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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
  • It's weirdly difficult to remap the "office" key so that pressing it won't open an ad for ms office 365 and pressing office+L won't open linkedin.com, and a few more equally valuable core OS features.

    In the end I just had to grab a small bit of C code from GitHub, compile it, move the exe to the startup folder, have Windows Defender yell at me for having obviously installed a particularly nasty brand of trojan, and make Windows Defender put the executive I had just compiled back.

    But really, I deserve this for using a Microsoft natural keyboard in the first place.

  • Show off your Android: the Home Sweet Home(screen) Edition!
  • Pixel 7 with a barely customized Nova Launcher, because I'm basic but I need rounded square icons.
    The background looks iffy in the shot, but it's a live wallpaper from Shader Editor running Machine DNA's GLSL shader with minimal tweaks needed to make it fit on the phone.
    That weird twitter icon is a Firefox PWA running twitter.com with various userscripts installed, to remove antifeatures and bad logos.

  • Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?
  • Next (2007), starring the One True God, alongside Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel.

    It's a brilliant movie (loosely) based on a Philip K Dick short story. It's been nominated and won actual awards (Worst Actor and Worst Supporting Actress from the prestigious Razzie Awards, Worst Foreign Actor from the Yoga Awards), and it stands the test of time comfortably at 28% on the tomatometer.

    I wish I was kidding. I've watched this over a dozen times. I can't stop. Send help.

  • raw man files?
  • You can list every man page installed on your system with man -k . , or just apropos .
    But that's a lot of random junk. If you only want "executable programs or shell commands", only grab man pages in section 1 with a apropos -s 1 .

    You can get the path of a man page by using whereis -m pwd (replace pwd with your page name.)

    You can convert a man page to html with man2html (may require apt get man2html or whatever equivalent applies to your distro.)
    That tool adds a couple of useless lines at the beginning of each file, so we'll want to pipe its output into a | tail +3 to get rid of them.

    Combine all of these together in a questionable incantation, and you might end up with something like this:

    mkdir -p tmp ; cd tmp
    apropos -s 1 . | cut -d' ' -f1 | while read page; do whereis -m "$page" ; done | while read id path rest; do man2html "$path" | tail +3 > "${id::-1}.html"; done
    

    List every command in section 1, extract the id only. For each one, get a file path. For each id and file path (ignore the rest), convert to html and save it as a file named $id.html.

    It might take a little while to run, but then you could run firefox . or whatever and browse the resulting mess.

    Or keep tweaking all of this until it's just right for you.

  • "Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.
  • Instead of simply blurring them, it'd be technically possible to feed their images through a stable diffusion prompt, like "humanoid lizards" or "frantic lemmings"..
    Also, I understand that a large language model could be made to rewrite articles about them with a matching prompt.

    That would be very silly, of course.

  • Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
  • Yes, it really was renamed after the Zuckerbergs, as buildings sometimes are at the request of a large donator seeking posterity.

    See Wikipedia:

    In November 2008, San Francisco voters approved an $887.4 million general obligation bond for the General Hospital rebuild, work began in 2009, and was expected to be finished in 2015.

    In 2015, Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife Priscilla Chan gave $75 million to help fund equipment and technology for the new hospital.

  • There is no such thing as an effective "AI detector", nor will there ever be one.
  • More appropriate tools to detect AI generated text you mean?

    It's not a thing. I don't think it will ever be a thing. Certainly not reliably, and never as a 100% certainty tool.

    The punishment for a teacher deciding you cheated on a test or an assignment? I don't know, but I imagine it sucks. Best case, you'd probably be at risk of failing the class and potentially the grade/semester. Worst case you might get expelled for being a filthy cheater. Because an unreliable tool said so and an unreliable teacher chose to believe it.

    If you're asking what's the answer teachers should know to defend against AI generated content, I'm afraid I don't have one. It's akin to giving students math homework assignments but demanding that they don't use calculators. That could have been reasonable before calculators were a thing, but not anymore and so teachers don't expect that to make sense and don't put those rules on students.

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  • Honestly, it depends on your job.
    Some jobs will fire you for taking too long in the restroom.
    Those are not good jobs.

    At other jobs, nobody will flinch if you send a quick note saying you gotta leave now for personal reasons and just take off.

  • There is no such thing as an effective "AI detector", nor will there ever be one.
  • There are stories after stories of students getting shafted by gullible teachers who took one of those AI detectors at face value and decided their students were cheating based solely on their output.

    And somehow those teachers are not getting the message that they're relying on snake oil to harm their students. They certainly won't see this post, and there just isn't enough mainstream pushback explaining that AI detectors are entirely inappropriate tools to decide whether to punish a student.

  • normalization of URLs across instances?

    I'm brand new here, so I apologize if this is already well-trodden ground.

    Is there an existing mechanism that would allow to convert URLs that point to a different instance to become instead federated links from the current instance?

    For example, at https://lemmy.world/post/503056, there's a comment with a link that points to https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/87275/Wagner-Group-captures-headquarters-of-the-Southern-Military-District-and

    Ideally, that URL would be transformed somewhere between its pasting in the original comment and my loading it in my browser into something more like https://lemmy.world/post/502058

    Is that something that exists, in whole or in part?

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