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justaj

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    Comment #48631495

    Because of this sentence? > LLMs are not the first tech product that have been restricted by export controls.

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    Comment #48623216

    What makes you believe this is about export controls rather than harvesting data?

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    Comment #48621649

    If this is CSS only, then why does in need JS to run?

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    Comment #48552797

    What if you do integer downscaling to 1080p on those 4k displays?

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    Comment #47242667

    Perhaps, but lots of (older) Thinkpads are supported by Libreboot, so that cuts down on the binary blobs significantly.

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    Comment #47108251

    When I went to the main article link [0] (which for some reason was linked from a Twitter comment), it said "Page is not supported" It's also not on archive.org Wayback Machine it …

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    Comment #45358190

    Is there a central place where known hardware compatibility issues are documented?

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    Comment #44731166

    I still can't get over the fact that all electronics schematics is actually in reverse and everyone is still fine with that.

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    Comment #44677524

    > bash is everywhere ...except on systems like Alpine Linux and other such minimal distributions.

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    Comment #44619505

    And what if you let a human expert fact-check the output of an LLM? Provided you're transparent about the output (and its preceding prompt(s)) ? Because I'd much rather ask an LLM …

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    Comment #44586033

    PSA: Beginning of the article contains spoilers.

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    Comment #44586029

    > ...but the final twist (I'm not going to spoil it)... https://youtube.com/watch?v=FS7MH5oeW74

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    Comment #44521245

    ...because running applications from untrusted sources is a _really_ bad idea?

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    Comment #44463193

    Oh man, if automatic dark mode (dependent on whether dark theme is engaged on phone) is added, I would switch immediately.

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    Comment #44452929

    Speaking of, will GrapheneOS push this particular update?

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    Comment #44399035

    Thank you for your extensive reply. > a flakey feature for new users was (correctly) considered worse than not having a feature at all. Would you say that implementing a flakey fea…

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    Comment #44394751

    Yes, however it is also the most feature-complete UX.

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    Comment #44394745

    While that would perhaps be the best solution in the long run, wouldn't you agree that gains in userbase necessary for growth (or at least sustainability) are predicated upon how g…

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    Comment #44394197

    > Matrix isn’t perfect but it has only improved in the 5 years I’ve been using it. I'd very much like to disagree. From the top of my head, in the past few years of using Element W…

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    Comment #44212835

    As long as they don't insult people personally then they're not an asshole in my book. Attacking ideas is one, attacking people behind those ideas is another.

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    Comment #44075230

    Isn't it a bit different in the field of software? Weren't most of the top senior devs actually self-taught?

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    Comment #44071943

    Becoming self-taught? Currently I'm learning POSIX shell scripting and installing OpenBSD and FreeBSD in my local VMs on the weekends, and since AI is helping me, I'm able to gain …

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    Comment #44034235

    What happens if you want to take some (video) files to someplace that doesn't have (sufficient) network availability though?