new industry" with it so that the tech can be sold elsewhere in a competitive market.

    The problem is that elsewhere is often the USA ... and the US doesn't buy public transportation tech from foreign entities.

    Quebec buys their trains from France, many nations but their highspeed trail from Japan and China. (I think a few places actually bought a monorail from Disney). It's a high cost to get into an industry like public transportation at this stage of the game unless you bring something new to the table.

    It does because it's a national jobs program and offers a boost to the local economy, it doesn't because in the end it is wasteful, impractical, and eventually too expensive for the taxpayer to maintain.

  • Why do you use the terminal?

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  • I just think it's neat!