HumbleHobo
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Any recommendations for free software backup programs that work on Windows?English
3·2 years agoYou’ll need to think of “backup” as a different thing if you are looking at the free space. For instance, I can backup my data onto discs, but it costs buying discs. I can also make lots of copies of my images and videos automatically using SyncThing (which is open source), but it requires multiple computers to really be considered a “backup”.
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World News@beehaw.org•Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging PutinEnglish
11·2 years agoDid people really think a dictator would let a silly thing like an election get in the way of his ambition for power? It’s hilarious that people thought Putin would give up his power without violence. The only way Putin will ever leave power is through violence. Look at those gigantic tables he sits at. Putin knows how “popular” he is, even in his own country.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that wayEnglish
5·2 years agoThis is one reason I have a “hibernate” shortcut on my desktop so I don’t have to deal with the hassle of having to hunt for that button.
If you are curious, creating your own hibernate shortcut on windows is easy:
- Right click desktop
- Select new > shortcut
- Copy this into the shortcut: “C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /h” obviously replace C:\Windows\ with the installation drive/folder on your machine.
- (Optional: Change the icon for the shortcut to a useful picture)
- Done
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Science@beehaw.org•1 in 50 Million Chance: US Woman With Rare Double Uterus Is Pregnant in BothEnglish
3·2 years agoI can’t be the only one who read that article and didn’t cringe a bit at the end. The woman thinks she is going to get through best care possible and she lives in Alabama, where they are currently shutting down maternity units: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/in-alabama-three-maternity-units-will-stop-delivering-babies-heres-why-it-puts-women-at-risk/ar-AA1ifxW3
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•*Permanently Deleted*English
6·2 years agoMy only thoughts are about abuse, have the devs thought about how to limit abuse of a tagging system?
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Open Source alternative to IFTTT?English
8·2 years agoI found that IFTTT has integrations for hardware and software that doesn’t always have a clear public API that can replace it. I would like to be proved wrong on this because I’m definitely using IFTTT and would love to replace it. But it’s pretty useful still.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Stanford University just schooled Congress on AI
10·2 years agoIs it just me, or does that archive link just not work? Thank god for Firefox Reader mode.
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U.S. News@beehaw.org•‘Everything was gone’: Residents describe brush fire that tore through Lahaina
3·2 years agoLook at the wasteland it left in Lahaina https://www.reddit.com/gallery/15ms64p
So we have techno-luddites deciding that we have to shun all browser advancements because they can be used for evil? Seriously? You can use a car for evil, you can use money for evil. JavaScript and CSS are perfectly cromulent technologies that serve perfectly useful functions. Let’s see an HTML-only site build a custom pizza order or let’s see an HTML-only site crop and fit an uploaded picture into a profile picture.
We shouldn’t be condemning technology, we should be condemning the uses of it that create the hellscapes that we all hate. If anything, the creators should be advocating for some means of truce with advertisers so that regular users can get some peace from disruptive ads.
I understand the frustration being leveled at general web pages though. And I’m not a moron and I understand that there is no way to speak to advertisers in general, like there is no way to seek general consensus on what users (both power and technical) want from their web experience. But I feel like we’ve all gone into our separate camps and assumed that there’s no way to reach common ground.
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Technology@beehaw.org•No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators
6·2 years agoI’ll be honest, that matches my own patterns myself. I use Reddit for some of the niche communities that don’t exist here yet, but eventually they will exist here I hope. I still have two separate accounts here for maintaining the least privilege principle you are doing too.
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Technology@beehaw.org•No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators
12·2 years agoYou’re not wrong, but it is definitely getting better. I think the organization of Lemmy takes some getting used to, and as well, I think finding new places to look on Lemmy isn’t quite as easy as Reddit is, which might be an area that the software could improve a bit.
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Technology@beehaw.org•No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators
126·2 years agoIt’s a lot of abuse to take, I’m kind of surprised more redditors haven’t jumped ship. It’s so much cozier here on lemmy, I just think maybe redditors have no idea what the water is like over here and so they haven’t even dipped a toe into any alternatives.
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U.S. News@beehaw.org•7 Republican AGs write to Target, say Pride month campaigns could violate their state’s child protection laws
3·2 years agoThis is infuriating as fuck that Republicans are just allowed to abandon any presumption of governing and just subject citizens to these endless campaigns of outrage that always seem to end up putting some group of people in the crosshairs. I am really tired of politicians being allowed to waste tax dollars on this meaningless bullshit. You should not be allowed to go after any specific group of citizens for pursuing “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.
I want these cruel crooks to be punished for their constant culture war battles.
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Chat@beehaw.org•i just wanted to say that this website is absolutely wonderful i love everyone here ^^English
1·2 years agoHi there, love you too!
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World News@beehaw.org•Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study findsEnglish
1·2 years agoWe could get by with our current system we have, simply change the tax system to tax profit way more, so that it’s impossible to become a billionaire. And all that money is used to keep everyone housed, fed, and healthy. The people that want to abuse people for profit won’t have anyone to abuse anymore because people won’t be forced to work in unfair jobs with unfair wages. Wages will rise to natural level to meet what people think those jobs are worth doing. Some companies will find this unsustainable and will go away, and good riddance.
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World News@beehaw.org•Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds
3·2 years agoA lot of people probably already knew this, but it’s useful to have studies like this to shove in the face of the “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” crowd. It’s frustrating because we can change this, we don’t have to accept a society that simply revolves around “Whoever makes the most money gets to make the rules”.
I, personally, would like a society that cherishes camaraderie and compassion while also rewarding innovation and talent. There are too many people who believe in this zero-sum game that seems to pit everyone against everyone in this race to gather the most wealth; this is why we’re all struggling, because rich people have gathered the most wealth, and they are trying to protect it at all costs by using the wealth to control the rules that control how they gained the wealth to begin with. It’s all awful and we need to change it now.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down - gHacks Tech NewsEnglish
1·2 years agoWhere is DataHoarders representation here on Lemmy?? Anyone know?





That sounds like a great idea for making an intelligent agent inside a video game, where you control all aspects of it’s environment. But what about an AI that you want to be able to interact with our current shared reality. If I want to know something that involves synthesis of multiple modalities of knowledge how should that information be conveyed? Do humans grow up inside test tubes that only consume content that they themselves have created? Can you imagine the strange society we would have if people were unleashed upon the world without having any shared experiences until they were fully adults?
I think the OpenAI people have a point here, but I think where they go off the rails is that they expect all of this copyrighted information to be granted to them at zero cost and with zero responsibility to the creators of said content.