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tapete1

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    Comment #48731987

    You will never write something that everyone likes. And furthermore, writing a quality text is _hard_, as in, that is something that even a native speaker will have to practice sev…

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    Comment #48731443

    Well, the author is a mac user.

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    Comment #48540704

    I have asked LLMs several Emacs-related questions and _never_ got a reply that works. And at generating elisp code they are especially awful.

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    Comment #48354193

    So you are the AI? I mean, seriously, which human says "the compute"?

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    Comment #48354170

    I stopped reading at "Nerd rating".

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    Comment #48277618

    > I'm tired of people who, when they don't like an article, comment that it was "obviously written by AI" instead of arguing its merits. The point is that this article is extremely…

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    Comment #47715670

    You are wrong in this regard. If you complain about "6 inches of whitespace on each side", you should read this on a proper device (i.e. a desktop computer) or just inject some CSS…

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    Comment #47347908

    > MacBook That explains the writing style.

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    Comment #47120286

    Yeah, this "article" is extremely badly written.

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    Comment #46974127

    Yeah there is something funny going on with the scrolling.

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    Comment #46867768

    This is true. If the user was capable of testing his backups, he would not be using a Mac in the first place.

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    Comment #46677021

    Of course Linux clients in your network can be controlled by group policy. You just need to roll out a enterprise-grade distribution like red hat. See for example: https://docs.red…

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    Comment #46613777

    Why not just use the standard Linux tool bubblewrap?

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    Comment #46613774

    Why not just use the standard Linux tool bubblewrap?

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    Comment #46613771

    Of course not. But it is not needed, as Mac users are not interested in data safety.

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    Comment #46600198

    > agents know git far better than fossil. That does not matter though. If you need an AI agent for SCM you are already lost and should take a step back.

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    Comment #46587066

    > The fact that Markdown is widely used quite successfully demonstrates that it is adequate for a wide variety of tasks. Just because $x is used for lots of tasks does not mean tha…

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    Comment #46585163

    > You hit control-a and it goes to the start of the field. We "PC" users have a dedicated key for that on our keyboard, it is called "home". We even have the opposite, a dedicated …

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    Comment #46538092

    lol true. It is like "problematic".

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    Comment #46496937

    Damn. I was not aware that Kevin Mitnick has passed away.

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    Comment #46431696

    Same. I mean you can tell about the level of tech literacy just by reading that OP uses NordVPN.

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    Comment #46431689

    You can get all the domain stuff for less than 1 € from any competent hoster, e.g. netcup. For cloud drive, if you really want to put your own files on someone else's server, there…

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    Comment #46431672

    To me, it is the most unimportant one. I don't even read email on my phone. The screen is way too small to do anything useful.