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The fascinating sex lives of insects ( theconversation.com )

Many male insects only get to mate once, even when they aren’t eaten by their partners. For example, male bees ejaculate with such explosive force that it is loud enough for humans to hear. This ensures the sperm is passed to the female, but it results in paralysis of the male, which kills him.

eveninghere ,

In the animal kingdom, females are rarely faithful to their mates, so there is probably sperm from a number of males inside a female reproductive tract.

How can I buy a plane ticket to that Animal Kingdom you all're talking about.

eveninghere ,

They aren't purposefully ignoring it.

It's just that it's not newsworthy for academics, either because it's not surprising or there's no funding for such studies.

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You can fund it. A huge funding to change even the journals.

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I really like Jobs-era Apple and hate M$, but didn't feel the urge to defend A this time.

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The opposition says the reforms, which among other things criminalize contempt of parliament by government officials, are needed to bring more accountability, but the DPP says they were forced through without proper discussion.

Checks for politicians, please. "They forced us" appeals to the sympathy, but the logical conclusion is NOT "we remove it". In short, it's a bad reasoning.

eveninghere ,

Likely it's as simple as a pop up window with UI dedicated for constructing text with ChatGPT. Very useful, nothing more.

My guess is that you can reassign a different command just like other logi mice.

eveninghere ,

The hatred is unfortunate. It's just a button with a simple software launcher. If people don't want the logi driver they don't have to install it.

openSUSE Tumbleweed vs openSUSE MicroOS

I recently came across openSUSE again and decided to give it a try this time. I am daily driving Fedora 40 right now and before coming across openSUSE I wanted to switch to Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora (i.e., immutable / atomic). That's why MicroOS piqued my interest but I had a hard time find information if MicroOS is...

eveninghere ,

What's the advantage of using wayland at the moment?

eveninghere ,

Agreed. And I do understand wayland is the future, having done studies around X11 a bit. The problem for long time users like me is that there are still expert apps and use cases that aren't covered by wayland, at least for now. And because the current benefits of wayland are not obvious they will complain if their distros transition to wayland too soon.

eveninghere ,

Remote desktops. I think the main complaints are the performance.
To me the issue is that with x11vnc you could remote into an existing display, even the login screen. Recent Gnome finally seems to have it for wayland, but afaik KDE still doesn't have it.

eveninghere ,

Conversely, I'm annoyed by anti-AI nontechbros

eveninghere ,

I think the quality definitely degraded, but that's exactly what capitalism wanted. It's going to darwin a big chunk of us through climate change that's accelerated by the electricity needs.

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Most clients don't understand art or graphics to begin with, I guess. They just wanted someone good at Illustrator.

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This is starting to resemble Putin's rhetoric against NATO since he invaded Ukraine

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now personally responsible for security flaws.

I say BS.

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Means nothing to Recall.

His testimony comes after Microsoft admitted that it could have taken steps to prevent two aggressive nation-state cyberattacks from China and Russia.

According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the "security nightmare." Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem, choosing profits over security, ProPublica reported.

eveninghere ,

Nah, if 2 are really working, just buy 998 and he'd have at least stuck to the number. Whether that improves something is the actual question.

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The funny thing is that this is probably lobbying from NTT Docomo, who lost their own app store monopoly for feature phones the moment smartphones arrived.

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No, Japan just listened to the previous app market monopoly that was NTT Docomo and other providers who wanted their money pot back.

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I just hope they'll let non-profit app stores join. I just want an open source package manager tbh.

German Chancellor Scholz to Putin: we will defend 'every square inch' of NATO territory ( www.reuters.com )

NATO's recent move to strengthen its eastern border is aimed at deterring Russia, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, adding that it should be clear to Moscow that the alliance will be ready to defend itself if necessary....

eveninghere ,

This is basically Article 5, so... Putin won't care what he said.

eveninghere ,

I feel the Doc in Back To The Future vibe.

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Japanese Prime Minister

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We aren't naive. We all knew this will happen. But, as it happened, it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.

eveninghere ,

The reality is, passing this huge amount of data was the only way these crazy current AI models work as powerful as ChatGPT. With a restriction like you fantasize, the AI programs would have been dominated by bad actors and the west would not have a counter technology for a decade if not longer.

Regulating the outputs of AIs would be a separate story. But it's still overwhelmingly difficult. OpenAI is actually advanced in this region in the sense that they have in pocket the single best technology to politically balance the replies by a chatbot.

eveninghere ,

I already write one reply to tell my main point. But whatever argument you come up with, I don't think that'll match the reality as viewed by AI researchers. If you give me specific short questions I'd be happy to engage in a discussion, with conditions on time.

In any case, I won't listen to metaphoric arguments like yours with guns because metaphoric arguments are very difficult to do scientifically. Every situation is different. I mean that anybody can always end the discussion saying "that's oranges vs apples", and everything time this happens you'd not have an objective way to counter that.

eveninghere ,

I can say it's both on point and not. For the not, you can ban the gun in the UK and it will be very difficult to bring one from the continent. Peace. But the same is not true for AI. If the UK government bans AI, Russia can still bring it through the internet.

And then I can still counter-argue that one, and then counter-argue this one also. See what a mess a metaphoric arguments bring.

eveninghere ,

This is just labeling. You can label everything as bad at will. I'm fine with that, it's called "you're entitled to your opinion". That's not objective though.

eveninghere ,

You really should back up your system though

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Donno what an imager is. Backup tools do have skip options.

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The governments are abusing researchers. How do institutions even help them?

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This is great, I can show all my 4k porn collection to my managers doing Teams screen sharing!

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Well, so, you use password generator, the password screenshot is saved.

This makes most password generators useless because they show the password for user feedback. You can turn this MS AI off, but I will have no idea if there was a bug.

eveninghere ,

Technically, being open source or free ala GPL isn't enough. Protocols aren't enough.

You need a guarantee that you own your data.

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Corporations are bad and yet still follow laws (in the west). The bigger issue is state actors. Especially the non-democratic ones.

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sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result

Crazier than it sounds. We don't see the page contents AT ALL by default.

Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious

Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks

eveninghere ,

The trend of wysiwig editing moved onto web services from desktop apps. Those aren't FOSS. Weebly is good.

jekyll / hugo are the FOSS option imho. There's also wordpress but I don't know if it's open source.

eveninghere ,

Imagine you damage the brain cells to quit the game. Instant isekai irl.

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This post shows why I prefer fediverse over Reddit. On Reddit this post would be flooded with rants going like"people who don't vote Biden over antisemitic protests are the problem!!!"

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Yes. If that looks bizarre, they've forgotten his Presidency.

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That's apparently how Russia works.

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OpenSUSE is. Maybe SUSE also but not sure.

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Browsers should suggest to refuse to jump to a URL whenever Musk is found in the target webpage.

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You just reminded me employees in my company who are mostly like that.

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Are you sure your mother will charge her watch everyday though

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I wonder why nobody makes a phone specialized for elderly people these days. Those smart gadgets are absolutely horrible for elderlies. They can't do literally nothing because the UI is too complex for them.

Something simple like a speaker + mic with a set of big buttons together with stickers of who to call is everything they need. No Whatsapp, also probably no email. Then add a forced call mode that only carers and families can activate.

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And fragmentation of projects is what caused the xz security incident.

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