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Comment Re:AI for search (Score 1) 89

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 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"

Comment Re:Fsck their fules. (Score 2) 37

I forgot to mention that when an article gets deleted, you can ask for it to get restored in a subpage of your user page. Even years after the deletion. It's actually straightforward and automatically granted as I discovered a few years ago.
If you can manage to prove its notability and find good sources, you can then submit it for review.

Comment Re:Fsck their fules. (Score 2) 37

NUTS does have a mention on the Talker article.
The content of the article is saved on Fandom. It has (only) two sources.
But when you say that "the author of the code wrote the majority of it", I'm guessing you mean the article? The thing is that even if Einstein wrote the article about the theory of relativity, it wouldn't be accepted without reliable secondary sources. Which means not his own website.

Comment Re:Wikipedia "editors" are you and me (Score 1) 59

You're talking about admins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those are Wikipedia contributors (aka editors) "who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the English Wikipedia. These include the ability to block and unblock user accounts, IP addresses, and IP ranges from editing".

They're elected by the Wikipedia contributors. So if fewer people on the right-wing contribute to Wikipedia, it'll result in less of them being elected as admins.

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