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  • So, why should GNOME support server side decorations?

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  • I use KDE. My configuration for the title bar includes a "keep on top" buttons (it's one of my favourite little Linux things, along with middle click paste, which of course GNOME also wants to remove). On the left side near the application icon. CSDs, which I sometimes use (e.g. Firefox) never include this.

    I also can't just access the KWin menu by right clicking, as I would on a normal window, I have to right click the icon on the taskbar (I do use the windows grouping in the taskbar, and that means even more clicks) or I need to use Alt+F3. Which is not too hard, but it means needing two hands for something that should need one.

    So there are applications that manage to make CSDs so useful that the drawbacks become acceptable, but it's honestly not too often.

  • ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US

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  • As far as I can tell, the paid one also loses then plenty of money (possibly more than the free one?)

  • ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US

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  • ChatGPT subscriptions are significantly cheaper than what they cost the company anyway.

  • Reminder to book your vacation with European tools. :)

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  • Are you 100% sure about that?

    We are specifically talking about Credit cards, not bank cards.

    Further, I think EC is a German only payment system, so it won't get you terribly far.

  • I am cooked, chat. (Fuck Nvidia btw)

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  • I keep hitting my face on the fact that DKMS modules somehow don't depend on the kernel headers and these have to be installed manually. This happened to me both in Arch and in Debian.

    Why does everyone seem to think that this makes sense?

  • Reminder to book your vacation with European tools. :)

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  • Fairphone vs Nothing (or any other phone)

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  • More like using Brave (besides the questionable leadership, of course)

  • Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

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  • Why was the feature added if my browser is going to browse to the page anyway? [...] it could be a privacy preserving feature.

    It's just supposed to save you time and effort.

    If anyone has real concerns about having their IP leaked they should be using a VPN (I think Proton has a fairly generous free tier) or TOR. Relying on a link preview feature like that would be like wearing a condom against the rain. It will technically increase your protection, but you will still be really quite exposed.

    Love that you ignore all of the people who are currently seeing the popups and not understanding why.

    No, I just took his objection at face value.

  • Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

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  • They create an AI feature, they realise people don't want it, and realise a minimal one they can turn on for everyone in a thin-end-of-the-wedge approach.

    OR

    They create a feature with AI, realise it's controversial, so they figure out a minimal version, they split the parts with and without AI, and enable the non-controversial one by default.

    The facts are the same, just a different narrative. Which is legitimate. Realizing that's what it is is non optional.

  • Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

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  • Germans behave (in the overwhelming majority) way better than this. But their sense of humor is often... A little different.

    "German humour is a serious thing, it is in no laughing matter"

    And I have the suspicion you are an Italian living in Germany anyway.

  • Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

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  • From the linked article I learned that Firefox's solution also doesn't use AI, not by default at least.

    And the Zen way of doing it has the exact same (imaginary) privacy issue for which the article blames Firefox.

  • Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

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  • Is this guy for real?

    Mozilla says that key points are processed locally to protect your privacy in the release notes, but says nothing about leaking your privacy in showing the link preview (and enabling it by default).

    As opposed to the case where you don't have a link preview, and you click on a website to see what it contains, and they get your IP. The author seems to think Mozilla should have protected our privacy by having someone act as the proxy for the request. Because involving a thirds party that receives all these requests and does work for us for free is absolutely how we protect our privacy.

    The user might also have mobility impairments that makes a fast click harder, resulting in a longer hold time.

    Yes, a feature clearly designed for pushing onto that juicy "people with mobility impairments" userbase.

    I don't like the direction Firefox seems to be headed in, but damn people really enjoy getting outraged over everything they do. Around here they get ten times more shit than any other comparable project.

  • Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

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  • That's what you call a joke? Are you German?

  • So many posers

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  • Bombtrack, obviously.

  • Ready set go

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  • It's still leagues ahead of LLMs. I'm not saying it's entirely impossible to build a computer that surpasses the human brain in actual thinking. But LLMs ain't it.

    The feature set of the human brain is different, in a way that you can't compensate for by just increasing scale. So you get something that works but not quite, by using several orders of magnitude more power.

    We optimize and learn constantly. We have chunking, whereby a complex idea becomes simpler for our brain once it's been processed a few times, and this allows us to progressively work on more and more complex ideas without an increase in our working memory. And a lot of other stuff.

    If you spend enough time using LLMs you must notice how their working is different from your own.

  • 'Tis the season

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  • Plenty of people have. Seems like she does a bit of escorting as well? Could make for a nice birthday gift.

  • Where can i buy and own digital media like comic, music and movies

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  • For movies there are basically no real options to buy DRM free video. There are a few very minor sources like the VOD store of Vimeo, but catalog is limited.

    The only functional option for most content is to buy a drive compatible with Libredrive, get a license for makemkv, and just rip blu-ray discs, but that comes with a high startup cost and is more involved.

  • Where can i buy and own digital media like comic, music and movies

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  • Amazon used to be straight mp3 downloads for purchased tracks, but I'm not sure if that's standard anymore.

    Still there, though I'll try just about anything else before going to Amazon, because Amazon bad.

  • First steps

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