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If you could "Eternal Sunshine" a piece of media so that you could listen to it for the first time again, what would it be?
  • Firefly. Babylon 5. Avatar the Last Airbender. Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. “Imagine” by John Lennon.

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    Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons
  • I swear all the CEOs on the planet have lost their damn mind.

    And his last name is Cocks, so I guess this tracks.

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    Say NO to AI in the #Firefox browser - have your say here;
  • Sure, that, too. Problems are problems, irrespective of by whom and where they are discovered. And solutions should be matched to the problem. If AI is such a solution, great! But I'm not yet convinced that we need to use AI and be in search of problems (which is what CEOs are doing right now), hence my original comment.

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    Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming
  • I don't even know how to respond to this. It makes no sense at all and doesn't really relate to or respond to my comment except it happens to use the word "lazy", I'm guessing in reference to my comment. Good luck trying to push LLMs, not sure what your agenda really is, other than to be argumentative here. Peace.

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    Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming
  • And many programmers write some pretty stupid and horrible descriptions. LLMs don’t solve this, they just allow lazy programmers to be even lazier.

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    Say NO to AI in the #Firefox browser - have your say here;
  • When companies can answer this one simple question, “What specific problem does implementing AI (LLM, etc) solve?”, only then might I consider it.

    I have heard of only one, maybe two, instances of AI solving a real problem and it has to do with helping a person to speak again, or to walk again, etc.

    I have yet to be convinced of any specific problem AI is solving in a browser or an operating system.

    And just because “the internet” is latching onto this latest thing, doesn’t mean it’s right. It just means people see a shiny and want more of it.

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    Eating Pets and Other Lies: How the Haitian Migrant Hoax Exposes Flaws in Political Reporting in the U.S.
  • The flaw is that journalism and journalists today no longer have any integrity and fidelity to the truth. They only have fidelity to what gets the most clicks and what makes the most money.

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    Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage'
  • If Russia wants to start WWIII, that’s a good way to do it.

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    I made a local APT repository that automatically fetches DEBs and AppImages from anywhere
  • I already answered that first question.

    And then all those app store fronts that say whether a flatpak is verified or not is inducing fear and/or guilt and is therefore bad UX. It's not, but you are free to have your opinion.

    Have fun then, I'm done wasting my time here.

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    I made a local APT repository that automatically fetches DEBs and AppImages from anywhere
  • I didn’t say it was more secure, I said it’s about the same.

    The difference is a person being forced to go to a website to download software means more steps and more time to consider the safety of what they’re doing. It’s part psychological.

    Not all such packages are retrieved from GitHub, I remember downloading numerous .deb files direct over the past 25 years (even as recent as downloading Discord manually some years back).

    The main point I’m making is that you should legally protect yourself, it’s a low and reasonable effort.

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    A new level of incoherence from Trump: the former U.S. President's answer to a specific policy question yesterday made absolutely no sense
  • And did the person follow up with “you didn’t answer my question at all, and you sound like you have no fucking idea what you’re talking about.”? Because if not, that is what is wrong with America — letting bullshit just sit there without calling it out as bullshit.

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    Is it really just ageing/ getting older? How is this supposed to work? How is everyone else doing this?
  • Up front: I am not a doctor.

    Seriously, seek a second opinion, and if you are a woman, and it sounds like the original doctor is a man, find a woman doctor. I know this sounds sexist, and I’m honestly not trying to be, but it has been shown many times how male doctors tend to overlook or not listen to female patients. You must advocate for yourself.

    Anecdotally, my spouse has had this happen numerous times. And it is extremely frustrating every time because it’s effectively a waste of time and money. And, something could be seriously wrong (not saying anything actually is), so you should make very certain at minimum that certain testing is done such as various tests from blood work and/or urine testing.

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    I made a local APT repository that automatically fetches DEBs and AppImages from anywhere
  • It’s a cool concept, but automation breeds laziness (by design, to an extent) and lazy end users tend to shoot themselves in the foot. So it isn’t great for security, but it also isn’t that much worse for security :)

    Since some people with money tend to be litigious, and, of course, I am not a lawyer, I would advise a warning message (or part of the license if you don’t want to muck up your CLI), if you don’t have one, to force the user to accept and acknowledge that the software they are installing using this tool is not verified to be safe.

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    Why YAML sucks?
  • White space/indentation as a construct of the syntax.

    It’s why I have a hard time with python.

    People have their likes and dislikes. Nothing wrong with that.

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    Touch Typing
  • What a weird way to open a post.

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    I need help getting back into development
  • Yeah Spring wasn’t 1.0 until 2004. We had XML files upon XML files just to describe one single Java “Bean”. I did java programming from 2001-2002 and the again from 2011-today. Things dramatically changed (framework-wise) in that short decade I was away from it.

    I would agree, Spring Boot and Spring are very useful to learn. React, despite having its origins in Facebook and still with Meta’s hands on it, is a good web framework especially if you use it with Typescript.

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    Roblox CEO delivers imperial announcement that the goal is '1 billion daily active users' and 10% of all global gaming revenue, thanks
  • Kids will realize some day what garbage Roblox actually is. And then the ride will be over.

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    U.S. Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says school shootings are a "fact of life"
  • To those saying "he's right"...

    He's complacent. He's a useless troll. He thinks nothing should change because he's effectively saying "it is what it is", which is the same bullshit response I see from every single conservative who continues to simply say "thoughts and prayers" after an event like this. There are many ways to try to help prevent such a tragedy, and blanket statement of it being a "fact of life" does literally nothing.

    And every day, it keeps happening. And every day, the media keeps shining a spotlight on it. And every day, nothing gets done.

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