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Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology

in response to Windows 11 users getting mad about a pride icon appearing on their task bar.

I didn’t hear about it, but the usual thing is that people get annoyed if you add unsolicited useless icons in the taskbar, especially if you do it with motivations related to politics or ideology.

If anyone is naive enough to think this is going to support us in any way, I encourage you to just do something like change the wallpaper, and never run random executables, ever. Or, you know, you can also do something that has SOME impact.

Telepathy is typically used for mind-to-mind, but here there is an intermediary. I guess better something like mind-reading.

Bah, a bad copy that pretends to impersonate a product, in order to sell personal data.

She/he

Why?

The importance is being “fully reproducible” in order to make the model trustworthy.

Well that’s a problem, because even with training data that’s impossible by design.

Dual boot, although I usually prefer to drop it rather than go to the trouble.

I wouldn’t recommend virtualization, not only do you lose performance when you need it most, but (depending on the devices and system) setting everything up properly can be very tedious.

Secure boot is still problematic, but it has also become much easier thanks to sbctl; in the best case you only have to delete the keys in the bios and run 3 or 4 generic commands.

So, the same thing that rangers (mostly men) have always done?

bunch of minor incidents not worth reporting

That the personal data of millions of people are leaked is newsworthy, even more so if it was hidden from the victims.

Sorry if I’m being rude, but in a context where threats of destruction and announcements of new missiles are the norm, suddenly throwing garbage bags into your neighbor’s yard and saying “will directly experience how much effort is required to remove them” strikes me as too funny! Like a parody of a B-series villain.

“Mounds of wastepaper and filth will soon be scattered over the border areas and the interior of the ROK and it will directly experience how much effort is required to remove them,” North Korea’s vice-minister of defence Kim Kang Il said

They are truly diabolical. It is an unprecedented escalation, I think they are one step away from total war.

Isn’t it obvious? There is a certain probability, which may or may not be equal to zero, that there was a terrorist there. Therefore, the children who might be nearby are accomplices of terrorism, therefore terrorists, therefore valid targets. They are just killing terrorists, so why are people complaining?

I really hope it is not necessary but, just in case: /s

Don’t wait for it, usage data is valuable to them.

I noticed that while using phind and perplexity. Its context is vitiated with results from sites that rig SEO, which are almost copy/paste with the same garbage, so instead of answering the question it makes a useless summary of them. Even asking chatgpt usually gives more correct answers.

They could also perform some additional iterations with other models on the result to verify it, or even to enrich it; but we come back to the issue of costs.

Any other contract in everyday life would be invalid under these terms; consent must be affirmative and informed. “I have read and accept the terms” is a crude lie that should be illegal but is tolerated for convenience, and which allows to justify all kinds of abuses.

The mozilla case is even worse, because they’ve even bragged about how they respect affirmative consent by asking their users if they allow telemetry (they’ve never really fully complied), and about being respectful of privacy in general. They deserve to be criticized for it, and that’s what people are doing here, but your responses of “if you don’t like it go away, the competition is worse” only legitimizes bad behavior.

Lawyers love that trick.

“You most likely would have agreed, so why bother asking for your consent?”

as we’ve worked extensively to optimize performance and deliver the best possible experience on these devices.

Hard to believe.