Submission + - "Windows 12 could be Linux's biggest chance...." (youtube.com)
BrendaEM writes: Apparently, Microsoft's Windows 12 aspirations are not good.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 50 declined, 6 accepted (56 total, 10.71% accepted)
Submission + - In the world of SSD's, does disk indexing serve any legitimate purpose? 1
BrendaEM writes: At one time, disk indexing might have saved people who mislaid files, but now with solid state drives (SSD's) including NVME drives which can dozens of time faster than spinning disks, does disk indexing serve the user any legitimate purpose--or is disk indexing remain just an invasion of privacy?
Submission + - Do we need opt-out by default privacy laws?
BrendaEM writes: In large, companies failed to self-regulate. They have not been respected the individual's right to privacy. In software and web interfaces, companies have buried their privacy setting so deep that they cannot be found in a reasonable amount of time, or that an unreasonable amount of steps are needed to attempt to retain their data. They have taken the rights of the individual's right to privacy away--by default.
Are laws needed that protect a person's privacy by default--unless specific steps are needed by the user/purchaser to relinquish it? Should the wording of the explanation should be so written that the contract is brief, it explains the forfeiture of the privacy, and where that data might be going? Should a company selling a product should state before purchase, which right need to be dismissed for it's use? Should a legal owner who purchased product expect it to not stop functioning--only because a newer user contract is not agreed to?
Are laws needed that protect a person's privacy by default--unless specific steps are needed by the user/purchaser to relinquish it? Should the wording of the explanation should be so written that the contract is brief, it explains the forfeiture of the privacy, and where that data might be going? Should a company selling a product should state before purchase, which right need to be dismissed for it's use? Should a legal owner who purchased product expect it to not stop functioning--only because a newer user contract is not agreed to?
Submission + - Tesla sales crisis: 94% of Germans don't want Elon Musk's EVs (notebookcheck.net)
BrendaEM writes: It's interesting that in the country where Nazism first spread--no one wants Musk's cars.
Submission + - Where are the Open-Source Local-Only AI Solutions?
BrendaEM writes: Do you remember how it was portrayed in movies when people would just talk to their computer, and it would do things? As implemented, as perverted, why does AI have to take the work of others? Why can't we each have our own AI software that runs locally, doesn't take anything from anyone else? It doesn't spy on us, and no one else owns it. We download it, from souce-code if you like, install it, if we want. It assists: us. For now, it's yours. No one gate-keeps it. It's not out to get us--and this is important: because no one owns it but our indebted gratitude, the AI software is ours and leaks no data anywhere, to no one, no company, for no political nor financial purpose. No one profits--but you! Though, that's not what is happening--is it?
Why cannot we have software--without AI. While it upsets me that a company such as Microsoft, who seems to have had legal problems from with taking another company's code--banner intact and all, implementing machine-learning in computers for legally defenseless masses, but it was just heartbreaking to read that Firefox has updated their legalese to further go upstream from their often-self proclaimed privacy motto for likely the sake of adding AI. I have used Firefox since it split from the Netscape suite, now I am likely going to leave it--because I am losing my remaining trust for Mozilla. Why is AMD stamping AI on local-processors--when most of the AI is done on external company servers? And if there is local AI processing--with what is it processing? To whom is it processing for? Having grown board with the elusive fusion reactor, the memsistor, the battery tech that will spare our remorseless wastefulness, having nosed its way past blockchain--should AI be crowned the ultimate hype?
We read about falsified naked pictures and video of society's beloved actors and performers. Have they not given enough of themselves? We see photos undiscerningly mangled to where most people can no longer trust what was once de-facto proof. We are at a point that anyone can be placed in any crime scene. Perhaps we have for some time, but now anyone can do it to any one
Beyond the deliberate targeted assassination of our sense of morality, lies the withering of society's intellect, as AI, as used, feeds on everything--including ingesting its own corrupted data--until the AI purveyors will have no choice but to use AI-free content, which it at first it was. As time goes on, finding AI-untouched data will be as difficult to find--as vintage wine without isotopes from nuclear tests.
Why ever would computer bugs be called, "hallucinations?" In reference to a comparison to the human intelligence of a six year old human, why are we being told that we just have to redefine intelligence in favor of the marketer's of AI? If AI is not really intelligent, nor is it mortal, nor feeling, nor capable of empathy, living or dying--then why ever should it be allowed to say, "I" Why should we allow it.
What future will anyone have if anything they really wanted to do when you--could be mimicked and sold by the ill-gotten work of others?
Could local, open-source, AI software be the only answer to dishearten billionaire companies from taking and selling back to their customers--everything we have done? Could we not...instead--steal their dream!
Why cannot we have software--without AI. While it upsets me that a company such as Microsoft, who seems to have had legal problems from with taking another company's code--banner intact and all, implementing machine-learning in computers for legally defenseless masses, but it was just heartbreaking to read that Firefox has updated their legalese to further go upstream from their often-self proclaimed privacy motto for likely the sake of adding AI. I have used Firefox since it split from the Netscape suite, now I am likely going to leave it--because I am losing my remaining trust for Mozilla. Why is AMD stamping AI on local-processors--when most of the AI is done on external company servers? And if there is local AI processing--with what is it processing? To whom is it processing for? Having grown board with the elusive fusion reactor, the memsistor, the battery tech that will spare our remorseless wastefulness, having nosed its way past blockchain--should AI be crowned the ultimate hype?
We read about falsified naked pictures and video of society's beloved actors and performers. Have they not given enough of themselves? We see photos undiscerningly mangled to where most people can no longer trust what was once de-facto proof. We are at a point that anyone can be placed in any crime scene. Perhaps we have for some time, but now anyone can do it to any one
Beyond the deliberate targeted assassination of our sense of morality, lies the withering of society's intellect, as AI, as used, feeds on everything--including ingesting its own corrupted data--until the AI purveyors will have no choice but to use AI-free content, which it at first it was. As time goes on, finding AI-untouched data will be as difficult to find--as vintage wine without isotopes from nuclear tests.
Why ever would computer bugs be called, "hallucinations?" In reference to a comparison to the human intelligence of a six year old human, why are we being told that we just have to redefine intelligence in favor of the marketer's of AI? If AI is not really intelligent, nor is it mortal, nor feeling, nor capable of empathy, living or dying--then why ever should it be allowed to say, "I" Why should we allow it.
What future will anyone have if anything they really wanted to do when you--could be mimicked and sold by the ill-gotten work of others?
Could local, open-source, AI software be the only answer to dishearten billionaire companies from taking and selling back to their customers--everything we have done? Could we not...instead--steal their dream!
Submission + - Is it time for a change in Gnome leadership?
BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux-desktop flame--by not abandoning the desktop and laptop computers. Yes there are other desktop GUIs, such as Mate, and the lightweight Xfce, which are a valuable option resources and a low overhead are important, such as LinuxCNC. However in the general public lies a great expanse of office workers who need a full-featured Linux desktop. The programmers who work on Gnome and its family of supporting applications enrich many other desktops do their more than their share, and these faithful deserve better user-interface leadership. Gnome has tried to lead Gnome into tablet waters, which is admirable, but Gnome 3.x diminished the desktop experience for both laptop and desktop users, aside. For instance, the moment you design what should be a graphical user interface with word such as "Activities," you ask people to change horses midstream. That is not to state that command--line and GUI cannot live together--because they can work well, as they do in many CAD programs. I remember a time when Gnome ruled the Linux desktop--and I can remember when Gnome left those users behind. Perhaps in a future, Gnome could come back to the Linux desktop and join forces with those Cinnamon--so that we may again have the year of the Linux desktop.
Submission + - Firefox Still Tracking Usage (mozilla.org)
BrendaEM writes: To put this setting on by default diminishes privacy. Yes, confirmed, tracking still set on by default. There is still no single-click option to protect SSDs and NMMe's exists in Firefox. There is still no equal to Scrapbook.
https://support.mozilla.org/en...
https://support.mozilla.org/en...
Submission + - Tuxguitar Given New Lease on Life (tuxguitar.app)
BrendaEM writes: Tuxguitar, the beloved free and open-sourced guitar tablature editor and music-trainer has a new website, a new source repository, and a recent release.
Website: https://www.tuxguitar.app/
Repository: https://github.com/helge17/tux...
Website: https://www.tuxguitar.app/
Repository: https://github.com/helge17/tux...
Submission + - Happy 24th Birthday Firefox Bug 56788! (mozilla.org) 2
BrendaEM writes: The average American Marrage is 14.5 years; bug 56788 is nearly 10 years older, at twenty-four years!
Ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
Ref: https://www.census.gov/newsroo...
Ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
Ref: https://www.census.gov/newsroo...
Submission + - Since the Demise of Atom, Pulsar Offers an Alterative Code Editor (pulsar-edit.dev)
BrendaEM writes: From their website: "Pulsar, or sometimes referred to as Pulsar-Edit is a new image of the beloved 'Hackable Text Editor' Atom.
After the announcement of Atom's sunset, the community came together to keep Atom alive via the longstanding fork Atom-Community.
However, due to differences in long-term goals for the editor, a new version was born: Pulsar.
Pulsar aims to not only reach feature parity with the original Atom, but to bring Pulsar into the 21st century by updating the underlying architecture, and supporting modern features."
Link: https://pulsar-edit.dev/
After the announcement of Atom's sunset, the community came together to keep Atom alive via the longstanding fork Atom-Community.
However, due to differences in long-term goals for the editor, a new version was born: Pulsar.
Pulsar aims to not only reach feature parity with the original Atom, but to bring Pulsar into the 21st century by updating the underlying architecture, and supporting modern features."
Link: https://pulsar-edit.dev/
Submission + - Ukraine Might Have Leaked Data on 120,000 Russian Soldiers (theregister.com)
Submission + - Is nVidia Support for Older 3D Games Fading? (ttlg.com)
BrendaEM writes: "A thread on Through the Looking Glass depicts the plight of fans of the original Thief Series and System Shock 2, who are asking nVidia fix rendering issues these 3D 16-bit games on their newer video cards and drivers. In the case of the original Thief series, in which the games build tension by their use of light and shadow, the rendering has been badly degraded from that which was originally intended.
In another Slashdot article, the author asked the question whether or not video games were art. If one of the greatest video games of all time, with a growing wealth of hundreds of fan produced missions, as well as an entire full-sized expansion, does not play well because legacy support diminishes, then what will happen to lesser 3D video games?
A new petition has been started to try to ask nVidia to fix the issues on the newer cards and drivers."
In another Slashdot article, the author asked the question whether or not video games were art. If one of the greatest video games of all time, with a growing wealth of hundreds of fan produced missions, as well as an entire full-sized expansion, does not play well because legacy support diminishes, then what will happen to lesser 3D video games?
A new petition has been started to try to ask nVidia to fix the issues on the newer cards and drivers."
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