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Not just modern scifi but modern reality.

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I mean canonical also tries to monetize its users. The problem is more shareholders who want profit than the software being proprietary.

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Yes, gay-pretty is more soft and “feminine”.

Source: I’m gay-pretty

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What would people use this for? Do those structures fill a biological/functional purpose? Surely making a sphere with arbitrary sequences won’t do much good.

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DAE absolutely hate the 😂 emoji?

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People don’t even use it for funny things though. I only see it as a way to shame people, as if they’re laughing at you. Except it’s almost always just stupid deflection when they don’t have any objective arguments to offer. It’s what I imagine debates would be like in “Idiocracy”, and it makes me lose hope for humanity.

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Says a company that makes an ad blocker

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Or GNU HURD, FreeBSD, ReactOS, Singularity, TempleOS, …

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When there is both Cisco video conferencing equipment and Skype/Teams-certified devices in the conference rooms because they are managed by two different departments that purchased conference equipment separately.

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Specific cause it was exactly the situation with my last employer

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I would be surprised if they didn’t. They must see where the tide is turning.

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I’m 45 y/o with a job, a house and two teenager kids. I can probably count the games I finished on one hand.

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When the C-suite says “innovation” they tend to mean either “things other companies did that this company hasn’t done yet” or “obvious stuff that we should have done already but didn’t yet”.

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I have lost all interest in playing any future Bethesda games because of their engine. It was pretty crap (but acceptable) back in 2011. Now it feels like a scam to pay for their games. Like one of those “GameStation 5” you can buy on Wish.

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He probably thinks this thought and rejects the proposition over a million times per second

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Oh but they’re not selling it, they’re leasing it.

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Even the gigs have a thread running through them, though. You can puzzle together stories by doing them.

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Relief, not excitement

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I just think Microsoft Word is actively making the entire world less efficient. It’s not made to produce documents that are easy to read. Don’t have an obvious contender though. LibreOffice Writer just tries to be the same shitty product but free, LaTeX is way too technical and has horrible error handling. Markdown usability and quality breaks down if you make any serious use of tables and figures.

Since I’m not a US citizen I also think it’s a threat to our country that our entire administration and every company is dependent on storing documents in an effectively proprietary format controlled by a US company, on cloud servers controlled by a US company. If compelled by the US government, Microsoft could put all of EU to a halt with the flick of a switch. National security calls for formats as central as this to be open standards supported by multiple competing products.

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Sorry, I can see from the first screenshot on their web site that OnlyOffice is not conducive to legibility. A user interface that promotes direct control of the typeface (instead of styling rules based on semantic tags) is going to produce inconsistent documents.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/c1889877-7a10-480c-8570-38650103a6fc.png

User interfaces should be designed to make it easy to do things right, and difficult to do things wrong. This UI encourages people to produce crap.

Their other screenshots further show that they do not care about things like appropriate margin size or inter-word spacing, leaving me with little trust in the product.

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Anything I would actually buy if I couldn’t pirate it.

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It doesn’t need to be paid. Many journalists are happy to receive a pre-written article that they can just push out with zero effort.

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Give it a decade or two, and Java will be the new COBOL

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A decade ago I said it was 3-4 decades away

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Without a context of where this is or the temperature units used, the image is meaningless.

Where I live the forecast for tomorrow is between 0 and 7 degrees. Is that hot or cold?

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My nVidia-branded plastic “sculpture” with a laser-etched 3D Eiffel tower and an actual pre-production GeForce 3 GPU embedded.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/b96d93fb-04cb-4bf1-9da6-4c4d49bda471.jpeg

In the early 2000s I worked for a small game studio and got the attention from Nvidia for how we used their graphics cards. They wanted us to adapt our game to their new secret GeForce 3 project which was the first programmable GPU (as in shaders).

It was a crazy time with a lot of stories to tell. We got invited to the press conference for the new card, which was held in the Eiffel tower. Yeah, they actually rented the Eiffel tower.

As a thank-you for the work we’d done their developer relations representative had these made for all of the external game developers involved.

Today's AI is unreasonable (www.anildash.com)

There’s an extraordinary amount of hype around “AI” right now, perhaps even greater than in past cycles, where we’ve seen an AI bubble about once per decade. This time, the focus is on generative systems, particularly LLMs and other tools designed to generate plausible outputs that either make people feel like the...

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The article makes several claims and insinuations without backing them up so I find it hard to follow any of the reasoning.

I don’t think it’s desirable that it’s easier to reason about an AI than about a human. If it is, then we haven’t achieved human-level intelligence. I posit that human intelligence can be reasoned about given enough understanding but we’re not there yet, and until we are we shouldn’t expect to be able to reason about AI either. If we could, it’s just a sign that the AI is not advanced enough to fulfill its purpose.

Postel’s law IMHO is a big mistake - it’s what gave us Internet Explorer and arbitrary unpredictable interpretation of HTML, leading to decades of browser incompatibility problems. But the law is not even applicable here. Unlike the Internet, we want the AI to appear to think for itself rather than being predictable.

“Today’s highly-hyped generative AI systems (most famously OpenAI) are designed to generate bullshit by design.” Uh no? They’re designed with the goal to generate useful content. The bullshit is just an unfortunate side effect because today’s AI algorithms have not evolved very far yet.

If I had to summarize this article in one word, that would be it: bullshit.

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When you’re playing an MMORPG you’re not using the web, but you’re using the Internet. The Internet is like the postal service relaying stuff, but the stuff can be of different kinds.

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I keep lists on my phone, in Trello. Whenever I think a thought like “they could use X” or if they mention something they like or want, I write it down as a card before I forget.

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But but… branding!

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It makes them sound like specimens, dehumanizes and objectifies them. Kinda similar to saying “I’m taking my offspring to the movies” instead of “I’m going with my son to the movies.”

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I think the people who “infected” this word just have the general mindset of human relations being no different from any other animals, e.g. they subscribe to how Jordan Peterson explains human behavior by comparing us to lobsters. They tend to take human ideas like trust and altruism (love, if you will) out of the equation and view relationships only as evolutionary transactions. So they probably wouldn’t have any problem referring to themselves as males any more than they refer to women as females.

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I don’t really get how they consider this a meaningful attack vector at all. Of course I can set the phone on fire if I can replace the charger - that’s pretty much always going to be true and there’s no reasonable way to fix it. The only possible use I see is to do it when someone is not intentionally charging their phone, e.g. holding a malicious charger close enough when they have the phone in their pocket.

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Couple of hours… each morning? Did you win the lottery or something?

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Seasons two and three of what?

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I have no idea what that is

Menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy, B.C. class-action lawsuit alleges (bc.ctvnews.ca)

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit can move forward over alleged privacy breaches against a company that made an app to track users’ menstrual and fertility cycles. The ruling published online Friday says the action against Flo Health Inc. alleges the company shared users’ highly...

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Classic mistake. You weren’t rich enough.

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I disagree that it actually talks about the “ethical philosophy.” Basically either you join the echo chamber saying that there are no ethical problems with piracy, or you’re downvoted to oblivion. The responses are along the lines of “idc, I want free stuff.” That makes the discussion redundant and uninteresting.

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We’re talking about whether the community has a nuanced discussion about the ethics of piracy or not. What you said just now is another attempt at a false dichotomy, so if you’re trying to represent the community you’re kind of proving my point.

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Your argument is not relevant to anything I said. So I don’t want to engage with it because it derails the discussion here, which is not about the ethics of piracy but about the community’s openness to discussing it.

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They can do whatever they want, it’s their community. Just don’t tell me there’s a nuanced discussion going on there.

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I did engage multiple times in that community, when it was on topic. I eventually learned that there was no point in doing so.

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I’m not sure I get it. Is there a significance to him holding the mouse in front of him like that, instead of having it on the table like normal people? It seems to me that if you want to learn to code you should have your hands on the keyboard more.

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Draw… with a mouse??? Now I’m possibly more confused.

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Imagine going through the trouble to eat the entire chair, only to find that they have another one.

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Not that I agree with the morality of what Nintendo is doing but their claim is that the emulator can’t be used for anything meaningful besides piracy, whereas electricity is a general service that has lots of varying uses.

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That’s a classic question with a touch of irony, isn’t it? The phrase “What’s so civil about war anyway?” is often used to point out the oxymoron in the term “civil war.” The term “civil” implies politeness and order, which is in stark contrast to the chaos and destruction characteristic of war. This line, made famous by the Guns N’ Roses song “Civil War,” captures the absurdity and tragedy of war, especially when it occurs within the same country among its citizens. It’s a rhetorical question that highlights the inherent contradiction in waging war in the name of civility or resolving internal disputes. So, in essence, there’s nothing “civil” about war—it’s a critique wrapped in a bit of wordplay.

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Look at Mr rainbows & sunshine here

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