johannesrexx

I get that nauseous feeling that some posts here are made by Muse itself on behalf of its Meta-loving users.

It's good to see the old country finally coming to its senses.

Flock made the matches (Flock mass surveillance system) and let children (the police) play with them. The result is that citizens get burned.

Exactly. This is a free market economy.

Buyers and sellers come together of their own free will, unencumbered by interfering third parties and exchange money for goods and services.

There are a lot of comments in this thread proposing some kind of interfering in these transactions.

Don't like Amazon or Anthropic digitizing rare books? Then buy them yourself and stop with the kvetching.

If you're using a car to commit a crime we blame the driver not the car.

When there's a gun shooting we don't blame the gun we blame the user.

People commit crimes. They might use a computer, a baseball bat or a hammer. We don't hold the computer, baseball bat or hammer responsible.

The CPP is funding the anti-AI data center movement.

See https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5920573-openai-chinese...

The Zon is a data-driven company. Train on its user's data? Of course it would. It can do no less.

It's in the corporate DNA, just like Embrace-Extend-Extinguish is in Microsoft's DNA.

Parents are responsible for their children's upbringing. Not the government.

Let's not ruin it for everybody else with this so-called "age verification" BS. This is all about adding more information to what Meta and Google and Bing already know about Internet users. Information they monetize by selling ads and sharing it with authoritarian governments.

99.99% of people have zero artistic skill.

Those same people feel that they can detect AI-generated works?

Those same people have the audacity to spread their uninformed opinions online?

Those same people are spreading their harmful opinionated content online, actually causing real harm to real artists.

This proves the old adage that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they stink.

I've been following David Revoy for years and purchased his Pepper & Carrot books, long before machine learning and large language models got into the hands of unskilled people. He is right to complain.

"The only thing I object to is the facebook association."

!!!Exactly!!!

If Apple comes up with smart glasses then user privacy will be job one. For meta it's all about collecting data to sell ads. Period.

Thus do the Democrats of America implement the will of the CCP:

https://garryslist.org/posts/the-campaign-to-kill-american-a...

This is a transparent ploy to collect personal information to feed the beast. Google wants to invade user privacy by requiring a phone number and dares to say it's for security reasons! What doublespeak is this?

People need to deGoogle themselves. Also they need to deMeta themselves. Go read what Obi-Wan Kenobi said about the Mos Eisley Space Port.

Google is no different than Meta. Both collect as much personal information they can about Internet users even when they don't have an account with them. The business model is to monetize this data by selling it to data brokers directly, to sell targeted ads using the data and to quietly make it available to authoritarian governments so that privacy laws are not enacted to make surveillance capitalism illegal.

Go with Kagi and Apple.

Don't get the idea that his little app is ready for prime time. Try changing the font and you'll see why.

This little app simply leverages an existing API offered by Windows. Apple has a similar API for macOS.

But I appreciate Dave Plummer's concern about bloat. You only have to look at the Windows 2000 spartan system requirements to wonder WTF Microsoft is thinking with the bloatware that is Windows 11.

Given today's high RAM prices, lean mean software is cool again.

Thanks for sharing more information.

OP mentioned a tool called EPublish and I gather it's a home grown tool. It's ability to take annotations like TBH and generate a chapter-by-chapter report that marks those with TBHs is very cool.

If OP would consider open sourcing it I'd be interested in working with it.

No

Like Typst does ;-)

Agreed. The developer has the right to share his labors any way they want. I fully respect that.

I also don't object to paying for something I find useful or valuable. But I really hate subscription-ware.

But I'm a local-first privacy-focused user and only by self-hosting a tool am I comfortable using it.

So for me this tool is also a no-go.

npm install corepack # installs yarn

cd ~/Applications

git clone https://github.com/katspaugh/ichinichi.git

cd ichinichi

yarn install # build it or

yarn build # build it or production

yarn dev # launch it.

Now open a web browser to http://localhost:5173/

Good to know. Without a search function this tool becomes more of a write-only application ;-)

It installs easily under Linux.

That is horribly Draconian. You need to find a better place to work.

"Unauthorized software" is a thing where you work? OMFG.

Ah yes, your workplace is under the control of the Microsoft Priesthood who have declared that the masses under their thumb will adhere to the law of Redmond, that no other religion will be tolerated. You need to find a better place to work.

Discord is in a position to demand nothing.

No privacy loving person will comply with Discord on this matter.

Discord is doomed to only have weak compliant users on its platform.

The [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) begins.

Fixed that for you, and I agree fully with that assessment.

A proper single-pane WYSIWYG editor that uses Typst under the hood would be able to stop the MSWord train by matching the features end users need.

- Small caps, no problem. - Multilevel heading numbering, no problem - Table of Authority, no problem - Line numbers, no problem. - Paragraph numbers, no problem. - For missing features the community is more than capable of providing extensions to fill the gap. Redlining would be an example.

Your Calibri font is Microsoft proprietary and is not open source. It exists so that MS Office documents won't look right on non-Microsoft systems. It's a dirty aspect of Microsoft's Embrace-Extend-Extinguish stategy meant to further its monopoly. It's disgusting that you cite all of these wonder benefits of Calibri without admitting the true underlying reason it exists.

[The Plank](https://github.com/zquestz/plank-reloaded) has the Genie effect, but it only works for Xorg.

We put a beautiful wallpaper on the Desktop. Ahhhh.

Along comes a Luddite and puts icons on it, totally ruining its beauty. For fsck's sake! Just No.

Thankfully, along comes GNOME and it just says No.

I agree.

Friends don't let friends install npm