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What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?
Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?
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What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?
Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?
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Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision
Nothing says "conservative" quite like destroying the thing you were supposed to conserve.
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Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.
Microsoft is the abusive partner wondering how many times they have to hit you to make you love them.
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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act
Only in Europe. For the rest of us, they will make sure to leave in all the enshittification that Makes Windows Worse Again.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins accepting human patients for trials of its brain implant
Obligatory “What could possibly go wrong? /s”
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Air Canada apologizes for booting passengers who complained that their seats were smeared with vomit
The flight attendant wasn't getting paid if the doors of the plane were still open. Maybe if Air Canada paid them, they would care about vomit.
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What technological mega project is practical to build today?
Car-independent livable cities.
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‘Dream’ AI Girlfriend Randomly Turns Into Nude Jennifer Lopez, Has Four Legs
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Front. Butt.
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IIRC, it is a C runtime function that stabs a file.
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Trump scrambles to find lawyer on eve of first federal court appearance
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If not a trial, then what should be done if he is suspected of a crime? Just ignore it?
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Canada likely sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time: Strategist - BNN Bloomberg
I’m ready for this bubble to pop.
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Red Hat-proposed Fedora opt-out Telemetry is opposed by 74%. Red Hat is deeply involved despite naysayers.
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I don't buy this excuse. Just make it "opt", meaning neither option is the default. You have to choose "Yes, contribute diagnostic and bug data to Fedora (recommended)" or "No, keep my data private" before you can continue. Put a big "more info" link to documentation on what is collected, when, and who gets it, and how it's used.
It somewhat under-represents those who value privacy most and over-represents those who want to help Fedora with their usage data, but I argue that's a good thing.
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Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - The Verge
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I recently installed Edge for a technical reason and was instantly grossed out by all the stupid bling they’ve added to it.
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Trump Shares Article Doxxing NY AG’s Address, May Violate Gag Order
How could we have predicted such an unprecedented action. /s
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Trump Shares Article Doxxing NY AG’s Address, May Violate Gag Order
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Do not challenge him to a limbo match.
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Is there something better than SQL?
I am both a (T-)SQL expert and a language design enthusiast. IMO, SQL the language is mediocre in its grammar and extremely resistant to cleanliness. Once you get past that, the things you can actually do with it are extremely useful.
I'd love for a better syntax to exist, but it's a Herculean task to make one. Modern SQL dialects have gargantuan, labyrinthine grammars, and they grow with each new product version. It's a lot easier to keep adding to that than to build a feature-complete replacement. This is also the reason why most ORMs are so frustratingly limiting: it's too much work to support the advanced features of one SQL dialect, let alone multiple.
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The Azov battalion, a neo-Nazi Ukrainian unit, has found friends among America’s elite
I wonder if this guy is secretly receiving funding from Russia. This is exactly the kind of article the SVR (Russian foreign intelligence agency) would want written. I don't like that a small part of the AFU uses the symbol or has a white-supremacist past, but that's no reason to stop supporting Ukraine. Russia's territorial ambitions and lust for war crimes must be obliterated. Once there is peace, there will be plenty of time to deal with whatever far-right sentiment remains. Personally, I think the journey to EU and NATO membership will do much to moderate those people.
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Disapproval of Elon Musk is top reason Tesla owners are selling, survey says
I use a car share co-op these days, but if I had to own again, I would count Tesla out of consideration specifically because I don’t want to support Musk.
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1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach
Sounds like 1P handled it about as well as they could, and the attacker didn’t get very far.
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Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike
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Been using DuckDuckGo for a month or two. It's mostly good enough for me.