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It's probably just a normal button that is hardcoded to run a specific AI software that is installed on your system (as it is indicated by "Launches AI Prompt Builder"). Just a guess. There is no need for a dedicated button, as any extra button could be configured to do the same.

Only people with an artificial brain will fall for this.

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AI+RGB+Gaming+HD+Premium+Pro+X

To get started.

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AI = productivity goes up, quality goes down

thingsiplay ,
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Fair point. There are lot of morons who should be replaced. But we are talking about freelancers, not about SEO or content marketing, more like content filling. But it got worse since AI rise up.

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So it hurts long after his death.

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People who can't get over someone losing will sorrow for the rest of the life, or until they get over it. And AI won't help to get over it. Death is part of our life and as soon as you don't accept it, it becomes pain.

It's last year I think when I read someone created the lost son (or some other family member, I forgot) of a mother, in a VR environment. And she could see him/her again in the VR. Absolutely madness! What does this do to the person? Now couple that with an AI... man the future is grim...

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If something is illegal in a country, then it should be blocked for that country. It's not Mozillas decision what a government allows and not. It would be different problem if the extensions were blocked worldwide, but its not. It's only blocked where its illegal.

But, that above statement by me is about laws. I'm not so sure how to feel about government requests, if its not even against the law. Is there any law in Russia that forbids those extensions? If not, then I'm with you and this is bad. But if there are laws in place and the government asks to block them because of the law, then it's totally fine.

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The censorship is not a decision by Mozilla, its a government decision.

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Just tried and that's it! I tried a few options before, not sure if I overlooked this or misunderstood. But setting --extractor-retries 2 for testing does indeed only try 2 times. Thank you.

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It's a bit too early and premature. There needs to be an alternative to fax first.

thingsiplay ,
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Is that really the case? Would everything one type to the keyboard be send to the companies and used as training data for AI? Does that any keyboard at all on the smartphone?

thingsiplay ,
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I think predictive text predates even Android and smartphones (but not exactly), when we had to press a key 3 times until specific characters appeared; called T9 and just a dictionary. Having or not having a dictionary suggestion was the difference between life and death. Now the modern smartphone has way more compute power and resources, therefore they can analyze text in more depth. It's just the logical next step to the plain and simple dictionary.

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Same for side loading apps. If the rest of the world / governments does not care, then Apple won't care in the rest of the world too.

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Reddit has become one of the internet’s largest open archives of authentic, relevant, and always up-to-date human conversations about anything and everything.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says

But refuses to pay the users or at least moderators who build Reddit to what it is now. Instead, it pushes more advertisements and sells data to AI companies for millions of Dollars.

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The license does not apply to posts and replies in Reddit, right? Thank god I created a blog to post about any stuff that I want, without license or restrictions from Reddit. Before the AI breakthrough and what happened to Reddit. But even if so, do AI tools understand such a license text and evaluate if they can or cannot use the material?

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Well the companies and developers don't decide for every single material. In example what I expect is, that they program the scraper with rules to respect licenses of individual projects (such as on Github probably). And I assume those scraper tools are AI tools themselves, programmed with AI tool assist on top of it. There are multiple AI layers!

At this point, I don't think that any developer knows exactly what the AI tools are fed with, if they use automatically scraped public sources from the internet.

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Human Rights are higher than any law. Just because its law in China, does not mean it is correct to follow the law. It is not we decide which laws to follow, but it is universally in entire world the right thing to support Human Rights, regardless of any law.

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It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.

Which does not change the fact that Google does it. So the reason why Google supports China and their anti Human Rights laws is, because of money. That's what we criticize.

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This would probably make the entire world talk about it and it would be worse in China, because this would only anger people and fighting against the country. We won't see that, because Google wouldn't dare. The money is more precious than any Human Right, regardless of law.

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

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I have no one to recommend, but you might find something from this list: https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg-editors

As others recommended, using a web browser to edit is actually pretty cool, especially in Firefox. I myself use Wordpress in the browser instead, which has such a builtin editor.

fpath: Reformat and stylize file path like text output. (Python, terminal) ( github.com )

I did it again; exaggerate a simple idea and make it look more complicated at the end with too much text in the readme. I was bothered with the output of file listings and how unreadable they can get, especially with long paths and many of them on screen. At the end, I am not sure how useful this will be in the long run, but...

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Did you mean 1MB? With correct settings, you get under 1MB Rust binaries and with even more compression using upx it gets to 300KB, probably less for much simpler applications. Rust applications aren't that big of a deal as people make it to be; within reasons off course.

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How can this even relate to the ideology of the first document? I am deeply saddened by these new rules.

The previous document was written in a time when only C was the language in the Kernel. Now that two different languages and eco systems exist, it makes lot of sense to not mix them up. The document with guidelines for C code was needed, because there was no uniform guide that every user used. But with Rust it is different. There exist rustfmt and practically every user is learning and writing code with it and every public documentation and library is using this tool; most of them with default values.

You don't mix C with Rust anyway, so why do you want force every Rust programmer and code formatted like C? I don't think this is an issue that needs to be fixed. Are you programming for the Linux Kernel? Do you do it in C and Rust? Otherwise, why do you think this is a problem?

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Also the very first paragraph and second sentence in the linked document says this:

Coding style is very personal, and I won’t force my views on anybody, but this is what goes for anything that I have to be able to maintain, and I’d prefer it for most other things too.

But you seem to ignore that and force everyone to write code like this, declaring it to be an issue in the code (which it isn't). Do you not think that other Linux developers didn't think of this? Why is this an issue that has to be fixed and how do you explain this? Why does the C coding standard apply to Rust, when Rust has its own established one?

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To be fair, consistent styling across the entire project is not meaningless. But on the other side, I don't think this needs to be fixed here, because it is already consistent (within their language).

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8 space-long, hard tabs.

Hard disagree. 8 spaces is waste and 4 should be industry standard. Tabs should not be used for indentation, but spaces. On the other side, Tabs are configurable, so that's actually a plus point.

80 character limit instead of 100.

Why? 80 is an old standard with limitations that do not apply today anymore. We have wider screens and higher resolutions. While it makes sense to keep this to be consistent with previous code and language defaults for C, there is no reason to enforce this for the new adopted language, which already has a standard on its own.

And yes rustfmt can be configured and when I started with Rust I changed max_width to 80, just because I was used to it with Python. But there is no benefit doing this in Rust.

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At this point, I'm convinced that Microsoft is just trolling everybody and have a blast in the office.

thingsiplay ,
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classic

thingsiplay ,
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When push back and player voice once in a lifetime matters.

thingsiplay OP ,
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This is good to know. I usually have a mixed set of applications for stable and non stable, depending on how much I trust the devs for this. If the release of Gimp 3 wouldn't be on the corner, I probably used it too.

I'm on Linux and use Wayland (details not important if you are not familiar with it) and Gimp 3 still has a few issues regarding that. At least based on their own notes, so I will wait a few weeks (or months) longer, because I am not at a hurry at the moment. Can't wait for this massive update and a huge step forward! Glad to hear it is already working well (I would assume that if they are close to release.)

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Ext4: It's the most common used and most mature filesystem we have. You can use any rescue system without pitfalls, in case your system fails. Some other filesystems have edge cases or a special setup is required. I am not saying they are bad or so, just saying if you have to ask this question to a public forum, then it's probably more safe to just use the default Ext4 system. It's battle tested for ages.

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I was always wondering if there could be a small Linux partition for additional information of NTFS partitions, like meta data stored as a separate file (or database). And off course it would need some virtualization layer like WINE does for the file path mapping. Then it would be possible to use NTFS as system drive and for games.

Obviously this would be problematic and performance wouldn't be great either (assuming), and it would complicate things for end user and developers too. But I was always thinking if this would be possible.

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The hunt for the next controversy goes on.

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But it was not required, so the information was clearly wrong.

thingsiplay ,
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This is such a broad topic, its impossible to give an advice or place that works for everyone. What I would do is pick up a few common commands that are not destructive in their nature (no need to practice with rm command in example) and read its manual man grep and help grep --help . Then try to understand and play around with the options and dedicated test files. Search tutorials and tips for these specific commands you are learning about. Over time this should result in deeper understanding of various concepts, as as you learn about grep, you will also learn about pipes and files in general while you are researching.

Then you can move on to other commands. Maybe setup a virtual machine where you can experiment a bit more freely, but that's probably overkill. Also look what people do in their Bash scripts, as Bash is contains the commands you can use on the terminal too.

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Yeah, I'm this type of person, learning by doing. Doing dedicated courses or tutorials was never my thing. But other people are not me, right? Here is another website that might interest you: https://linuxjourney.com/

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Lol I wasn't aware that nano is actually a GNU project. Checking the date on Wikipedia when it became one really threw me off today morning: 2001. Man I was living behind the moon and could not exit properly the entire time!

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My observation since the very first Dead or Alive from the 90s: People having problems with bouncing boobs in games are more nasty than those who actually enjoy them.

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It was rather obviously meant as a joke, so I’m confused about what people were mad at.

Welcome to social media in 2024.

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Trained on YouTube clips

It could have been worse. Imagine trained by Tik Tok clips.

thingsiplay ,
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a bad uncanny-valley 75% accurate version of one

Actually a perfect description of what a deepfake is.

thingsiplay ,
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Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/

  1. First edit 3 years ago: Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas.
  2. Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with: On hiatus.
  3. Then next edit 4 days ago replacing that line with: Have taken up farming.

English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming.", but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don't interpret such a situation, but it doesn't look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.

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