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- on Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI - Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
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on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
it’s very reasonable that it’s the child’s acquaintances spending 100k
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on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
Linkedin has been writing like this for a decade
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on The state of European cloud providers in 2026 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
anybody have a similar list for blog hosts somewhere
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
beep boop
that wasn’t the point either…
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
oligarch owned
literally false. the guardian is the only independent outlet out there that does not give profit to shareholders. they are known for their bylaws independent finances.
how do you want them to have it “pulled apart”? the #1 rule of writing says that if something is ridiculous, you don’t need to say so, not to mention news writing is not meant to editorialize.
edit: new→news
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
That’s not the point. Using AI generates much weaker rhetoric when lawyers’ job is to persuade. The AI voice is not good (and FWIW your last paragraph sounds that way ).
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026
i don’t get this claim.
- why NPR? why all that work just to get into NPR? they’re not prestigious at all. they’re the chronically underfunded local news source.
- i’ve never heard of Leonard D. Shapiro before. it sounds like he’s just an average computer scientist who actually did research. being “professor emeritus of computer science at Portland State University” is not a brag; i don’t see “influential” at all. it looks like his article was only created by somebody searching up things about Ari Shapiro.
- i just searched up probably the biggest NPR journalist, Nell Greenfieldboyce, and she’s got absolutely nothing mentioned in parentage.
- nine out of ten times i search up a NYT author i can’t find anything wikipedia-level about their parents.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
No.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
every new phone back then was actually new. the ideas for n900 (and all its radical changes, radical as in for the n800 not for the industry) were clearly about the iphone. i’ll agree that the n800 was not.
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on Counter-Therapism Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026
Google Scholar is scholar.google.com.
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on Counter-Therapism Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026
That’s why writing meta-analyses is considered quite the task and why scientists only get to write them by invitation.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Being able to browse songs by album/artist (the sole focus of the Creative patent dispute) doesn’t seem to be a major factor for the iPod (or its success, disregarding marketing). The innovations were elsewhere.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
the n900’s changes to the n800 were modeled on the iPhone. the n800 is completely different: for one, the touch screen is activated by pressure, not touch. Are you arguing that the n800 is better than the iPhone 1?
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on Counter-Therapism Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
That’s why meta-analyses are so important. They look at every attempt at studying said thing and see whether it worked significantly more times than it didn’t, and why people don’t just cite a single study as conclusive evidence.
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on Counter-Therapism Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
How about this?
Method: Thirty-four CBTp trials with data in the public domain were used as source data for a meta-analysis and investigation of the effects of trial methodology using the Clinical Trial Assessment Measure (CTAM).
Results: There were overall beneficial effects for the target symptom (33 studies; effect size = 0.400 [95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.252, 0.548]) as well as significant effects for positive symptoms (32 studies), negative symptoms (23 studies), functioning (15 studies), mood (13 studies), and social anxiety (2 studies) with effects ranging from 0.35 to 0.44. However, there was no effect on hopelessness. Improvements in one domain were correlated with improvements in others. Trials in which raters were aware of group allocation had an inflated effect size of approximately 50%-100%. But rigorous CBTp studies showed benefit (estimated effect size = 0.223; 95% CI = 0.017, 0.428) although the lower end of the CI should be noted. Secondary outcomes (eg, negative symptoms) were also affected such that in the group of methodologically adequate studies the effect sizes were not significant.
This is the “Wykes and colleagues (2008)” cited in the first sentence. The only reason your example paragraph sounds like that is because everything it wants to say has indeed already been written.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
The [Creative] Zen patent (6,928,433) covers the aspect of the user interface where a user can select at least one track in an MP3 player using at least three screens to browse for that track in a hierarchical method. As the Creative press release states: “One example would be the sequence of screens that could display artists, then albums, and then tracks. When the user selects an artist, the player displays a list of albums for that artist. Selection of one of the listed albums then displays a list of tracks on the album.”
I don’t think Apple stole UI from Creative.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Apple found that existing digital music players were either “big and clunky” or “small and useless” with user interfaces that were “unbelievably awful”.[10]
The iPod wheel is pretty iconic.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
the n900 was released two years after the iphone. it was modeled on the iphone from the start, like the entire industry was. (and the n900 still didn’t support multi-touch, which Apple patented.)
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
you’re mostly right, but OSM does have local overrides.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
could you elaborate on “buggiest”?
i love Safari due to how little memory and battery it uses
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Why are those controls up there
FWIW you can swipe down on the home indicator (the strip at the bottom of the screen) to bring the screen down
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on consent rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026
could you tell me how what I wrote sounds like AI? again, I have always maintained (proper attribution) that the list from one to ten I copied from Wikipedia. that part sounds slightly more like AI because AI trained on that, but I don’t see why someone summarizing a song while avoiding violating copyright (for a Wikipedia article) sounds like AI.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
in april 2021, they were purchased by MuseScore;
a few weeks later, they announced that they would introduce Google Analytics and Yandex-based “telemetry”. After strong criticism by the community, Muse Group backtracked, emphasized their commitment to the GPL license, dropped their plans to include Google/Yandex tracking, and instead opted for a self-hosted solution for bug reports and update checks. Both can be disabled, and some distributions disable them by default.
that one was a nothingburger imo as it was always opt-in, was never merged, and planned to only be in testing builds
in july they proposed and then backtracked on a baffling new privacy policy and said they had really overzealous lawyers that they somehow mistrusted lawyers doing so “out of an abundance of caution”, which resolves the issue in my books—within two weeks, which is why i’m not absolving them, but it’s been five years since 2021 and absolutely no nonsense has happened.
in fact, audacity has since gained a ton of productivity improvements, outlined in the video youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38 that does have a conflict of interest
tl;dr: i still support audacity
receipts: github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889 , github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353, and everything these link
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
It’s much better than mspaint now but still as snappy. I think they removed overwriting the track while recording, though.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Most Audacity users use Windows.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Audacity has no telemetry, unless opt-out update checking counts.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
What does 3.x/4.0 have to do with that? That was 3.x, and local too.
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
The new playback engine is proprietary; you need to download MuseSounds to use it. It does sound good FWIW and many use MuseScore 4 as a primitive DAW 😬
I personally enjoyed the UX and engraving changes. Said designer also introduced draggable sound clips to Audacity 3 so I trust him on design.
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on consent rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
i’m not using AI 😭 your comment makes it sound like the duel itself and not the preparation has nine stages, and that it only stops with death when they just fire
I’m a bit confused about your second paragraph. I am talking about Ten Duel Commandments from the musical Hamilton. The list is Wikipedia’s summary of the number/song.
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on consent rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
This is a misinterpretation of “Ten Duel Commandments”, which does not mention a 10-step nor a 9-stage approach for the duel itself, but the process of setting it up, of which at any point one may chicken out. The segment’s formulation of the process as ten points (which I’ll reproduce here from Wikipedia) is original but apparently does nicely sum up the rules:
- Demand satisfaction. No dueling is necessary if they apologize.
- If they do not apologize, choose someone to act as your second, your lieutenant.
- Have your seconds negotiate a resolution, or the location and date for the duel.
- If a duel is settled, choose your weapons and have a doctor present.
- Duel before dawn.
- Write a note for your next of kin.
- Confess your sins.
- Once again, have your seconds attempt to negotiate peace.
- Aim no higher than the dueler’s eye.
- Count ten paces, then fire.
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on I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
They already have. github.com/orgs/…/repositories
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on I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
The app is from the government and open source at every endpoint. You can see for yourself that it doesn’t track activity.
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on Ruleformers in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
That’s only because you have to fill out a form to change it and there’s very little benefit: nobody automatically sees your passport above your head.
I know it’s not your intention, but I find it quite offensive that you imply we are ashamed of our traditional names, when we are borderline forced to take a different one and assimilate.
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on The cure! in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
conversion therapy:
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on YOLO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
why mint in particular lol
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on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 Aug 2026
i mean, we did do that back then. everybody got social safety nets, the berlin wall fell as certainly one way to end an arms race, the nations united against the ozone hole. but now we’re past another 1969 with gaza as our new vietnam
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on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
what’s wrong with such a fully local application?
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
yeah, my point is that was never the concern of such people
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
no, because their ad blocker is still working
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on Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Gadget Review almost certainly uses LLMs to generate their articles.
(dear mods: this is what i meant to put as the report reason before clicking the wrong button, sorry)
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
that’s why the law shouldn’t apply to just generation. as long as something is delivered (even if over the internet) to EU places, then the EU law mandating AI labels applies.
it’s not