mmmpetrichor
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7 days ago
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on: Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
I disagree strongly. I've found that they have more journalistic integrity than most mainstream news pages. Did you see the extremely strong post from the senior editor after this AI hallucination was discovered in a published story? And then the reporter was dismissed.
mmmpetrichor
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1 month ago
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on: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
I felt the same way for a long time. I switched to linux Mint with cinnamon last september because I'd had enough of windows 11 and feel completely at home on this desktop. I still have to boot windows to play some VR games, unfortunately, but otherwise I'd never touch windows again or miss it.
mmmpetrichor
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1 month ago
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on: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
Agreed. As a long time windows user, I never liked ubuntu much (and always had issues with my hardware too). Mint has been amazing for me.
mmmpetrichor
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2 months ago
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on: Linux is good now
I have always wanted to use linux as my main OS. I tried with Ubuntu twice the past and always ran into really painful hurdles or missing features. This year I tried again with Mint and it absolutely stuck the landing. I have completely switched my desktop and laptop (and plex server) to mint. I have never even booted back into windows. I have not had any big issues and have been able to make it better than my windows desktop ever was.
mmmpetrichor
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3 months ago
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on: X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
The x200 was a really neat machine. They run great with linux mint - I have mine running as a home assistant server for our house since my raspberry pi died with flash card corruption.
mmmpetrichor
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3 months ago
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on: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
I'm so glad linux is well polished enough now that I can finally use it as a daily desktop. Mint 22 is amazing with cinnamon. Switched from win11 about 2 months ago and have not once booted back to windows. first time I actually find my linux desktop experience is as good or better than windows.
mmmpetrichor
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3 months ago
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on: Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k
I think maybe the title of this topic post is the main source of misinformation.
mmmpetrichor
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4 months ago
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on: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
US congress not functioning for over a decade causes a few problems.
mmmpetrichor
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4 months ago
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on: The Majority AI View
I've found it very weird observing how CEOs across many companies behave as if they're part of some hivemind. When to do layoffs, how to implement office policies, and now pushing AI in the same way as if they have no brain of their own. It's very offputting. I can't tell if its collusion or whether maybe capitalism has its own goals that are pursued in lockstep by its creepy agents. I think the end goal is definitely to eliminate workers as much as they possibly can. And they think whoever can do that first will "win".
mmmpetrichor
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5 months ago
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on: Firefox is the best mobile browser
Firefox mobile was basically the only option I considered for a long time just because it lets you install Ublock origin . Not sure if other mobile browsers have that now too or not. I'm a firefox user on desktop anyway so I love having tab sharing between my phone and all my pcs. They also added a nice feature recently that optionally requires an additional login (fingerprint) to access private tabs. I have found no reason to switch.
mmmpetrichor
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6 months ago
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on: The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire
This became a hot discussion issue in magic the gathering online (MTGO). I always felt my shuffles in MTGO felt different somehow than my offline paper shuffles. It's hard to know for sure when its all closed source. I know a lot of people were suspicious though.
mmmpetrichor
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6 months ago
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on: Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery
My cornea was too thin for lasik, they offered me ICL but it was like 13k vs 5k. And the surgery seems scarier. And apparently they had complaints about the previous generation ICL causing hightened corneal pressure, so the current one with a hole in the center is pretty new. I kept my contacts.
mmmpetrichor
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6 months ago
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on: Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism
I'll drink to that!
mmmpetrichor
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6 months ago
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on: FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
I've been waiting a while now for automatic translated subtitles in vlc. I thought it would be here by now. I'm probably underestimating the difficulty but I'm surprised some video player hasn't done it by now. (as far as I know).
mmmpetrichor
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7 months ago
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on: Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
No need for trials, just inject it now!
mmmpetrichor
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7 months ago
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on: Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
I just saw the N-word written on a fish. so eh.. that didn't last long.
mmmpetrichor
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7 months ago
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on: The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It
yeah it's like hes complaining about them being evil better then he is able to. lol.
mmmpetrichor
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7 months ago
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on: The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It
so OP does SEO and also complains about google being evil. I have no sympathy for someone doing SEO to basically ruin the "organic" results and then complain about how google controls the results. So what, you want to control the result for profit instead of them?
mmmpetrichor
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7 months ago
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on: Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
It would be cool if we had real journalism these days instead of having to find these type of reports on social media.
mmmpetrichor
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8 months ago
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on: Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation
I get all my skincare advice from hackernews.
