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  • Is there a way to install Windows 11, somewhat bloatware/AI free? (It's for college.)

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  • Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

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  • Writing reports is hard? Fuck paper work? Policing used to be easier?Great, the reports are written for you and the paper work is done for you.You are still fucking liable for their contents, as you are (or should be) for your actions.

    Recorded and written reports are the backbone of accountability.

    Don't want to get fucked by the legal system because you have neglected your duties? Don't neglect your duties. Do the reporting, do the paper work.

    Using LLM in such reports should be equivalent of perjury. Use LLMs to create bullet points, turn that into a draft (or just submit the bullet points, because someone is likely to feed the report back into an LLM to turn it into bullet points).But know that you are (or should be) accountable for every last word on that report!

  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • While true, quantity of poop particles also matters.Your body can fight off loads of bacteria. But once it gets to an infection point, it can't keep up and you become ill.

    So yeh, poop is everywhere. As long as it's small amounts, it's fine.

  • What's your favorite movie that is in a language which you do not speak?

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  • Battle Royale.Pretty sure it was the first foreign language film I've watched.

  • Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery

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  • I don't refuse junk mail. I indicate my preference to not have it printed on paper, sent some distance, and hand delivered. I refuse it at the origin, not the destination.Worst case, the postal service recycles it at origin instead of having to ship it.

    Junk mail is junk.It isn't a resource.I don't think I've ever received something that meaningfully contributes towards a purchase that I actually want to make.I buy what I need. I find what I want, I think about if I actually need it, I find local manufacturers, I find local suppliers.I see if the price difference between local & inter/national is worth the saving (most of the time, it isn't and I'd rather buy from a local manufacturer or supplier, even at twice the price).Then I decide if I should buy something.

    Some paper shipped across the country and shoved through my letterbox is not going to influence my decision AT ALL.In fact, it's more likely to negatively impact my purchasing decision.Because here is a company that has excess profits to physical cold-advertise something to me, regardless if I have an interest in it or not.What a waste of money, resources and time.

  • Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery

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  • Wait, the US doesn't have a free service to (a) remove you from postal spam lists and (b) stop spam being delivered?

    In the UK, I registered my address on a few of the things listed here ( https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/post-and-parcels/stop-getting-junk-mail/ ). And the only junk mail I now receive are political flyers & takeout menus delivered outside of the postal service (ie by people, not posties).

    Do Americans really have to put up with receiving random bullshit with no easy way of stopping it?!

  • ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly pers

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  • Omg, even the thing that is enshittifying everything is now being enshittified itself.

  • Trump goes off-message alongside Netanyahu to boast about his $400M ballroom saying next inauguration will be held there

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  • I thought it was the Epstein Ballroom

  • Manage

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  • And here's me with my yay

  • Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve's Steam Deck On Its Servers

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  • In my experience, a Scheduler is something that schedules time on the CPU for processes (threads).

    So 10 processes (threads) say "I need to do something":2 of those threads are "ready to continue" because they were previously waiting on some Disk IO (and responsibly released thread control while data was fetched).1 of the threads says "this is critical for GPU operations".1 of those threads self declares it is elevated priority.

    The scheduler decides which of those threads actually gets time on an available CPU core to be processed.

  • Russia Continues Using Cavalry in Failed Assault, OSINT-Shared Video Reveals

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  • Oh, actual horses.I was thinking the title was wrong. Or maybe that cavalry is a modern warfare term for something.The thumbnail is a bit hard to see.

    Nope.Clicked through, and there it is. A picture of a soldier riding a horse. Like, full on galloping.And the picture is clearly from a drone that is very very close.

  • Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’

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  • Man does whatever he wants at the top, with support of experts to ensure it's legal (or at least deniable illegal) as long as other people in power get to do what they want and these other people get the presidential stamp when it matters.There is so much noise. So much crap flying everywhere, that nobody is able to actually see the important piece of sweetcorn flying through someone's skull. (Or whatever).

    Generate noise & outrage. Like real massive noise and outrage:Wars (perhaps legit reasons, but unreasonable response causing the scandal), pedophile scandals (it's legit, but the handling is a scandal), ridiculous trade wars (arguably well intended (preferring local manufacturing), execution is nothing but "fuck over the little guy" with the added benefit of larger guys buying up the little guys going broke). Pardons that subvert their own administration's promises.All the while, the US government is sailing through bills for "protect the children" masked mass surveillance, age verification, abortion bans, literally everything and anything to suppress actual people.

    As soon as the Epstein list's redaction has been resolved:troops will be deployed in another unwinnable war in Venezuela.US trade relations will be in the toilet and other trade groups will be strengthened (UK is already rejoining some EU programmes, there are no-US trading groups getting established, so many trade deals that now ignore/exclude the US).The US population will suddenly be under surveillance that hasn't been seen before (flock, ICE, and all the KOSA related bills). You think the UK OSA is bad? KOSA (and related) look to be worse.

  • US intelligence say Putin wants Ukraine, Baltics, Poland, and more. Trump’s team says Russia wants peace

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  • That puts a lot of pressure on humans to not-make-mistakes.However, repeated "mistakes" are a pattern of hostility.Russia is hostile.And they keep on "oops"-ing and "plausible deniability"-ing their actions.Which is a pattern of hostility and should be treated as a declaration of war

  • Three year test shows OLED is significantly more reliable than LCD, with most lasting more than 10,000 hours — 20 TVs failed out of 102 tested

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  • When your hobby overlaps with your job and you still enjoy both :(

  • US to miss deadline to release all Epstein files, Trump official admits

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  • Oh, and another war over oil weapons of mass destruction

  • Arch Linux Makes Its WSL Image Fully Reproducible Across Builds

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  • In simple terms, this means that the image is now built so that it produces exactly the same result every time. If the image is rebuilt later using the same source, it will be identical down to the last bit.

  • How did I get here?

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  • Thank you for reminding me

  • Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic over 2025

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  • Wtf is GNU/Linux? You mean SystemD/KDE?

  • Little Timmy Tables

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  • And then OneDrive comes along, someone accidentally saved "to the cloud" (IE the default windows location of OneDrive). And of course someone (you) has to fix all the desync bullshit.Fuck excel, fuck Microsoft, fuck OneDrive!

    Thank god my company is transitioning to a decent no code solution (nocobase plus literally anything that can interact with postgres - currently n8n but not yet limited to that. It's a transition from excel, literally anything is better! (Tho, nocobase is awesome, non has it's perks)).Many parentheses, soz.Fuck excel, use a database!