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Why LLMs can't really build software

Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.

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Frezik

in reply to MarcellusDrum • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

To those who have played around with LLM code generation more than me, how are they at debugging?

I'm thinking of Kernighan's Law: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." If vibe coding reduces the complexity of writing code by 10x, but debugging remains just as difficult as before, then Kernighan's Law needs to be updated to say debugging is 20x as hard as vibe coding. Vibe coders have no hope of bridging that gap.

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Pechente

in reply to Frezik • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Definitely not good. Sometimes they can solve issues but you gotta point them in the direction of the issue. Other times they write hacky workarounds that do the job for the moment but crash catastrophically with the next major dependency update.

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HarkMahlberg

in reply to Pechente • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I saw an LLM override the casting operator in C#. An evangelist would say "genius! what a novel solution!" I said "nobody at this company is going to know what this code is doing 6 months from now."

It didn't even solve our problem.

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hisao

in reply to HarkMahlberg • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I saw an LLM override the casting operator in C#. An evangelist would say “genius! what a novel solution!” I said “nobody at this company is going to know what this code is doing 6 months from now.”

Before LLMs people were often saying this about people smarter than the rest of the group. "Yeah he was too smart and overengineered solutions that no one could understand after he left,". This is btw one of the reasons why I increasingly dislike programming as a field over the years and happily delegate the coding part to AI nowadays. This field celebrates conformism and that's why humans shouldn't write code manually. Perfect field to automate away via LLMs.

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Feyd

in reply to hisao • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Wow you just completely destroyed any credibility about your software development opinions.

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hisao

in reply to Feyd • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Why though? I think hating and maybe even disrespecting programming and wanting your job to be as much redundant and replaced as possible is actually the best mindset for a programmer. Maybe in the past it was a nice mindset to become a teamlead or a project manager, but nowadays with AI it's a mindset for programmers.

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Feyd

in reply to hisao • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Before LLMs people were often saying this about people smarter than the rest of the group. “Yeah he was too smart and overengineered solutions that no one could understand after he left,”.

This part.

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hisao

in reply to Feyd • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

The fact that I dislike it that it turned out that software engineering is not a good place for self-expression or for demonstrating your power level or the beauty and depth of your intricate thought patterns through advanced constructs and structures you come up with, doesn't mean that I disagree that this is true.

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chunkystyles

in reply to hisao • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

If your code is as comprehensible as that run-on sentence, I can understand why coworkers would ask you to please write simpler code.

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very_well_lost

in reply to Frezik • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

The company I work for has recently mandated that we must start using AI tools in our workflow and is tracking our usage, so I've been experimenting with it a lot lately.

In my experience, it's worse than useless when it comes to debugging code. The class of errors that it can solve is generally simple stuff like typos and syntax errors — the sort of thing that a human would solve in 30 seconds by looking at a stack trace. The much more important class of problem, errors in the business logic, it really really sucks at solving.

For those problems, it very confidently identifies the wrong answer about 95% of the time. And if you're a dev who's desperate enough to ask AI for help debugging something, you probably don't know what's wrong either, so it won't be immediately clear if the AI just gave you garbage or if its suggestion has any real merit. So you go check and manually confirm that the LLM is full of shit which costs you time... then you go back to the LLM with more context and ask it to try again. It's second suggestion will sound even more confident than the first, ("Aha! I see the real cause of the issue now!") but it will still be nonsense. You go waste more time to rule out the second suggestion, then go back to the AI to scold it for being wrong again.

Rinse and repeat this cycle enough times until your manager is happy you've hit the desired usage metrics, then go open your debugging tool of choice and do the actual work.

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HubertManne

in reply to very_well_lost • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

maybe its just me but I find typos to be the most difficult because my brain and easily see it as correct so the whole code looks correct. Its like the way you can take the vowels out of sentences and people can still immediately read it.

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ganryuu

in reply to HubertManne • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Probably why they talked about looking at a stack trace, you'll see immediately that you made a typo in a variable's name or language keyword when compiling or executing.

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HarkMahlberg

in reply to very_well_lost • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

we must start using AI tools in our workflow and is tracking our usage

Reads to me as "Please help us justify the very expensive license we just purchased and all the talented engineers we just laid off."

I know the pain. Leadership's desperation is so thick you can smell it. They got FOMO'd, now they're humiliated, so they start lashing out.

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frog_brawler

in reply to HarkMahlberg • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Funny enough, the AI shift is really just covering for the over-hiring mistakes in 2021. They can’t admit they fucked up in hiring too many people during Covid, so they’re using AI as the scapegoat. We all know it’s not able to actually replace people yet; but that’s happening anyway.

There won’t be any immediate ramifications, we’ll start to see that in probably 12-18 months or so. It’s just another form of kicking the can down the road.

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frog_brawler

in reply to Frezik • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

How are they at debugging? In a silo, they’re shit.

I’ve been using one LLM to debug the other this past week for a personal project, and it can be a bit tedious sometimes, but it eventually does a decent enough job. I’m pretty much vibe coding things that are a bit out of my immediate knowledge and skill set, but I know how they’re supposed to work. For example, I’ve got some python scripts using rekognition to scan photos for porn or other explicit stuff before they get sent to an s3 bucket. After that happens, there’s now a dashboard that’s going to give me results on how many images were scanned and then marked as either acceptable or flagged as inappropriate. After a threshold of too many inappropriate images being sent in, it’ll shadowban them from sending any more dick pics in.

For someone that’s never taken a coding course, I’m relatively happy with the results I’m getting so far. Granted, this may be small potatoes for someone with an actual development background; but as someone that’s been working adjacent to those folks for several years, I’m happy with the output.

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Zexks

in reply to Frezik • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Working just fine. It one shot a kodi tv channel addon for me last week end. Used it to integrate kofax into docusign. Building 2 blazor apps one new one an upgrade. Used it to create a stack of mc servers for the kids with a dashboard of statuses and control switches. My son is working on his own mc mod with it. Use it almost daily for random file organization and management scripts. Using it to clean uo my media library meta data. Anytime i have to do something to more than 5 or so files i pull it up and ask for a script.

Its a tool like any other. There will be people who adapt and people who fail to. Just like we had with computers the internet. It zeems to be long forgotten now but literally ALL of these anti ai arguments were made against computers and the internet 30_50 years ago. Very similar ones were made when books and writing became common place as well.

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TheFinn

in reply to Zexks • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Apparently I'm not up to date. I've been impressed by some things and turned off by others. But I haven't seen any workflows or setups that enabled access to my file system. How is that accomplished, and are there any safeguards around it?

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Zexks

in reply to TheFinn • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I didnt give it access just had it make sceipts in various languages to handle large repetative file tasks. Something that wpuld take me 30-45 minutes toclpoks up and piece together it can do is 30-45 seconds. And depending on how simple or able you are to describe the task at hand the better it can do. Even when i know what i want to type, like during the blazor conversion it simply types faster for a much simpler prompt. Once i had a single page sorted i asked it for a step by step of what we did. Then took that and said 'hey do this to the follpwing page abc.html' and done. Then just tell it 'now this page ...' etc etc. That was in copilot though so it could see my solutions files.

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TuffNutzes

in reply to MarcellusDrum • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

The LLM worship has to stop.

It's like saying a hammer can build a house. No, it can't.

It's useful to pound in nails and automate a lot of repetitive and boring tasks but it's not going to build the house for you - architect it, plan it, validate it.

It's similar to the whole 3D printing hype.
You can 3D print a house! No you can't.

You can 3D print a wall, maybe a window.

Then have a skilled Craftsman put it all together for you, ensure fit and finish and essentially build the final product.

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Nate Cox

in reply to TuffNutzes • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I hate the simulated intelligence nonsense at least as much as you, but you should probably know about this if you’re saying you can’t 3d print a house: youtu.be/vL2KoMNzGTo

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TuffNutzes

in reply to Nate Cox • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Yeah I've seen that before and it's basically what I'm talking about. Again, that's not "printing a 3D house" as hype would lead one to believe. Is it extruding cement to build the walls around very carefully placed framing and heavily managed and coordinated by people and finished with plumbing, electrical, etc.

It's cool that they can bring this huge piece of equipment to extrude cement to form some kind of wall. It's a neat proof of concept. I personally wouldn't want to live in a house that looked anything like or was constructed that way. Would you?

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scarabic

in reply to TuffNutzes • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

it's basically what I'm talking about

Well, a minute ago you were saying that AI worship is akin to saying

a hammer can build a house

Now you’re saying that a hammer is basically the same thing as a machine that can create a building frame unattended? Come on. You have a point to be made here but you’re leaning on the stick a bit too hard.

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Nate Cox

in reply to TuffNutzes • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I mean, “to 3d print a wall” is a massive, bordering on disingenuous, understatement of what’s happening there. They’re replacing all of the construction work of framing and finishing all of the walls of the house, interior and exterior, plus attaching them and insulating them, with a single step.

My point is if you want to make a good argument against LLMs, your metaphor should not have such an easy argument against it at the ready.

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poopkins

in reply to Nate Cox • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Spoken like a person who has never been involved in the construction of a home. It's effectively doing the job of (poorly) pouring concrete which isn't the difficult or time consuming part.

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dreadbeef

in reply to TuffNutzes • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

3d printed concrete houses exist. Why can't you 3d print a house? Not the best metaphor lol

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Nalivai

in reply to dreadbeef • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

No they aren't. With enough setup and very unique and expensive equipment, you can pour shitty concrete walls that will be way more expensive and worse than if you did it normally. That will give you 20% of the house, at best. 20% of not very good of a house.

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frog_brawler

in reply to TuffNutzes • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

You’re making a great analogy with the 3D printing of a house.

However, if we consider the 3D printed house scenario; that skilled craftsman is now able to do things on his own that he would have needed a team for in the past. Most, if not all, of the less skilled members of that team are not getting any experience within the craft at that point. They’re no longer necessary when one skilled person can now do things on their own.

What happens when the skilled and highly experienced craftsmen that use AI as a supplemental tool (and subsequently earn all the work) eventually retire, and there’s been no juniors or mid-levels for a while? No one is really going to be qualified without having had exposure to the trade for several years.

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isaacd

in reply to MarcellusDrum • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Clearly LLMs are useful to software engineers.

Citation needed. I don’t use one. If my coworkers do, they’re very quiet about it. More than half the posts I see promoting them, even as “just a tool,” are from people with obvious conflicts of interest. What’s “clear” to me is that the Overton window has been dragged kicking and screaming to the extreme end of the scale by five years of constant press releases masquerading as news and billions of dollars of market speculation.

I’m not going to delegate the easiest part of my job to something that’s undeniably worse at it. I’m not going to pass up opportunities to understand a system better in hopes of getting 30-minute tasks done in 10. And I’m definitely not going to pay for the privilege.

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skisnow

in reply to isaacd • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I've found them useful, sometimes, but nothing like a fraction of what the hype would suggest.

They're not adequate replacements for code reviewers, but getting an AI code review does let me occasionally fix a couple of blunders before I waste another human's time with them.

I've also had the occasional bit of luck with "why am I getting this error" questions, where it saved me 10 minutes of digging through the code myself.

"Create some test data and a smoke test for this feature" is another good timesaver for what would normally be very tedious drudge work.

What I have given up on is "implement a feature that does X" questions, because it invariably creates more work than it saves. Companies selling "type in your app idea and it'll write the code" solutions are snake-oil salesman.

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Phegan

in reply to isaacd • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I've only found two effective uses for them. Every time I tried them otherwise they fell flat and took me longer that it would have to write the code myself.

The first was a greenfield personal project where I let code quality wane since I was the only person maintaining it, and wanted to test LLMs. The other was to write highly repeative data tests where the model can simply type faster than me.

Anything that requires writing code that needs to be maintained by multiple people or systems older than 2 years, it has fallen completely flat. In cases like that I spend more time telling the LLM it is doing it wrong, it would have taken me less time to write the code in the first place. In 95% of cases, I am still faster than an LLM at solving a problem and writing the code.

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frog_brawler

in reply to isaacd • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I’m not a “software engineer” but a lot of people that don’t work within tech would probably call me one.

I’m in Cloud Engineering, but came from the sys/network admin and ops side of things rather than starting off in dev or anything like that.

Up until about 5 years ago, I really only knew Powershell and a little bit of bash. I’ve gotten up to speed in a lot of things but never officially learned python, js, go or any other real development language that would be useful to me. I’ve spent way more time focusing on getting good with IaC, and probably more of the SRE type stuff.

In my particular situation, LLMs are incredibly useful. It’s fair to say that I use them daily now. I’ve had it convert bash scripts to python for me very quickly. I don’t know python but now that I’m able to look at a python script next to my bash; I’m picking up on stuff a lot faster. I’m using Lambda way more often as a result.

Also, there’s a lot of mundane filling out forms shit that I delegate to an LLM. I don’t want to spend my time filling out a form that I know no one is actually going to read. F it, I’ll have the AI write a report for an AI. It’s dumb as shit, but that’s the world today.

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NoiseColor

in reply to MarcellusDrum • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Good article, I couldn't agree with it more, it's exactly my experience.

The tech is being developed really fast and that is the main issue when taking about ai. Most ai haters are using the issues we might have today to discredit the while technology which makes no sense to me.

And this issue the article talks about is apparent and whoever solves it will be rich.

However, it's interesting to think about the issues that come next.

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Aceticon

in reply to NoiseColor • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Like the guy whose baby doubled in weight in 3 months and thus he extrapolated that by the age of 10 the child would weigh many tons, you're assuming that this technology has a linear rate of improvement of "intelligence".

This is not at all what's happening - the evolution of things like LLMs in the last year or so (say between GPT4 and GPT5) is far less than it was earlier in that Tech and we keep seeing more and more news on problems about training it further and getting it improved, including the big one which is that training LLMs on the output of LLMs makes them worse, and the more the output of LLMs is out there, the harder it gets to train new iteractions with clean data.

(And, interestingly, no Tech has ever had a rate of improvement that didn't eventually tailed of, so it's a peculiar expectation to have for a specific Tech that it will keep on steadily improving)

With this specific path taken in implementing AI, the question is not "when will it get there" but rather "can it get there or is it a technological dead-end", and at least for things like LLMs the answer increasingly seems to be that it is a technological dead-end for the purpose of creating reasoning intelligence and doing work that requires it.

(For all your preemptive defense by implying that critics are "ai haters", no hate is required to do this analysis, just analytical ability and skepticism, untainted by fanboyism)

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in reply to NoiseColor • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

It's true, the tech will get better in the future, we just need to believe and trust the plan.

Same thing with crypto and NFT's. They were 99% scam by volume, but who wouldn't love moving their life savings into a digital ecosystem controlled by a handful of rich gambling addicts with no consumer protections? Imagine, you'll never need to handle dirty paper money ever again, we'll just put it all in a digital wallet somewhere controlled by someone else coughmastercardcough.

And another thing, we were too harsh on the Metaverse. Sure, spending 8 hours in VR could make you vomit, and the avatars made ET for the Atari look like Uncharted 4, but it was just in its infancy!

I too want to outsource all my critical thinking to a chatbot controlled by an wealthy insular narcissist who throws Nazi salutes. The technology just needs time to mature. Who knows, maybe it can automate the exile of birthright citizens for us too!

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NoiseColor

in reply to HarkMahlberg • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

That's exactly the hyperbole I was talking about. Your post is full of obvious fallacies, but the fact that you are pushing everything to the absolutes is the silliest one.

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Aceticon

in reply to NoiseColor • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Your whole point is discounting the experience of 50 years in technological evolution (that all technological branches invariably slow down and stop improving) and the last 20 years of hype in Tech (literally everything is pushed like crazy as "the next big thing" by people trying to make a lot of money from it, and almost all of it isn't), so that specific satirical take on your post is well deserved.

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in reply to MarcellusDrum • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I don't work in IT, but I do know you need creativity to work in the industry, something which the current LLM/AI doesn't possess.

Linguists also dismiss LLMs in similar vein because LLMs can't grasp context. It is always funny to be sarcastic and ironic on an LLM.

Soft skills and culture are what that the current iteration of LLMs lack. However, I do think there is still huge potential for AI development in dacades to come, but I want this AI bubble to burst as "in your face" to companies.

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Why the Heck Was Charlie Kirk Booked as a Guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box?

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was a guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box Wednesday, an inexplicable and indefensible booking even in light of networks wanting to reach a politically diverse audience.

Other media outlets, including CNN, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, have struggled with covering the Trump administration. But is there really no one else willing to go on television and discuss conservative views, GOP policies, and the Trump administration’s agenda from a center-right perspective besides Charlie Kirk?

During Kirk’s seventeen minutes on Squawk Box, co-hosts Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin rolled through a number of timely and topically relevant questions, but the 31-year-old was unable to offer much more than diluted White House talking points and declarations of MAGA fealty.

Kernen commented that Kirk was something of a “mind reader of the president” and asked him “how should the business community think about what he says.”

Kirk’s answer was that it was “very simple” and “not complicated,” that Trump “wants what’s best for America, it’s not ideological and he wants what’s best both for capital and labor and he wants the market to succeed and wants wages to go up,” before prattling on about Trump’s “victories” with the trade deals.

Why the Heck Was Charlie Kirk Booked as a Guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box?

Turning Points USA founder Charlie Kirk was a guest on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday, an inexplicable and indefensible booking even in light of networks wanting to reach a politically diverse audience.

^{Sarah Rumpf (Mediaite)}

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Mrkawfee via Technology

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LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think

Are we unwittingly playing into Microsoft's hands? LibreOffice thinks so.

^{Simon Batt (XDA)}

#technology

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TankovayaDiviziya

in reply to Mrkawfee • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

My only issue with Libre Office is that they are not available on mobile phones. I want to use spread sheets to make calculations and projections on my finances if I can't use my computer at a given moment.

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Mwa

in reply to TankovayaDiviziya • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I think there is a version on F-droid right?

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VeryFrugal

in reply to Mwa • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

droidify.eu.org/app/?id=com.co…

No Libreoffice.

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Mwa

in reply to VeryFrugal • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

oh, maybe they removed it?

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logan_hero

in reply to Mwa • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Only a viewer not full package: f-droid.org/packages/org.docum…

LibreOffice Viewer | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Document Viewer

^f-droid.org

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Mwa

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lefaucet

in reply to TankovayaDiviziya • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

opendocument.app/

github.com/opendocument-app/Op…

I've used this a couple times. Seemed okay

View OpenOffice and LibreOffice documents on the go.

It's the first and best OpenOffice and LibreOffice document viewer for Android and iOS!

^{OpenDocument Reader}

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The Hobbyist

in reply to Mrkawfee • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I don't buy the argument that windows just works or that it's somehow better or more stable.
The reality is we all have grown to learn about computers specifically using windows and it's been a steep learning curve. We have gotten familiar with its specificities and its sporadic misbehavior and accepted that as the norm. And people prefer what they are used to even if it's suboptimal because they would rather not learn something else from scratch, even if in the long run it could be better.

Put any person who has zero computer experience in front of a windows computer or Linux computer and I doubt they would say the windows computer just works and the Linux one doesn't.

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Brkdncr

in reply to The Hobbyist • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Every single time I try out Linux it’s been a shitshow. Stuff doesn’t work, drive encryption requires multiple passwords to boot up. Updates that fail.

Windows just works. Only apple is more consistent.

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dropped_packet

in reply to Brkdncr • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I have never seen an encryption implementation that required two passwords to decrypt the disk.

Is it possible the first one decrypted the disk and the second password was for your user account?

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Brkdncr

in reply to dropped_packet • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Could be. I just remember being perturbed that there wasn’t an easy way to undo that situation.

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dropped_packet

in reply to Brkdncr • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Most desktop environments have an option for auto login under the user settings. That way you only need to decrypt the disk.

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Ilovethebomb

in reply to The Hobbyist • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Not so much the user experience, but I'm not aware of any software that doesn't work with Microsoft, except for ones developed by Apple.

With the latest version of Windows, it's not even a question as to whether a given piece of software will run.

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sqgl

in reply to Ilovethebomb • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Networking your home computers still does not work smoothly in Windows. It often stops for no good reason until you reboot everything.

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vrighter

in reply to The Hobbyist • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

the windows just works argument actually refers to the fact that it's consistent.

If you have a problem with the desktop, nobody needs to ask you which de you use, or which parts you have substituted out. You have a graphics problem, nobody asks if wayland or x11. You have a problem with audio, nobody asks you whether you have pipewire-pulse installed and to use pipewire. Shit's the same everywhere.

I say this as an arch linux user. The choice we all love, is actually a detriment to the average non-power user.

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sqgl

in reply to vrighter • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Apple has even fewer choices and therefore greater consistency.

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racemaniac

in reply to The Hobbyist • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Then i don't know what you're doing with your computer, but every time i use linux, all those things that are "awesome and just work on linux" somehow still have lots of annoying gotchas that waste too much of my time.

I've got some nice linux servers running that i'm really happy with. But once you go for the linux desktop, it's just a world of pain compared to windows, no matter how you look at it. I'm more than experienced enough to get it running in the end, but claiming that linux "just works" is delusional...

Just the fact of how the ecosystem is fractured (which is also mentioned in the article here, with running a debian package on fedora), is already something that'll make it too complicated for a lot of people to handle. And even the things "that just work", just don't. For example, i've got a steamdeck like device now, with bazzite (steamos like OS). Yes, it's amazing at running windows games in linux. I heard so many people say how with proton "running windows games on linux just works". If you stick to the ultra popular games, it for sure does. Go to a game that's a bit older or lesser known, and no it isn't. Make time to figure out settings to get it to run, tinker with controller mappings, and in the end, it might just still not work. And pretty much everything on linux feels that way, the initial impression is decent. If you stay on the safe path, it'll work pretty well. Do something a bit less common: you're on your own.

And that's its commonly accepted for trolls to blame the user, and be like "it's free, so accept it the way it is" when someone dares to ask questions or .... even.... (do i dare say it?).... complain.... Doesn't make for the most constructive environment...

Linux has achieved many great things, but the linux desktop sure has its use if you're willing to spend your time on it, but acting as if it's a better experience than the windows desktop is just delusional. There's no other way to put it.

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The Hobbyist

in reply to racemaniac • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I didn't say Linux just works. I'm just fighting back against the preconceived idea that it's just a total mess and windows isn't. I have myself ran into issues with linux. But also, I've run into many issues with windows too.

The difference is that when people encounter issues with windows, it's like well too bad, need to find someone who can fix it. But when they encounter an issue with Linux, it's like linux sucks, let me get back to Windows as if it didn't suck at least as much.

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racemaniac

in reply to The Hobbyist • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

The point i guess with the main OS's like windows/macOS, is that microsoft/apple put in the time to support most edge cases, and most things you can try either work, or aren't that hard to make work (assuming you don't go against things they try to force. But that's not something that most users we're talking about here do).
So for windows, want to install that app for windows XP from 20 years ago? no problem. As mentioned in the article here: want to install that up to date program made for another distro? good luck....

And that's in the end what it boils down to... It's a fragmented ecosystem, and many slightly advanced things require that you understand how your computer & OS work. Things that a slightly advanced user can handle in Windows via some UI, will most likely be far harder on linux...

I'd love to use a linux desktop more, but sadly my time is also precious, and i just don't have the motivation to use it fighting with the linux desktop >_<....

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AppearanceBoring9229

in reply to The Hobbyist • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Put any person who has zero computer experience in front of a windows computer or Linux computer and I doubt they would say the windows computer just works and the Linux one doesn't.

In my experience, usually with Linux they have less problems and it's easier to use. Until they need an application that only works on Windows.

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T156

in reply to AppearanceBoring9229 • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

In my experience, it's been a bit of a mixed bag. There are some things that work in Linux, and some things that don't, even after a bit of fiddling. My desktop's front panel is completely unusable on Linux, for example.

Windows is at least widespread enough that it's far more likely that parts will work on it at least to some degree. And sure enough, the front panel works fine there.

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The Hobbyist

in reply to AppearanceBoring9229 • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I think this is an issue where you are talking about people coming from windows trying to do windows things on linux like run windows software.
Of course you can in some cases run windows software on Linux but it is not a fair comparison to blame Linux for not being able to run windows software.
Linux has it's own suite of software and that is often better suited.

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aesthelete

in reply to Mrkawfee • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I honestly don't understand why I would ever write up or share a Microsoft document.

As for word, it's just fucking rich text format. It's obvious they're manipulating the format to lock down users with less computer knowledge. Otherwise, why is it so fucking complicated?

Markdown accomplishes 90% of what a word doc does and it is legible with or without rendering.

EDIT: If I want data in or out of a spreadsheet program, I'm using CSV.

All of the "special features" of office docs wind up being security nightmares, unusable junk, or both.

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Lka1988

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I honestly don’t understand why I would ever write up or share a Microsoft document.

Corporate execs literally cum over MS's next big thing. A lot of companies use MS-based infrastructure and applications.

My work just issued me a Surface 7 a few weeks ago (RIP my former Thinkpad T15 G2), and while it's nice, the fucking copilot key is driving me absolutely insane. I can't disable it unless I turn on "Fn Lock" which switches it's function to open up the Context menu (i.e. right-click menu). HOWEVER, if I do that, then the F1-F12 keys' volume, brightness, and home/end/pgup/pgdn functions are disabled. I'm convinced this was an intentional decision by MS.

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aow

in reply to Lka1988 • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I'd imagine you can run some kind of custom script to disable or reassign the key, similar to what ahk does.

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Lka1988

in reply to aow • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I actually put in an IT ticket over it today right after I made that comment, because I accidentally hit that goddamn key again while typing up an email.

IT came back with - and I shit you not - "Open the Microsoft store and install Microsoft PowerToys"

For context, this company takes security extremely seriously. Just a few months before I started, they had recovered from a major ransomware attack, due to some moron that downloaded an attachment from the wrong email. They don't even allow flash drives, except for Apricorn encrypted drives, but those you have to sign out directly from IT and the serial number is tracked. Plus the usual KnowBe4 simulations, regular training, etc...

So IT coming back with that response was a pretty big surprise to me 😅

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aesthelete

in reply to Lka1988 • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Corporate execs literally cum over MS’s next big thing. A lot of companies use MS-based infrastructure and applications.

Yeah, I mean I'm in that boat myself. But I have the option of SharePoint or Confluence at work and despite the fact that it also sucks, I'm choosing Confluence ten out of ten times.

I get that some people try to do actual work in these docs, but it strikes me as junk every time I encounter it.

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flop_leash_973

in reply to Mrkawfee • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

The problem: our desire for convenience

This hits it right on the money. As nice as open source and open standards are, at the end of the day none of that matters to the 99% that want/need to do X as fast and painlessly as possible.

To people like my wife MS Office/LibreOffice/Google Docs are all the same thing in the category of productivity suite. And one of those does not meet her where she lives in day to day life. And it doesn't because there is no money in doing so for LibreOffice. And there is no benefit to her to seek out LibreOffice for her uses.

Hell, just take a look around at the number of people that preach about the evils of Microsoft, Google, or whoever but love them an iPhone and Macbook. As bad as Microsoft and Google can be for screwing over the user with vendor lock-in they don't hold a candle to Apple. But they get the money despite there being "better" options technically and philosophically for nearly everything they make, but Apple knows all of that pales in importance to 99% of potential customers compared to being convenient.

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Squizzy

in reply to flop_leash_973 • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

The piece on using the tech is a bit much. We cannot get by without a smartphone in modern life and they essentially do not exist outside of apple and google.

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flop_leash_973

in reply to Squizzy • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Sure they do, but all of the alternatives are not nearly as convenient. But you can absolutely get by without an iPhone or Android phone with Play services.

The example actually proves the point more strongly than LibreOffice vs MS Office does by the increased level of effort it requires of the user to go out of their way to not actively support the bad things Apple and Google do.

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sibachian

in reply to flop_leash_973 • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

afaik our digital identification system does not work well outside of iOS or Android (most of the time, not at all - since it breaks on updates and they update basically daily). so we're stuck with their duopoly. because digital id is mandatory.

Once upon a time they did support linux on desktop but then ubuntu went and decided to make a phone and linux support was mysteriously discontinued a week after.

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ulterno

in reply to sibachian • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

our digital identification system

which one?

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racemaniac

in reply to Mrkawfee • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I've heard this comment about OpenXML (the xml format of the office documents) before, and i'm a bit on the fence about it.

It's of course indeed ridiculously complex, but so is office. Microsoft both adds a shit ton of functionality to their documents, and keeps an impressive amount of backwards compatibility.

In the past i heard complaints about part of the OpenXML spec that also allows older binary data in there for backwards compatibility reasons, which of course means for OSS implementations that they don't just have to implement this spec, but also the older spec that came before to be truly compatible with everything a modern office version can open.

But on the other hand, if i look at it from the side of Microsoft, they opened up their format, they've got a gazillion functionalities, should they remove functionality to appease the open source developers? If so which? Should they stop being backwards compatible with documents of decades ago to appease the open source developers? If so how long should they support? Are you going to tell their customers?

Office is an immense program with an immense amount of legacy features, backwards compatibility, ....

It's incredibly complex by nature. And might they have made the format more complex to dissuade competition? Could be. However, in this instance Occam's razor pushes me more to "write a huge program over a timespan of many decades, with thousands upon thousands of programmers working on it, and you'll indeed most likely end up with something very complex...."

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madcaesar

in reply to racemaniac • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

The one thing you have to give Microsoft is backwards compatibility. They make hot garbage, but God damn if you can't run that garbage from 10 years ago.

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T156

in reply to madcaesar • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Although 10 years ago isn't that long in computer terms any more. Those are machines that can still run Windows 10 without issue. It's an older computer, but still perfectly usable these days.

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Bluewing

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I'mma just going to sit over here in the corner with my AbbiWord and Gnumeric.........

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communism

in reply to Mrkawfee • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I think the point about convenience is more about familiarity than Windows being inherently easier. Speaking as someone who switched from Linux to Windows previously, I found the change very difficult as a lot of the FOSS software I was using didn't have Windows versions. I had a nightmare trying to read one of my LUKS-encrypted drives on Windows. I was practically using WSL for everything. That's not that Windows is inherently harder than Linux; it's just that I was used to Linux and the FOSS ecosystem, just as some are used to Windows and their proprietary ecosystem.

If your hardware isn't working properly, you have to find drivers that run on Linux; if the developer never made Linux-compatible drivers, you have to figure something else out.

Most drivers come pre-installed with the Linux kernel or your distro—I never had to manually install any drivers for my current hardware. Compared to Windows where you will have to go out of your way to install graphics drivers for NVIDIA or AMD depending on your graphics card, if you want to make the most out of your card's capabilities.

Installers made for Windows don't need any special TLC; you double-click them and they work.

See, I think if you've used Linux for any length of time you'd quickly find the system of package managers way easier than the system of having to hunt down an .exe on the internet, guess whether or not it's a legit copy or if it's malware, and manually manage updates for all the different software you have installed.

I agree that people stay on Windows out of convenience, but it's not convenience as in Windows is inherently easier, but it's convenience as in you're used to the way things work on Windows. Because in my perspective, things do "just work" on Linux, and that's because I'm used to the way things work here.

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otacon239

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The first time I updated some 50 programs by running a single update command, I wondered why it hasn’t been the standard since the start.

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k0e3

in reply to otacon239 • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I learned about Winget command in Windows after spending a few months on Linux updating with pacman -Syu. It's so much easier to update a bunch of apps at once when I want to instead of having some popup surprise me when I launch the app.

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UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030

The UK government has launched a challenge for the development of a map that uses AI to predict where crimes will occur. It'll couple this with 13,000 more law enforcers.

https://www.neowin.net/news/uk-government-to-use-ai-to-predict-crime-locations-by-2030/

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ushmel

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UK is completely off the rails, man. I feel bad for anyone who jumped ship from USA after Trump got elected. Y'all's liberals are worse than ours by a long shot.

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BrikoX

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I think US fascism is still worse, but UK is defintely a police state at this point and they are actively trying to surpass the US.

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Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case

A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for using AI-generated fake quotes and non-existent case judgments in a murder case

Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case

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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way

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ExcessShiv

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“Piracy is not a pricing issue,” Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve, the company behind the world’s largest PC gaming platform, Steam, observed in 2011. “It’s a service issue.” Today, the crisis in streaming makes this clearer than ever. With titles scattered, prices on the rise, and bitrates throttled depending on your browser, it is little wonder some viewers are raising the jolly roger again. Studios carve out fiefdoms, build walls and levy tolls for those who wish to visit. The result is artificial scarcity in a digital world that promised abundance.

This hits the nail on the head...

I wonder if these greedy fuckers know this but don't give a shit in favor of short term profits,or if they're actually so dense and holed up in their own world disconnected from reality that they don't see it?

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deadbeef79000

in reply to ExcessShiv • 1 mese fa • •

They know it, but refuse to belive it, because they've built an empire on a faulty premise and can't conceive that they may be wrong.

Source: two decades in the industry. But I got ~~better~~ out.

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MudMan

in reply to deadbeef79000 • 1 mese fa • •

I don't know that I'd say they refuse to believe it, it's more that there are short term goals and milestones to hit because literally every single industry is held to the standards and timelines of speculative investors rather than actual investors.

Everybody understands you should be servicing your audience and keeping them happy, and everybody is happy with you doing that... as long as it's within the constraints of hitting quarterly goals. In a world where content routinely takes 3-5 years to make that is not a great fit.

Newell doesn't have any investors to answer to so he gets to say those things when he's in billionaire club. Everybody else just goes "no shit, Gabe" and keeps working on squeezing something out to keep pretending to have done better year on year.

It's a remarkable example of the aggregation of incentives going against every single individual person involved, including those setting the incentives.

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onslaught545

in reply to deadbeef79000 • 1 mese fa • •

The problem is mostly that the C-suite is only capable of thinking a quarter at a time, which is a side effect of the desire for perpetual growth.

It doesn't matter if a policy can net them huge profits in a year if it makes this quarter look worse than last quarter.

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Banzai51

in reply to ExcessShiv • 1 mese fa • •

They don't care. They know they'll lose subscribers but they'll make more money overall on the suckers that stick out the monopoly pricing. Same thing is happening in the auto industry where they sell less cars but are more profitable.

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ook

in reply to ExcessShiv • 1 mese fa • •

In 2011. It's been 14 years and for streaming portal things just got worse and worse.

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ushmel

in reply to ExcessShiv • 1 mese fa • •

99% of the general public will not pirate anything because they lack the ability to do so. Of the 1% left, 99% of them use public trackers with variable results regarding quality and shady website shenanigans. The most common form of piracy going forward will probably be like those hacked fire sticks that would stream pirated content, because it's easy and low barrier, like the hacked cable box cards/chips from the 90s.

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freebee

in reply to ushmel • 1 mese fa • •

If you count using shady free streaming websites, I think the number is waaaay bigger than 1%

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ushmel

in reply to freebee • 1 mese fa • •

I don't even think most people own a PC at this point, just tablets and phones.

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onslaught545

in reply to ushmel • 1 mese fa • •

Then there's me running multiple servers from my home.

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ThoGot

in reply to ushmel • 4 settimane fa • •

You don't need a PC to use a shady streaming website though

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gruhuken

in reply to ushmel • 4 settimane fa • •

You think people don't have laptops? Everyone I know does. 22 yo

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ushmel

in reply to gruhuken • 4 settimane fa • •

What's the average socioeconomic status of your friend group? Most people have tablets now because they can "get them free" from the phone company.

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gruhuken

in reply to ushmel • 3 settimane fa • •

Minimum wage, early to mid 20s. Many are graduated or dropped out students TBF so needed a laptop but the others who never went to uni still have one, mainly to play Sims/Stardew Valley, watch movies on dodgy websites, or write fiction on

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MudMan

in reply to NinjaZ • 1 mese fa • •

The problem is that all the competitors are enshittifying the same way at the same pace. If there was a holdout in a position to grow their platform we may at least go back to the days of "Netflix is all you need".

As it is, it makes more sense to go back to physical media purchases, and I blame absolutely nobody if their disposable income and lack of box fetishes makes them think downloading the content is perfectly equivalent. The Plex server where I store all my physical media backups is by far the best streaming library I have access to, at least if you discount novelty as a factor.

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blackbrook

in reply to MudMan • 4 settimane fa • •

You don't need physical media. You can buy and download flac files. It's the ownable asset part that is important, not the physical part.

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MudMan

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This is true. The thing is, all data needs a medium.

It doesn't matter if you own a file sitting in a hard drive or a disc sitting in a box. Discs are nicer because you get a thing you can put on a shelf to act as a backup of the file you dump from it. Plus they often come with nice extras. If you don't think things on shelves are nice your priorities may be different.

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sunzu2

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I know daddy Gabe said it is a service issue which is a fair point

But I am beyond that point. Hollywood and music industry are full of pedophiles. They regime whore for the owner class and shill propaganda to plebs to accept their deteriorating conditions.

These people are the enemy and this is the class war.

Don't be a dummy, don't fund your oppressor.

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At least when it comes to the Movie industry, piracy is pretty much a moral obligation.

Ditto for the Music Industry.

Ditto for the Science Publishing Industry.

It's only not the same for the Games Industry because so much of it are Indies.

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These articles are great but I believe there are also people like me. Folks who don't pay for any streaming services and don't pirate. So if somehow they stamped out piracy folks like me won't be coming back and I think many of the pirates would still opt out which would lead to basically the shows becoming even more irrelevant as much of the talk around a show and reviews and such are from pirates.

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Like the article says, im someone whos been out of the game for a while, but definitely interested in how this has been going

One commonly used app is legal but can, through community add-ons, channel illicit streams.

Anyone care to enlighten me? DM is fine if youd prefer

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I don't know, but i use stremio plus real debrid. I had to grab the torrentio add on to do it so it kind of fits the bill.

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Steve Dice

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This.

Side note: I find it hilarious that we're paying for piracy. Gabe was right, it's a service issue.

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kolorafa

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Correct, It is not a price issue, for me (Linux user) I can pay for legal site and watch in shitty quality, or pay for "alternative" distributors which not only have better quality but also have more content.

And I pay for multiple more-or-less shady services, so in turn I pay more than some of my friends that use only one service and periodically switch to another.

I want a service that "just work", not shitty ones that I need to look for the content I want to watch on multiple services and even then get idiotic region locked or ass quality.

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"Community Add-ons" leads me to think this is probably Kodi. You can generally do IPTV streaming through it, or torrent streaming even.

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deadcatbounce

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It's not just a pricing issue. It's an ownership issue.

Too many of the things we buy are not ours.

Yesterday I saw the article about VW cars which need a subscription to use the built-in capabilities. The car you bought doesn't belong to you.

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i would happily buy dvd sets if i could but the geniuses decided they didn't want to let me buy them so here i am

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Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide

Register debate series: As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say

Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide

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Suspected French spy arrested in alleged Mali coup plot

The French national is accused of working "on behalf of the French intelligence service" in Mali.

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Mali coup plot: French man arrested over spying allegation

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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

Attempted, inner, and perceived speech have a shared representation in motor cortex
An inner-speech brain-computer interface (BCI) decodes general sentences with improved user experience
Aspects of private inner speech can be decoded during cognitive tasks like counting
High-fidelity solutions can prevent a speech brain-computer interface (BCI) from decoding private inner speech
Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) show promise in restoring communication to people with paralysis but have also prompted discussions regarding their potential to decode private inner speech. Separately, inner speech may be a way to bypass the current approach of requiring speech brain-computer interface (BCI) users to physically attempt speech, which is fatiguing and can slow communication. Using multi-unit recordings from four participants, we found that inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and that imagined sentences can be decoded in real time. The representation of inner speech was highly correlated with attempted speech, though we also identified a neural “motor-intent” dimension that differentiates the two. We investigated the possibility of decoding private inner speech and found that some aspects of free-form inner speech could be decoded during sequence recall and counting tasks. Finally, we demonstrate high-fidelity strategies that prevent speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) from unintentionally decoding private inner speech.

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Thai princess being treated for severe infection, royal bureau says

She was seen by some analysts as a potential heir to the throne. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Thai princess being treated for severe infection, royal bureau says

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UK | Manchester airport flight delays after easyJet planes ‘clip wings’ on runway

Travellers face flight disruption this morning

Manchester airport flight delays after easyJet planes ‘clip wings’ on runway

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Kuwait decision to ban entry of Israelis receives wide public praise

Kuwait’s recent decision to allow all nationalities to enter its territory, while excluding Israeli nationals, has received wide praise and positive reactions at both official and public levels, with discussions also spreading across social media platforms.

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One could argue that it is, personally I see it as discrimination against the state and not the people. People are just affected by state actions in this case.

It was also said that US travel bans for Muslim countries were islamophobic, but by the same token, the policy was discrimination against the state and not the people. Motivation behind the policy might have been made ny islamophobic people, but the ban itself is just foreign policy.

Edit: People seems to be misinterpreting my words or just not understanding. So let me spell it out: "discrimination against the state" is not antisemetic.

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Gaza: Resistance warns of Israeli drones dropping spy devices, explosives

Resistance Security forces in the Gaza Strip on Thursday warned residents about an increase in activity by Israeli Quadcopter drones in recent days. According to a statement published on the security platform Al-Haris, these drones have dropped surveillance devices and explosive objects across various parts of the Strip.

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US and Russia suggest ‘West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

The suggestion was put forward during discussions between President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterparts, a source with insight into the U.S. National Security Council told the paper.

Witkoff, who also serves as the White House’s Middle East envoy, reportedly backs the suggestion, which the U.S. believes will solve the issue of the Ukrainian constitution prohibiting giving up territory without organizing a referendum. While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected any notion of ceding territory, the new occupation proposal may lead to a truce following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022.

According to the proposal, Ukraine’s borders would remain officially unchanged, similar to the borders of the West Bank, even as Israel controls the territory. “It’ll just be like Israel occupies the West Bank,” the source told The Times.

US and Russia suggest ‘West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

Russia would have both economic and military control of the occupied parts of Ukraine under the proposal

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Bloomcole

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Why this UK propaganda rag post?

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geneva_convenience

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Independent is similar to any generic Western news outlet no?

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Bloomcole

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Yes they're all similarly bad, I don't get why you of all people would post their view here.

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geneva_convenience

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I came across it watching and found it an interesting development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62djMLHT2CE

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So Badempanada has the same US imperialist take.
The eastern ethnic-Russians, terrorised for 8 years by western sponsored Azov nazis and who have resisted ethnic cleansing are 'occupied'.

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geneva_convenience

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BadEmpanada believes that the US has been provoking Russia by NATO expansion and should stop doing that but does not believe that Russia has a right to Ukrainian territory nor invading them.

Killing a million Ukrainians is not a very effective way of "liberating Ukrainians of oppression".

A full video on his stance on the conflict which I found decent: your point is mentioned at 4:05 though not addressed much.

Of the global superpowers I'm far, far more sympathetic to China than Russia, despite having criticism of China as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnVs4OmYyBM

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IDC what he believes.
I believe facts.
And the facts are they had a western backed coup, they literally decided who would be in the government in the Nuland-Pyatt call.
They have no legitimacy, and if the ethnic -Russians who decided not to live under them that is their right.
Crimea, only fairly recently and temporary part of ukraine bcs of the ukrainian Chruchov have wanted to be with Russia since long before the coup.
70+ in referendums, and after that 95+. (OC then they are fake and controlled !)
Which is undestandable since they weren't allowed to use the only language they speak for anything official.
Russia has given the ukrainians enough chances to stop this.
All they asked was no NATO and some self-determination (not even independence) for the east and Crimea.
OC the west wanted nothing more than to escalate to drag Russia into war.
They broke the Minsk treaties (observed by the EU OCSE) and kept bombing civilians.
So no crocodile tears for those who died fighting their proxy war.
Sympathy for Russia or Putin has nothing to do with it.
OC they have their issues, but it's 100% the western escalation that is at fault.
Russia had no choice but to intervene.
As if the US would let Mexico be couped and have Russian nukes there.
It has been written many times by western military experts that ukraine would be a red line.

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geneva_convenience

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I watched the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin hoping to get a good Russian perspective but Putin really did the most awful job of not presenting any argument or relevant history.

He just went "look we have this paper from the 1600s which said that Ukraine belongs to Russia because a count said so" or something. He didn't even go for the anti-NATO line. Full on "this land was promised to us 3000 years ago. Just the absolute worst defenses possible as if he didn't even care.

You are right there are Russian speaking regions can have good motive to want to become part of Russia. But there too, referendums turning up with a like 95% pro-Russia vote are screaming "rigged" even if you ignore all the Western reporting about it. Once again Russia does an extremely poor job of justifying what might have been justified.

As for the nukes, a border doesn't make much difference these days. Pretty sure America already has a satellite carried nuke anyways. And submarines. And other ways to launch deep into Russia using ICBM's. If Iran has hypersonic missiles which can reach Europe then America has similar missiles for sure.

But Russia has nukes too. NATO attacking Russia is basically impossible. What seems most relevant to me is that Russia would never be able to reconquer Ukraine if Ukraine joined NATO.

I'm not really that partial in the Ukraine war. Russia has a right to not want the West on their borders but at the same time they don't have a right to control Ukraine as a satellite state. Ukraine's biggest mistake was giving up its nukes in exchange for security guarantees which never materialized. The ideal outcome is if it stayed a neutral buffer zone between the West and Russia.

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Bloomcole

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I don't watch garbage like Tucker Carlson.
Wouldn't even trust the editing or the (deliberate) mistranslations.
And even less base my opinion on that.
Can't take that seriously.

But there too, referendums turning up with a like 95% pro-Russia vote are screaming “rigged”

And there you go repeating western propaganda which I also mentioned as an excuse to deny the results.
I'm sure you have proof of that.
I mentioned polls from long before the coup and ukraine was still friendly with Russia.
Where all those polls rigged too?

As for the nukes, a border doesn’t make much difference these days. Pretty sure America already has a satellite carried nuke anyways. And submarines. And other ways to launch deep into Russia using ICBM’s. If Iran has hypersonic missiles which can reach Europe then America has similar missiles for sure.

then you know better than the military experts on both sides who say otherwise.
Distance matters. There is little time to react and also you don't want NATO fascist troops on the closest border to Moscow.
Certainly not since they unilaterally ended all the missile treaties, changed their nuclear policy allowing a first strike and constantly provoking.
This from the only maniacs that have used nukes before.

What seems most relevant to me is that Russia would never be able to reconquer Ukraine if Ukraine joined NATO.

Again, that was never the intention as I explained, the west escalated to this.
Even now they will only keep the east and Crimea who don't want anything to do with ukraine anyway.
They will have their buffer and that's as far as NATO expansion can go.

they don’t have a right to control Ukraine as a satellite state.

Obviously only the US has that right.

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geneva_convenience

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I rarely watch Tucker but I did watch his episode with Putin because that was Putin's moment to explain everything from his perspective. And he failed spectacularly. I severely doubt there were mistranslations. That would have been brought up.

It was actually 98% instead of 95. I know Western media frequently lies or embellishes stories but this seems just too ridiculous. npr.org/2022/09/27/1125322026/…

Unless I'm woefully misinformed then feel welcome to present me with evidence of the contrary. I literally watched Putin speak for like an hour to get a different perspective but was not presented with any.

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Bloomcole

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Again you are fixated on basing yourself on ONE interview from some clown from the banana republic.
Putin or Lavrov have made many statements and speeches explaining their reasons, concers and demands in detail.
Clinging to this and only this to make your assumptions is weak and laughable.
But sure, ignore all that and start about .
Maybe you can throw in some Alex Jones somewhere.

I severely doubt there were mistranslations. That would have been brought up.

Right, definitely in the free and democratic western press they don't do stuff like that, or worse.
Like this farce?

this seems just too ridiculous.

When they had more than 75% in favor long before the coup and now they can't even use their language and get shelled by nazis who also cut off their water supply they couldn't possibly get 98%?
But OC what do those facts mean when you meticulously determined 'it seems ridiculous'.

And what is your US regime link based on ukranian 'sources' supposed to prove here?

OC the western press and organisations want to throw accusations and try everything to delegitimise a referendum they don't like.

They let everyone make the wildest unverified claims but when someone goes against their narrative like a German observer who reported “Being here, I can see with my own eyes that people are voting voluntarily,” they have to criticise it.
“Observers cannot properly assess elections when they are not members of a long-term observation mission and when they make public statements based only on their own limited observation,” the EPDE mouthpieces said.

Not only that, this guy was also fired from his job with this explanation: “clearly violates the world view, the moral values and the philosophy of the company.”
LOL

Unless I’m woefully misinformed then feel welcome to present me with evidence of the contrary. I literally watched Putin speak for like an hour to get a different perspective but was not presented with any.

You're not even misinformed but simply uninformed since you have made zero effort and think you've done enough by watching 'a whole hour!!!' of BS on which you base your predetermined conclusion that Putin bad.

I don't need to prove anything, you prove that all the referenda are a sham.
Or can you determine that also from your vast research watching your little screen?

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geneva_convenience

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Unless Ukrainians are the smartest people in the world a 98% vote on anything is virtually impossible. If you asked people whether the entire human race should be wiped out you probably wouldn't even get 98% against.

The source they link to is ria.ru/20220927/referendum-181…

Is that not a Russian source? I know about the staged Assad prisoner. Again, unless provided with evidence I don't believe anything from Western media. But this one seems to check out.

As for the Tucker interview, I've done more research than that. But if Putin thinks that during the only interview he does with English media where he can present his side of the story, it's a good idea to just troll everyone, that's on him. I recommend you watch Putins interview with Tucker and judge for yourself. youtu.be/fOCWBhuDdDo

Жители четырех освобожденных регионов поддержали присоединение к России

Жители Донецкой и Луганской народных республик, а также Запорожской и Херсонской областей проголосовали за вхождение в состав России. РИА Новости, 28.09.2022

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Unless Ukrainians are the smartest people in the world a 98% vote on anything is virtually impossible

Not if the Banderite regime asked to boycott the referendum bcs they called it illegal.
That is if opponents were even there since a lot of them moved to Banderite controlled regions.

Is that not a Russian source?

Yes it is, but I can't even see that page since my democratic EU regime has made the choice for me that I am incapable of deciding what is real or 'RuZZian propaganda!' so they block Russian outlets.
We can only have toootally neutral pro-western 'news'.

And it's a bit rich to complain about only Russian sources since it's the OCSE that refused to send observers.

There are plenty of translations of Putins speeches and statements on the subject.
I recommend you read those.

Anyway, the only important thing to remember is that there was a US orchestrated and funded fascist coup and they put a puppet regime in place, same as they did in Afghanistan or the many many countries they regime change.

I don't get how you can back the most agressive imperialist country in the world, especially since this particular proxy is openly and proudly fascist.

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geneva_convenience

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There are plenty of translations of Putins speeches and statements on the subject.
I recommend you read those.

Such as which translation? The Tucker interview hasn't had any criticism of poor translation. Tucket got personally invited for it.

I'm in no way sympathetic to the US. In fact weakening the empire is probably what I support most. But not at the cost of a million Ukrainians.

Let's not forget who invaded Afghanistan before the US. I don't think Russia would use their power differently than NATO now if they were the global hegemon instead of the West.

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Flash floods triggered by heavy rains kill at least 49 people in northwestern Pakistan

Officials in Pakistan say flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 49 people in the northwest and elsewhere in the country over the past 24 hours

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Flash floods triggered by heavy rains kill at least 49 people in northwestern Pakistan

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US and Russia suggest ‘West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’

Russia would have both economic and military control of the occupied parts of Ukraine under the proposal

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This is the consequence of letting Israel do whatever it wants, now other countries are adapting their policies to reflect the new normal.

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oh, so that's the catch.

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AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”

AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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India PM Modi vows to protect farmers, cuts tax, pushes self-reliance amid Trump tariff tensions

However, he did not mention the US President or the US in his speech.

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India PM Modi vows to protect farmers, cuts tax, pushes self-reliance amid Trump tariff tensions

However, he did not mention the US President or the US in his speech. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Trump administration may buy into Intel

The US government under President Donald Trump is in talks with Intel about a possible state stake in the company.

Trump administration may buy into Intel - Techzine Global

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Global plastics treaty talks in Geneva end in 'abject failure'

French minister says 'short-term financial interests' killed latest effort to tackle global plastics pollution

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US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’

Several hundred people gathered for a pro-Ukraine rally in Anchorage, Alaska, where U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to meet Friday.

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Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’

Several hundred people gathered for a pro-Ukraine rally in Anchorage, Alaska, where U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to meet Friday. The high-stakes summit — th…

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UNRWA chief: Israel has blocked food entry to Gaza for over 5 months

Philip Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said the UN agency, like other non-governmental organisations (NGOs), “has also been banned from bringing in aid to Gaza for over 5 months now.”

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Afghanistan | Four years after the fall of Kabul, Taliban succeeds in near-total exclusion of women

Four years since Taliban forces seized Kabul and ended two decades of Western presence, Afghan women face near-total exclusion from public life. Nearly 100 edicts have stripped them of basic freedoms, while any dissent remains dangerous and international pressure has waned.

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Four years after the fall of Kabul, Taliban succeeds in near-total exclusion of women

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Zohran Mamdani has 23% of the conservatives votes

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This wasn't a Fox News poll, this was a Siena poll, which as far as I can tell is actually a reputable source for poll numbers.

sri.siena.edu/2025/08/12/hochu…

You can find all these specific numbers in the crosstab if you care to.

Hochul Approval & Favorability Ratings Up a Little; Hochul Lead Over Stefanik In 2026 Race Falls to 14 Points, 45-31%, from 23 Points, 47-24%, in June; Voters Say if Stefanik Runs & Is Elected Gov, It Would Be Bad for NY,49-37% – Siena Research Institute

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Thanks for the correction I'll update the title.

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UPS Airlines Boeing 747-8F strikes engine during landing in Taipei amid typhoon Podul

On 13 August, a UPS Airlines Boeing 747-8F (registration N613UP) arriving in Taipei from Hong Kong struck its number 4 engine on the runway during landing. The incident occurred as Typhoon Podul brought strong crosswinds and heavy rain to the region, creating challenging conditions for flight crews.

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AI finds hidden safe zones inside a fusion reactor

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Researchers build first ‘microwave brain’ on a chip

Researchers build first ‘microwave brain’ on a chip | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Engineering researchers have developed a low-power microchip they call a “microwave brain,” the first processor to compute on both ultrafast data signals and wireless communication signals by harnessing the physics of microwaves.

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