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GnuLinuxDude

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  • China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September

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  • A government policy isn’t just posturing because the state now has a rule to cite if they’re gonna issue you a fine or whatever the punishment is supposed to be. So you will either comply, or go underground or abroad. That’s a real consequence.

  • The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdier

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  • Considering slavery is legal under the original constitution I would say “worker suppression” is DEFINITELY a founding principle of the US.

  • YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription

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  • As an entry-level subscription, the new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.

    I wonder how much electricity is wasted on this alone. Probably so many people leaving their screens powered on just to continue listening to something without it stopping.

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  • I've been paying for Mullvad for a while and didn't realize this was even a thing until this announcement.

  • Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support

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  • This is the one program my dad explicitly uses in the Microsoft suite of programs that I thought, "Ok fine we'll keep paying for this shit." Time to start looking into alternatives. Microsoft... Even when I stop using their software they still cause me endless wasted time.

  • If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

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  • The problem with Markdown is it kind of sucks. CommonMark didn't even defragment the markdown world, since there are numerous incompatible extensions. It seems like gfm is the best among them, or at least the most featureful.

    I know there are other options like RST or AsciiDoc, but I don't know which among them is actually "the best."

  • Introducing Pi-hole v6

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  • Pi-hole is one of my favorite pieces of software. It is the reason I began self-hosting six years ago.

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    Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!

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  • Unfortunately I can't play around with it anymore because I live a thousand miles away from everyone I support who actually uses Jellyfin. My experience with the Android TV app was embedded SRT subtitle support is now 100% good as of late last year, but embedded PGS trips things up so much that I cannot use them.

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    Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!

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  • Sublime never offered lifetime subscriptions. https://web.archive.org/web/20150928064400/http://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq You can even see as far back as 2014 that if you purchased Sublime Text 2 when Sublime 3 was still in beta:

    • Upgrade PolicyA license is valid for Sublime Text 3, and includes all point updates, as well as access to prior versions (e.g., Sublime Text 2). Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade.
    • Expiration DateLicenses purchased for Sublime Text 3 do not expire, however an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.

    You can find that disagreeable, but it was not something they hid from us customers.

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    Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!

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  • I don't use it for myself but my experience with Jellyfin is the subtitles UX kind of sucks. It got a lot better on the Android TV app recently (ty to the maintainer!), particularly with improved subtitle support, but because of ExoPlayer it still can't play bitmapped embedded subtitles easily, only .srt subtitles.

    The experience on iOS/appletv with Jellyfin/Swiftfin was so bad that I ended up recommending Infuse. Infuse is a great app, but it's not a libre app, which kind of clashes with the rest of Jellyfin in that regard. And, once again, it needs massaging: unless you want to be popped up with a buy Infuse Pro pop-up your video and audio has to be in certain codecs.

    As I said, I don't use these things, myself. I don't even have a TV. But every now and again, I will put a file up for some relatives, and I want it to be totally directly playable, because my server is just an old laptop. So I have to spend a lot of manual time making sure the files are juuuuust right. If there comes a day where there's direct playback with embedded PGS or SRT subtitles on all platforms that will be the day the Jellyfin suite of software becomes 10/10 software for me.

  • Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

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  • This whole thing is extremely cringe. There isn’t any other way to put it. Trump. His executive order. The compliance. It’s all cringe.

  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • I’m betting high odds he will force the federal government to buy them under the guise of a green EV transition. With trump’s full blessing, of course.

  • OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission

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  • i'm at 1200000% zoom and i can't see it!?

  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • It’s so obnoxious. I hate researching a topic only to be fed results leading to useless AI spam. The entire thing is clogged up like this. Searching on the internet absolutely sucks, now.

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • It's not absolutely shit, it's a Thinkpad t440s with an i7 and 8gigs of RAM and a completely broken trackpad that I ordered to use as a PC when my desktop wasn't working in 2018. Started with a bare server OS then quickly realized the value of virtualization and deployed Proxmox on it in 2019. Have been using it as a modest little server ever since. But I realize it's now 10 years old. And it might be my server for another 5 years, or more if it can manage it.

    In the host OS I tweaked some value to ensure the battery never charges over 80%. And while I don't know exactly how much electricity it consumes on idle, I believe it's not too much. Works great for what I want. The most significant issue is some error message that I can't remember the text of that would pop up, I think related to the NIC. I guess Linux and the NIC in this laptop have/had some kind of mutual misunderstanding.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • A rule they could have, and should have, discarded the moment they took the senate.

    Whoa, that would mean the democrats have to actually wield their authority in alignment with their purported popular agendas -- the very thing they absolutely must never do!

  • The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today!

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  • I think they are trying to ensure that no future Windows is ever good again. I mean, it was Win10 that made me frustrated enough to permanently kick the habit of using Windows.

  • Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming

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  • His megalomania is so boundless he would sacrifice the entire planet to make money.

  • TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI

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  • As for what ByteDance plans to do with a new LLM, a person familiar with the company’s ambitions said one goal has to do with the search function for TikTok.

    Last week, TikTok released an update to its current search function focused on [keywords for ads], basically allowing advertisers to search in real time for words that are trending on TikTok. It allows marketers to build an ad with relevant keywords that would ostensibly help the ad show up on the screens of more users.

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    “Given the audience and the amount of use, TikTok with a search environment that is a completely biddable space with keywords and topics, that would be very interesting to a lot of people spending a ton of money with Google right now,” the person said.

    A dark vision just flashed in my mind. And I am certain this is what will happen. AI-generated ads done in real time based on the latest “trending” thing. Presented to users basically as soon as the topic has the slightest amount of “trend”.

    Just emitting untold amounts of CO2 to show you generated ads in near real time.