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lerela··on Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux
Any reason not to use the add-on you mention in [0] instead of falling back to Chromium?
lerela··on The history of Google messaging apps
I did nothing of the sort (on purpose at least!) but apart from minor cosmetic changes, we are still stuck with the limitations I mentioned and to the best of my knowledge I did not see real improvements over the past year (but I might have forgotten some).

However, I've just tried again to be sure and I'm still unable to create a group chat with someone outside my org (that I've added to a channel), unable to reply to a specific message in a conversation, unable to edit some messages. As an admin I am also unable to perform any kind of moderation in a channel (arguably, that's not a showstopper, but it is weird not to have admin rights over my organization chat). Also, switching back and forth between two conversations still shows a very noticeable delay with a spinner which really hampers the experience.

Hopefully the changes you see in the pre-release will be deployed soon and fix some of those issues.

lerela··on The history of Google messaging apps
I have been using Google Chat as part of our Google Workspace subscription and it is just terrible. Channels are inconsistent if you add users that don't belong to your org, the possibility to edit or delete a message seems totally arbitrary, it is not even possible to reply to a specific message (making discussions a real mess), video calls are handled completely separately through Google Meet, and the list goes on. It looks like nothing has changed in over a year so I'm surprised to see that Google is still pushing it, yet not fixing the basic flaws that make it barely usable for anyone who previously used Slack or any modern messaging entreprise tool.

We finally switched to Discord last month, the lack of integration with the Google Suite is a pity but the experience with Google Chat for a small organization was just too painful and not understandable.

lerela··on Dell Xps 13 Developer Edition availability?
I do not have the answer to your question, but Ubuntu 21.04 mostly works on the non-developer edition of the 9310 (the WiFi card was not supported when it was released, but it's been fixed in kernel 5.11).

Suspend is still not properly supported (no deep sleep) but that might be the case with the developer edition as well from what I have read, and Dell does not seem to care. That is the main downside for me.

Overall, I can't say that I've been very happy with its performances so far, and the lack of USB-A compared to your version is a real pain. I guess this would be the same have I had been able to purchase a developer edition.

lerela··on GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
In the middle of a generated text about low-carbon concrete, I found some Wikipedia markup:

Use Low-carbon concrete is used to build low-carbon structures and other buildings. Examples of structures that are made of low-carbon concrete include buildings in greenhouses and offices.

References

Category:Concrete Category

lerela··on A Typology of Dumplings (2019)
But it is on the list though
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