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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PowerPDF or Kofax or whatever it’s called now was very close to parity if not exceed functionality for most office jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pronounced the same but totally different meanings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Filing this under “Choice openings for certain success”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think they talked about this in the group chat?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caitlin Johnston has had some insane takes over the years and constantly parrots Russian propaganda, even as Russia was invading Ukraine and up to now.

  I don’t care if us drones are actually getting destroyed but given how naive a lot of Caitlin’s takes are I would want a second and third source confirmation before believing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What CI/CD tools are you guys using? I have Forgejo but I need a simple way of running automation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried it with forgejo, the recommended implementation involves spinning a temporary vm to run the integration and deployment processes, quite resource heavy and slow comparatively to the vm I have that’s running forgejo.

  I think there’s an option to have the forgejo server itself run the commands without spinning up vms, but it’s not recommended due to security considerations as they’re running with the same privileges as the server - not a concern if you are the only developer connecting to a private instance of forgejo but something to keep in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha! Yes, but not sure how effective it would have been. I think parenting counts intent way above outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The argument is, raise the burden of proof: you are proving what my intent was, and what actions I took, but you should be proving negative market effects. Just because I said it, and I did it, doesn’t mean I succeeded. And if I didn’t there’s no reason to be broken up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have commercial tvs for kiosks, hotels, etc though a bit more expensive don’t have any of that junk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s not about the size of the government, or the bureaucracy, it’s about whether anyone can have dictatorial power over life, death, freedom etc of others without any check on the legality of their orders.

  The separation and co-equal branches of the 3 arms of government is bedrock. The government and bureaucracy can be huge or tiny without relevance to this.

  I understand the appeal of being unshackled by other people’s opinions and interests.

  I just don’t know how they reconcile their notional “conservatism” (they is conserving the traditions) with dismantling the actual tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Government should be run like a business” sounds like a totalitarian religion.

  So basically the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted with separation of powers and checks and balances, right?

  I thought these people were cosplaying traditionalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a 2yo write up, considering the last update was in 2023?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no contradiction here.

  With high value art you definitionally buy a story not the content. Without a certificate of authenticity or a story that goes with it there is no story and no value to it.

  With K Dick’s example the two lighters would become of different but equivalent value, perhaps the new value is in the story of how two identical copies and yet different came to be.

  You could 3d scan the statue of David and reproduce it down to its tiniest detail. And yet the copy is only worth as much as the cost to make it or even less, while the original is invaluable.

  You can see the Mona Lisa on your phone any time you want and yet millions will take the trip to the Louvre to see what is most likely not even the original.

  The story and the history of an object is what you purchase when buying art or antiques of high value.