Combating artificial intelligence with natural stupidity.

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Cake day: September 13th, 2024

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  • Your life in plain .md files.

    Why not just, you know, actual plain .md files and your directory navigator and text editor of choice (often the ones that that already come with your Linux distro)? Or code editor if you want them together? Don’t forget the terminal if you want to go even simpler. Always worked for me, I don’t even use the formatted view half the time because *this* already conveys the same information as this in my mind. Hell throw a git repo in there and you have better version control than full office suites.

    I honestly think the fancy wrappers around Markdown files defeat the elegant minimalism of using Markdown in the first place. I’ve always found my favourite “feature” of Markdown is that you don’t need to install anything.






  • Tl;DR

    Yet, Dolby’s lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware [PDF] alleges that AV1 leverages technologies that Dolby has patented and has not agreed to license for free and without receiving royalties. The filing reads:

    [AOMedia] does not own all patents practiced by implementations of the AV1 codec. Rather, the AV1 specification was developed after many foundational video coding patents had already been filed, and AV1 incorporates technologies that are also present in HEVC. Those technologies are subject to existing third-party patent rights and associated licensing obligations.









  • I’m on Fennec F-Droid which already had it for a while. From my initial experience, this is less ergonomic because I now have to stretch my thumb across the screen to get to some of the options, whereas the old menu kept all the options closer to the right side of the screen where I could more easily reach one handed without shifting my hand.



  • It can be taken out if, 1, you know it exists (is it documented?), 2, you know how to program (is it configurable through the normal instance setup or do you have to sift through the code and then maintain your own fork with it removed?). Sure seems like being able to take it out is a side effect of it being open source and was not intended to be configurable. If that’s your bar then any feature you don’t like in any fediverse platform “can be taken out.” You’re talking as if it was explicitly made to be taken out.

    Also, it doesn’t just detect 4chan pictures. It MASSIVELY overblocks. This is Lemmy’s slur filter blocking “fire removedant” but on steroids. Tell me again how Pifed is the “anti authoritarian” Lemmy.