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vdaea··on Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
So does Word 2019 for Windows.
vdaea··on Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
Costs $100 a year unfortunately.
vdaea··on Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC
I suppose this app despite running locally will also be heavily censored.

Is there some local chatbot application like this, for Windows, that isn't hell to set up and that is not censored?

vdaea··on Nokia made too many phones
Which is what they were. It's 2024 and Android phones still don't hold a candle to Apple phones...
vdaea··on Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules
You can only install 3 apps at once, they are somewhat limited in the APIs they can use, and they expire every 7 days (you need to reinstall them using a computer)
vdaea··on Billions stolen in wage theft from US workers
That's a shame but I don't see how that's the US responsibility. This seems like a call for imperialism more than anything else. Let Mexico govern themselves please.
vdaea··on RSS is still pretty great
That's why when I write something that I think will be read for years to come I use archive links to link to other pages.
vdaea··on Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable
What would a profound dismissal of ligatures in fonts look like? Maybe I should ask ChatGPT to write some three-paragraph bullshit that says the same thing that "word + emoticon".
vdaea··on Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable
I could also create my own fonts with or without ligatures. We are (or at least I am) judging a font by its design. Which is, well, the most important part of it. Are we allowed to do that?
vdaea··on Broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago
Why does this NTP implementation accept a sudden change of 4 billion seconds? For example, the NTP implementation in Windows refuses to change the clock by more than 54,000 seconds.
vdaea··on When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019)
Men have always been on their own. It's now more evident than ever, though.

Good thing they used that autonomy to build... everything.

vdaea··on I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
It's the "twentytwentyone" theme for wordpress, which was the default during... twenty twenty-one. Maybe he installed wordpress then and didn't bother changing the theme or liked it as it is.
vdaea··on Social networks are getting stingy with their data
After what they did to Facebook because of what Cambridge Analytica did using API access, this makes all the sense in the world. API access, even if it's read-only, is a huge liability.
vdaea··on Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
As it starts growing? Is there any indication that mixed reality in Windows 11 has ever grown?
vdaea··on Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
I skipped the part of the article that says that the heat pumps will always be accompanied by solar panels.
vdaea··on Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
>“It’s a really strong signal from states that they’re committed to accelerating this transition to zero-emissions residential buildings,”

Heat pumps are zero-emissions now. Shipping them and replacing your gas furnace also emits no carbon.

vdaea··on Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai
I donated $400M. Smuggling cocaine into Kiev is expensive, you know...
vdaea··on World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
>The same way you can assess the crime rate of a certain area by the amount of littering by the side of the road.

You mean incorrectly?

Also, if I had to guess, proxies that show global warming to be bad are widely publicised, whilst proxies that show global warming not to occur are ignored.

vdaea··on Hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news
The lie is in the title: it is written in a way that makes it sound like the entire piece that was broadcast was generated by AI, which is not the case.
vdaea··on Hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news
Because they didn't. The Guardian lies, as always. The text says:

>The fake news anchor introduced unverified images that claimed to show Palestinians injured and killed from Israeli military operations in Gaza.

So they are "unverified" in that someone from The Guardian hasn't personally checked that they are images from Gaza, but they were NOT AI-generated. The only thing that seems AI-generated is the anchorman, but that is of little importance.

vdaea··on Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions
Most animals would genocide the entire planet if they could. If there are too many of a certain species, they are entirely capable of extinguishing entire populations of the animals and plants they eat. Some of them, like cats, wipe out the animal population of an entire area out of boredom.
vdaea··on Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions
A human life is worth an infinite amount of animal lives.
vdaea··on Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
Some will come and tell you that cyclists have an innate right to ignore all traffic laws and that if you were in Europe the car will always be at fault.
vdaea··on Climate Scientist Michael Mann Confronts Defamers in Court After 12-Year Delay
>“Climate scientists have a responsibility to untangle fact from fiction and to communicate with society clearly about the dangers of climate change,” he said. “If we do not actively take on that role, others will fill the vacuum that our silence creates.

Exactly. Instead of blaming others, look at yourselves.

You don't need to sue people if you have real data that people can trust because real data doesn't need to be defended.

vdaea··on The EU sets the limit for bank transfer time to 10 seconds
How does this make banks more competitive global-economy wise when these 10-minute transfers won't work with banks outside the EU?
vdaea··on The EU sets the limit for bank transfer time to 10 seconds
I'm not saying that it's not good for customers. I'm saying that it does not increase competitiveness, which was the claim.
vdaea··on The EU sets the limit for bank transfer time to 10 seconds
How does a law like this increase competitiveness? It looks like it decreases competitiveness, since banks can no longer compete on who has the fastest transfers.
vdaea··on Cryptominer loses bid to force BC Hydro to provide it power
I don't see this crypto "folk" asking the government to provide them with electricity under the threat of violence. He said "I worry about"
vdaea··on The EU proposes slashing pollution 90% by 2040
They did and are still doing a great job of making us poorer by 2020.
vdaea··on Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences
I visited one of those sites, https://sevillatimes.com/ , and absolutely none of the articles posted there talk about the city, not even about the country where the city is in. So nobody would think that website is a local news website.

Also this article offers little to no proof that the Chinese government is behind these sites. They look more like a network of crypto spam. https://sevillatimes.com/category/presionesoltar/

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