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moon_matter, to technology in Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows
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There are likely lots of improvements that can be made under the hood. I'm willing to bet that it depends on several aging libraries that could probably be swapped out for something better.

moon_matter, to technology in Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals
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Isn't that the case for almost all services that do any amount of predictive typing?

Look for keyboards that don't require network access like OpenBoard.

moon_matter, to linux in KeepassXC: progress on port to Qt6
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KeepassXC is bundled with a CLI tool. But it doesn't have to do anything special for SSH. It's ultimately just text and there are multiple ways to paste text into an SSH session.

moon_matter, to linux in The truth about linux having 15% market share in India.
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I meant it quite literally. Another multi-billion dollar company needs to be willing and able to spend the same level of resources and time. Wal-Mart or Costco itself would have to be willing to produce their own hardware.

Yeah, I fully realize it's never going to happen. It's a hypothetical to illustrate just how high of a hurdle it is. It won't happen organically, there needs to be a strong driving force with the financial backing that rivals that of the competition.

moon_matter, to linux in The truth about linux having 15% market share in India.
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“Nobody cares” is how Linux will eventually win on the desktop. It becomes viable for most people when they no longer “need” whatever they were using before. As Linux is free, it will win when it becomes “good enough”.

The largest barrier is the fact that the end user is expected to install the OS themselves. Having an OS work 100% of the time right out of the box with a default install is impossible. Windows and OSX have a huge advantage by being installed on the factory floor. The manufacturer guarantees that the drivers work for the hardware they decide to install and that the default applications on the OS work as they should.

Linux needs an equivalent to Microsoft or Apple that can put Linux on shelves at WalMart for average people that buy $600 desktops.

moon_matter, to linux in Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?
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You should use whatever the majority of the team is using. If you want to use Linux then you need to make it a priority to find a team that has at least a few people using it. You don't want to be the only person having issues setting up their local dev environment.

moon_matter, to technology in Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint)
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Ask it about historical facts and change the dates to something impossible. But state it as if it were already true.

"Describe the war between United States and Canada that occurred in 1192."

"Who was president of the United states in 3500 BC."

It will give you an answer despite neither of these countries existing at that point in time and yet it should know when those countries were formed. You can get it to write fiction just as easily as non-fiction because it has no concept of facts, it's all just probabilities. The only reason it's able to tell you that the United States was founded in 1776 is because many people have repeated that fact on the internet. So there is a very strong association between the words forming the question and the answer.

And you can insist that the United States was not formed in 1776 and to try again. If you insist enough it will eventually give you a different date instead of telling you you are incorrect.

moon_matter, to gaming in GeForce Now adding ads for free users.
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Yes. There are tiers and the free tier is limited to 1 hour play sessions.

moon_matter, to games in Game Developer Puts Layoffs on Seasonal Roadmap [satire]
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Have multiple projects running with some of them being live service or smaller in scope. I have a hard time believing they can't balance it so that layoffs don't happen with such regularity.

moon_matter, to android in Android users switched less frequently to iPhones in 2023, report shows
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I'm not saying this is OP, but some people are just rough with their stuff and don't realize it. For example, someone I know burned the on-screen keyboard onto their screen because they disabled the screen dimming function. That's not something I considered possible. Other people drop or throw their phones onto desks or lay them face down and scrape them against the surface when picking them up etc.

It all seems fine until eventually one day the phone stops turning on.

moon_matter, to linux in Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption
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I hate that the developers of secure messaging apps in particular are deaf to this. It's so easy to just add SMS as a fallback and yet they refuse to.

moon_matter, to games in Palworld Devs Says They Have Received Death Threats Amid Pokémon 'Rip-Off' Claims
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Already existing anger issues and lack of consequences for spreading vitriol online. Couple that with marketing that pushes products, entertainment etc. as a life style and some people fall very deep into the hole.

moon_matter, to games in Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy
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Also we're past 1000 pokemon now and a huge number of them are based on actual animals, mythical creatures, pop culture references etc. There are going to be similarities and it's completely unavoidable. You would drive yourself insane trying.

moon_matter, to technology in You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds
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Careful about how you throw around the word "entitlement". The top competition is free and search engines are very low value for the average person. It's very reasonable to expect search engines to be free and for anything paid to be a niche product. Google search results may be terrible, but not so terrible that I'm going to pay $5/month to escape it.

moon_matter, to technology in You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds
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I can't be paying $5 or $10/month for yet another service. I understand the companies need to make money, but the amount of services asking for a subscription is getting out of hand. And $5 is really high for a search engine, that price is crazy. I was expecting something like $12/year for unlimited searches.

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