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What is your favorite open source software?

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By a huuuge mile indeed. Blender devs are great at listening and communicating with the community.

The standardization of hotkeys and features across the software is fantastic. The UI is snappy and filled to the brim with intuitive QoL features I wish were standard for my OS.

I have irreconcilable grievances with a lot of open source software, VLC, VSCode, etc, and find development slow and heading non optimal for others like Sharex and Firefox... but Blender, that's green on all fronts.

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Swedish embassy in Baghdad stormed, set alight over Koran burning

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If your world view is based upon a conspiracy theory with little to no backing evidence, you are bound to face mockery.

When you use these theories to suppress the rights of others and act like a barbaric caveman, either conflict arises or you have an ideological dictatorship.

Religion is great at detaching you from reality and your fellow man. Calling it human decency to encourage both of those behaviors is absolutely awful and you should be deeply ashamed.

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Piracy in China

The chinese state, as most authoritarian regimes are, is first and foremost concerned with maintaining power. They do this, primarily by suppressing political opposition. In furtherance of this goal, they restrict the flow of information that could encourage political opposition in any conceivable way. That is the main reason it exists.

They do crack down on piracy when economically beneficial, as I understand it. But it's not the purpose of the firewall and, even then, they do have means to circumvent it.

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ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans

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I use ChatGPT primarily for programming, and it's particularly well suited for programming.

"Even get basic programming questions right if you are detailed with your prompt"

is underselling its capabilities in that regard. Especially GPT-4 has been able to help me with everything from obscure adobe ExtendScript scripts to infrequently seen 'unsafe' C# OpenGL perspective matrix math. All with prompts of a sentence maximum.

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Opensource software for jewellery designing?

I'd say maybe keep at Blender, the community is huge and the tutorials endless. It's only complicated until you learn how it works!

There's also CAD software, like FreeCAD, LibreCAD, etc, which, unfortunately I have no experience of so I can't tell you if they're easier or harder to learn and use compared to Blender.