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  • It's an image every few seconds. Not that piracy is currently even interested in tech that reencodes the content.And for training, copyrighted stuff is already everywhere; AI tools seem to be limited on the output side rather than raw training data.

  • So?

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  • Chopsticks clearly do fork things. I see them as a more specialized fork since they blunt-cut worse than a fork, and you have even higher viscosity requirements for scooping stuff, but for manipulation they beat forks.

    A single chopstick is however useless, so clearly they each are half a fork.

  • Great! Could you kindly extract them to further our article-non-reading habits?

  • Amusingly, in a way, we are using microphotography (photolithography) to produce images on the scale of hundreds of atoms. Then we stack those images to achieve dense structures of data that can be read out electronically (flash chips).Making a rom chip using this technology would be a lot like that encyclopedia britannica in a matchbox, except more around the size of a grain of dust. Of course we tend to make ram instead, where information is only encoded after the photolithography is done creating the structure.

  • Brian.

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  • This is so turbing.

  • That's so new! My stuff still requires version 1.8/s

  • Name the prime a "none", the octave a sept.Now, 2 "septaves", c1 to c3, are a 14th. 2*7 = 14.

    You can make off-by-one intervals work, but you have to constantly juggle some +1s or -1s compared to what we usually use.

    If you counted distance in steps, then moving from your front door to your front door would be 0 steps, not one, and moving by 6 steps is twice the distance of 3 steps.

    A piano with 5 septaves has 5*7 = 60 keys, wait.

    So anyway mathematically one dodecave, one 12th, c1 to c2, has 12 segments, the frequency diffefence is 2. So a second, 2 notes, has 2/12 of that interval, the ratio is 22/12.A first, a halftone, has 21/12 as its frequency ratio, and a none has 20/12 = 1, the same frequency.

    No matter if you count physical keys, distance on a keyboard to change a note by, or mathematical frequency in the air, starting at 1 goes against our intuition, and when you try to add or multiply it is easy to get completely wrong results.

    PS: You might want to go C to C on your 5 dodecave keyboard, in which case the concept of "started hour" etc. is familiar, you know to add one arriving at 61 keys, and you know that means an assymetry where one C doesn't have 11 other keys to itself.The other way around you'd have to subtract 4, so probably subtract 5 and add 1 since you were dealing with 5 tredecaves in your head not 1 base tredecave followed by 4 extension tredecaves.

  • In the basic case you go to settings and change permissions.

    In the more typical case for os modifications, you go to that tab, open advanced properties, change the owner account by typing in "everyone" or your account name by hand, saving, closing reopening the advanced security settings, probably disable inheritance then create a new permission entry.

    In the most extreme case, where you change files belonging to something critical like windows defender or edge, you can't.The only way I am aware of is booting into an older windows install iso, or a live linux iso, then performing the modifications there.

    Disclaimer: I have not done this on windows 11 yet, but I can't imagine the process got simplified.

    Windows has a lot of systems that allow some more complicated modifications. Those are often unnecessarily obfuscated, the registry for example doesn't have to be a weird custom database, it could have been part of the filesystem or at least a more standard database format. Windows will sometimes bite you with weird sketchy systems breaking expectations, and this tends to become inevitable when you try to change stuff Microsoft has decided to remove consumer choice on.If Edge and the account push were as easy to avoid as learning how to take basic file ownership, we might not be where we are now (i.e. on Linux).

  • You need a few new tabs in the same instance, until it tries to start a new process. I can usually keep using ff for half an hour before running into it.

  • I'm not certain, can't find any reliable info on this.Shops don't seem to specify the reflective material. In addition, aluminium is commonly used to describe the frame, and silver as a color for the frame or other parts, making it hard to get any info on the sales side.

    On the production-tech side, I see some pages talk only about silver, others mention both silver and aluminium. Silver commonly has a description of the chemical process at times (silver nitrate silvering), haven't seen one for aluminium yet.

    Price wise, metal should be fully opaque around 10nm. Assuming a generous 100nm thickness, that makes 0.1€/m² worth of silver. I doubt material cost is a factor.

    Performance wise, silver seems better than aluminium in its reflectance. Honestly I don't get why anyone would be making aluminium mirrors.

    Does anyone have more info on this?

  • Mirrors now are chemically deposited silver to my knowledge.Deposited on the back of the glass, then a protective layer applied on top. The amount of silver in that assembly is very low, and none is exposed, but the reflective component is the silver.

  • alias l='ls -lahv --time-style +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S'

  • wayland is the norm at this point. The distros still on X11 are mostly the slow moving ones, but I would say we are on the trailing end of adoption now overall.

    Wayland is still lacking features, and due to its newness also lacking documentation and tools available for X11.But those are looking like more of a specialty application for X11. The main painpoints are gone.

    The hardware (gpu) situation is fine to my knowledge, drivers have caught up. 10+ year old Nvidia cards (like a gtx 780) may need nouveau, but not sure if even that is still the case.Some workflow stuff is just now appearing (like restoring the window positions when a program restarts) or still missing (like some custom input scripting functionality), this also impacts accessibility.As an example I used to have a script that would input ctrl+pgup/pgdn into the window under my cursor without changing focus, so I could change pages the same way I can scroll in unfocused windows. That was done with some x tools for setting focus and sending keyinputs. It's possible to input keys with root permission under wayland, but changing focus from a script is not possible to my knowledge.

    This is all important stuff, but something most people won't run into, and many more (like me) will accept as a tradeoff for the many advantages of wayland. Doubtless the protocol side will eventually implement apis for all of those missing features, and the tools making use of them will become widely known same as X11 used to be.

  • New version of X.org X11, Xlibre fork gathers support

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  • could you hold this "s" for a while? I need the / it was leaning on for some webdev.

    According to AcronymFinder, the leading search result for "acronym finder", dwl means "dying with laughter". In combination with a questionmark it would form an exclamation of disbelief.

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  • None ever, yes.Not sure what you mean to ask there, but I gotta say hyprland would make a sick name for a tiling dwm.

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  • Hey, there is an entire wayland bad x11 good article hidden in the last 4/5ths of the article!

    Anyway, the article seems to argue that "toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg".It seems to me that now that wayland has become the clear focus of development, most devs sinply want X11 to remain as a legacy element, not causing unnecessary issues elsewhere, just remaining on lts.The train has sailed, wayland is the norm and everyone is working on implementing the last leftovers the article is parading in its weird latter half, rather than through much greater efforts achieving worse results in patching up X11.They should have forked X 10 years ago, when people were still interested in improving it.

    It being left behind is a logical and fully adequate explanation, arguing eee makes little sense when wayland is clearly a simpler protocol. If you wanted to harm linux or foss, and your plan was the transition to wayland and freezing of X11 development, I would call you stupid.

    I don't see why this fork, and this article, have to get conspiritorial about something this easily explained.

    Now that we have the conspiracy crap addressed: wayland defense time

    The Reg FOSS desk is nearing 60, [...] He doesn't care about [...] high and variable refresh rates, tear-free video,

    My fancy new monitor I got in '22 doesn't work on X11. I'd have to replace my other monitors with matching new ones for a few grand, or keep watching videos and all else at 15fps, getting a headache. If you wanna keep your crt, why not keep an ancient X11, why this fork?X11 doesn't support normal modern hardware, my monitor wasn't even special, it's just higher fps than my other monitors and 4k.

    Wayland does not currently allow controlling window position. This means that when you open KiCad, it cannot remember where you last placed your windows.

    The window pos remembering api (name made up by me, I forgot the real one) has been finalized, and will be in this or the next KDE version, etc.. The wayland people are fixing the criticism faster than the critics can shorten their list of remaining issues.

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    uhhhh... ok that's all the wayland criticism, 'cause surprise, the last 2/5ths of the article are actually a rant about ... gnome? I think?Something about no more shortcut support or how removing title bars is bad and the gnome disk manager has bad ui.Idk my shortcuts are better than ever and my title bars were still there last time I checked.But maybe this "big no-accessibility" is why absolutely no tiling dwms have ever been seen for wayland ever. If you switch to wayland you will have to tile by mouse exclusively, you heard it here first!

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  • one in which Weigelt announced the project's Telegram group [...] [which] has nearly 500 members and many thousands of threads.

    Mindboggling they think it's acceptable to use a platform that limits access to those threads like they own them.

    Any modern open-source project has to develop on Discord and Google Docs™, that is well known. What were they thinking‽

  • He asks ChatGPT to help him develop work that would be difficult for students to complete by simply feeding it into a large language model.

    insert picard facepalm here

    That, while not as bad as what I expected from the summary (i.e. AI detection tools etc.), is still hypocritical.This is the exact mindless use of AI yielding subpar results anyone can beat with a bit of practice.

    LLMs are not good at introspection, if you ask them what they struggle with they will go off of their datasets, focussed on the time before chatGPT, and summarise with the typical AI quality and deep understanding of the applicability of the known limitations to your text.

    And all that when the actually correct answer is right there: ask the AI for solutions and learn what breaks it.But that would take at least a few minutes of time, maybe even hours on the first attempts. Ain't nobody got time for that, why learn useful skills for the future when you can just vibe out your ai-proofing?