LorIps
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- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 22 hours ago:
The US government doesn’t (to my knowledge at least) have copyright protections so MIT wouldn’t be possible. BSD 0-Clause is just better because e.g. Austria doesn’t allow you to cede copyright to the public domain and CC0 directly mentions the public domain in the terms of the license.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
It’s licensed under CC0 to anyone wondering. BSD 0-Clause would probably be better but still fantastic.
- Comment on Tragic 4 days ago:
sudo dnf copr enable personality/good
I use Fedora btw
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 4 days ago:
I’m wasting untold amounts of optical media on trying to install a FOSS OS on an iMac G5. PPC64be is a pain in the ass nowadays
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 week ago:
Because of the way those captions are stored VLC has to use OCR to convert the .SRT file (which basically stores low resolution b/w images I assume to easier allow for different alphabets) to normal text. I don’t know why the open source solutions are so bad at this (especially considering how good the proprietary solutions seem to be) but I had similar problems ripping a DVD. I would assume that had he turned off the special font VLC uses for the subtitles and instead just seen the raw data there wouldn’t have been a problem. Why VLC doesn’t enable this by default (/ have this) I don’t know.
- Comment on I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide 1 week ago:
Yes, they are. I only run LLMs locally and Deepseek R1 won’t talk about Tiannamen square unless you trick it. They just implemented the protection badly.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
Depends on what software. Anything that happens in the browser works. A lot of other software can be run using Wine. There is some software which still has problems especially when using USB ports as serial ports etc. and a lot of subpar software (un)fortunately just doesn’t work because of it being badly programmed.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
www.fedoraproject.org linuxmint.com archlinux.org www.debian.org elementary.io system76.com/pop/
There are many safe open source options. If you need help there are ample resources available. If you want to you can also DM me.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
Yes, stuck. There are enourmous problems with different institutions having to use ancient PCs because the software doesn’t work on modern ones, be they electron microscopes, hospitals or industrial machinery, causing e.g. enourmous security issues. This is one of the most important reasons why FOSS and why making FOSS software mandatory in government contracts is so important.
- Comment on Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 month ago:
Have fun with your back problems!
- Comment on glorious stock 1 month ago:
It’s probably MKTX which had some interesting stock performance this year. www.google.com/finance/quote/MKTX:NASDAQ
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
I got 8 Points and I was born this century.
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 months ago:
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 2 months ago:
None in Europe
- Comment on Favourite Mario Kart game? 2 months ago:
8 Deluxe Solo, Wii with Friends
- Comment on Tearing Down A Vintage Word Processor 2 months ago:
There’s a difference: youtu.be/9lUhDo7euPs
- Comment on Humane (makers of the Humane AI Pin) acquired by HP: "HP Accelerates AI Software Investments to Transform the Future of Work" 3 months ago:
Hewlett-Packard, buying bankrupt startups since 1939.
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 3 months ago:
I think it was up tothis point only posted on french.
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 3 months ago:
Bought it
- Comment on Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon 3 months ago:
The question is mitigating for whom. I fear the only beneficiaries will be fascists and pornbots
- Comment on Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon 3 months ago:
Tha fuck is that supposed to even mean? Have none of the Mastodon devs ever heard about screenshots?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
The Gulf of America label can be seen worldwide as it’s Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
- Comment on Seems like solid advice 3 months ago:
- Only with reaaaly soft water. With hard water the calcium is gonna fuck it up.
- The battery is only present in cartridges with save data.
- Comment on Seems like solid advice 3 months ago:
- Wtf?
- What battery?
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 7 months ago:
Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.
