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moss2··on Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
Glad I uninstalled Windows and use Ubuntu on all my computers
moss2··on Predicting hit songs with 97% accuracy
Evaluating on synthetic data is... I want to say "forbidden" but that's not the right word. Basically all of their results are scientifically useless.

I can't figure out which journal or conference this article was published to, but if I sat on the reviewer board I would have declined their article on this fact alone.

Good find.

moss2··on Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser
I looked over there list of "achievements" in their About page.

They state that in 2022 they stopped accepting subscription payments because it forces them to store data about their users for long periods of time. Now they only accept one-time payments for monthly memberships.

They really are committed to privacy.

moss2··on Japan’s government will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training
I don't understand the AI training copyright debate.

Art students study art to learn how to create art, and that's completely fine, but AI models are not allowed to study art to learn how to create art, because it's copyright infringement.

Madness.

moss2··on Rarbg Is No More
Your proposed alternative to downloading movies using torrents is to set up and maintain a torrent tracking service?
moss2··on Windows 11 in Svelte
Is Microsoft becoming Bethesda? "Don't bother fixing bugs, someone will make a mod that fixes them"
moss2··on Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge
"Antitrust: Commission fines Microsoft for non-compliance with browser choice commitments", European Commission 2013:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_13_...

We need more legislation it seems.

moss2··on Deck.of.cards
noooooo :(
moss2··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
Yes

(I'm not the guy who wrote that comment but I would very much like this)

moss2··on ChatGPT Plugins
I like how you assume that a non-profit organization is hell-bent on monopolizing a market. What you wrote sounds made up, do you have any sources?
moss2··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars
Finally some reasonable people
moss2··on Most young men are single. Most young women are not
False.

I do go out on weekends and approach women. Respectfully. While having basic hygiene and grooming and tasteful clothing. And I'm financially autonomous. And I work out regularly. And have a social circle. I'm perfectly average looking.

All that gets me is friends. Loads of friends. Women who I share a conversation with and have a laugh with. Never any attraction or meeting up at a later date.

Don't speak confidently about subjects you know nothing about.

moss2··on The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement
> A lot of people commited fraud. Therefore, it was right of the Dutch government to separate 1100 children from their families.

Wtf?

moss2··on Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says
Rick & Morty creator Justin Roiland was charged last week with domestic violence, and Adult Swim has already cut all ties with him. Maybe he's a criminal asshole who deserves jail, or maybe he's innocent and a fabrication has ruined his career.
moss2··on “P = NP” Polynomial-Sized LP Models for Hard Cops
Maybe the police are aroused by computational problems
moss2··on Lights have been on at this school for a year because no one can turn them off
Less code is better than more code. No code is even better.
moss2··on Tar.pl – A tar creator and extractor in ~130 lines of Prolog
Absolutely marvelous.
moss2··on QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text
Deluge is up in its 83rd version and its 5.3 Mb in size.

https://github.com/deluge-torrent/deluge

moss2··on WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers
> This allows for legacy applications to be ported to a browser and directly communicate with the JS code that runs in client-side Web applications.

Knowing nothing about WebAssembly, I would guess it's because JS runs on a single thread.

moss2··on Tiktoken: OpenAI’s Tokenizer
What's a tokenizer?
moss2··on Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal
Geez you use this tool for quick answers, it's not a manual specification. Do you also hate the CPU cache because it doesn't always point to correct memory?
moss2··on What chroot taught me about containers
Wow this explains so well what Docker is. Fancy building a $1 billion company around chroot.
moss2··on Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
Suuuuper cool thanks for sharing this. Gonna see if I can use this to push notify when my DNS fails to reach my hobby server cause my ISP has changed my IP.
moss2··on Mailbag: Sausage Men
Damn those are some gross sausage people. Will definitely buy.
moss2··on What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
The Hundred Acre Wood can support 500 Piglets
moss2··on Fake Books
> I think there’s a good chance it was ghost written by a content farm for someone who wanted to publish a book in a popular category to make a quick buck.

The article literally says

> My first theory was that the writing must have been outsourced to a content farm, where multiple individuals worked on portions of the text without caring to understand the context. But the explanation had a flaw: there’s nothing you can find on the internet if you search for “NFP chemotherapy” or “NTF Strategic Development Group”. The text didn’t merely describe a garbled version of our reality; it invented its own.

moss2··on Students break acceleration world record for electric vehicles
Did you also know that the Cheetah runs faster than Usain Bolt?
moss2··on Show HN: Earn 9.62% on US Treasury I Bonds on Yotta
Can foreigners buy these I Bonds?
moss2··on Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable
under the Atlantic* ;)
moss2··on Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates
...what?

What does it matter if the developer still cares about the project?

It isn't crashing and no new features are needed. If it did then the project wouldn't be complete.

We're not talking about some early access half broken NPM package here, the blog specifically talks about a completed product.

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