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  • This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

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  • Haha, no doubt. I seem to recall that the Windows code was leaked a few years ago too?

  • Whats a privacy friendly way of learning a new language?

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  • Interesting, thanks!

  • Whats a privacy friendly way of learning a new language?

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  • Thanks! If I'm reading that second link correctly, they rank "Babbel" with a higher score than LingQ and Rosetta Stone?

  • Whats a privacy friendly way of learning a new language?

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  • They require the least amount of minutes using them to achieve the highest scores in standardized language tests.

    What's the source of this info?

  • This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

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  • Yeah, I was thinking along similar lines when I first learned about Malus a couple days ago. Fine, so they get a "free" copy of open-source software that they can use without restrictions. What happens as time goes by and their "free" copy no longer receives any updates, fixes, improvements? I guess they can keep repeating the process every time a new version is released, but the whole thing seems counterproductive for anyone trying this.

  • Robot dogs with heads of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg roam San Francisco streets

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  • I think that the technology may have evolved a lot since the early days of photogrammetry, or perhaps making a 3D model of a face is easier than a large object like in your example. Also, how do you suppose they got 3D scans of Picasso's and Warhol's faces for those perfect, life-like rubber faces on that video? They were both dead decades before the development of 3D scanning and photogrammetry.

    Finally, here are some examples of photo to 3D model applications that appear to only need one photo:

  • Hexbear has been temporarily defederated - UPDATED now federated

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  • I’m native here on .zip and one of the reasons I am here is because the admins don’t defederate unless it’s a technical reason like this. They leave me to act like an adult and choose which instances I want to block or not.

    Exactly the same here. Thank you @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip!

  • What unethical life hack would you recommend to others?

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  • Caveat that this only applies to USB chargers. If you find some random non-USB, old-school type charger (like the ones with the round connectors) that fits your device, don't plug it in until you're sure that the voltage and polarity are correct.

  • Can btrfs snapshots help me recover from botched attempts to follow online guides?

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  • Interesting, thanks. Maybe it's something with the entire Ubuntu branch.

  • Can btrfs snapshots help me recover from botched attempts to follow online guides?

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  • That's odd. Maybe it's a limitation with Ubuntu or their downstream distros. I'm now positive that all 3 of those distros I listed gave me the option to encrypt the disk during installation. This was in the last 3 months or so.

  • Can btrfs snapshots help me recover from botched attempts to follow online guides?

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  • In my recent experience, I'm pretty sure all distros I tried (Debian, Bazzite, openSUSE) had a simple checkbox to do full disk encryption.

  • JUST IN: Iran Ends Direct Talks With US After Trump Threatens to Destroy ‘Whole Civilization’

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    • Apr 7: "I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks"-

  • Ryan Gosling says soap opera stars don’t get the recognition they deserve and credits Deidre Hall’s possession by the Devil on ‘Days of Our Lives’ as one of his first acting inspirations

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  • Oh, nice! I had no idea that she was in it. I'll check it out eventually. Thanks!

  • Today I learned @lemmy.ml
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    TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fibonacci_sequence

  • Ryan Gosling says soap opera stars don’t get the recognition they deserve and credits Deidre Hall’s possession by the Devil on ‘Days of Our Lives’ as one of his first acting inspirations

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  • Yeah, for whatever reason, that Burton movie hasn't enticed me even though I'm almost finished watching all 1,200+ episodes of the soap. Something about it just doesn't seem appealing.

  • Ryan Gosling says soap opera stars don’t get the recognition they deserve and credits Deidre Hall’s possession by the Devil on ‘Days of Our Lives’ as one of his first acting inspirations

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  • I'm currently watching through an old soap opera from the late 60s / early 70s because of its amazingly unusual premise (as far as soap operas go). It's called Dark Shadows and it started off as a gothic mystery but then became a full-on horror soap opera, with ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, devil-worshippers, etc. This was a daytime soap opera (lol) and it apparently became a cultural phenomenon that supposedly inspired a lot of stuff in the genre in later years.

    Anyway, this is the first and only American soap opera that I've watched, and I have found that the actors are quite a mixed bag. Some of the actors in it are quite bad, and some are legitimately quite good. So much so that I would love to see them in other series or even movies because they have that quality that makes you want to watch them more and because I would like for them to receive proper recognition for their work and talents.

  • What is a gender neutral honorific for non-binary folk?

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  • @jdr@lemmy.ml @Furbag@lemmy.world Wait, that wiktionary explanation seems weird too. I always thought of homie as being a derivative of "homeboy" or "homegirl". I could be wrong, but I definitely started hearing homie after those two and have always thought that they were connected. In fact, the wiktionary page for homeboy lists homie as a related term, so to me it seems like the two pages are contradicting each other.

  • East German apartment blocks, 1975

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  • Thanks for providing at least approximate citations. I have a hard time imagining that homelessness in the USSR was ever anywhere near the current situation in the US. Even with arresting and pushing people to other cities, if you've seen what the streets around downtown LA look these days, it's hard to imagine anything like it.

  • East German apartment blocks, 1975

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  • This may come as a surprise, but Warsaw Pact countries and the Soviet Union had widespread homelessness too.

    Citation? Even if that's true, was it anywhere near as bad as in the US currently?

  • Why are there so many Germans on Lemmy?

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  • The impression I have is that Germans are bigger users of the Fediverse in general than other countries, as in statistically overrepresented. Mastodon is originally a German project. Germans also created a Fediverse application for buying and selling second-hand items, Flohmarkt (Flea Market). Some other posts here have mentioned that Germans are culturally/historically more interested in privacy than many others, which may help explain the interest in the Fediverse. Finally, Lemmy is also an European project, so it makes sense that there would be more Europeans here, and Germany is the largest European economy and the most populous Western-European nation. Those are all probably factors contributing to this.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    US General Strike January 30th 2026

    How to call or report strike day to employer?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/12/the-huge-project-zomboid-build-42-finally-gets-multiplayer-just-in-time-for-the-holidays/
  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
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    The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/12/the-huge-project-zomboid-build-42-finally-gets-multiplayer-just-in-time-for-the-holidays/
  • Rant @lemmy.sdf.org
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    The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies"

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    How does resource utilization compare between Piefed and Lemmy?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux

  • Public Transport @slrpnk.net
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    The Busiest “Rail Line” You’ve Never Heard Of Is In the Suburbs of Atlanta

    thetransitguy.substack.com /p/the-busiest-rail-line-youve-never
  • Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for? @lemmy.ca
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    Any active text-only adult communities?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Cricket@lemmy.zip @lemmy.zip

    Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

    www.zdnet.com /article/linux-has-over-6-of-the-desktop-market-yes-you-read-that-right-heres-how/
  • openSUSE @lemmy.ml
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    Should I include /.snapshots directory (snapper snapshots) in backups?