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foone, 2 days ago to random

Why doesn't microsoft make Recall take pictures with your computer's webcam too?

sky, 1 month ago to random

It's wild to me that people can, with a straight face, discuss what constitutes cheating in a live coding interview without ever reaching the conclusion that live coding interviews are terrible and should not be done.

bitprophet, 3 months ago to random

Fell in the lunch hole /again/. Even though I have a friggin' daily reminder that gets all up in my face at noon sharp.

“aw I got up late, I'll punt this 30 minutes”

30 minutes later…”right. what to do?”

immediately distracted by 3 things simultaneously

20 additional minutes later…"why do I feel so weak and tired? oh right, metformin and all I've had to eat in the last 12 hours is one (1) large bagel with margarine on top”

sky, 4 months ago to random

There's something about going on a random Wikipedia article and fixing little things like grammar, spacing and hyperlinks that feels weirdly soothing.

It's a good way of doing something when I'm bored that's at least somewhat productive, compared to booting up Diablo 3 or watching a random YouTube video.

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks

(headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says")

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

fullfathomfive, 4 months ago to languagelearning

From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

#duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism

bitprophet, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

lol, so wait, neither Safari nor Firefox let you put in an arbitrary search engine of your choice as the default? Chrome is the only one that figured out how to do this? Jeez.

Guess I gotta put a little babby webpage at the front of my custom search tool after all. Good for mobile use too, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

EDIT: FF does let you do this…if you know a very specific, not even in about:config by default, config path 🤦🏻‍♀️ https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-search-engine-to-firefox/1756774#1756774 /ht @sky

but hey, it does work! ✨

thelinuxcast, 1 year ago to random

And I found a thing called kitti3 that works to make Kitty into a dropdown terminal/scratchpad.

Works with Sway.

Does not work with Hyprland.

This right here is why Wayland pisses people off. There is no standard, so everyone does things in a different way, so there is no cross-compatibility. It sucks.

jonobie, 1 year ago to random

When you give someone advice, I encourage you to take a moment first and consider whether you’re actually speaking to yourself. So many people I know who tell others “slow down” are themselves stressed. Those who tell others “speak up” are often anxious. I’ve found more often than I’d expect, advice I’m saying aloud to others is better first given to myself.

This advice itself gets very circular and meta when applied to this toot.