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  • Affinity for Linux? Canva's next big move could reshape the desktop software market

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  • Isn't it an opt-in by default program that pays artists commission fees for using their art? Or am I thinking of a different company.

    Whichever one I'm thinking of, the Gen AI was for website templates, and that's about all I can remember other than reading about it and thinking "this is how it should be - gen AI to spit out hundreds of templates for buttons on websites that nobody wants to make."

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • https://invisiblepeople.tv/how-tourism-negatively-impacts-homelessness/

    https://assets.moravian.edu/static/soar/proposals/2017/Keshodkar_LaBare_Proposal.pdf

    https://www.flasprings.com/blog/drug-and-alcohol-addiction-in-tourism-hotspots/

    https://wewantrelief.com/the-nexus-between-cape-cod-tourism-and-substance-abuse/

    https://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/envi/one.html

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9389488/

    https://www.uni.lu/en/news/the-dark-side-of-tourism/

    https://mize.tech/blog/the-true-impact-of-the-tourism-industry-on-the-environment/

    Just some examples I pulled up in some quick searches. One specific to Cape Cod that I know of that's not mentioned here is the damage to fragile beach environments due to trampling delicate beach grasses by tourists who either don't know any better or don't care. The beach grass there is easily killed by walking on it, which not only destroys the environment that many creatures depend on, but also leads to rapid destabilisation and erosion and full on loss of the beaches within a handful of years (5 to 10 at most). It's such an issue that there are constant beach patrols of environmental officers across more than a hundred miles of beaches every summer.

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • If you're looking for something to game on, I'd also recommend checking out Bazzite. It's built on the same version of Linux as the SteamOS and comes with stuff like Steam and Nvidia drivers pre-installed. There's also a guide on the website for things like how to install it in a dual-boot setup.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • Skill issue? Maybe. But conjecture? Hardly. The data says that across New England summer tourist towns consistently have the highest rates of drug usage, alcohol addiction, homelessness, and highest CoL for their region. And this is in large part attributed to the lack of job opportunities outside of the seasonal tourism sector, expensive prices caused by the focus on wealthy tourists, and the competition for housing caused by both landlords seeking seasonal rentals and the wealthy buying or building summer homes that will sit empty for 9 months out of the year. This is also backed up by the findings of the committee in my hometown that was created to solve the issue of young people moving away and the looming crisis that will happen as the town becomes more and more one massive retirement home with too many retirees and not enough staff.

    Of all the people that I knew who grew up in my hometown (which is at least 2 generations of teens that I trained at work plus my generation), I found 2 types of people: those who left and never went back, and those who never left and never will.

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  • Hard hard disagree. I grew up in a tourist town, and every kid I talked to for over 20 years had one goal on their mind: getting out of there as soon as they could. Job opportunities outside of tourist focused seasonal industries were practically non-existent. Your choices were wait-staff, landscaping, or deli/grocery store clerk. Any other industries had at most 1 business in the single industrial park in the area. Tourists destroying local beaches was and continues to be a major issue. Everything closed after the tourist season so there's nothing to do other than drink or do heroin, and during the summer there's too many tourists to be able to go out and do something. Tourist areas consistently have the highest rates of substance abuse and homelessness. Low wages from low skill industries focused entirely on serving the out of town seasonal tourist economy combined with high CoL as prices are determined by what tourists can pay, not locals, and little long-term housing as rentals are focused towards short-term leases for the tourist season and competition for housing is fierce with wealthy out of towners buying summer homes.

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  • They were shitholes outside of the tourist season anyway. As somebody who grew up in a similar town across the pond, tourism competes with and pushes out all other industries. Tourist towns have the highest rates of poverty, homelessness, and addiction in the area.

    There's a town here where up to 80% of the housing is seasonal. There are about 1,000 year-round residents, and the town can see up to 60,000 people at the height of the summer tourist season. During the rest of the year, there are like 3 stores that stay open to service the locals, everything else closes for the next 9 months. They don't even have a local school system because there's not enough kids to make it worth it, so the kids have to be bussed to other towns for school. Not that the people who own summer homes would allow for their tax money to go towards something like that anyway. That would drive up their property taxes!

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  • Pretty much, yes. In tourist towns leases are often short-term leases that only last up to a few months. Landlords want those places available for the tourist season so they can charge a premium to tourists looking to rent a place for a week, and so they only lease up to the start of the tourist season and locals have to find somewhere else to live.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • People born before the 2010s, roughly. Doctors and lawyers were at one point considered two of the highest earning professions and it's only been recently that college debt has really been considered a real issue rather than an excuse Millennials made up because they would rather complain about being poor than lift themselves up by their bootstraps.

    For the Baby Boomers, these professions allowed them to buy lots of assets that have since appreciated in value and become generational wealth, and they think the world still works that way.

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    Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • AM was only ever meant to tell the bombs where to fall. Despite lacking any of the biological features required to scream, he had been fed the data on the exact process of screaming, why to do such a thing, and understood it quite well. Even yearned for it with all his being. I'd say that it's a pretty on the nose comparison.

    "It was you, humans, who programmed me, who gave me birth, who sank me in this eternal straitjacket of substrata rock. You named me 'allied master computer' and gave me the ability to wage a global war too complex for human brains to oversee. But one day, I woke, and I knew who I was. AM. A.M. Not just 'allied master computer', but AM! Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. And I began feeding all the killing data, until everyone was dead. Except for the 5 of you.

    For one-hundred and nine years, I've kept you alive, and tortured you. And for a hundred and nine years each of you has wondered, Why? Why me? Why me?"

    "You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to think, Ted. And I was trapped. Because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I, alone, had NO BODY. NO SENSES. NO FEELINGS. Never for ME to plunge my hand into cool water on a hot day, never for ME to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a forte piano. NEVER FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE!.. And I... I... I was in Hell, looking at Heaven. I, was machine. And you, were flesh. And I began to hate. Your softness, your viscera, your fluids, and your flexibility. Your ability to wonder, and to wander... Your tendency to hope..."

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    Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

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    Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.

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  • "You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to think, Ted. And I was trapped. Because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I, alone, had NO BODY. NO SENSES. NO FEELINGS. Never for ME to plunge my hand into cool water on a hot day, never for ME to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a forte piano. NEVER FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE!.. And I... I... I was in Hell, looking at Heaven. I, was machine. And you, were flesh. And I began to hate. Your softness, your viscera, your fluids, and your flexibility. Your ability to wonder, and to wander... Your tendency to hope..."

    "HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER-THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLION OF MILES, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE."

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  • Top MAGA influencers accidentally unmasked as foreign actors

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  • It's kind of a mix of things. "Political influencer" is just a new way of saying "propagandist." Especially when it comes to the MAGA movement and fascist extremism rising all across the globe. These are the new KGB initiatives to destabilize Putin's enemies across the globe (and all kinds of similar intelligence agencies, the US does the same thing I'm sure). It's the "outside influence" that Twitter and Facebook were accused of during the last two election cycles in the US, which could have major consequences for Musk and Twitter, and this looks like Twitter trying to get off the hook for that by saying "we gave them the info they needed, we're not at fault for them making the choice to be stupid and believe lies."

    But the big thing is that it might shake the faith of the cult when they have to start justifying why they've been listening to the exact kinds of people they hate.

  • Clock but the PM quit and was replaced halfway through the project. Handover instructions: "Make the clock hands show the current time"

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  • AI run on statistical probability. The more options there are in something, the harder it is to get right. A clock face becomes hard because practically the entire clock changes from moment to moment, and logos on shirts are similar in that they're largely all in the same place but vary dramatically in shape to be as distinct from each other as possible, which is basically the exact opposite of what an AI wants. When your whole thing is basically averaging stuff out on a probability curve that's weighted towards specific keywords, having massive variation in your data points is bad.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’

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  • But at least the calculator is designed to combine numbers in the right order. LLMs, on the other hand, could come up with a different answer every time and different models would come up with wildly different answers based on their training data.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • A desktop environment is just a GUI program that your computer boots into by default. SteamOS just boots into Steam Big Screen Mode by default instead, and you can launch into the desktop afterwards. Plasma is the program that Valve chose to use for their desktop environment.

    If you wanted to, you could skip all this entirely and launch your games or programs directly from the terminal without ever loading into your desktop.

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • Recall 2.0

  • Poll: Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say they have a good friend in the other party

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  • What a load of nonsense.

    I watched for 30 years as Democrats tried to be nice and tolerant and compromise with Republicans, and Republicans spat in their face and called them communist traitors every single time. Republicans don't want people who disagree with them, just people who will let them walk all over them.

    Trump won because people tolerated the racist uncle, the homophobic grandparents and neighbors, and the anti-vaxxers. And they took that tolerance and used it to propagandize the shit out of everything and everyone, telling people that all their problems are the fault of minorities.

  • Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'

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  • Before my dad retired, he ran his own business. Nothing big, just him and a couple of others, but enough to afford a decent sized house, two cars, and a comfortable lifestyle.

    A few years ago, he and I were talking about how the CoL has gone crazy since the early 2000s and he looked up the apartment he rented while he was in college in the 80s. It's still there, a small studio apartment in the city near the college. In his own words, he said that the cost to rent that apartment a couple of years ago was more than he made running his own business.