Comment Re: Tempest, meet teapot (Score 1) 121
I guess you're a dog person.
Comment Re:ADSB? (Score 1) 34
Weather balloons usually have a radar reflectors so that airplanes can detect them.
They also know their altitude and latitude + longitude, which they transmit to the ground. That could optionally be transmitted to the air control.
Comment Re:Old news? (Score 2) 34
Yes, they really dropped the balloon on this one: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/...
Comment Re:"aims for functional parity" (Score 4, Informative) 83
Exactly, and there's even a graph of the compatibility over time: https://github.com/uutils/core...
Comment Galaxy AI (Score 1) 24
I guess Samsung will stop using Gemini AI for its Galaxy AI.
Comment Re:Hard to believe (Score 1) 133
From the summary: "The phones sell for up to $5,000 in China because Chinese network providers do not subscribe to the international blacklist for stolen devices."
I have a difficult time believing that sort of price.
Would you believe $30? https://youtu.be/Kbti-RGSVrg?t...
Comment Re:AI is a infinite wiki (Score 1) 92
Can I assume you've read Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia??
Comment Re:AI for search (Score 1) 92
Your link doesn't start well with "(...) in the race to artificial general intelligence – which looks likely to arrive this decade, maybe this year. Brace.".
But your queries about jokes do work like you say.
What's also kind of funny is that "Tell a joke featuring Jesus.", whereas "tell me a joke about jesus" triggers the filter even if each of them is the first and only query.
Comment Re:Project Torbernite (Score 1) 92
Anubis forces AI crawlers to work to get to the content.
Comment Pirates tend to hold a knife between their teeth (Score 1) 46
What Sony is talking about is copyright infringement.
Comment Re:earlyoom sucks (Score 1) 187
You should be using zram-generator if you need swap.
I also suggest using scx_lavd as SCX_SCHEDULER (and enabling scx).
Comment Re:Part of this decline is all MBA-driven (Score 1) 187
The Linux oom_killer is really, really bad.
Fixed that for you. What you really want is earlyoom.
Comment Re:No Google (Score 1) 45
It's a Firefox setting, not a Google Chrome setting. And you can already enable it with Firefox 143.
Comment Nice! (smart quotes) (Score 1) 184
âoeIf you're going to be in tech
Even Slashdot editors get bitten by the smart quotes bug.
Maybe it's time to implement an auto replace to standard quotes?
In the mean time, the settings are still in System Settings > Keyboard > Text Input > Edit (global) or Edit > Substitutions or Preferences > Autocorrection menu (app specific).
Comment Re:Everyone start handing out DVDs and USBs of Lin (Score 2) 137
For that specific issue:
(message from 2020)
"Starting with Linux Mint 19.2, the Update Manager can be configured to uninstall obsolete kernels from your system in regular intervals.
The relevant setting can be found and enabled in Update Manager -> Edit -> Preferences -> Automation tab.
For more details see this webpage, section "Update Manager": New features in Linux Mint 19.2"
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