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  • Can someone please explain what is this ? https://curl.se/

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  • For that I would rather recommend a terminal browser like lynx, w3m or links2 in example. curl is more like a single web request to download one piece of raw file (an html page or an image in example). It is not meant to interpret websites and display results. If you want save webpages for offline view, then something like wget.

  • Programming Languages in the Age of AI Agents

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  • Only if you are dependent on Ai, because you cannot program yourself or don't want to.

  • What's the best Online Alarm Clock that's also Open Source?

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  • I would just use an old phone, either yours or maybe from your family. A dedicated alarm clock that stays at home and is always charged. It has only one job: alarming. No need to make yourself dependent on a random online website. This can be done offline.

  • [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame?

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  • I don't think so. Because they are different systems with different goals and different needs. If the community was named "Steam OS", then it would make sense. But this community is not about the operating system, but the device itself.

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • If no password is needed to do authentication, then any script and any user is able to do whatever they want on your system. Basically every script and application has root access by default. That is something you do not want to have. Even more important in multiuser environments.

  • WhatsApp is launching third-party chat support across EU Countries, which means you can now ditch WhatsApp for an EU alternative: BirdyChat from Latvia.

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  • Still same to me.

  • I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

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  • Then Mozilla should start listening to their users instead of driving them away.

    I think the hope is to get more people in than losing them. But with Ai nobody will stay forever, because the time someone else makes a better Ai tool, they switch. Because Mozilla loses personality and uniqueness and start getting replaceable. ... just like employees who are forced to use Ai instead their own work and knowledge.

  • I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

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  • My two biggest issues with a fork are: a) timely updates, they take a bit longer than the main version, and b) trust issues, I don't trust most forks.

  • I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

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  • That bit was odd for me too. I think the author means "nobody" based on the online reactions and discussions about Firefox. And you shouldn't take the term/word too literal. So I can understand the view at least, because that is what I am getting too. The problem is, that mostly negative opinions are discussed. And mostly from tech people, which I personally assume most Firefox users might be.

  • I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

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  • Can I just take my Firefox Profile directory, and copy it over to LibreWolf? Does anybody know?

  • How do I use the new Firefox Profiles feature?

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  • Hmm. I actually don't know why I don't get the "Profiles" menu, when clicking the "Account" icon as described in the link. Is it the icon that I can add by "Customize Toolbar"?

  • Bash One-Liners Explained, Part III: All about redirections

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  • Looks like one of the better tutorial / documentation series in a blog I have seen a while for Bash. Most are short and shallow. I think this is NOT an Ai slop. I won't read it, because I know most of the basic stuff and some advanced stuff too. But from quick look I could recommend this. Well done.

  • Netflix’s new era of TV games starts now

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  • The big video game publishers have acknowledged that their competitors are not only each other but other attention-hoggers like TikTok and Instagram.

    Only Microsoft said this. I also don't want to buy and play games from a company who competes against TikTok. I want to buy and play games from companies who compete against other videogame artists and developers.

  • How do I use the new Firefox Profiles feature?

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  • How do I use the new Firefox Profiles feature?

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  • Yeah, its surprising. But kinda makes sense if you think about it. If you have profiles and sync, why would you?

  • How do I use the new Firefox Profiles feature?

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  • How do I use the new Firefox Profiles feature?

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  • You could always use profiles, its not really new. But it required you to run Firefox with commandline options. Whats new is just an integrated graphical user interface to select and manage profiles.

    It should be described here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management?redirectslug=profile-management-redirect-1&redirectlocale=en-US (updated a week ago). For some reason, clicking the account icon does not have the "Profile" submenu for me. And I am on the newest Firefox. Do you have the menu?

  • Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

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  • For what the system offers, its unlikely to be this expensive. Valve also stated the price will be on the "low end of self build PCs". That's a bit vague, but it does not imply 1000 Dollar. Given with what Valve achieved with the Steam Deck, and that they know how important the price is, it will be cheaper for sure. Some analysts also tried to estimate the price for each part of the system and they landed on something like 415 Dollar. Sure, that's not all to it, but its far away from 1000.

    I'm not an analyst. My price expectation is at $549 for 512gb model and $699 for 2tb. If I am off, it won't be more than +-100 Dollar difference.

  • Which command substitution do you prefer in shell scripts: backquotes `` or $() syntax?

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  • Backticks are not very distinct, as they can be confused with single quotes (depending on the font). Also $() shows the beginning and end of the command very clearly. This is even more important when you have multiple of them in some variable in example. Not to mention that you can nest $(), but that is something I personally don't like to do anyway.

    There are some functional differences too: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Command-Substitution.html , such as that backtick command set as an alias in your bashrc will be executed once on load. While $() version is executed every time you execute the alias. Also backslash is literal in the backtick variants (with exception). All in all I never use backtick command substitution; it's confusing, limited and deprecated.

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    YouTube: Why Google Search is Falling Apart.

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    Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work?

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    GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate

    www.gimp.org /news/2024/10/05/development-update/
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    I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius

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    Bizarre and Hilarious Studies That Won Ig Nobel Prize In 2024 (One Is Mindblowing) by

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    What alias do you have to update the system from terminal?

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    kdenlive 240.08.1 just stopped working after system update on Archlinux

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    This Hacker Can HEAR YOUR MEMORY?! by Low Level Learning (YouTube)

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    Your YouTube Comments

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    Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog

    blog.mozilla.org /en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/
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    Writing an MP4 Muxer for Fun and Profit | OBS

    obsproject.com /blog/obs-studio-hybrid-mp4
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    GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥

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    GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥

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    Cheatsheet script for displaying Linux command examples

    gist.github.com /thingsiplay/69aada6a57f829d9580d7b54f8a207a0
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    GameFAQs TXT August 2024

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    Evidence That Our Names Physically Change Our Faces Over Time (Anton Petrov, YouTube)

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    Rust builder pattern without builder?

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    EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11 (Phoronix)

    www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-6.11-EXT4
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    Question: yt-dlp does anyone know how to increase retries for SponsorBlock?

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    yt-dlp-lemon: Simple wrapper to yt-dlp with only a subset of options.

    github.com /thingsiplay/yt-dlp-lemon