the leap from “lower factual error rates than an equally-prompted baseline without retrieval (as judged by an external LLM)” to “enables trustworthy, cross-domain scientific synthesis at scale and establishes the foundation for an ever-expanding encyclopedia”

The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos so I certainly wouldn’t suggest that anyone should pay them for anything.

I do often use archive.is (which, FWIW, is “privately funded” by a person unknown and in 2025 still says in its FAQ “With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.”) and it is certainly useful but via Tor or a VPN it often requires solving multiple recaptcha (google) captchas so it is not my first choice for bypassing paywalls.

I am curious why @rossome@lemmy.ml got redirected to the MSN home page though; for me (with ads blocked by ublock origin) the page is loading just fine.

I linked the MSN syndicated version because the washingtonpost is often paywalled or broken in other ways. (When I load this article there currently I am getting only the first paragraph of the article, with no indication that there is actually more.)

Bespoke is a synthesizer first but “like a DAW in some ways, but with less of a focus on a global timeline. Instead, it has a design more optimized for jamming and exploration.” (youtube trailer, wiki, wikipedia)

“But you can’t copy with Ctrl+C, it’s…” - You can. When something is selected It copies selection to clipboard, otherwise it sends SIGINT.

What terminal emulator are you using where ctrl-c copies instead of sending SIGINT when text is selected? In every one I’ve ever used, ctrl-c still sends SIGINT even with text selected (and one must must use ctrl-shift-C/ctrl-shift-V to copy/paste).

I don’t have any suggestion for getting the behavior you’re asking for, but besides the normal ctrl-(shift)-C/V clipboard FYI you also have two other types of clipboard-like things: one which works anywhere (not only in the terminal) and is actually always automatically copying anything you select and lets you paste from it with middle click (this originated with X Windows but i think most Wayland compositors have also implemented it by now), and another which is found in GNU Readline (used by bash and numerous other REPLs) called the “kill buffer” which can be pasted (or “yanked”) from and cut (or “killed”) to using Emacs keyboard shortcuts (which also include various cursor movement controls).

Notes:

• the kill buffer is local to a given readline context, it’s not shared across different shell windows.
• the list of emacs keybindings in that wikipedia article i linked is currently confusingly referring to the kill buffer as “the clipboard”
• you can drastically reconfigure your readline keybindings and other behavior by editing your .inputrc file, but you cannot achieve what you were originally asking for because there is no concept of text selection in readline.

HTH!

It is not superintelligence.

It’s common intelligence at scale.

no, it really isn’t. if you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe Yann LeCun? (often called one of the “godfathers of AI”)

I suppose it runs on an Arm-Processor

It would be odd if a device labeled “Wintel Pro” had an arm CPU.

Wintel means Windows on Intel, or more broadly Windows on any x86 or x86_64 processor.

the info line contains the answer:

Info: applications using this runtime: io.github.Hexchat

You need to remove Hexchat if you want to remove the end-of-life runtimes it requires.

I regret to inform you that the maintainer wrote in February 2024: This will be the last release I make of HexChat. The project has largely been unmaintained for years now and nobody else stepped up to do that work.

My computer uses both system and user remotes.

Because my .var directory is almost full, […]

If you’re low on disk space you probably want to have everything installed as either user or system, to avoid having some runtimes installed in both.

it’s “open core”.

Gitea has gone open core; it is still free software but its development is controlled by a for-profit company which is developing non-free features. So, Forgejo is the community-run fork of it which people outside the Gitea company are contributing to instead now. You can read more about their divergence here.

Authorities don’t need to ask Signal for metadata; Signal promises they don’t log any themselves and that is probably true.

But, they outsource their server operation to Jeff Bezos, and then they do some absurd security theater to pretend that cryptography makes it so that the server (Amazon) couldn’t possibly log metadata - which is obviously false.

in the computing context, “lock-in” is shorthand for vendor lock-in.

How exactly do they hope to lock devs in github??? That’s absurd, there’s no way they can achieve that. I can always take my projects elsewhere and there’s nothing they can do to stop me.

I can’t tell if you’re joking? If not, what do you think “lock-in” actually means?

It doesn’t mean that it is impossible to leave, it means that there is substantial switching cost. And, that is certainly the case for github-hosted projects: all active contributors need to make a new account somewhere else, issues and discussions need to be migrated, CI workflows typically need to be rewritten, and good luck finding something that gives as much free compute for CI as github does. Yes, it’s easy to mirror a git repo onto another service, but github is much much more than just git repo hosting and each of their features have their own switching cost.

Also, OP actually said “lock devs in” rather than “lock projects in” - I actually am forced to have a github account if i want to contribute to projects which refuse to move their issues off of it 😢 … and the difficulty in creating new accounts anonymously these days prevents me from contributing to several things (lemmy, for instance) which i otherwise would.

No evidence of this happened. Blocked.

lol what? it is a pretty well-sourced article, with the main source being remarks in a video which it helpfully links to.

it is 10h long but on youtube one can search the transcript and easily find the parts that form the basis of this article: here are Secretary Burgum’s comments and here is Porat referencing them later.

if they do something, it’s not in your interest

this is often true, but sometimes (like in this case) they are actually doing things that are in (almost) everyone’s interest: making browsers more secure 🙄

(see my other comment in this thread for details)

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fuck google generally, but in this case that mastodon post’s characterization that “Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion” is not accurate - lots of people in that thread are in favor of removing it and those who aren’t aren’t making a strong case to keep it.

imo client-side XSLT never needed to be implemented; afaict its primary use is styling RSS feeds and I doubt many people ever actually read RSS feeds styled that way even if millions of feeds are/were.

tldr: This obscure “feature” is a significant source of vulnerabilities which attackers are able to compromise endpoints with right now. The GNOME project’s libxslt is used by all modern browsers and has been largely unmaintained for a long time, and it is a pretty sure bet that it has lots more remotely-exploitable bugs (in addition to those which have already been discovered and not yet fixed, or for which fixes are not yet widely distributed).

it sounds like there is also a mostly-working JS replacement for this C++ code; if it is actually possible to ship that and avoid breaking any sites it would be preferable, but, otherwise, i for one would certainly be in favor of dropping browsers’ XSLT support (which was only ever for XSLT 1.0 anyway!) completely ASAP.

CoMaps is “offline-first” and they’re working on a deskop version, but it is alpha right now and they don’t appear to be distributing binaries of it (the desktop version) yet so you’ll need to compile it yourself. There are instructions here. I haven’t tried it yet myself but I think it looks promising!

Another option is to run CoMaps, OsmAnd, or another Android app under Waydroid.

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Distrowatch is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Distrowatch community […]