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xthexder

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  • YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos

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  • I'm sure auto-generated captions will work great for channels like Primitive Technology where there's no actual talking and the subtitles are describing what he's doing...

  • Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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  • "Office" is completely removed from https://www.office.com/ The only place "Office" can still be found is in the urls. It's called "Microsoft 365" now.

    Edit: My mistake, "Office Home 2024" is still a thing you can buy apparently, but it's not the full package and isn't being updated. I'm pretty sure Libreoffice is a full replacement for "Office Home"

  • Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

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  • It seems like SketchUp uses OpenGL, which should be supported just fine by a linux GPU driver. I haven't tried it myself, but you could maybe try running it through Proton (idk if there's a way outside of Steam?)

  • Cant Decide 🤖

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  • If all we were seeing is the prompt used to generate the video, then there wouldn't be a problem. Human-written fiction is generally valuable.Instead we're getting single sentences masquerading as "a picture worth a 1000 words", or worse with video. Only 1% of that is actually the valuable part (the prompt), the rest is filler words and hallucinated slop.A video or picture of reality is inherently more informative than any AI generation.

    I have the exact same problem with AI-generated articles. They're nearly empty of any actual information, and it completely wastes your time to filter through it and find the actual point. Just like the backstory that gets put before every online food recipe; it's useless fluff.

  • Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit

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  • I didn't even realize these were being manufactured by Sparkfun now. I've bought all my Teensy boards straight from the original designer: https://www.pjrc.com/store/ (It's been several years since I've bought any parts)

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • The sort of information they could gather from a site like this would be a list of license plates that somebody is worried about being tracked. I can think of several government organizations who would love that sort of information right now.

    It's a sort of Streisand effect

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • For data leaks, haveibeenpwned only requires your email, and they send you a notification if it ever shows up. They don't actually check passwords.

    Unfortunately there's no secondary info linked with a license plate that makes doing this sort of notification private without just downloading the full database locally.

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • I'll be honest, I have more concerns about this site potentially logging my license plate than I do of someone having already looked it up.

    It's a little like if haveibeenpwned asked you for your password to check if it's been leaked.

  • [meme] choochoo

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  • Do you know how many cities are out there that have completely useless public transit? I don't think anyone's suggesting we build a train out to every farmer's front door so they can get into town without a car.There's plenty of areas where additional bus routes and train lines would be a huge benefit, but the entire budget is being spent on car infrastructure.(Like the Premier of Ontario who wants to build a tunnel for cars under Toronto instead of finishing the light rail projects that have been under construction for over a decade)

  • UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications

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  • I'd also argue a human monitoring your conversation would likely make similar mistakes in judgement about what's happening, and this kind of invasion of privacy just isn't okay in any form. There could be whole extra conversations happening that they can't see (like speaking IRL before sending a consentual picture).

  • Mama!

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  • traveling at a million light-years per millisecond

    You're only off by a factor of about 30 quadrillion.

    Light (famously a type of radiation), takes 1 year to travel a light-year, hence the name.

    If you want to make it sound impressive, then astronomical units aren't the right choice. The sun is only 1 AU away from us after all.

  • [@alexkrokus] Elders

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  • Me: What do you mean my server is old? I built it last year!

    Server Uptime: 988 days(!)

    Oh...

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • I personally have spent those 100s (actually more like 1000s) of hours studying Software Engineering, and I was doing my best to give an example of how current AI tools are not a replacement for experience. Neither is having access to a sewing machine or blowtorch and hammer (you still need to know about knots and thread / metallurgy / the endless amount of techniques for using those tools).Software in particular is an extremely theoretical field, similar to medicine (thus my example with a doctor).ChatGPT is maybe marginally better than a simple web search when it comes to learning. There is simply no possible way to compress the decade of experience I have into a few hours of using an LLM. The usefulness of AI for me starts and ends at fancy auto-complete, and that literally only slightly speeds up my already fast typing speed. Getting a good result out of AI for coding requires so much prerequisite knowledge to ask the right questions, a complete novice is not even going to know what they should be asking for without going through those same 100s of hours of study.

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • Not everyone has 100s of hours free time to sink into this and that skill

    That's life, buddy. Nobody can learn everything, so communities rely on specialists who can master their craft. Would you rather your doctor have 100s of hours of study and practice, or a random person off the street with ChatGPT? If something is worth studying for 100s of hours, then there's more nuance to the skill than any layman or current AI system can capture in a few sentence prompt.

  • Troll physics

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  • Also prop jumping in Source games like Portal

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • I don't think File Explorer on Windows uses fork() to copy files? If it does, that's insane. I don't think git calls fork per-file or anything either, does it?

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • I fully blame this on NTFS being terrible with metadata and small files. I'm sure everyone's tried copying/moving/deleting a big folder with 1000s of small files before and the transfer rate goes to nearly 0...

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • On the bright side, you're getting paid to wait around( /s because I know the feeling, and it's just slow enough you can't step away and do something else)

  • Bard performs song of disruption

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