tinsukE

@tinsukE@lemmy.world
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"cheat", "lie", "cover up"... Assigning human behavior to Stochastic Parrots again, aren't we Jimmy?

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People, shall we read the full article first?

Meanwhile, this is not the case with the Ryzen 9000 series desktop parts as the spec sheet of that says:

OS Support

Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition , Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition , RHEL x86 64-Bit , Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

So the new Ryzen AI chips that most people don't care about won't support Win 10, but Ryzen 9000 (the real deal desktop chips) will.

To be frank, the article title is misleading at best.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

surprised_pikachu

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No fees when users choose to pay via Spotify (which had been the case and only option since the beginning, until User Choice Billing was implemented).

If users choose to pay with Google Play Billing, Google keeps 4%.

Even so, what I find hypocritical is that Spotify got this deal and seemingly agreed to keep it under wraps, without advocating for it to be extended to all other music streaming services in the platform.

Because... having a deal with the platform holder that gives it unfair advantage over the competition is exactly what they accuse Apple of doing with iOS.

Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-android-billing-commission-secret-deal

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Paperless-ngx that allows you to self host an easily browseable archive of your documents. Fully featured with OCR, ML-powered categorization and the works.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

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KeepassXC replied on that thread that it wasn't just the privacy problematic networking that was removed:

that bug report is bunk. He removed ALL features, not just networking. That includes yubikey support, auto-type and browser integration.

https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417651131348253

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Syncthing.

Just configure it to only run while plugged to the wall, so you're not surprised by the rare bug of it randomly turning your phone into a pocket warmer.

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Please sir, may I have the sauce?

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HeliBoard has been my chosen SwiftKey replacement: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

Features I value:

  • Multilingual typing (as someone who writes EN, PT and dabbles on DE and NL daily, having to check which language I'm on and switch keyboards/layouts every time sucks)
  • Glide typing (with optional closed source library)
  • Clipboard history
  • Comprehensive layout customization
  • Autocorrect (with customizable level of confidence)
  • Emoji selection and history

It does suck to see an app that I loved and paid for (yes, I used it for THAT long) get enshittified and try push AI* down my throat.

Not to mention M$ owning my typing history (which I kinda could live with).

RIP SwiftKey.

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Appears to be a useful app, with a plaetora of features, but gathers your personal data, including voice, just to sell it to the highest bidder, all under the umbrella of an ads platform (which is also a very sketchy business).

Yup, sounds like a virus to me.

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I'd say that they're "cooking the books" as in: making it look like they're in better shape than they are by cutting costs, but causing irreparable damage to themselves that will manifest in the long run.

I've survived 3 layoffs at Spotify last year alone. Once I started working there It didn't take long to be proud and feel happy about it. Now, although people still find it cool when I tell them and I still do the same job (no workload increase), I know it is just like any other greedy corpo and I feel compelled to care less and less.

https://c.im/@matdevdug/111828583287417134

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sigh

For me, the most important bit was the basis of the claim that YouTube would be breaching privacy, and this is it (completely missing from the "summary"):

“AdBlock detection scripts are spyware — there is no other way to describe them and as such it is not acceptable to deploy them without consent,” Hanff tells The Verge. “I consider any deployment of technology which can be used to spy on my devices is both unethical and illegal in most situations.”

Not even that, it is the Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F).

https://mas.to/@Rii_cck/110768836386508269

Yup, very likely that.

My crystal ball says that your client is trying to parse the response of a failed request as it was a successful one.

A successful request would return a valid JSON object, while a failed on would probably return an error message.

Report a bug with your client devs saying that they should check that request's status code says it's successful before trying to parse its response as JSON.

L. O. L.

Seriously though, reasonable discussion of its usefulness aside, how can't people see that outrageous statements like that without any scientific or practical backing, clearly made to inspire devotion and/or fear, keeping the hype and the money and resources drain on, are the telltale of a tech hype?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

When your phone becomes unusable and unrepairable, buy a Fairphone.

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We are discontinuing Workplace from Meta so we can focus on building AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally reshape the way we work,

Lol, can't make this shit up!

From the project's GitHub page, this is the link: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/tree/46fdf2b550035ca69299ce312fa158e7ade36967/app/src/main/jniLibs

(If you have a modern phone, you'll want the arm64-v8a build)

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I thought it would be a good idea to create a port of Paperless-NGX to FreeBSD.

I mean, I have experience installing it for myself and saw that there is documentation on how to port stuff, making it available for all FreeBSD users. How hard could it be?

Well, I think I'll get it running today, then it'll be time to test all its features. Then convert my own setup to use the port and find all its bugs firsthand. Good times.

https://github.com/tinsukE/paperless-ngx-freebsd-port

Potential bias: I'm a developer at Spotify.

"Spotify forces you either to pay, listen to ads or to find unofficial, potentially dangerous versions to use it."

I don't think the company forces you to do anything. It is their business model, how they can provide copyrighted music to you and have a share of the pie too.

I'd say the very idea that Spotify is forcing you to pay with time and attention or money so you can have music conveniently streamed to your devices is a testament to the company's success. It created this business model and fulfilled an apparently basic need to the point you think that charging for it is unfair.

But "forcing" is too much. You can always buy discs, digital downloads and so.

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If you wanna stick to Fairphone, they maintain a de-googled version of the OS, the Fairphone Open (only open source code): https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fairphone-2/fairphone-open.html

That is great news!

Now I might be able to uninstall Google Drive from my phone.

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Boy, are the example story and picture bad.

Trying to make real and good use of AI generative models are cracks in the magic.

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Probably good to add a /s somewhere here.

I suspect people are down voting without checking the piece.

I know I would, but I saw it shared on Mastodon in a cheeky way first.

... supports DLSS3, a more modern upscaler that is compatible with more recent Nvidia cards.

Gotta love errors in tech articles.

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I have the OG Shield Pro, with an additional remote, the most recebt one.

Besides changing the inner HDD for a SSD, it does all I need.

Sure, it doesn't support the HDMI 2.1 that my TV does, but I don't need that for what the Shield does for me (YouTube, Netflix and Plex playback).

It this actually true? For real?!

Can't wait to go back from my parental leave and not be the last one to hear about important announcements because they were posted on FB. F that.

Made me think this was the good news community.

If you're interested in Lineage, just check their device page and filter for set top box:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

On handling downloaded songs and offline playback, my personal (but informed) opinion is that there is:

  • some licensing reasons for it to be more complicated than strictly necessary
  • lack of interest of supporting an app feature that doesn't drive numbers immediately up (sure, I agree that a better offline experience would improve the product and help user retention, but it isn't easy/quick to measure its impact), and
  • lack of ownership with many teams having to support a functionality (keep the app working offline) within all the various app features they own.

So, just as a dog with multiple owners, it goes neglected and starves.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

When your phone becomes unusable and unrepairable, buy a Fairphone.

I haven't used it, but it is on my bookmarks for when Feedly stops working for me: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

Every 4-5 seconds? Yeah, logging.

You can either move the system dataset to your boot drive/pool or syslog to /var/log:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/coretutorials/systemconfiguration/settingthesystemdataset/

I've seem many users recommend a reboot after changing those settings.

The latest release hints towards F-Droid availability: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases/tag/v1.2

Just updating 1.1 APKs would have created issues with incoming F-Droid build.

There seems to be a huge overlap in functionality. But a major difference is that Paperwork is a local application that runs on Windows and Linux, while Paperless has a web front end that makes it accessible anywhere (it also has some independently native apps for mobile).

For apps that don't disallow regular backups (like WhatsApp does), Lineage OS and Calyx support Seedvault, which is a 1:1 alternative to Google Drive, except it saves the backup as an encrypted file.

Just thinking out loud: could you move the yuzu data folder to a place that Syncthing can access and create a symlink from the original to the new location?

I think the biggest problem would be file ownership/permissions, but otherwise should work.

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Additionally, you would have to uninstall and reinstall the app after you're effectively out of beta.

I don't think that the Play Store would ever downgrade an app version, as Android doesn't allow that.

Out of curiosity, which is the launcher you chose?

I froze the stock launcher at the last version without Ads. It works, but I guess some entries like "continue watching" could be bugging out now because it is out of date/never patched.

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