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catastrophicblues, to technology in Choose the planet, choose Ecosia: why you’re going to be asked to pick a search engine

I think the idea is that behavior that seems abnormal, or a significant departure from your norm might be seen as fraud. I’m not sure what kind of fraud you’d experience in a search engine, but here we are. If I had to make a charitable guess, maybe it’s related to you possibly being logged in somewhere and a fraudster may visit those websites (like shopping websites)? I personally think it’s bullshit with a laughably weak veil of security.

By the way, I love the term, “cognitively bankrupt” lol, I’m stealing it.

catastrophicblues, to linuxmemes in When I want to use free software to make memes:

Yeah I could never get into either. eMacs bindings feel odd at times, though some are pretty good. I wish I could get into Doom emacs like some others. And gimp…I know how to crop stuff and concatenate images, but that’s it

catastrophicblues, to technology in USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update

It also seems to have fixed a major memory leak bug for me, though I’ve only used it for a week or so now. Thank god.

catastrophicblues, to programmer_humor in I had to design a simple general purpose language for university, so I tried creating "ZoomerScript" with Jetbrains MPS

It’s likely transpiring and not compiling, so it’s a lot easier than it seems. Source: made a language that adds features to Python and transpiles to valid Python.

catastrophicblues, to technology in OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model

What’s wild to me is how Yann LeCun doesn’t seem to see this as an issue at all. Many other leading researchers (Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Frank Hutter, etc.) signed that letter on the threats of AI and LeCun just posts on Twitter and talks about how we’ll just “not build” potentially harmful AI. Really makes me lose trust in anything else he says.

catastrophicblues, to lemmyshitpost in Americans will measure with anything but the metric system.

We learn the metric system in our schools. It’s part of our curriculum. We learn it in math classes, we learn it in science classes, we learn about it in history classes as well.

And apparently promptly have an episode of amnesia because every adult here seems to not know how to convert.

catastrophicblues, to asklemmy in What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?

No mention of Thunderbird yet??

catastrophicblues, to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Oh no. That fits the bill perfectly lol.

catastrophicblues, to asklemmy in Why do people keep asking where I'm from?

I never know how to answer this. I grew up till middle school in Canada and the rest of my school in India. I rarely get dentist with many Indian traditions, but I also didn’t spend enough time in Canada to be a “real” Canadian.

I just flip a coin in my head and answer each time. And then get the follow-up asking where my parents are from. Just ask my race, you coward.

catastrophicblues, to linuxmemes in Linux users when

Yup, that’s been my experience with getting people to at least consider Linux as well. The first thing they ask when I tell them it’s a different OS like Mac is, “so can it run XYZ?” Most people don’t actually care and just want something that runs the apps they use.

Interestingly, my mom (a Windows user her whole life) seemed just as alienated by macOS as by Linux. Her work gave her a Mac and she couldn’t understand anything after about a week so she just asked for a Windows system instead.

catastrophicblues, to technology in Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2

They’d have to drop it significantly for most people to buy. If I had a spare $2k I’d upgrade my Mac.

catastrophicblues, to technology in European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying

Which plugin do you use?

catastrophicblues, to technology in Dark side of Starbucks app: Coffee giant accused of rigging payments to the tune of nearly $900 million over 5 years | Fortune

Kind of. The app doesn’t in any way tell you that you can use the card balance to pay part of your bill and then use a credit card for the rest; I only found out when a barista told me

catastrophicblues, to technology in Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust.

Yeah the syntax is pretty far from more established languages, which is why I prefer C++ when I use it.

catastrophicblues, (edited ) to android in Does anyone use a diet, fitness, food tracker that you like?

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