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In-reply-to » Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft Edge has a built-in image enhancement tool that, according to Microsoft, can use “super-resolution to improve clarity, sharpness, lighting, and contrast in images on the web.” Although the feature sounds exciting, recent Microsoft Edge Canary updates have provided more information on how image enhancement works. The browser now warns that it sends image links to Microsoft instead of performing on-device enhancements. The biggest problem w ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@neotxt.dk personally loving Orion browser. so few left who don’t pull BS like this

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In-reply-to » GitHub and OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot lawsuit • The Register

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci if the death threats are coming from Microsoft themselves that’s a whole other can of worms, and I really hope it’s not them. and if they aren’t then who are these people who care so much about copilot they’re willing to resort to others’ deaths to keep it? the whole thing is very strange and horrifying.

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In-reply-to » I truly despise the way Apple has slowly locked up macOS

@prologic@twtxt.net True, brew is very helpful in that regards, and yeah, security does matter. It just bothers me when they use such logic to, for example, restrict Safari WebExtensions to only being available through the App Store even if it’s signed properly

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In-reply-to » Still undecided between TiddlyWiki, DokuWiki, Bear, Benotes, Memos, my blog software, standardnotes, apple notes and more. I like them all quite a bit, but standardnotes, the only one that has reall multiplatform is so fucking complicated to host on your own and then they have this stupid offline subscription thing that allows rich text or the block editor that works like notion. I also found codex docs which is really really nice. Unfortunately they lack proper authentication. 1 / 2

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net What about Ulysses?

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In-reply-to » I truly despise the way Apple has slowly locked up macOS

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s also been my primary OS for a long time, and I still love it, but I don’t love some of Apple’s decisions. What prompted me to write this specific post was having to take extra steps to open FOSS apps on macOS because they don’t have an “Apple-approved” signature 🤦‍♂️

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In-reply-to » Metaverse Could Contribute Up To 2.4% of US GDP By 2035, Study Shows A study commissioned by Meta has found that the metaverse could contribute around 2.4% to U.S. annual GDP by 2035, equating to as much as $760 billion. Reuters reports: The concept of the metaverse includes augmented and virtual reality technologies that allow users to immerse themselves in a virtual world or overlay information digitally on ... ⌘ Read more

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Oh wow, I hadn’t heard of Vircadia before. This looks really cool.

Also. The idea of Augmented Reality is much more appealling to me than full Virtual Reality. And a pair of glasses is a lot easier to wear than a headset.

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In-reply-to » @prologic hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him "do you support rape" he would not say "no", he'd go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I'm mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn't say "no" right away, he's saying "yes", except with so many words there's some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that's why I give him no slack.

@prologic@twtxt.net Generated haha 😆

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In-reply-to » What is a good device for home virtualization these days? I have been looking at the Intel NUC 13 pro's. Basically I want something "quiet" (ie not a screaming banshee 1U), smallish, but with lots of threads and rams. Disk will come from an external NAS.

@xuu@txt.sour.is What’s your budget?

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In-reply-to » @prologic hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him "do you support rape" he would not say "no", he'd go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I'm mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn't say "no" right away, he's saying "yes", except with so many words there's some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that's why I give him no slack.

Indubitably, it would be an intellectually stimulating and intellectually invigorating exercise to endeavor to craft a prose devoid of any substantive idea or notion. To partake in such a linguistic activity, one must embrace the aphorism that the beauty of language lies not in its utilitarian function but rather in the aesthetic pleasure of its form. The pursuit of such an objective requires a mastery of language that transcends the pedestrian concerns of conveying meaning and instead focuses on the artful arrangement of words and phrases into a mosaic of syntactical structure. One must be cautious, however, not to fall into the trap of mistaking verbal acrobatics for genuine intellectual profundity. For while it may be entertaining to indulge in a linguistic parlor game, it is ultimately through the substantive and coherent expression of ideas that we achieve true intellectual enlightenment.

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In-reply-to » @prologic hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him "do you support rape" he would not say "no", he'd go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I'm mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn't say "no" right away, he's saying "yes", except with so many words there's some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that's why I give him no slack.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I would agree, but it feels like GPT already does that. :)

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In-reply-to » @prologic you mentioned in a memo earlier how you said "boring microblogging" about yarn, well, hopefully I'm allowed to help prevent the "boring" part. If I like something I tend to really like it, so, and I'm curious how exactly this is federating. Any hints mate?

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah. While I strongly dislike Jordan Peterson et al I would like to someday discuss some of these controversial things with you and others while not getting too heated.

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In-reply-to » I've seen BlueSky referred to as BS (as in Blue Sky, but you know...), which seems apt.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I’m on BlueSky. This isn’t the case. Such accounts were banned within 7 minutes of reporting them. Federation is their top priority right now - it was just delayed by the sudden influx of users, which caused them to have to focus much more strongly on moderation.

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In-reply-to » So the news is telling me, Bluesky is the hottest new decentralized thing, with parole waiting month to join, or buying invite codes of ebay, for thousands of dollars.

@thecanine@twtxt.net I have a few invite codes. Message me on matrix as shreyanjain:matrix.org or email me shreyan.jain.9@outlook.com

XRPC is pretty neat but yeah until federation hits it’s a little iffy

You can 100% host your own right now, but federation lands sometime next month

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In-reply-to » The discovery of the year is sxmo, he's damn good! It's hard to believe that a smartphone can do that. It seems crazy at first glance, but it's convenient.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah sxmo is awesome. personally i daily drive sailfish os because i want the power of full gnu/linux on my phone but i still don’t want to abandon convenience, and it does feel the most complete of any mobile gnu/linux distros i’ve looked at and/or tried

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