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  • Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky

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  • Is it pronounced like the blood thinner/rat poison (warfarin)?

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • At this point Void feels like Slackware for the 21st century. It's comprehensive and less full of "modern linux" hairballs than some others, but they seem pretty good on package updates. I like it being non-systemd as a first class thing rather than trying to backport it on an uncooperative parent distro.

  • xkcd #3106: Farads

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  • You see low voltage ones for things like memory backup on hi-fi gear. I have some 3F/5v capacitors in an old Technics tiner.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • This is big "if we break your old toys, you'll HAVE to play with the new ones" energy.

    Tell me when they port FVWM. Seriously. FvwmButtons-- a pretty trivial dock except it can swallow other windows-- seems like it would be out-of-bounds on Wayland unless it was owned by the compositor itself to access the other windows. I don't see any of the new taskbar-tools used with Wayland compositors offering similar functionality (I could be wrong) and that seems an amazing loss of feature parity.

  • Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US

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  • What the hell is with the "Thank you for your attention to this matter?"

    You're shitposting to a global media audience, not politely asking Facilities to restock the vending machine with Snickers bars.

    Are you just in full Business Guy Autocomplete mode? A Bigly Language Model?

  • Those of you that have negative sentiments towards AI: What would you want to happen right now?

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  • I expect the hype people to do hype, but I'm frustrated that the consumers are also being hypemen. So much of this stuff, especially at the corporate level, is FOMO rather than actually delivered value.

    If it was any other expensive and likely vendor-lockin-inducing adventure, it would be behind years of careful study and down-to-the-dime estimates of cost and yield. But the same people who historically took 5 years to decide to replace an IBM Wheelwriter with a PC and a laser printer are rushing to throw AI at every problem up to and including the men's toilet on the third floor being clogged.

  • Those of you that have negative sentiments towards AI: What would you want to happen right now?

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  • It feels like we're being delivered the sort of stuff we'd consider flim-flam if a human did it, but lapping it up bevause the machine did it.

    "Sure, boss, let me write this code (wrong) or outline this article (in a way that loses key meaning)!" If you hired a human who acted like that, we'd have them on an improvement plan in days and sacked in weeks.

  • Those of you that have negative sentiments towards AI: What would you want to happen right now?

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  • Stop selling it a loss.

    When each ugly picture costs $1.75, and every needless summary or expansion costs 59 cents, nobody's going to want it.

  • What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi?

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  • Try RiscOS for a glimpse of a world most of us missed.

  • China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online

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  • I suspect it could be seen as a proper noun.

    If Acme and FooCorp create a bridge between their private network spaces, it's an internet (common noun) but not the Internet (proper noun, referring to the one with Goatse).

    Let's find an English teacher. And yell at them for forcing us to read the same terrible novel in both 10th and 12th grades. Maybe after that, return to this subject.

  • Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption

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  • I'd say it's a bad thing because it's the wrong threat model as a default.

    More home users are in scenarios like "I spilled a can of Diet Sprite into my laptop, can someone yank the SSD and recover my cat pictures" than "Someone stole my laptop and has physical access to state secrets that Hegseth has yet to blurt on Twitch chat". Encryption makes the first scenario a lot harder to easily recover from, and people with explicit high security needs should opt into it or have organization-managed configs.

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  • The Global Foundries split was probably a way to get AMD out of the hyper-capital-intensive fab business. And without a tier-1 customer, Global had less reason to pursue smaller nodes.

    Intel has that national-champion thing to keep it afloat. I can imagine there are defence contracts that will never go to a "TSMC Arizona Division" and they'll pay whatever it takes to keep that going.

  • Genuine question - why did 250 people buy this?

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  • Some people like to use a stored balance as a financial discipline tool. Don't put a "real" funding source on the account and then you can only spend the $100 you committed to, and not go whale-mad and drop $500 on premium currencies.

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  • It's easier just to price in the fee than having to shut down or retool a project.

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  • The problem with attribution is the difficulty of 1000% accurate compliance.

    If you grab 100 lines of code from a repository, or five paragraphs from a story, there's probably a claim there. If you grab a single word, there's probably not. But in the middle, there's a paralysis of uncertainty-- is n lines similar enough to create liability? Can you remember where you saw what reliably? You end up with a bias towards "over-attribution" and it becomes difficult to pare it back. Does everything need a full Git-style commit history? Are we forever stuck keeping a credit on a project because it's difficult to prove you've fully scrubbed their contributions?

    Focus on how we pay artists (ideally lush grants) and forget about credit. Maybe establish a culture where it's voluntary and acceptable-- that people feel that they're allowed to cite their raw materials, and reuse doesn't make the work lesser-- but don't try to use the courts to force people to try to remember and track where they saw something when they just want to create, or it creates a hostile environment.

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  • Hey, the broken clock's right!

    IP law always had a built-in scale pronlem. Without a registration-required copyright model, and probably some sort of mandatory licensing rate system, the sheer logistics of finding and arranging rights made a lot of business models inpractical. (For example, why aren't modern bookstores just print-on-demand kiosks, or streaming services have All The Content? In large part because it would cost thousands to track down owners and negotiate terms for $1.87 in royalties multiplied by every item in the catalog.)

    This was ignorable for a long time, or even a commercial advantage for firms with access to large, pre-negotiated catalogs. The AI boom created a surprise market of non-incumbents who need to get access to a lot of IP in a streamlined manner.

    If we open the door for bulk IP clearance to grant the AI bubble a stro ger legal footing, it can also allow other, potentially more interesting business ideas to slip through.

  • Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador | Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador

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  • It's impressive how much of the recent deportation scheme leans on the cooperation of one tin-pot state.

    There aren't that many other places with concentration camps conveninently located and leadership ready to deal. It's unlikely they'd build them domestically, it would take time, cost a fortune, and not achieve the explicit "we removed the evil foreigners" goal.

    It would be interesting to see what happened if someone said "we'll pay you more than what America is paying to close the door." Would he have to just knock on every presidential palace in the hemisphere looking for a new partner? Try to scale Guantanamo 100x overnight?

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  • I bought a '60s VTVM recently. It needs mains voltage, uses two vaccuum tubes, and does less than my $15 Aliexpress digital meter while taking 48 times the space, but golly it's nifty.

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    If the U.S. were to rewrite all of its laws tomorrow, what are the things that Democrats and Republicans would agree on?

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  • Property rights. The almighty sole principle.