GnuLinuxDude @ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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Reminds me of all those stupid "cyberpunk 1994, office nights 1998" ai slop playlists on YouTube. They all have a common theme: they don't represent or even remotely sound like the kind of music from the year they claim to take you back to. and the tracks, if one can call them that, are the same repetitive, thoughtless rhythms. If you go to YouTube to find some background music to listen to, these kinds of uploads dominate the search results today. And it's all D-tier shit.

Anubis only does a proof of work challenge if you lack a specific cookie that it gives you. You can temporarily enable JavaScript, pass the challenge, get the cookie, then disable JavaScript.

I use uBlock Origin, btw, to make selectively enabling/disabling JavaScript per domain a simple two-click task.

lie about election results, lie about bombing other country results, lie about employment statistics, lie about genocide, lie about vaccine results, lie about sex traffickers, lie about climate change, lie about crime rates in cities, lie about...

It's a country where the first president was a slave owner, and has slavery embedded into its founding. So you're of course correct. We are just wavering between levels of "awful" and "very awful."

For me the experience is not flawless, but it's not problematic either. For instance, I have never encountered random flickering just because a wrong program was open. In your case if you're using Nvidia as a GPU and are using Wayland as a display compositor that might explain some of your problems like Vivaldi flickering, where it might not be an issue in an Xorg session.

And the fact that you have to be potentially aware of these things is one of the annoying aspects of using Linux.

I don't mean people are stupid literally. I mean the country is in a farcical position with criminal leadership.

It seems this oped's title was changed from the originally credulous about Israel one to a more accurate one, because this is what it says now:

He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.

It's not just who's on there. It's also how the platforms promote content into your feed. When I was on Facebook in 2008 the friend feed was just that. Just people I mutually knew IRL posting. Facebook hadn't yet figured out how to really monetize it. Advertisers were not as on it. SEO wasn't really a thing yet.

Fast-forward 5-6 years and it really grew into an all-encompassing thing. Yeah, more people were on it, but so were the marketable opportunities. So were the suggested posts. So were all the news organizations, the grifters, the advertisers... and Facebook's role in all of that is to promote the most outrageous and engaging content to you to keep you on the site longer than ever before. They have it down to a science.

UBlock on iphone works well and is free but is limited to safari, does not appear to even work with safari used as an in-app browser

This is the most annoying part about "content blockers" on iOS. Works fine in this one narrow context. Otherwise you need DNS filtering. I use PiHole, and I have it set up to VPN back home when I'm away to keep myself covered.

"I never saw the man from whom I'm seeking a presidential pardon in any inappropriate setting. He's actually a very stable genius."

We can all see the bullshit for what it is, and it will probably still work because this country's stupid as hell.

my one weird trick for using fandom.com is to disable javascript for that domain.

Well there are a lot of positives… anyway I just mentioned it as a point of reference. If you know Magit, you know it’s good.

Have fun!

Sad that this alternative for goth coders doesn’t seem to exist :(

Among those limitless git guis I started trying out sourcegit and it seems pretty good. To date magit is the only other one I’ve tried, and it’s also really good.

So much spam… internet is hardly usable after a decade of SEO and now with LLM sprinkled on top.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

Good sentiment, but my critique on this message is that the people who produce this stuff don't have really have any interest in producing what they do for its own sake. They only have interest in producing content to crowd out the people who actually care, and to produce a worse version of whatever it is in a much faster time than it would for someone with actual talent to do so. And the reason they're producing anything is for profit. Gunk up the search results with no-effort crap to get ad revenue. It is no different than "SEO."

Example: if you go onto YouTube right now and try to find any modern 30-60m long video that's like "chill beats" or "1994 cyberpunk wave" or whatever other bullshit they pump out (once you start finding it you'll find no shortage of it), you'll notice that all of those uploaders only began as of about a year ago at most and produce a lot of videos (which youtube will happily prioritize to serve you) of identical sounding "music." The people producing this don't care about anything except making money. They're happy to take stolen or plagiarized work that originated with humans, throw it into the AI slot machine, and produce something which somehow is no longer considered stolen or plagiarized. And the really egregious ones will link you to their Patreons.

The story is the same with art, music, books, code, and anything else that actually requires creativity, intuition, and understanding.

The key point about codeberg as I understand it is it’s meant for foss projects. It’s not really much more complex than that. Want to host non-free software, or want to use it for your company’s private code repository? They don’t want that on their servers, so either find an alternative or self-host forgejo, which is the same code (derived from gitea) that powers codeberg itself.

Fact Check: Verified true!

Can’t read my emails on it though.

Great feature!!