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Privacy is dead, and all of your data, including medical information, is constantly being sold to the highest bidder. This is a terrible situation, and there should be strict regulations for those who are breaking the law. Source https://www.threads.net/@thebrianpenny/post/C6y2ckfxaDj/
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Exzedo
@nixCraft Referencing Threads aside, stricter regulations won't necessarily change their mind. Enforcing near-bankruptcy-inducing penalties for violating said regulations, however, might. Perhaps adding an extra couple zeroes and threatening their corporate ability to exist next year would encourage them to stop selling PHI.
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What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs: In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writerβs worst fear. Remember, the cloud is just someone elseβs computer https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/
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David Grieve
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Owen Tyme
@nixCraft This is why I use LibreOffice, running on Linux, on my own hardware AND make regular backups. When my work goes online, its through Draft2Digital, for publishing. Works in progress (WIP) do not get put online. Reminds me of a critique exchange with another writer. I was super angry when I found out they put my work in Google Docs and then shared a link back with their notes as comments, because I don't post WIP online. Google Docs has always been a problem in search of a solution.
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Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.
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Jason Hunter
@nixCraft I never expected to get paid for my SO answers. I wrote them so freeloading developers could freeload on me. I always expected SO as a site would make a few bucks to run the show. My answers were my donation to the universe. Whatβs the problem here again?
Len Frankel
@nixCraft a potential alternative is Codidact, which is essentially a Stack Exchange clone only open source and run by a not-for-profit. It was started up a few years back by ex StackOverflow moderator Monica Cellio (who was fired by SO in another one of their faux pas moments).
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Google self driving car with Chrome rims. π Google thinks it is funny that 4 tires (aka tabs) are enough.
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I am a: βͺοΈ Man βͺοΈ Woman π New Linux user who is configuring Nginx for the first time Looking for: βͺοΈ Women βͺοΈ Men π How to exit from vim
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Filbert
@nixCraft@mastodon.social i am a Novice Linux user who got stuck after reading documentation.
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this developer retired or resigned from software giant after 22 years 4 mos, and became a farmer. bro is living his dream. https://x.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947
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Bad and freeloader behaviour
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Michael Boelen
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Poll: Please clarify what your primary purpose is for using #Linux : π€ Anonymous poll
Poll
Software Development
84
38.7%
Server Administration
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40.6%
Personal Desktop
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74.2%
Gaming
217 people voted. 51
23.5%
Voting ended 29 April at 14:22.
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damn π±π you are now just showing off your fancy cpp code π original gist at https://gist.github.com/HerringtonDarkholme/2dbb2a1ec748a786f54908320447b3dd by X/Twitter user https://x.com/hd_nvim
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Pascal Leinert
@nixCraft It is a good thing, that programming was invented in the English language world.
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Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324
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Radio Resistance
@nixCraft i thought the same thing the other day. when they want to steal our work, that's totally legal, when we want to fair use their shit, we're criminals.
RustyBertrand
"There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -Frank Wilhoit
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giantβs operations https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/ NSS. π
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BirdInFire :mastodon:
@nixCraft So he just tell that they have layed off on money without checking the consequences β¦ hope they go bankruptβ¦
Urzl
@nixCraft We tech folk don't generally like doing the "work around the work", that's a thing either organically necessary to the work or imposed by managers who never want to hear the details and just want us to pump out code 24/7. You can't just arbitrarily reduce headcount and think that represents any improvement.
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Maximum #Linux Magzine - October 1999 - Penguin Computing Ad. Read it at https://archive.org/details/maximum-linux-magazine-1999-10/page/n69/mode/2up #opensource
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Modern software development be like: I wrote 10 lines of code to call an API that calls another API, which calls yet another API that finally turns on a lightbulb. Pray that Cloudflare or AWS will not be down during this operation; otherwise, there will be no light for you.
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Anton Piatek
@nixCraft it's doesn't have to be... Mine are all local network. I do use a mqtt server, though could do direct http to the lights too.
Lorenzo
@nixCraft I honestly find embarrassing that to print a file in my local library I need to email it and it will likely do a journey around the world before reaching the printer which is one step away from me. I'm happy I don't have to connect an untrusted USB to my phone, but I wish there were a middle ground with a local and secure by default protocol.
Tobias Klausmann
@nixCraft And the sysadmin/SRE is the one who writes Golang templates to generate YAML that configures a system that configures a system that configures a system that configures a system that configures a system...
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sudo apt install food π€£ Also, check out all of my apt command examples https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-lts-debian-linux-apt-command-examples/ #ubuntu #debian #linux
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this is how bots army and click fraud take place. your uniq mobile id means nothing. Here is How they build the 3rd gen, 20 mobiles into a server chassis? 3rd generation click farm fraud involves mobile device servers, centralised and operated by one.
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Riley S. Faelan
@nixCraft It's a Matrix pod, only it's unscrupulous and manipulative humans mercilessly exploiting innocent cellphones who think they're living on a real network. :blobcatsad:β |
@nixCraft I know it is a joke but... Come on! GPT4-turbo would never do that mistake. GPT-4o (the new model that now even unpaid customers can use) neither. To get that answer you must chose GPT3.5 that is now #29 on lmsys bechmark.
Go with llama 3 70b. You can even install it on your laptop if you have a good one.
@nixCraft @hannu_ikonen Iβd always wondered
@nixCraft OK, that just means that it's calculator only does 12 digits.
3.14159265359.