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[He/Him, Nosist, Touch typist, Enthusiast, Superuser impostorist, keen-eyed humorist, endeavourOS shillist, kotlin useist, wonderful bastard, professinal pedant miser]
Stuped person says stuped things, people boom

I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

Formerly on kbin.social and dbzer0

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OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson ( www.tomsguide.com )

The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial pool of 400 and it's purely a coincidence the unnamed actress behind the Sky voice has a similar tone to Johansson....

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god i hate words

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Unless it can support the plugins already there (which I doubt... mono doesn't mean we can straight up run DLLs, right?), I'd have to hope it stumbles into an incredible ecosystem. Thanks for the find, I'll be looking out for it. We finally might have one people'd be content using. Now I'm wondering if/when I finally get enough motivation to start making a coverflow or a lyrics-scroll plugin, should I develop for Amarok or Fooyin?

We also used to have Guarapirangua and DeaDBeeF. G ran out of steam, and D decided to fuck over Russian-language users cuz "they country war so they people bad!", angering many plugin developers besides making me morally uncontent with what future decisions they'd make.

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Sugar, from One Laptop Per Child. it has like an entirely different UI paradigm or something, haven't tried it

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To combat criticism, the White House has announced a new line of products, the TERRIfiERS, which are live, deaf terriers carrying AI-aimed rifles. President Ivanushka has delightfully boasted about its friendliness and reduced reliance on intricate moving parts, deceasing manufacturing water emissions by 41.8%.

The TERRIfiERS will be released to civilian use for Big Hunting on April 18. It is expected that this move will increase competition among magazine manufacturers.

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vscodium doesn't run at 120 FPS and isn't native, which are Zed's goals

Edit: it doesn't seem like native Linux widgets are a development focus of Zed, though

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The selling point is performance and speed... frames don't get rendered above your refresh rate.

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Especially when you have a bunch of extensions and a large-enough file, you want it to parse, highlight, and suggest fast.

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why doesn't that include the ending

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(I've seen it already lol)

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That was a hypothetical illustrating the amount of choices one had to make to port to Linux. So far their decision is to just release a tarball.

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Commander was sent to an undisclosed location after the Secret Service recorded 24 biting episodes involving him between October 2022 and July 2023, about half of which required medical attention.

The South Dakota governor, who had been widely seen as a contender to be former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, wrote in the book about a female wire-haired pointer named Cricket that she had hoped to use to hunt pheasant on her ranch. She said that the dog proved “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless” as a hunting dog — so she shot her in a gravel pit.

In the CBS interview, Ms. Noem sought to defend the killing of Cricket — and a goat she also shot the same day — as “a choice I made over 20 years ago” to “protect people.”

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Abstruse Goose webcomic. Execs are at a meeting where they learn that the Galaxy S10+ features 5 cameras. They get mad even though they know that Samsung is "overcompensating for something", but decide to try and kick their ass by fitting 11 cameras and 2 vertical USB-A ports on teh back and 4 USB ports on the left side and 6 USB ports on the right side and 1 USB port on the bottom, creating a phone that, when all plugged in from the sides, looks like a fucking spider.

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But privateering ended 1830 and Meiji started 1868?

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You mean your eyes don't have storage?

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Deducing from headlines and circumstances while ignoring crucial information is exactly what QAnon does

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I intended to make it more like a cautionary tale. QAnon can happen to the best of us, and seedy thoughts that still consider that it was an illness for a while are sort of an entry point to the thought pattern behind conspiracy theories. If one builds tolerance to this kind of leap, it'll be easier to build tolerance for much bigger leaps.

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Everyone is vulnerable in one way or another. Of course, wondering is natural, but seriously accepting it, as some in this thread have done, is a QAnon kind of leap.

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Well, there only has to be a strong possibility to warn against it.

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You should probably read the article. The case is only about how the Archive did more than just library stuff—they made a ton of copies and gave them out for free, then argued that the cost of maintenance somehow made that act legal.

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The court filings I've read corroborate the article.

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(unless the Supreme Court really likes you by a 6-4 majority)

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As others have said, making digital copies and distributing is literally piracy and not library stuff.

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That's not what it says.

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No, they don’t. If you’re referring to their ebook selections, they pay for a specific number of licenses to an ebook, then only allow a specific number of patrons to check those ebooks out at any given time. They do this using DRM, to ensure that patrons have their access removed when their checkout period is up. Because refusal to comply would run them afoul of copyright laws and their ebook licensing.

Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?

Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I'm curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there's no hate-speech (that I'm aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let's hear your suggestions! Thank you!

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*bin also has an advantage of integrating microblog as well, though you can't change URLs in link posts

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they also overhauled the threads view filtering, though the all content and new comments highlighting features are still missing

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yes, though mbin doesn't have an all content view, so you'd need to switch to the microblog-only view to see these. kbin has much less development going on but currently has an all content view that combines threads and posts.

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The article is just a single sentence with the document numbers

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We’ve always been worried that developing Free and Open Source Software would not be recognized as a charitable cause by the German tax system, so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation. Earlier this year we went through a successful tax audit, which in fact resulted in some favourable adjustments as we’ve been paying too much tax. Our tax advisor immediately submitted an appeal to the decision, but so far, we have no new information.

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They're rooting for it by reposting a meme that wordplays with "2024" and "1942–2024", not in a professional capacity.

Last year, the organization named Isabella Riley Moody – a rightwing troll who has called gay people “groomers,” supported Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law, and declared “Heil Hitler” – as one of their “Outspoken Ambassadors for 2023.”

The Log Cabin Republicans later removed her from their website.

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Interestingly, the software giant added this check since the Windows 11 24H2 will not boot without these instruction sets, according to a previous report. Though speculative, one would wonder if the company has this extra step in case someone uses bypasses to force the OS to boot with an unsupported CPU.

Why is the watermark the headline

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Time to switch to mbin! The features you might miss are new comment highlighting and the all content view, but these are being worked out and mbin still has, otherwise, way more features.

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But most Windows emigrants don't use the terminal

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I think he has a point that Canonical is sabotaging Windows emigrants' core user experience to force their Snaps

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It's 2024, use an adblocker

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is archived

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https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/base/

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A lot of these packages have Arch-specific modifications. For example, filesystem doesn't even have a non-Arch upstream as it defines the filesystem layout. That PKGBUILD and everything it depends on is the Arch source. Distributions are defined by which packages they include.

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The definition of a golden share is effective control. Tell me how that and the following is going "on to explain the ways in which it isn't".

ByteDance was founded in 2012 in Beijing by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo, who were college roommates at Tianjin’s Nankai University, according to company information and Zhang’s public speeches.

It has been based in the Chinese capital since then. In 2021, Zhang announced he would step down as CEO of ByteDance and handed the reins to Liang.

The US government has the power to kill Huawei if they wanted to; it's their territory and they can do whatever the heck they want, of course. That doesn't mean Huawei is US-owned.

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Internet coverage of that topic is surprisingly limited for what seems to be an easily-thought-of national security risk...

ByteDance's capitalist entrepreneurs run the enterprise for them, and they can extort data out, yes, for free.

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After a ton of alternating search queries, apparently both of these avenues are being used, and Biden announced working on such a ban in late February.

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Again, China does not run the company, they just own the leash on the private entrepreneurs who do. That's one of Deng's benefits for implementing capitalism. (mildlyinteresting: the word capitalism isn't capitalized)

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It's a one-time fee that also earns money back compared to the continuous payments to buy from other sources.

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"but job loss!1!"

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You won't just stop the maintenance if TikTok didn't exist. It's not like all China cares about is data.

Your question was "why would China get data from TikTok when they can just buy it from Meta". If China didn't get the data from ByteDance, ByteDance still incurs the maintenance fee. So no, that is not the expense of getting the data.

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I'm saying that they have the ability to ban any freaking thing in their territory. That Huawei is doing well outside of the US is irrelevant. If Huawei's US division was forced down by the US, that is killing it, and they're still not American.

That’s not nothing, but still not the be-all and end-all that you seem to want to make it.

Explain further how it isn't a Chinese company despite its origin and its base of operations. Even if it isn't, all that's relevant is that China can influence TikTok into giving them their data for free today.

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For most people, "could" is enough to worry about. Just look at the people flocking whenever their app is bought by an advertising company.

(As for the NYT opinion, I'll forward this comment: "Waxman worked under Bush as a senior national security advisor. So the administration that believes in torture is advising us that government surveillance is fine and keeps you safe? Not sure I trust the source." My personal opinion is actually ambivalent towards surveillance, privacy, and safety.)

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