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To be precise it's true for GNOME-related stuff since GTK doesn't support native fractional scaling.
Qt apps support it and in Plasma apps can advertise their native support so that Plasma stops using for them the workaround in the article.
I see a lot of people with this idea still around... would you mind starting to put it into practice? /s
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@ivory @elk @pinafore A really interesting side-effect of playing with all of these clients is seeing how they all experiment with different UX patterns for the same Mastodon features. Even when Mastodon features are similar to #birdsite, the UX of these apps is sometimes wildly divergent. A young ecosystem, I'm excited to see what patterns emerge.
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I don't feel as strongly about quote posts as I did in 2018. Personally, I am not a fan, but there is clearly a lot of demand for it. We're considering it.
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In the opposite direction there are logos like the ones by Podman, Buildah etc. I find it impossible to make small monocrome versions of these.
It's useful for a lot of other things, you people are stuck to the exact thing it is not meant to do
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@JamesGleick @peachfront No, those numbers didn't have to come from somewhere. It's doing pattern matching (though on a much grander scale than your usual Markov chain), and it's filling in a slot for "number goes here". It mash be doing better than that --- it may know the scale of the kind of numbers to be found in similar documents, but that doesn't really mean the numbers "come from somewhere"
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@jmbinder @JamesGleick @peachfront People have come to treat it as an oracle, but it's not fundamentally a knowledge database that contains facts and details. It's fundamentally a language model. (That happens to accidentally remember stuff.) If you *gave* it a document that contained the knowledge you were seeking to analyze, you could ask it to extract the relevant facts. But when we ask it whether it happens to remember a fact, we're inviting it to hallucinate.
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Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think.
-- Noam Chomsky
In the fantasy world of mainstream media this would be a good thing but in the real world what US/UK are doing to Assange makes everything looks hypocritical.
And sadly people with visibility like actors 1) are not informed 2) care too much about their career to speak.
Mastodon only implements AP's server-server protocol, not the client-server one.
There has been a standard way to do quotes for a while and implemented by many instances and other federated services, it's just that the original Mastodon code resists adding it for all.
On instances not supporting quotes they appear as normal toots but with a link to the quoted toot.
For example on qoto.org quotes are pretty normal, I forgot others can't do those until I saw this wave of new users complaining.
Maybe just move to an instance that better fits your needs and leave others enjoying their plain links.
Yes, we are here to follow people. For topics there are ad-hoc platforms, like #Lemmy, that is like Reddit but federated with the rest of the Fediverse.
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Carl Sagan passed away #OTD in 1996. In his final interviews he left us with two messages that are even more relevant today: one emphasizing the importance of a science literate public, the other a warning about how hard it is to extract ourselves when we’ve been conned.
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Luke Dash, one core developers of Bitcoin just got all his Bitcoins stolen.
But let's pretend anyone can safely store their life savings in crypto.
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Thought Leaders: "Programming will be obsolete within 5 years. All business software will be generated by AIs"
Actual Businesses: "actually we're mainly still on-premise, running on Windows Server 2003 and VBScript ASP, but our two-year plan to migrate everything into a cloud kicked off in 2015 and we're making steady progress."
Hi, the word you are looking for may be demagogy.
Populism was a dispregiative term from élites toward democratic movements. Only recently in mass culture the term populism is used as a synonim of demagogy.
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Short and sweet anti-crypto documentary.
This was an hour well spent. Well written, hits all the important points, and a great launching pad for anyone to ask follow up questions.
Good video to share with family and friends, and warn them of this high tech scam.
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If you're excited that things are entering the #PublicDomain — which you should be! — perhaps it's worth considering reforming copyright.
In many places currently it's 70 years after the death of the author, or longer. This is insanity.
An important piece of culture made by a young author could be locked behind copyright (with rights usually held by publishers, not authors themselves anyway) for over a *century*.
That's how you get #Disney to own almost everything.
Reform #copyright!
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