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Blue_Morpho

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  • Yes, Donald Trump got booed at the World Cup Final

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  • Of course he got booed. Spain hates him and Venezuela fans knew the Trump curse. Trump was there for Argentina which meant Argentina would lose

  • Mexico Warns of Diarrhea Risk When Visiting US

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  • Real Americans use synthetic petroleum fertilizer like God intended.

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • The weird one with IBM is that their stock dropped after they announced they didn't jump on the AI hype train.

  • Regressive JPEGs

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  • The title doesn't do it justice. This is using an obscure feature of the jpg format to make a jpg animated!

    Amaze! Amaze!

  • Linus: Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

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  • You can have a wandering train of thought without writing 2500 words repeating the same two ideas over and over and over.

    He's not wrong.

  • Linus: Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

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  • That was unnecessarily wordy to express only two complaints:

    AI causes environmental damage and AI was created by scraping content that the AI companies didn't own.

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  • Mainly Danish, Swiss and European citizens are eligible to study without stressing over student debt

    Yet only 47% have a college degree. It's better than the US at 38% but then that figure is an average over the entire country. For example Poland in the EU is at 28% while DC in the US is at 65%.

    I suspect that it's a difference in presentation. In the US college is free for anyone with high grades because of scholarships. In Denmark school is free for anyone with high grades. If you don't have high grades, you aren't allowed to go to college in Denmark.

    EU schools separate kids out at an earlier age into Trade and College. Whereas the US sells the idea that everyone should try and go to college. So kids take on debt to go to college when they shouldn't have ever gone. If they had been in the EU, they would have never been presented with the idea of college- they would have been forced into trades like manufacturing and repair.

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    VFW is attacked by Republicans they voted for

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  • The VFW probably used AI but how could you tell? They have the right number of fingers. I don't see anything immediately out of place. I want to improve my ability to spot AI.

  • A.I.

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  • Wow! I heard about wifi for tracking "in the lab" or as a hack you could do yourself but I had no idea it was already commercialized.

  • You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

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  • No, you don’t have to install a different distro.

    Ubuntu ships with Gnome. That you can change it is actually the point I was making.

    I replied to this:

    respect for the user, consistency, customisability,"

    With the statement that consistency is often at odds with customizability.

    Your claim was this:

    It’s almost like any app on any operating system is going to have a different gui!

    Windows apps do not have as much inconsistency as apps on Linux because of the lack of customizablity. A Windows developer has to go out of their way to avoid the standard Windows libraries to make their app look unique. Linux apps are all different because there is no way to make them consistent. Even if you try to make your app consistent in say Gnome, someone is going to be running KDE.

    Consistency is almost always at odd with customizability.

  • You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

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  • Guess what, Linux also doesn’t “come with” multiple DE’s, it just gives you the ability to install and use a different one.

    Oh come on. Your restatement means the same thing. Install a different distro and you can have a different DE.

    And yes Windows doesn't give you the choice. I said that in my initial statement that customization is often in conflict with consistency.

    Having choice is always better.

    Yes but you can't then also claim that all Linux distros are consistent.

  • You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

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  • Windows doesn't come with multiple Window Managers that you choose from like Kde vs Gnome. Windows programs have access to the same standard Windows toolkit for menus and dialogs. A program has to go out of its way to not use the standard libraries. That is usually only seen in programs that are using ported Linux gui libraries under Windows. Whereas in Linux, there are multiple GUI toolkits and multiple Window Managers meaning there is is absolutely no standard for any apps.

  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • Conservatives really are doing everything to repeat the Nixon years.

    Nixon tried it. Turns out people didn't like it once they had it and it was switched back.

  • You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

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  • respect for the user, consistency, customisability,

    Customizability, absolutely. But Linux has a distinct lack of respect for users (from a GUI perspective) and consistency. Customizability is frequently in direct conflict with consistency. Different distros have different GUI's. The apps in the distros use different toolkits for their development which yields wildly inconsistent GUI's inside the programs.

  • You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

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  • Saving a file to a folder of your choice

    What program are you seeing that?

    I use Linux and Windows and don't see that. I just checked with saving a file in the Windows version of Orca (3d slicer), Save brings up the standard Windows dialog that has all the folders on the left panel and the contents of the currently selected folder on the right panel. It's virtually identical to the Save dialog box of Orca under Ubuntu right down to dividing local directories on top of the left panel and network share on the bottom left.

    That's the default Save in Windows. A program has to go out of its way to avoid the standard Windows Save dialog box which is the same problem Linux programs can have.

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  • Can you imagine the downvotes and likely bans if someone did the equivalent in a Linux thread?

  • What surprise do you have prepared Nintendo?

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  • , it said that it was repealed and superseded in the 70s.

    It absolutely did not say that.

    17 U.S.C. § 109(a) from 1976 clarified the earlier laws without changing them at all. It even specifically mentions video games. That is if you buy a video game you have the right to resell it (dispose).

    Courts have since ruled that the law and 17 U.S.C. § 109(a) don't apply because you bought a "license".

    But that doesn't change the law or 17 U.S.C. § 109(a) which was even clearer that someone who purchases music or a video game has the right to resell it.

    Court rulings aren't law.

  • Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network for free?

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  • A cheap way to start is noip.com. You can get a domain name for free, you just need to check in every 3 months to say you are still using it. It's big enough that many routers support it.

    After 2 years of checking in every 3 months I paid for their next tier of service where you don't have to check in and get multiple domains etc. So their free service marketing worked.

  • What surprise do you have prepared Nintendo?

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  • The law you linked is 100 years old

    Laws don't expire unless specifically written to expire. Do you not believe in the right to free speech because that law is 250 years old?

    Nor was it superceded 50 years ago. The case was in 2012 and wasn't ruled until 2018.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_LLC_v._ReDigi_Inc.

    because you're making a copy (which first sale doctrine does not allow you to do)

    You aren't necessarily making a copy. You are transferring a license to use. Steam restricts duplicate license usage.

    The law was about digital copies of music without DRM. Given that Steam restricts duplicate licenses, that court ruling doesn't necessarily apply. And a court ruling isn't a law. That's why I claim Steam is breaking the law. But they get away with it because they have the billions to sue anyone who fights for the legal rights. So no one has tried.