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nilslindemann··on WTF Ubuntu?
I dunno. Maybe things have changed in the last two years.
nilslindemann··on Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
Even if its king would be mate in one, it does not matter, as you lost on time. As the engine varies, this variation will probably not be repeated. Kasparov can prepare for lines, as he usual does, but there is no guarantee that the engine plays these lines.

BTW, I also played a few games, 2400+ player on Lichess, I had no chance. My impression is that the claim by this author is correct. Or I am overrated :-)

nilslindemann··on WTF Ubuntu?
Approx. two years ago I saw a teacher at my IT school trying to install Debian on a students virtual machine, side by side to a Windows 11. Just for fun, while watching them, I installed Ubuntu side by side on my virtual machine. These two were not done after three sessions and ultimately failed to install Debian. The installation GUI was full of cryptic words I never heard of and looked like from the year 2000. Meanwhile, the Ubuntu installation went flawless. it was done in under 15 minutes, the GUI looked modern and sexy. All I had to do was enter a nick and password, and drag a slider to tell the procedure how much space I want to reserve for Ubuntu.

I hope that answers your question.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
nilslindemann··on Is Wikipedia the 'Last Best Place on the Internet'?
Let me try to explain with a different example. Your local newspaper is not bad because it merely reports local news. EN Wikipedia is not bad because it merely reports English news.
nilslindemann··on Is Wikipedia the 'Last Best Place on the Internet'?
So, create a North Korean Wikipedia (I am assuming it does not exist), and put North Korean articles on its start page. Thats not "wrong", thats the reason you create it.
nilslindemann··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Some describe humans like this.
nilslindemann··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Yes, Mistral is an asshole AI :-D
nilslindemann··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
This it is just the next generation being used to the new data.
nilslindemann··on Is Wikipedia the 'Last Best Place on the Internet'?
Dude, thats the english wikipedia, check out the starting pages of other language wikipedias. They all do that.
nilslindemann··on PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
"Posting, captcha, sign-in and other dynamic pages are offline while we apply an urgent PHP security update" - https://4chan.org/
nilslindemann··on The Future of CSS
"flexible divs side by side" sounds like something which can be generated in many ways, From display: inline-block, over float:left, col-columns, flex layout, to a grid based layout. Can what you desire be created in, for example, https://grid.layoutit.com/?
nilslindemann··on What is the ultimate truth? We asked leading AI models
Actually Gemma 4 31B and Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Not sure why I listed DeepSeek V4 Pro an Nemotron 3 Ultra. Must have been accidental.

nilslindemann··on What is the ultimate truth? We asked leading AI models
DeepSeek V4 Pro, Nemotron 3 Ultra. Gemini 3.1 Pro. "The universe experiences itself". This is my point of view too.
nilslindemann··on Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
Any source?

Edit: Answering myself: https://gwern.net/doc/algernon/2009-silberberg.pdf

However,

* we see no videos of the two men doing the test. Notice how the ape barely looks at the task, while the men maybe were highly concentrated.

* The men had the goal to improve and beat the ape, the ape probably did not have that goal.

* The men created the circumstances themself, so it may be possible the knowingly or unknowingly gave themself better conditions than the ape.

* The men did up to 2500 units of training, it is unknown how much the ape got.

* We can see that the ape does nine numbers in some tests, the men did just five.

* the men propably relied on language to learn the task, the ape did not.

So, this is quite a flawed study too.

nilslindemann··on Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
Speaking of animal intelligence: I have always been impressed by the short-term memory of chimpanzees, which outperforms that of humans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5QS_adrIQ

The explanation given by scientists is that chimpanzees need this type of memory to keep a clear mental map of their surroundings while climbing. Still, spectacular.

nilslindemann··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
Yes, PayPal has blacklists and people land on them very quickly. I play according to their rules, as I need the service when I need something which is not available on Amazon (Which has IBAN).
nilslindemann··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
I have experienced the same with Google and with PayPal, whenever I used Tor. When I afterwards visited those sites using my normal browser I got Captchas. They are actively fighting attempts to avoid fingerprinting. Also, I am pretty sure that no browser protects against getting fingerprinted. Test with https://fingerprint.com/.
nilslindemann··on C for Rust programmers
Were you intentionally rude with your first sentence or just unaware?
nilslindemann··on German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism
Systemic racism within the German system has been proven [1], so the Bundeswehr is right to screen for it. I have experienced racists at work, at government offices and in everyday situations. A system consisting of such people does not properly work. We need some Goodwill.

[1]: to name one: https://fgz-risc.de/forschung/inra-studie

nilslindemann··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
Nonsense. One may very well explain to a newbie how to link to an external site using example.com as target. Though I would not do it, with that layout. I would link to Google probably.
nilslindemann··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
BTW, a "background:white;" for the body improves things. But still, the versions from 2013 or 2019 are much better in my opinion.
nilslindemann··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
I find the text shown on this site passive agressive.

When a newbie learning programming sees this message, then this is a downer.

"Hello World from example.com [more info]"

nilslindemann··on Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
I love it. The dragging of black holes could be improved:

* The black hole is not moved until the cursor has moved more than five pixels.

* The first time the black hole moves in the dragging process, it moves more than one pixel, afterwards one. So it is a small jump and then it moves smooth.

* The cursor icon changes to the drag symbol only after the mouse has already moved five pixels, not as soon as the mouse button is hold down.

* When the mouse is outside the draggable zone, but still in the game window, the black hole is not dragged along the border.

nilslindemann··on CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development
With @layer this has become simpler:

    /* define layer order. Not necessary here */
    @layer pico, nils;

    /* import framework into layer */
    @import url("pico.css") layer(pico);

    /* define own styles in own layer, they have precedence. CSS vars are still global. */
    @layer nils {
        p:first-of-type {
            color: green;
        }
    }
nilslindemann··on CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development
For me it is definitely Pico.css. Honorable mentions: simple.css, tacit, w3c-chocolate.
nilslindemann··on EU KIDS Act
I dont get the downvote. I had no internet access until being an adult. What I had was a pass for the public library, which I made use of from age 14. I had a membership card for the cities outdoor swimming pool in the summer – big kids party, there was table tennis. I was a member of the chess club, the IB, the Judo club, and the Scouts. I had two best friends (whom I knew from the Scouts); we would regularly visit each other, and through them, I knew many other children. I didn't need the internet at all until I was 25. Banning the internet for all children in a country until the age of 16 – treating it like a movie for adults – would likely be a blessing for their real-life social connections, at least it would probably not at all harm them.

A young child using a Linux, just having a restricted amount of knowledge resources will probably learn it better than with the internet connected. At least I made that experience. I learned programming the Web with just having local access to the SELFHTML documentation.

nilslindemann··on EU KIDS Act
If these people were serious, they would simply forbid children under—say—16 years of age from using the internet unless an adult is present in the room. Using computers without an internet connection should remain permitted, provided there is no harmful content on the device.
nilslindemann··on IANA's email about why example.com changed
The languages switch too fast. Many readers will not have finished reading the text.
nilslindemann··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Thanks, but I need the money for the next laptop.
nilslindemann··on Good people refuse to do bad things
He may also have gotten paid for it by players, which dont want AGI, because it would disturb their plans. Imagine AGI works out a plan, which, when applied by everyday people without needing any government help, enforces the end of wars, poverty, pollution, illness, unhappiness, worldwide.
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