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  • Humans are not perfectly vigilant

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  • Pretty damning for the current state of AI, I’m just glad it’s not a hype piece like every other article out there. AI is nowhere close to the same thing as a useful tool, it gains much more from us than we do from it.

  • The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donations

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  • Kind of goes against the underlying principles of FOSS to hire a team to work on a project. Not that all FOSS work is volunteer based, but once something becomes an incentivized project the FOSS part starts to become a bit ambiguous.

  • The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donations

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  • As someone who makes a living supporting servers running various forms of software, almost all of which is open-source, even just the things I know of the top of my head have large dependency trees. Just look at a base install of Ubuntu, you probably have no less than a thousand projects supporting the system. That doesn’t even begin to include additional functionality, install PHP or Python, even just system drivers, and you can easily double or triple that count.

  • The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donations

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  • Make a list of all the FOSS/OSS things you use in your daily life

    I wasn’t prepared for a project of this magnitude, seriously OSS is everywhere

  • Bricks placed in Vancouver to help pedestrians safely use a crosswalk

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  • If this isn’t proof of a dystopian reality, what is?

  • Why is there no true Progressive party in America right now?

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  • No corporation wants to support a progressive party. No one profiting from corporations want to support a progressive party. There goes 99% of the wealth in America.

  • Holo from "Spice and Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf" Plans to Make VTuber Debut

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  • Bro Lain as a vtuber would be based

  • I just ask my problem bro...chill....

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  • She can’t interfere, her job is to monitor and observe and only stop Haruhi if she’s going to endanger the universe. So even with the ability to stop her, she can’t do anything by the code of her position.

  • I just ask my problem bro...chill....

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  • As annoying as it was to slog through the episodes (I think I went through 5 of them before realizing I wasn’t missing much skipping the other three), there is something to be said about how much it captures that feeling of uselessness that Kyo and Yuki have. Kyo begins to realize each time and Yuki is forced to be aware through each repetition. Haruhi is so powerful that she creates an endless time loop, that was both amazing and terrifying.

  • How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk

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  • Nepotism? In DC!? I can’t believe it!

  • I just ask my problem bro...chill....

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  • What’s funny is that watching The Endless Eight already feels like you’re watching 93,884,313,611 episodes of Haruhi

  • Car ‘splatometer’ tests reveal huge decline in number of insects -- thanks to cars (from a 2020 report)

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  • The article doesn’t implicate cars as the main reason, or even necessarily indirectly, it does mention climate change which can be linked with cars but I think it’s secondary to the abundant use of pesticides and general attempts to reduce bug populations than cars themselves.

    That being said, fuck cars.

  • The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words - "Isekai" is now officially part of the OED.

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  • Wait hold up, Nagatsuki is working on it? Sheeesh

  • The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words - "Isekai" is now officially part of the OED.

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  • You have a whole world of isekai waiting for you

  • Who is Granted Personhood? Frieren’s demons and the trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope

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  • If they want a series where everyone is really just a good guy watch Ranking of Kings

  • Who is Granted Personhood? Frieren’s demons and the trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope

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  • Demons in Frieren aren’t even Chaotic Evil, they’re just straight up True Evil. And why the author has a problem with it is completely subjective. From a narrative perspective, demons being True Evil is nothing new. In fact, the way Frieren depicts demons seems to be pretty close to how original demons have been depicted in literature. They don’t have feelings of their own, they only act upon impulse and they can’t truly emote, only shadow or mimic the emotions of actually emotional beings. All this with the goal of consuming someone or something.

    There’s no trouble with the “inherently evil race” trope in this sense. Now, if Frieren were to make all the demons a specific color or make them talk in a specific way, then we start to teeter onto some troubling parallelism.

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    What do I do if I can't afford to file let alone pay my taxes?

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  • Yeah, but it could be they live in one of the states driving American inflation at a ridiculous rate and $6500 a month is barely enough to cover rent and bills.

  • UmbrelOS: A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store.

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  • Seems like the consensus on this one is it isn’t worth it and until they fix their licensing it’s more risky to use as anything other than a day project. In fact, the licensing is kind of dubious for project work because of its weird stipulations.

  • UmbrelOS: A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store.

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  • Source-avaliable, but not FOSS. You can’t take anything with the PolyForm license and use it for commercial purposes. Seems like using umbrelOS to set up companies with self-hosted applications might technically be against the terms of the license. Or even using the self-hosted applications for your own personal use and making money from any of them in some way may also be against the terms.