Interesting

The buttons are intended to be placebo except in some places.

OpenVMS: ‘I’m in trouble’

Great, I guess I’ll try out then.

Does it give high (≥ 1080p) quality in browser without widevine? Good way to check is firefox. It shows a handcuff sign near the address bar.

Do you use nebula? Do you know if it uses DRM? I’m considering a subscription for a while but couldn’t find proper answer for that.

I wish I could rely on Patreon and user funding only. That would be the dream, and if Patreon reached the same amount of money monthly as YouTube ads, I would disable ads on my channel (if that’s still even possible?). The reality though, is that we’re not even close to that yet, and so for now, I need ads, and sponsors to pay the bills.

from https://thelinuxexp.com/Ethics

so it is not the case always.

Though IMO if I don’t act based on an ad, the purpose of the ad is defeated and hence effectively the ad is blocked. There are ways to ‘clickjack’ or ‘show’ ads without actually seeing it, my proposal is a simplified version of that. I have never done those ‘ad viewing’ tricks because they are complicated, and probably not suitable for people outside the tech bubble anyway. Also disabling blockers like ubo on a regular browsing session for any website has privacy and potentially security implication, not to mention requirement of using a non blocking dns for the said session.

Patreon is great, I’m talking about the gratis option. I personally have no ‘guilt’ regarding ad blockers and I don’t remember last time I saw ad (except on other people’s devices) online¹. The question was about convincing people to use ad blocker or alt clients who do not want to or can’t afford to pay creators directly.

¹ excluding sponsorship in videos… I do not use sponsorblock and I found sponsored contents from some channels useful.

I’m not talking about AI in general here. I know some form of AI has been out there for ages and ML definitely has some field specific usecases. Here the objective is to discuss the feeling about gen AI produced content in contrast to human made content, potentially pondering the hypothetical scenario that the gen AI infrastructure is used ethically. I hope the notion of generative AI is sort of clear, but it includes LLMs, photo (not computer vision) and audio generators and any multimodal combination of these.

Torrent a movie? You can potentially go to jail. …

Because artists are not billion doller hollywood studios with so many political lobbies and stubborn well paid lawyers, duh.

Is there such an example? Till now I didn’t come across any remotely good/interesting music generated by AI of any meaningful length. Short clips are kinda good but that needs creative composer to arrange them into music.

On a bench in under construction zone of a subway station. I had to explain security guards hard enough that I was neither homeless nor a terrorist (the security there were pretty much anti-homeless).

• When I’m stuck in debugging and can’t think of what can go wrong, LLM chats are quite useful. I can ask for possibilities and often I find something meaningful that didn’t come to mind. These kind of things are hard to do with search engines. (If I’m debugging something unfamiliar this becomes very counterproductive though, as I can’t filter hallucinations by looking).
• A smart text formatter
• Simple bash one liner, boilerplate code generation. I tried it but non trivial/bit longer code generation again gets effectively slower as I find myself fixing/working around AI mistake quite often.

Oh, I didn’t know it is on firefox android. I use it on desktop firefox though.

Thanks! It’s nice, just installed. The open old reddit button is super useful too, for search results landing on reddit.

Is there a good screen time recording app on linux desktop?

Which extension?

Every app is open source if you can read assembly.

— someone someday on internet.

Blinkenlighs, LED patches with patterns. Rarely candles.

Not particularly holiday. I do whenever I like or I celebrate (including holidays).

Edit: Only home. Only my bedroom if don’t have much time. People call ot weird cause why not living room that others see, but I’m ok with it :)

I think they blocked in all and this community is subbed?