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etua_en

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I could become a CS guy or a politician, but I was more money than power-hungry, when I had to choose.
In the end I got neither, so I cosplay both.
Here mostly #FOSS, #OpenStreetMap, and #EuropeanUnion for some reason, but I also strive to be fun at parties.

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etua_en, to Ecosia
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Bing and related search engines crashed today, because @Techaltar plugged Ecosia so hard in today's video, causing millions to suddenly switch, true story.

Techaltar, to random
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The fact that Notion will automatically launch its AI commands (which, afaik, is a paid feature I haven't subscribed to but it's trying to upsell me on) as soon as I press 'space' in an open text field is insane. Not some special character like /, but space!!!

etua_en,
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@Techaltar Wait until the physical assistant buttons with fixed function will get back in fashion for phone manufacturers.

Techaltar, to random
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Imo Nothing should release a keyboard next.

  • the transparent/quirky design would totally translate to a keyboard
  • some light gimmick would work too.
  • the keyboard space is fragmented. Easier to compete.
etua_en,
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@Areexor @Techaltar What makes you think that fancy boutique keyboards have low margins?

_roman, to TeslaMotors
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People in Autoland Germany bought 4x more e-bikes in 2023 alone than pure electric cars were sold in the country.

🇩🇪 2023

🚲🔋 2,1 million
🚙🔌 0,5 million

You know what truly means.

etua_en,
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@_roman Wouldn't put too much weight into that. That's basically saying that "this cheaper and more personal object sells in bigger numbers". Yes, people often ride cars alone, but I'm yet to see one bicycle for the whole family to share.

djlink, to random
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wow was not expecting this to happen.

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1764717475600433400

etua_en,
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@djlink Not expecting Nintendo to crackdown, or that it would end up so harsh?

etua_en, to GNOME
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Hi and developers! Could you share a secret sauce to making these simple and beautiful popover / hamburger menus? From what I gathered, they could be defined in Gio MenuModels, but is there anything more to their look? Reading the established automagical codebase as a newcomer is painful, because the ingredients for something this small are spread over multiple source files with generic functions initialising them.

Opened popover menu from the GNOME Files app

adamsdesk, to Funny
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Coders' Day Out, circa 2012

Illustrated by Etienne Issartial
Story and texts by Thomas Gx
English translation by Mark Nightingale

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2012/03/26/coders-day-out/

etua_en,
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@adamsdesk Too bad the whole comic quietly died out. At least they keep the website alive.

sesivany, to fedora
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From the days when DVDs were still a thing. We ordered up to 10k DVDs for each release and had them shipped to our office.
This picture is exactly 10 years old.

etua_en,
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@sesivany How were they then distributed?

Techaltar, to random
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Your keyboard is getting a "Copilot" button...

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-your-keyboard-is-getting-a-copilot-button
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Mfe09E9efWs

etua_en,
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@Techaltar I'm afraid that your predictions about "AI" generated content might be overly optimistic. If someone got accustomed to watching human-generated crap videos, will they notice sharp difference, when it's going to be an algorithm that makes them?

taoeffect, to linux

It is so bizarre how updates its kernel so frequently.

The kernel is supposed to be the most stable part of the OS. Requiring few updates once the core features are working.

etua_en,
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@taoeffect @Marv Does it? Linux is used both by rolling releases distributions, as well as LTS. You wouldn't want to wait 2+ years for new hardware support, would you?

etua_en,
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@taoeffect @Marv You're making a completely different argument than in the original post.

MinecraftWikiEN, to Minecraft
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We are excited to announce to the community that the first six non-English language versions of the have now also moved to their own new websites!

Read more about this and how you can help in our article:
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_Wiki:News/First_language_wikis_moved

You can find the new wikis here:

German: https://de.minecraft.wiki
Spanish: https://es.minecraft.wiki
French: https://fr.minecraft.wiki
Korean: https://ko.minecraft.wiki
Portuguese: https://pt.minecraft.wiki
Chinese: https://zh.minecraft.wiki

etua_en,
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@MinecraftWikiEN
Is there any discussion on moving PL wiki?

itsfoss, to linux
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A handpicked list of must-visit websites if you're using Linux:

https://itsfoss.com/useful-linux-websites/

etua_en,
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@itsfoss Crontab.guru and Explainshell seems especially useful. The latter even is FOSS itself.

Techaltar, to random
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Happy Friday to everyone except Apple who gave us an automatic copyright stike for using more than a few seconds of the M3 event to talk about the M3 chips 🫠

Nebula version is up, YouTube version is being re-edited right now:
https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-googles-bribes-to-phone-makers-revealed

etua_en,
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@Techaltar Wait, isn't all of this supposed to be a big video press release to be reused in videos like yours?

Daojoan, to random
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How it feels to be a journalist in 2023

etua_en,
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@Daojoan How about not changing a thing by your actions, but getting persecuted anyway?

arstechnica, to random
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Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy

WeWork bankruptcy filing may happen next week as market cap falls to $60 million.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/once-valued-at-47-billion-coworking-space-provider-wework-nears-bankruptcy/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

etua_en,
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@arstechnica
Again?

TechConnectify, to random
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I just learned the little hover previews on Wikipedia are not taken from the article they reference in a very humorous way!

etua_en,
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@TechConnectify
Take a look at WikiVoyage, some of these pages can be quite humorous as well.

Techaltar, to random
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The Slow Death of Windows (& how to save it)

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-the-slow-death-of-windows-how-to-save-it
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7KqCbnjfw

etua_en,
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@Techaltar Great video as usual, but at the same time "(& how to save it)" in the title gives a quite funny feeling as if anyone besides MS should care that it drops from basically the only PC OS to oh-so-irrelevant 60% market share. I assume that it's just a shorter version of "and how it could be saved".
Second thing, are you sure that Signal belong to category 3 and not 2? If so, that would be quite funny, since AFAIK it's still (unfortunately) an Electron app.

notjustbikes, to random
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Ten years ago today I sold my car (Toyota Aygo) in Brussels. It turned out to be the last car I ever owned!

I really don't miss it. Owning a car is more of a pain than anything ... if you live in the right kind of city.

etua_en,
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@notjustbikes How many times a year do you use car sharing / car rental?

gamingonlinux, to linux
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Discord for Linux gets Flathub Verified https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discord-for-linux-gets-flathub-verified/

etua_en,
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@gamingonlinux Discord in the browser continues to work.

rysiek, to random
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For every shitty, user-hostile change to a Big Tech service, there exists a small, independent service that could offer a viable replacement, but continues to be ridiculed by the very users who complain about the shitty Big Tech service change.

etua_en,
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@rysiek
Or "The network effect and its consequences for society"

etua_en,
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@rysiek Still, from my observation, that ridicule more often than not boils down to the perceived lack of users. I see that they are different, but in my opinion one is in a great part a result of the other.

reginagrogan, to ai
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    etua_en,
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    @reginagrogan You'd need to compare the results with the "usual" approach to make the results meaningful. These platforms are known to have male to female imbalance in terms of usercount.

    TechConnectify, to random
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    Hi, I'm stuck waiting on laundry to finish and am bored, so why don't I come on here and write some hot takes about YouTube?

    I mean, I can think of several reasons, but too bad I'll do it anyway.

    Knowing the leanings of the folks on this particular platform this is likely to spark some debate, but note that I'm not trying to paint YouTube as a saint - in fact, the first thing I want to talk about is a strategy they've taken which puts me and all YT creators in a weird place:

    etua_en, (edited )
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    @TechConnectify "it neutralizes many of the platform's weird tendencies because serving relevant ads to the viewer is no longer a concern"
    I'd probably pay the price IF I was openly told that I'm no longer tracked on this profile while I watch with premium.
    As for now, Google still has such incentive for: 1. Other services like search. 2. The time I'd stop paying.
    Services without their own ad business like Nebula are more credible, so I gave them money instead and watch YT logged out.

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    Everyone is making ARM chips for Windows now!

    Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-everyone-is-making-arm-chips-for-windows-now
    YouTube: https://youtu.be/H3dEs5kuyV0

    etua_en,
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    @Techaltar Have you considered updating your Friday Checkout photo shoot? I assume that keeping your face in the thumbnails is good for CTR, but also consider your subscribers and have more than 5 of them, pretty please.

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