What instructions are you following? Last time I used Rufus on Windows, it had a graphical interface with reasonable default settings and zero messing around on the command line. (I mean, I sometimes did once I was booted into Linux, but I was using distros where that's not unexpected.)
I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don't think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.
Because Facebook's data practices, and how much was volunteered by users on there, means that for some percentage of trans users Facebook knows that they're trans. And you also have a percentage of pregnancy photos uploaded, if someone identifies as a woman on Facebook, and has uploaded photos with a baby bump, she's cis (or at least a pre-hatching trans person). And at one point in time, a lot of people just volunteered that info to Facebook.
It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...
The bike will do better with any shitty road conditions, the bike is going to be more usable in winter in Vancouver even if OP isn't planning on riding it much over the winter.
I once had a 9 hour overnight layover in Denver Airport. It's a cool weird airport to get stuck in. I didn't bother to walk out to Blucifer. The infamous mural was still up, and it has a lot of detail that you can see a lot better up close in person, but the most memorable parts of that layover for me were the luggage gargoyles (which are fairly small, cute things) and watching the sun rise over the mountains from one of the terminals. Still, I wouldn't do it again, a 9 hour layover sucks.
I went with the ad supported model, and now I'm thoroughly sick of ads and Amazon, but unfortunately you can no longer root their devices, they've really locked them down.
I'm considering buying another tablet just because I'm so sick of Amazon's crap. I wonder if Free Geek has any decent tablets for sale?
Want to put gas in your car? Ads. That talk and there's no way to silence them.
Oh, no, wait, that one is real. Are they everywhere yet? I haven't driven a car in several years. But I definitely remember that was real dystopian shit, similar to how I felt when I started getting ads in Windows.
If you go the NASCAR route, it'd make it way easier to find out who bought your politicians. And which pharma company bought lunch for your doctor last week.
Wow, you're subscribed to way fewer communities than I am, I've got over a dozen posts between this one and the possum. Most of them I wouldn't necessarily recommend, but someone posted an otter vid to !aww you might be interested in.
I grew up in Florida, where you can buy hard liquor in some gas stations, and now I live in Minnesota, which is now the last state with 3.2 beer - but we got Sunday liquor sales a few years ago (possibly because everyone in the Twin Cities would just go to Wisconsin if they wanted beer on Sunday) and now legal weed. A lot of grocery stores have attached liquor stores and it's not a big deal, but it's still silly.
EDIT: we also passed a right to repair law last year. We're flat Colorado for cheap!
I used to live in a small Minnesota town and the only liquor store was run by the city. The prices were reasonable for how rural we were, and apparently some of the profits helped with city expenses. However, there was a grocery store 15 years ago or so that apparently wanted to open in the town and also have it's own liquor store, but the town denied their permits for the liquor store for officially unclear reasons, lol.
Getting someone else to buy it isn't actually the only way kids get it in states with really loose liquor laws - when I was a teen, I heard of a few places, mostly gas stations, that never carded. Eventually they got busted by the cops, but they sold a lot of booze to my friends before that happened. I don't think that's justification for exclusively state run liquor stores though. But I bet the people working at government run stores get better benefits and more stable hours than the ones working for private businesses...
My high school did a terrible job with teaching about it, I think it was mentioned briefly but with no real detail. I did go to high school in Florida, but I graduated in 2008 before things got really bad there.
I'm glad shaving hobbyists exist, y'all were a great help when I wanted to replace my Ross clearance safety razor, but I still don't understand it as a hobby, lol.
I'm interested in automatically generating lengthy, coherent stories of 10,000+ words from a single prompt using an open source local large language model (LLM) on low-spec hardware like a laptop without GPU and with i5-8250U, 16GB DDR4-2400MHz. I came across the "Awesome-Story-Generation" repository which lists relevant papers...
I've won NaNoWriMo twice and I can confirm that writing your own does not necessarily result in a cool or coherent story. One of the two is likely better than an LLM could come up with, though.
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest said Thursday they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden....
There was a picture going around during the pandemic of a religious leader performing a baptism with a super soaker. So, at least in some Christian denominations, that's totally cool. And if Gatorade is okay...
Can you baptize people with a supersoaker full of piss?
“[Razer] falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified respirator,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement....
Also they were rather expensive, even if they had done what they claimed to. They became more available about the same time you could get N95s easily. I'm the kind of weirdo who thinks an RGB face mask would be cool, but I didn't want to spend $150 (iirc) on one.
EDIT: based on comments on the article, they were $99. Still more than I'd want to spend on something this silly, but not that unreasonable - if the mask did what it said it did.
I set it in Google calendar with a notification 15 minutes before I need to call. I struggled a lot more before smartphones, and I still wonder if that pda I wanted in grade school would have actually helped.
On a side note, anyone know a reliable FOSS replacement for Google calendar?
I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I'm a writer and it's a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it's got Windows and it's unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it's been a few...
What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal ( www.newscientist.com )
Found via the author's Mastodon Post...
Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them ( www.xda-developers.com )
Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins....
Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 ( www.latimes.com )
I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don't think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.
This new dating app will use facial recognition technology to exclude trans women ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )
It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...
Final Question. E-Bike or Electric scooter?
I am going to make my purchase this Wednesday. And a late addition to the fold is an electric scooter....
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ ( www.theverge.com )
Twitter is officially X.com now ( www.theverge.com )
TIL there's a rich history of conspiracy theories centered around Denver International Airport ( history.denverlibrary.org )
EA gonna EA ( lemmy.world )
What are your best intrusive ads ideas?
If your job was to come up with greater enshittification for society, what would you do?...
imagine rule ( lemmy.cafe )
This Freeway Sucks -- Let's Decommission It ( www.youtube.com )
Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill ( www.techdirt.com )
hey lemmy.blahaj.zone fix your ruleing website ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
if i can use reddit on my 3ds then why not lemmy
May the 4th be with rule ( sh.itjust.works )
The "Driving across the Midwest" Starter Pack ( poptalk.scrubbles.tech )
Why are many men growing beards again ? ( lemmy.ml )
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
How can I use a local LLM on Linux to generate a long story?
I'm interested in automatically generating lengthy, coherent stories of 10,000+ words from a single prompt using an open source local large language model (LLM) on low-spec hardware like a laptop without GPU and with i5-8250U, 16GB DDR4-2400MHz. I came across the "Awesome-Story-Generation" repository which lists relevant papers...
Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols ( apnews.com )
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest said Thursday they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden....
Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding ( www.pcgamer.com )
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks ( arstechnica.com )
“[Razer] falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified respirator,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement....
Better to do nothing at all than miss that appointment ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Reddit seem to have switched to the newer, even shittier UI by default. ( lemmy.ml )
What distro should I use on my potato?
I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I'm a writer and it's a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it's got Windows and it's unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it's been a few...
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