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  • Buy a regular standalone USB webcam, and point it at the computer screen with the code in some corner.

    No printing required.

    Accept that you will require some workaround since you do not wish to install the QR app.

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    Hungary's Orban unexpectedly visits China, backs Xi's peace plan
  • Xi's plan: give us what we want and we'll stop. Putin's plan: give us what we want and we'll stop. Netanyahu's plan: give us what we want and we'll stop.

    Just adult bullies, really, Orban is trying to seem relevant.

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    TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields.
  • I guess Germans do need to be particularly good at this, based on the mega words they can have.

    On the other hand, when listening to American Youtubers read something onscreen, it seems like they use some internal rainbow table to look up prefixes of words, and then just autocomplete the word based on probability.

    I say this because during reading they often substitute words with some that sound similar, but are not semantically close to what is written.

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    TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields.
  • Some people have great trouble splitting words into their component parts, as if their internal GPT just stores everything as single token like "redneck", so they never split it semantically or conceptually into red+neck.

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    YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
  • I am paying for YouTube Premium, and yet I still have to skip over US-exclusive sponsor sections which almost every Youtuber has nowadays…

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