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Stuped person says stuped things, people boom
I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?
Formerly on kbin.social and dbzer0
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Julian Assange Free on Bail, Departs UK for Australia! ( twitter.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/98778...
Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )
There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...
data sorting is my passion ( kbin.melroy.org )
Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months ( www.theguardian.com )
Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll
TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it. ( en.wikipedia.org )
The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website....
KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5 ( www.phoronix.com )
Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand ( finance.yahoo.com )
Tech Workers Rise Up: Organizing Google's Worldwide Worker Walkout ( unicornriot.ninja )
UK defence minister says intelligence has evidence of Chinese lethal aid to Russia in its war against Ukraine ( www.reuters.com )
British defence minister Grant Shapps accused China on Wednesday of providing or preparing to provide Russia with lethal aid for use by Moscow in its war against Ukraine....
New Details on Valve's New Game 'Deadlock' - Insider Gaming ( insider-gaming.com )
As already leaked, the game is a 6v6 third-person hero-based shooter. Heroes include magicians, robots, creatures, humans, and more. There are currently 19 different heroes, each with different abilities and playstyles that you’d come to expect from a MOBA including ranged, healers, tanks, assassins, etc....
GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites ( www.technologyreview.com )
Of the 100 results, only three of them are common enough to be used in everyday conversations; everything else consisted of words and expressions used specifically in the contexts of either gambling or pornography. The longest token, lasting 10.5 Chinese characters, literally means “_free Japanese porn video to watch.” Oops....
California Resto Lets You Pay For Meal With Your Face: Payment Method May Be Available Nationwide Soon ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson ( www.tomsguide.com )
The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial pool of 400 and it's purely a coincidence the unnamed actress behind the Sky voice has a similar tone to Johansson....
Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?
c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues...
Winamp is going open source ( feddit.uk )
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software....
stupidestAdvertisingEver ( kbin.melroy.org )
Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol...
Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android ( www.apple.com )
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
Suggest unto me a new FOSS operating system ( infosec.pub )
I have a 1TB harddrive on my desktop computer that isn't doing much of anything, so I'd like to dual-boot something "interesting". Suggestions are greatly appreciated, so let me know what y'all find intriguing/interesting/frustrating/innovative....
Zelda 64: Recompiled for PC - Majora's Mask Release Trailer ( www.youtube.com )
Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation ( arstechnica.com )
Zed editor: Linux when? ( zed.dev )
In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape
RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain ( www.yahoo.com )
Zed Decoded: Linux when? - Zed Blog ( zed.dev )
TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban ( www.cnn.com )
the source ain't the only thing open ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money ( www.theguardian.com )
The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.