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GnuLinuxDude

@ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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    Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech

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  • damn the 2020s felt like decades ago 😥

  • Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform

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  • never

    That tweet must be some kind of joke, because I don't know what to make of the many people who use Linux outside of embedded and server applications. And it doesn't even have to be my hearsay because the Steam Deck is exactly such a device.

    In fact, I have a USB audio interface which I use near daily on Linux that has no driver support in modern Windows, because the vendor only provided beta support for Windows 7 as that OS was releasing. By Windows 8 it was unsupported. So the journey of that device is XP->Stable, Vista->Stable, 7->Unstable, 8+-> Non-functioning. If the driver ABI were so stable, why does my device not work on Windows anymore?

  • Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites

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  • I'd not heard of your site before, but it sounds like it was a cool thing while it lasted. That seems to be the trend of the day. The cool things are giving way to very dumb things.

  • (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]

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  • There is no .srt in this case. This is also not about bitmap dvd vobsubs.

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • I'd be willing to bet if you put a calendar reminder in one year to check back on this you'd find that this car did not actually reach the mass-produced stage of industry.

  • Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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  • Sounds like your school needed better funding and more teachers. 50 students per class? I'm sorry you had to suffer that. This is the future that people like the CEO of DuoLingo want. They want to gut traditional education. Don't see how this makes him right about anything.

  • It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

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  • Stressing out in what way? For the viability of your job being lost to this ai bullshit? For the outcomes of students who will just try to chatGPcheaT their way through everything?

  • Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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  • tiktok voice:

    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...

  • Things at Tesla are worse than they appear

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  • It also wants to end the right of California and eight other states to demand tougher emissions regulations than the federal standards that would ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. Without tough emissions rules at the federal and state level, there would be no regulatory credit sales.

    The sale of those federal and state credits has been quite lucrative for Tesla, bringing in $8.4 billion in revenue since the start of 2021 alone, money that basically went straight to its bottom line.

    Is this the greenwashing scam companies use to pretend that they are working toward a carbon-neutral production line? They're just speculating on future production and selling today's emissions to today's buyers on tomorrow's promise?

    How fucked.

  • Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for

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  • every non-vandalized cybertruck is an affront to decent society

  • North Korea Stole Your Job

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  • Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.

    One must add Israel to this. And, by extension, Israel's benefactor: The United States of Impunity. I'd also throw in Russia.

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • If in the future you think you might bring family/relations onboard to the password manager, it may be worthwhile to pay for a BitWarden family plan. BitWarden is really low-cost and they publish their stuff as FOSS (and therefore are worth supporting), but crucially you don't want to be the point of technical support for when something doesn't work for someone else. Self-hosting a password manager is an easier thing to do if you're only doing it for yourself.

    That said, I use a self-hosted Vaultwarden server as backup (i.e. I manually bring the server online and sync to my phone now and again), and my primary password manager is through Keepassxc, which is a completely separate and offline password manager program.

    Edit: Forgot to mention, you can always start with free BitWarden and then export your data and delete your account if you decide to self-host.

  • What is Docker?

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  • You might notice that your Windows installation is like 30 gigabytes and there is a huge folder somewhere in the system path called WinSXS. Microsoft bends over backwards to provide you with basically all the versions of all the shared libs ever, resulting in a system that can run programs compiled from decades ago just fine.

    In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source. Sometimes it breaks because Glibc changed something. Or sometimes it breaks because (extremely rare) the kernel broke something. Linus considers breaking the userspace API one of the biggest no-nos in kernel development.

    Even so, depending on what you're doing you can have a really old binary run on your Linux computer if the conditions are right. Windows just makes that surface area of "conditions being right" much larger.

    As for your phone, all the apps that get built and run for it must target some kind of specific API version (the amount of stuff you're allowed to do is much more constrained). Android and iOS both basically provide compatibility for that stuff in a similar way that Windows does, but the story is much less chaotic than on Linux and Windows (and even macOS) where your phone app is not allowed to do that much, by comparison.

  • Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to

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  • Marianne Williamson got laughed at about this in the 2020 US primary, but she was the only person who meaningfully advocated for peace among nations, going so far as to propose a Department of Peace.

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  • Good on them for having a conscience. Seems like their minds actually function.

  • OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing

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  • If you bought this e-junk in the first place you're kind of a moron.

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  • Death cult mentality. Holding the entire planet hostage for their own gain. These people deserve a penalty of a certain kind.

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  • Alternate headline: How one man spammed Wikipedia

  • I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened

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  • I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.