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  • They should make a Windows version called Windows 10P which is the same as Windows 10 but only the bare-bones necessities and no extra crap or required online services, and sell it for $59.99 (seeing that Windows is already de facto freeware). That's probably an order of magnitude than what they make from intrusive advertising anyway to a single user over the lifespan of a computer.

  • Damn, even school shooters get to work from home now.

  • Uh, excuse me, "GOD" is actually an acronym for "Great Omniscient Deity", so it's actually pronounced /'paɪnæpl/.

  • Nebula never works well for me. The seeking and tracking causes endless buffering, and sometimes not even a hard refresh fixes this. Their site is just so buggy but when it works, at least it works decently well.

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  • I took a screenshot of this page

    (Screenshot removed because it takes forever to load and is not interesting enough to waste bandwidth on)

    I am connected to a 4K monitor and this picture is also at 3775 × 2119. The total file size:

    12.1 MB

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  • I have never had a screenshot exceeding 40 MB. That is humongous.

  • Newsom, probably

  • Students view doing that as basically the same amount of work as writing the paper yourself

  • Aye that's exactly the same thing that I said

  • Just another 1.21 jigawatts of electricity, bro. If we get this new coal plant up and running, it'll be enough.

  • This is why invisible watermarking of AI-generated content is likely to be so effective. Even primitive watermarks like file metadata. It's not hard for anyone with technical knowledge to remove, but the thing with AI-generated content is that anyone who dishonestly uses it when they are not supposed to is probably also too lazy to go through the motions of removing the watermarking.

  • There are eight genders: null, undefined, false, NaN, 0, "0", {}, and "".

  • I think most people already know that flags at half staff is worthless virtue-signalling

  • Isn't it just strange that a right-wing agitator meets his end... by being shot in a school shooting??

    Unrelated quote:

    I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

    —Clarence Darrow, civil rights lawyer

  • Prior to GitHub, everyone just hosted their own Git repositories. The nature of Git is pretty decentralised. And Linux kernel development still uses old-fashioned mailing lists for development co-ordination, rather than something like GitHub. I have heard before someone say the difference between Git and GitHub is similar to the difference between porn and Pornhub.

    Prior to Discord, there was IRC.

  • I'm going to make a prediction if they are going to release a list of some sort with names on it:

    1. They will redact names by using black highlight using computer software and then destroying the underlying text information by printing it out and scanning it, or something similar. This would prevent the most obvious form of getting around the redaction (which is extracting text information from underneath the highlight).
    2. They will make the rookie mistake of using a proportional font like Times New Roman for the names, which is a font wherein each letter has a different length, instead of a monospace font like this one where all characters are the same width.
    3. An investigative journalist will notice that one of the redacted names is exactly the same length as "DONALD JOHN TRUMP" typed in the document's font, and then applied black highlight over it.
  • And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, [writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.

    —a story told by Socrates, according to his student Plato