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Better yet: use a hardware 2FA token that supports passkeys

Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....

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Is it that hard to fact-check things?? Not to mention, a quick web search uses much less power/resources compared to AI inference…

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This is great! Makes me want to dig around in my parents’ attic for the ole Palm Pilot. My mom had the sync cradle and everything

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I run Ubuntu and use the Nala frontend for APT to keep a log of my package installs. That way, I can easily remove everything if I no longer need to work with a particular language or set of dependencies. For anything too complicated, I like to drop into a Docker container (which integrates nice with VSCode/Codium)

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My issue with Kagi is that it relies on aggregate results from other search engine indices

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I don’t get the impression that Kagi intends to compete with major search engines. It is clearly marketed toward privacy-focused, tech-minded individuals. You can take that one of two ways. Either you are frustrated with the erosion of search engine quality due to advertising, or you disagree with the predatory practices such as data mining that comes along with such advertising. In both cases, the only real way to signal to major search engines that you disagree with these practices is to stop using their services (including their APIs).

For example, I have been using DuckDuckGo for decades. At first, I had to compromise search result quality, but now it has enough users and support that results are on-par with the likes of Google.

I do not think that Kagi is bad or that people should not use it. It simply isn’t for me, because it does not actually address the reasons I do not use search engines like Google.

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Yes, and I largely disagree with it :/

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Hot take from a Blogspot site with no theme… Jokes aside, it’s a nice interpretation of the xz story

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Unfortunately, I don’t think either is particularly great. LibreOffice looks horrendous, performs at or below average, and does not have fabulous compatibility with Microsoft Office formats. On the other hand, ONLYOFFICE has better compatibility but feels cheap and pushes web services.

If this is for personal use, I would go with LibreOffice. If you need to share documents with others using a common format, go with ONLYOFFICE.

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Yeah, I will admit that it looks much better on Linux than macOS. My other qualm is that it eats up my laptop battery, while Pages and Word use considerably less power

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I think Stage Manager is great if you only have a single display. Sometimes I will use it at work (computer engineering) to keep my browser tabs with documentation, IDE, and email at arm’s reach. If I have access to my dual-monitor setup or an ultra-wide monitor, though, I prefer to keep everything visible or make minimal use of spaces.

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Interesting. I didn’t realize XCursor predates most image formats XD

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Yes, I do think you have a point. That’s what I’ve done for several years, but I think it’s time…

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Thanks for all the good advice. I’ll look into these solutions.

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I use Jekyll too. It’s got to be one of the easier solutions out there. Not to mention, integration with GitHub/Cloudflare pages is great.

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Ate em up

Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal? (www.warp.dev)

Today i was doing the daily ritual of looking at distrowatch. Todays reveiw section was about a termal called warp, it has built in AI for recomendations and correction for commands (like zhs and nushell). You can also as a chatbot for help. I think its a neat conscept however the security is what makes me a bit skittish. They...

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Sounds like a major security risk. All it takes is one “hallucination” (and an overly trusting engineer) from the latest and greatest bullshit generator to compromise an entire network

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I’ve been using Ubuntu since 12.04 LTS, and old habits die hard. There have been many attempts by my peers to steer me toward Arch and NixOS, but Ubuntu suits my needs and I am used to it after a decade

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Unless we move toward a society where everyone is wearing a VR headset 24/7, I don’t think we need to worry about most of the issues mentioned in the article… Still worth a read, but a bit exaggerated

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I’m more referring to the idea of erasing images of homeless people or pride flags, which the article does mention. I know it’s intended as food for thought, and I see the angle, but who is taking a stroll downtown with a headset on?

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The headline is misleading. The Taliban did not shut down queer.af. The team behind the instance decided to move away from the domain so as to not support the Taliban through domain fees. Source: wedistribute.org/…/queer-af-is-shutting-down-due-…

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It’s possible that the issue you’re running into is with Proton and not your GPU. My anecdote is that running Ubuntu 22 LTS (which Linux Mint, Pop! OS, etc. are all based on) with my 3060 has always worked just fine—usually for machine learning and video rendering. I’m not a gamer, but the occasional Minecraft session does get the GPU kicking.

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