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WIth instant gratification leading to addiction (for me) on Social media and the internet, I'm considering trying the old fashion newspaper.
I’m looking for lower than instant gadification resources for the news. If I get a news paper weekly, rather then just constantly checking the internet for what usually ends up being the same stories, just another outlet....
Ubuntu App Center adds a UI for installing third-party deb files (github.com)
It's a merged pull request made by a member. Dunno which release it'd be in. This means people can double-click deb files to install again (with a warning)....
Where the CHIPS Act money has gone (www.theverge.com)
What’s the best ad blocker for you? - Firefox Add-ons Blog (addons.mozilla.org)
Large economies offshore wealth & corruption perceptions (beehaw.org)
Data slides...
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’ (www.wired.com)
Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free (www.theverge.com)
Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens (www.theguardian.com)
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’....
Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.
Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. (www.nytimes.com)
I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun (www.spacebar.news)
“Dumb phones” offer an escape from the endless scroll (www.ktla.com)
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner (files.mastodon.online)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15315562...
SSH login without user name? (docs.gitlab.com)
I was reading GitLab’s documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user’s name it is associated with....
Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.
I cannot stand google news any more, too much spam, clickbait and advertisement. So I decided to try to selfhost an RSS aggregator to make myself a news feed that I would be comfortable with. Being RSS such an “ancient” thing I thought there will be many mature systems, but I’m not sure that’s the case…...
Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson (www.theguardian.com)
How can I use a local LLM on Linux to generate a long story?
I’m interested in automatically generating lengthy, coherent stories of 10,000+ words from a single prompt using an open source local large language model (LLM) on low-spec hardware like a laptop without GPU and with i5-8250U, 16GB DDR4-2400MHz. I came across the “Awesome-Story-Generation” repository which lists relevant...
How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone (www.cnet.com)
HMD Pulse trio unveiled: affordable phones with 'Gen 1 repairability' (www.gsmarena.com)
HMD is betting that consumers are moving to more environmentally-conscious products and are placing an emphasis on repairability. HMD says the Pulse range is built to “Gen 1 repairability” and that users can pick up self-repair kits from iFixit. Repairs include changing the battery, but also swapping the screen.
Ubuntu Snap Hate
I’ve gathered that a lot of people in the nix space seem to dislike snaps but otherwise like Flatpaks, what seems to be the difference here?...
Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton (proton.me)
Big Tech has implemented passkeys in a way that locks users into their platforms rather than providing universal security...
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
How do you prefer to install compilers, interpreters, sdks e.t.c
Usually, I prefer manually installing the packages needed for getting started with a new language or technlogy....
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." (pluralistic.net)
Aesthetics matter (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
What the Cursor? - An introduction to the new hyprcursor format (blog.vaxry.net)
Shared Data Partition for macOS/Linux Dual Boot
I am interested in dual-booting a Linux distro (probably Ubuntu) on my 2019 MacBook Pro. Ideally, I would have a shared data partition so that I could access my documents from both OSes. Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to accomplish this?...
Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users) (github.com)
Appimages totally suck, because many developers think they were a real packaging format and support them exclusively....
Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal? (www.warp.dev)
Today i was doing the daily ritual of looking at distrowatch. Todays reveiw section was about a termal called warp, it has built in AI for recomendations and correction for commands (like zhs and nushell). You can also as a chatbot for help. I think its a neat conscept however the security is what makes me a bit skittish. They...
Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down?
Which one(s) and why?
Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways (www.businessinsider.com)
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
Is Linux pretty much unusable with an Nvidia GPU?
I’ve been trying Linux Mint on my old dell laptop with an nvidia GPU and it’s been just one impossible issue after the other....
Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C? (shop.boox.com)
Does anyone here have a BOOX e-paper tablet? I’m a big fan of e-paper devices—I love my Pebble smartwatch, Kindle Paperwhite, and Light Phone II. I’ve been eyeing the Tab Ultra C for quite a while, and I am considering the pros and cons. Mostly, I intend to use it for browsing the web and maybe some light note taking and...
Yubikey on Linux?
Hi friends! Has anyone here had success using Yubikeys on Linux? I’ve been going back and forth with support to no avail, trying to get my Yubikey 5C NFC to play nicely on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Any suggestions are appreciated....