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doors_3

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  • Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum

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  • Truman never wanted that. He flew around knowing that his nukes gave him an advantage over the USSR. From this paper, it is clear that Truman wanted to maintain an atomic monopoly and as for Joint Chiefs of Staff, they didn't want to share the nuclear secrets with any organization including the UN.

  • Reds go green, Bastar Maoists run on solar power

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  • A bit of context, India has basically three communist parties, two of which compete in the democratically electoral form(and one even governs a state currently) and third is Communist Party of India(Maoist). The latter is officially banned by the state and there have been numerous pitch battles between government and the Maoists in the past.

  • 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death

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  • Get your history correct atleast. East India Company was in charge of India until 1857 and squeezed it dry. It was basically an early blueprint of modern day capitalism and imperialism.

  • What is your current wallpaper? Where did you find it?

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  • Yes, there are many presets in the app whose wallpapers I don't care for either. One issue with the app failing to randomly change wallpapers could be the OS throttling the app in the background. If the app is killed for Battery saving reasons, I doubt it can do it's job.

  • What is your current wallpaper? Where did you find it?

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  • I also currently have one generated by Tapet as my wallpaper. On a tangent, the app seems to have undergone a rehaul in terms of UI, atleast on Android.

  • YouTube Music staff laid off in middle of meeting about employment rights with Austin City Council

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  • Youtube Music's interface is a cluttered mess and I much preferred the spartan UI of Google Play Music. It took much time for the former to reach feature parity as well. Oh, and now they shutdown their dedicated Podcasts app in favor of merging It into YT Music. It is a disappointment, to say the least.

  • India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches | TechCrunch

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  • I read the article but still can't wrap my head over what exactly the provisions are. The ministry itself says that the advisory is not legally binding as of now.

    Further down, it says

    In a tweet Monday, Chandrasekhar said the advisory is aimed at “untested AI platforms deploying on the India internet” and doesn’t apply to startups.

    I know it started after Google's Gemini reportedly called the Prime Minister a fascist, well answered, which might have triggered it. But how are they distinguishing tested vs untested AI platforms and what about the startup exclusion thing?

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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  • I saw lot of folks in college switch to Linux, especially Ubuntu back in the day. It was considered synonymous with coding here. There was a time I could recognize that Ubuntu's Unity DE from anywhere before it was killed(and resurrected again recently).

  • HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors

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  • Remote Monitoring. Reads more like something a malware would do.

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    Arc Browser

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  • Isn't Arc available only on the Mac currently? Most people praising it I saw were Mac users in recent times.

  • X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making

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  • When you fail the Captcha for the seventh time in a row judging or not whether that tiny spike in that box contains the object or not; you start to question your sanity.

  • Gemini is about to slide into your DMs

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  • One can disable google assistant via adb, I would assume even if google retires the former in favor of gemini, the newer could also be disabled via similar means.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  • How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

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  • Many popular sites have dropped it. New sites often don't support it in the first place. In cases they do, it's a truncated version. Only a snippet/topic is visible and rest relinks to a browser. It is still better than nothing but the halcyon days of RSS are gone, IMO.

  • Apps that shouldn't be Subscriptions

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  • I too ran into an Android Wear watch face that mimicked the Pixel lockscreen. However, it was priced X INR(Indian Rupee) per year in my country and was decently cheap. However, I soon ran into another app, which was a one time purchase, that did what it did mainly(sync and show phone and watch battery on each other) and worked on most lock screens. So the latter was a proper kind of app design amd atleast not subscription hell.

  • Piracy as a quality of service issue

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  • It is not weird paying for certain things. I also pay for certain things, in fact, over time, I have slowly made my mind to pay for things that are one off payments over recurring subscriptions. I am typing this from Boost client which I purchased because I appreciated dev's work and it wasn't subscription hell.

  • Piracy as a quality of service issue

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  • Downloading on Youtube reminds me of the Downloads button on desktop website. Those downloads, upto 1080p atleast at my end, are finicky and since they are playable only in the browser, on the odd occassion , I have found sluggish. I personally think that yt-dlp is much superior with multiple config options that Youtube's own implementation.

  • Piracy as a quality of service issue

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  • Yes, you are right. Google could if they really wanted to. After all, they bought their Gemini thing(the merits and demerits of it might warrant a separate thread of it's own) when they saw everyone was scrambling in that direction.

  • Piracy as a quality of service issue

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  • I used to be on Newpipe in the old days. I liked it's simple no frills UI. Ironically, I can still choose my desired video quality(like 720p, since I am on mobile data) but on official Youtube app, I only have/had three options - Low, High and Auto. No way to set an exact video resolution system wide, it could only be done per video. These constraints make almost any third party client superior to the official thing Google is providing.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    doors_3 @discuss.tchncs.de

    Piracy as a quality of service issue