freedsoftware

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by freedsoftware 1y ago
Everything you said is actually true of Org. It is a markup language that looks like plain text but is far more capable.
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Org markup should replace Markdown
2 points by freedsoftware 1y ago|2 comments
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by freedsoftware 3y ago
This talk already happened but for some reason it's not posted. Very odd.
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Windows 3.x's Program Manager as an X11 window manager(github.com)
6 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|0 comments
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The strange political history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency(flux.community)
3 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|1 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
Slowness and memory bloat is the main problem of Thunderbird. I don't know what the cause is, but it is frustrating that there are no full-featured open-source mail apps that have decent performance. Kmail's UI can be fast, but it
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Learning to lie: AI tools adept at creating disinformation(apnews.com)
3 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|0 comments
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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past(nasa.gov)
7 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|1 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
The original headline is sensationalistic and referencing a specific language learning product so I didn't include it. But this is some interesting research.
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Bilingualism as a Deterrent for Alzheimer’s?(bigthink.com)
1 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|1 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
Rather overstated. How you perceive the wavefunction has no bearing on how it works. But it is a valid to be concerned about quantum woo which deliberately misapplies quantum mechanics to macroscopic ones and even the idea of consciousness,
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
This defeats the entire original appeal of Twitter, which was to avoid the ginormous walls of text that Uncle Rico would put on his wall talking about his love for Jesus.
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Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified(vice.com)
1 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|0 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
Wallets do not have to have 2fa. A currency could force them to have it. Interestingly enough, one of crypto's biggest critics, Elizabeth Warren, has also been after Wells Fargo for Zelle scams.
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
Coins could be made to require two different keys to perform operations. Social engineering attacks getting people to divulge their private single keys are a huge method of crypto theft.
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
Coins should have 2FA themselves. Without it, theft is obviously far easier.
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Record $3.8B stolen in crypto hacks last year, report says(cnn.com)
4 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|8 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
Even the most rinky-dink banks have 2FA. Crypto is eventually going to consume itself once enough marks realize they will never make money from it.
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
I largely agree with this. But one thing that better AI has revealed is that a lot of human performance is also bullshit. If ChatGPT can pass an MBA final exam, then this would suggest that MBA exams are not good at determining business apt
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
I've seen this as well. VCs are actually terrible at their investments by and large. They mostly use gut instinct or personal networking as their determiner of whether to invest in stuff. That's a poor heuristic and it is why so m
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
It's also that good marketing of a product is probably more integral to its success than its engineering. There are so many stories of superior technologies failing because of bad marketing.
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Embarrassment as US cyber ambassador's Twitter account is hacked(theregister.com)
6 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|1 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
"Nate Fick, the inaugural US ambassador at large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, on Saturday announced the hack of his personal account (not the government agency one) with - of course - a tweet. "
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Neo-Nazi leader and girlfriend accused of targeting Md. power stations(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|3 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is going to become a lot more common.
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
You can criticize LLMs all you want, they will still be a huge thing in our economy and civilization.
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
This article really needed to be longer and have some illustrations. What's the point of publishing an essay about interface design without including any graphics? I'm sympathetic to the points made, but as someone who has not use
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Elon Musk's right-wing turn is tanking Tesla's reputation(forbes.com)
7 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|7 comments
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by freedsoftware 4y ago
"Currently, just 13.4% of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Tesla, compared with 16% last month and 28.4% in January 2022, according to survey data released on Thursday by Morning Consult Brand Intelligence. That’s a 15% drop year o
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The Breadth of the Fediverse(eff.org)
8 points by freedsoftware 4y ago|1 comments

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