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by aorth 12d ago
The story does not link to the report itself, which can be found here: https://www.unep.org/resources/limiting-overshoot-navigating...
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by aorth 16d ago
After discovering music I like on YouTube or whatever, I buy albums on Bandcamp and Qobuz if possible, and Amazon as a last resort. Then I host them on my personal Navidrome server to enjoy without involving any big tech.
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by aorth 21d ago
This is nice to see. I've been a long-time contributor to OpenStreetMap and a long-time user of applications in the ecosystem. I recently tried the CoMaps fork of Organic Maps and was surprised by a few quality of life improvements. Fo
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by aorth 22d ago
My personal laptop is a 2018 ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 6. It's eight years old now. Still running Linux pretty well, but I really need to figure out what to do for a replacement sooner than later...
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by aorth 1mo ago
So far all the comments discuss whether this is due to LLM slop, plagiarism avoidance, or translation issues. I want to know how these passed the peer review process.
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by aorth 1mo ago
This will resonate with anyone who operates a public-facing website and doesn't work at a big tech company. In the past few years I have also been down this exact same road. I'm desperately trying to avoid resorting to Cloudflare,
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by aorth 2mo ago
Any reason you don't use `pinentry-gnome3` from the `pinentry` package? Your wrapper is clever but doesn't work with gpg-agent.
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by aorth 2mo ago
Oh this is hard to read. Foxboron was a massively positive force for Arch Linux and the Linux ecosystem in general! I discovered his ssh-tpm-agent https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent a few months ago and it is re
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by aorth 2mo ago
I've never heard of that Superset . I've used the Apache business analytics one though: https://github.com/apache/superset . Unfortunate name collision...
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by aorth 2mo ago
I came to say something similar. On mobile it looks really nice and matches the highlights elsewhere. Cool subtle visual effect.
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by aorth 2mo ago
Sadly, go-away https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
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by aorth 2mo ago
This is really cool. We have them in Kenya too. https://www.colobusconservation.org/how-to-build-a-colobridg...
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by aorth 2mo ago
I think it's cool. Having lived in Jordan for a while I see there are some missing castles there. I will look into adding them in Wikidata.
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by aorth 2mo ago
Awesome! JPEG-XL support is here. I enabled it via the new "Firefox Labs" section in the settings, then tested on https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page.html without a restart.
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by aorth 2mo ago
The excessive scraping and ignoring robots.txt only breaks the informal social contract established over the past decades of the open internet. The real problem is the companies offering money to developers if they include unrelated SDKs in
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by aorth 3mo ago
Reminds me of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath .
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by aorth 3mo ago
In season 1 episode 2 of The Audacity JoAnne tells Duncan that "information is not insight" and that's a similar argument to this.
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by aorth 3mo ago
I was reminded of this hilarious skit about English sports. https://youtu.be/E_6d3JBBo4s
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by aorth 3mo ago
In web Outlook I *very" often begin typing as some element is loading a popover and end up hitting some key that archives the message and leaves me scrambling to click Undo. I guess it's usually some contact comes into focus of my
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by aorth 3mo ago
Ah interesting. They use the "FUTO source first" license. https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LIC... Open source with limitations on commercial use.
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by aorth 3mo ago
What are "guardrails" in an LLM? Is it part of the system prompt, like a long list of "if the user asks about xxxx, xxxx, or xxxx, tell them xxxx"? On a related note, I don't use LLMs at all, but I tried to use Deep
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by aorth 3mo ago
Strictly commenting on the license: it's my understanding that, if an LLM like Claude wrote it, it's not copyrightable. Isn't that the consensus these days?
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by aorth 3mo ago
Yes, and there was a good post about exactly this social contract last week https://jola.dev/posts/the-social-contract-of-writing . I find the argument compelling on the face of it and true in my experience with colleag
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by aorth 3mo ago
I wasn't familiar with the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP). Apparently they were acquired by Morningstar in February 2026. I also found this press release from Vanguard announcing they will be updating fund names (inclu
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by aorth 4mo ago
Last year a non-technical friend sent me a YouTube video about a niche history topic that we had been discussing. I was surprised because there wasn't much information online. The video was clearly AI generated, with that sheen on the
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by aorth 4mo ago
You could scrobble to Last.fm or ListenBrainz to track your personal library listens.
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by aorth 4mo ago
> Celebrated designer Clint Hocking – him wot worked on Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Watch Dogs Legion, and the forthcoming Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe Is this "him wot worked on" a typo or a deliberate sty
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by aorth 4mo ago
> Manually edit pyproject.toml to add upper bounds for every single dependency. Hah! I thought I was the only one. Still very happy with uv though.
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by aorth 4mo ago
Another vote for pass. I've been using it for ten years with a git repository. I sync to all my machines and use https://github.com/agrahn/Android-Password-Store on Android. Not a solution for non-technical people
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by aorth 5mo ago
Brilliant! I hate it. The author will surely admit that there was "joy" in creating this suite of software, but it's a different kind of joy than most of us here would recognize. I am looking forward to being a part of the gr

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