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Saying that ChatGPT "can't yet provide reliably correct answers to questions" is like saying your cat can't yet provide reliable services as a paralegal. You can't solve that task mismatch with a better cat

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L O FUCKING L

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Der Buchdruck hat der Menschheit einen Gutenberg Arbeit erspart.

doesn't help that mine desperately needs a new drivetrain and I don't know if I trust myself to install a new one, I've only swapped the chain so far. It's an internal-gear hub though so it shouldn't be that complicated or expensive

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ugh YouTube has been recommending mountain bikers to me and a friend has been gushing about his new gravel bike and I really gotta stop myself from researching fancy bikes now

squircles are the best icon shape and it's not even close, Nokia used to have it figured out

(though I'm also a fan of not having an enforced icon shape at all)

  • ignore the missing images, that's on me
  • the German translation is missing strings (wtf? Eugen is German)
  • wtf are these buttons
  • still no public timelines
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lol the official Mastodon app is still a joke, now with an extremely bad understanding of Material You and "verified link" surfaced in search and stuff

unfortunate that awoospace's object storage situation is still not sorted out

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no online platform lasts forever. except maybe secondlife

twitter is a shitshow and cohost isn't handling it well. really annoying when the website disappears while you're writing a post ngl

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Logging on to Mastodon… I think I will read six hundred posts today. Perhaps I shall even indulge myself and read six hundred and one

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No assets and doesn't compile, but someone's made the original Far Cry source available:

archive.org/details/far-cry-1.

I think Android 14's share sheet is a bit wonky

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absolutely fucking inexcusable that a TECHNICAL REFERENCE, perhaps among the MOST-USED IN THE WORLD, would staple on a gibberish machine without ever once considering "hmm what if it says things that are wrong"

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mdn added an "ai explain" button to code blocks and i am fucking seething but also trying not to let it leak out too much in this bug report github.com/mdn/yari/issues/920

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PSA: if Google Meet doesn't have working screen-sharing for you in Chromium on Debian, change your user agent (in DevTools -> Network Conditions) to Microsoft Edge (Chromium) and it works.

this happens due to an anticompetitive measure by Google, namely the forced use of the Google-specific Hangouts extension by Meet screensharing on non-Edge-branded Chromium

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