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  • Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

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  • AFAIK there is no reason why vst companies wouldn't produce linux builds, vst has been opened for Linux for a long time now, they just need to port it. iLok should also be possible, though I personally hate it, but I'm not a pro.

  • About “fauxpen source”, FUTO, fascists and capitalism

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  • Ooof, did not know about this. I held Louis to high regard for his work and this somewhat mars his reputation. I will from now on be cautious about Louis Rosmann, though I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, provided he is more careful in the future. He's always been a bit of an abrasive character, which is not always bad, but he needs to be held accountable, like everybody else.

  • An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet

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  • Nice, I'll have to give it a good look!

  • An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet

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  • Not with that attitude :)

  • we need more users

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  • Yes, but you don't want to lock yourself in an echo chamber either. You want to be as close to reality as possible, at least I do. Though I realize that a niche federated internet community is a bad place for that. But this is the reason I don't block communities. I used to be on lemm.ee for that reason, but it got shut down. I have no problem reading communist propaganda and deciding for myself if it's garbage. But I have problem with censorship. Though bullying and abuse is where I draw the line. But what I see is even without algorithm based feeds, people are still polarized. Possibly because, like me, people with moderate views tend to not comment or engage, while polar opposite groups want you to firmly choose sides and denounce the other side or else you are garbage. In summary, I think it's depressing because reality is currently depressing. But it's unrealistic to just pretend everything is just fine and be happy.

  • designed supports with minimal contact and no leftover flashing by Clough42

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  • I think in his particular case, this works, as he uses pla-gf or pla-cf, but in general, I doubt this technique works for any old filament, perhaps for Pla, and i doubt for petg.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • This is true. However, the issue is we keep oscillating between AI is useless and over hyped; and it will solve all of life's problems and you should not call it slop out of respect. The truth is somewhere in between, but we need to fight for it to find it.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • Definitely. Or possibly AI will become vastly superior to developers and will require no supervision. In that case, the whole paradigm changes and I don't know how the software development will look like then. But these are definitely still early days of AI software development, we have a lot to figure out.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • The real slowdown comes after when you realize you don't understand your own codebase because you relied too much on AI. To understand it well enough requires discipline, which in the current IT world is lacking anyway. Either you can rely entirely on AI or you need to monitor its every action, in which case you may be better off writing yourself. But this hybrid approach I don't think will pan out particularly well.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • Wow, great analogy. Might steal this to use myself.

  • Need some help troubleshooting

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  • This looks to me like your part cooling fan is not turning on or pid calibration of the hotend is not good. Also may be over/under extrusion. You may need to go through calibration steps for your printer. It's likely the firmware update cleared the calibration. There are many sites that will walk you through it, but I frequently use Teaching tech's website: teachingtechyt.github.io

  • Where to start if I wanted to try making my own drawing program?

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  • It is a very broad topic, you didn't specify what kind of a drawing program you'd want to make. If it's a simple raster drawing, like mspaint used to be, it is not that complicated to make. But complexity quickly adds up - filters, transforms, brushes, layers - it grows in complexity quickly. The easiest GUI in rust I found so far is egui. It provides an immediate mode for drawing graphics that is really simple to grasp very quickly. If it is the best in the long run is questionable, but to get your feet wet - I'd say is perfect

  • Any decent privacy-friendly Duolingo alternatives?

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  • Wow, didn't even know Greek is the creator's first language. It seems like it all started with Greek. First few lessons are good, but a vastly different experience to Duolingo and such. Ill have to keep at it to see if it is effective.

  • Any decent privacy-friendly Duolingo alternatives?

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  • I use Duolingo, but at least for Greek it's really slow and inefficient. I am 2/3 of the way to the end and feel like I still suck. Plus, I learned a word for vegetarian in the first few weeks but haven't yet learned a word for money for instance. I feel like it's very badly optimized.

  • Any decent privacy-friendly Duolingo alternatives?

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  • I'm learning Greek on Duolingo and am amazed at how slowly I'm progressing and I'm already a year in. I'll give this one a shot tonight and report back at least first impressions.

  • Inkscape 1.4.3 is out! 🥳

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  • Very glad to see this! I've recently used inkscape and I was surprised by the number of bugs I encountered. I don't recall it being so buggy several years ago. Perhaps this release fixes some of the bugs. Otherwise, a real gem of OSS!

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Are you then a part of a vocal majority? Have you personally asked or been asked by Mozilla about AI features? What features are you exactly missing? See, I'm not against AI, but I am against needless, brainless hype following AI. I use AI, almost daily. But I'm not missing any of the features in the browser. Hell, most of the time, I'm using chatgpt from the browser. That's all I need and dont exactly have an idea what more I would need? OCR a page? Extract an image? That all could fit in an extension, which I claim almost no one would use. What does AI browser even mean? I don't speak for everyone but it doesn't mean I don't have at least an intuition that these are all empty words and that almost no one has asked for an "AI browser". And of those that did, I'm not sure they know what they mean by that, other than general curiosity about what an AI browser might look like, likely directly influenced by the hype, themselves.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Translation is already a part of Firefox and I don't see too many have complained about this. It is also completely offline, AFAIK. What people are afraid, myself included is agentic AI capable of autonomous web browsing. That is a privacy and security nightmare, as is already demonstrated by openai's browser, which was exploited the first day it was launched. Beyond translation, I personally am not interested in any other AI features. In fact, I don't use the translation feature more than a few times a year.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • No, it's not. 1. Nobody wanted AI as a feature. 2. They didn't even completely backpedal, that would be not implementing AI. This sounds like it will be opt out maybe. They may remove it if they feel like it.