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josef

on my windows install i hit "ctrl-alt-E" and it opens the program Everything. i type filename and the result appears instantly

on linux i type "find . --type f filename" and the syntax is wrong. so i try "-type" and thats wrong. so i type "man find" and theres a wall of text about symbolic links and shit. so i go into google and type "linux find command syntax" and twelve pages of slop results come up. i click one and it slowly loads. theres a wall of text which is even worse than the manpage

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josef

i can remember places i've been to (or only seen in photos) decades ago, and navigate them successfully. i can describe images i saw once when i was a kid. but i have literally no 'verbal memory', i can't remember movie lines, or lyrics to any of my favorite songs, and when it comes to programming, and terminal commands? well. i've been using linux distros for almost 20 years and still, daily, look up things like "linux how to find files with extension". it is NOT a good operating system for me

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@Atatra i would

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hi

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@cabel NET JACK

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PERHAPS BONGHITS WILL FIX MY DIALPLAN

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hi are you there

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how about i rip the spines out of every single "AI already won" motherfucker

i mean, Labour could probably use some

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paleblue

I found the picture I've been looking for!

Source:
merveilles.town/@prahou/113494

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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

There is no such thing as "ethically using AI". AI is trained on stolen data. AI is destroying the environment and communities. AI is making us stupid. Use AI if you want, just don't pretend you're doing it in ethical way.

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Hanno Zulla

This is FASCINATING. Researchers were able to pin down the cause of measurable global 60 second power spikes to software that does regular checks on the minute mark. They found large scale battery installations as one major cause, but obviously this is true for any other computerized system that does cron jobs and has a synchronized clock. As weird as it sounds, adding random 0-59.999s delays to cron jobs in Linux distributions and other software would actually help the power grid.

fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/

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@arielmt it probably depends on cups and pulseaudio because vscode is a website that comes with a web browser to render it

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hey just in case you forgot this link here it is again alterspring.org/@maple

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Picard Tips

Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.

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is anybody keeping track of software versions from before they started using llms to write them

asking for my libreoffice install

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@glyph i remember last trying asterisk maybe close to 10 years ago and getting far enough i could ring a phone but no audio no matter what of the many settings i changed

i'll try it again, at a glance this guide might help, thank you

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i want to self-host an isolated recreational VoIP server people with internet access can log into with a VoIP phone or ATA and we can call each other. all guides for VoIP are overwhelming and expect you to want a trunk to real phone lines and i don't. is there a for dummies guide for something like this

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Charlie Stross

@davidgerard Even if this isn't that, at *some* point we're going to see a quick "everyone panic! Keystone tool XYZ is compromised!" 13kloc fix that fixes … something … then deliberately adds three more well-obfuscated backdoors.

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@selectric so when rendering it to a linear, finite playtime format, you have to make choices like how many times the song should play, how to fade it out if it's written for a loop, etc

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@selectric i guess the major thing you lose with rendering them to MP3 is that a tracker song can not only loop but loop back to any point, like if you want an intro that only plays once and then the at the end the song goes back to the first verse after the intro (which is one reason it was a popular format for game music)

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