If you have to say a certain phrase in order to get granted a right, then it’s not a right, it’s just a spell you have access to.
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Linux•Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request & FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution
9·11 days agoIt was an embedded system. The user wouldn’t be able to download and install stuff, they just turn the thing on.
As someone who likes to actually own and customise all my devices, devs like you are the bane of my existence. Read up on software licensing, and pay special attention to the history of its enforcement and what it enabled us. Then please reconsider your user hostile stance.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link PreviewsEnglish
6·12 days agoI tried the link preview feature as well, and to say the response to it is overblown is putting it mildly. I haven’t looked at the source code, but based on how it appears to work I’m not sure it even qualifies as AI. It basically selects 2-3 sentences from the reading mode version of an article, but the selection is so bad it might as well be random. Not surprising as it’s a tiny model that runs locally and is only given a second to make the selection.
I actually laughed when I saw it - this is what all the weeks of fuss were about?
I’ve played this game for over a month now, maybe two, and I haven’t encountered a single instance of that happening. The next answer is always deducible by logic. I have gotten stuck plenty of times, and a few times I even thought the game was totally and definitely wrong, only for me to realise that I missed something.
If you continue playing, you should know that the games get harder as the week goes on. The weekend ones tend to sometimes take me 15-20 minutes to work out.
Baking soda or baking powder? Because some (most?) baking powders do contain aluminium salts and some people are put off by that. Maybe that carried over to baking soda too.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Ho Ho Ho, got some keys for youEnglish
3·24 days agoThere’s dozens of us here!
And it’s not even a new account.
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Programmer Humor•In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful...
26·1 year agoAs they point out at the end, this wasn’t about the old control panel, but the new settings panel. It’s all brand new code.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Reliable tech leaker posts a ‘360-degree render’ of Nintendo’s new console [VGC]
3·1 year agoThey were also wise to not have revealed the Switch 2 any earlier, because it would have jeopardized sales of the Switch 1. Enough companies have made this mistake in the past.
Ah, the Osborne effect…




Well if they dislike taxes, they probably hate transaction fees even more.