jherazob

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Something curious is going on surrounding X.Org and it's forks... in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

I'm also on Mint and X11, and intended to stay there for the moment specially since reading the latest David Revoy fully Linux FOSS guide for artists, which showed that many things are still behind in development, this may have changed since then but at least back then i decided to let it cook more before trying it out. I hope development has advanced enough that you can switch to it full time already but honestly i have no idea if it's there yet.

Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

A study years ago found that the ideal time for copyrights to recover the investment and all that was something like 14 years or something like that (don't recall exactly), can you imagine if anything older than like 20 years automatically fell into the Public Domain? The kind of wild crazy awesome shit that would be out there?

Poland's constitutional court rules EU energy policies breach national sovereignty in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't they just elect a right-wing pro-Russia president? Or am i thinking of somewhere else? I'm sure it's just a coincidence... /s

I got hit. The UK is no longer safe from this. in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First i hear of it, is there some sort of diplomatic situation that leads to this?

"Dungeons or Dragons" (Art by 5-ish) in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Well, there's a niche genre of so-called "Dungeon Core" books, usually a subgenre of the also niche LitRPG genre, where the main character is just that, a dungeon, usually a former human soul that got turned into the core of a dungeon but not always, more books than i expected when i heard of it for the first time not too long ago, i guess that needed it's representation on tabletop RPGs

The Faculty, any day in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
The Faculty, any day in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Holy shit someone else remembers this movie! Yes! Dunno if i'd defend it as it's clearly a niche taste but hell, it deserved no hate!

Can anyone confirm accuracy? in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I might be a nerd...

The vibe is good in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Probably don't count on it going away until the current LLM bubble pops

How a Popular YouTuber Vanished and No One Noticed in c/feminism@beehaw.org
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

One of the last things i recall hearing she did was revealing how the chinese government was spying on people through a popular keyboard app, i think that might have been more significant than the LGBT issue, or might have been the event that crossed the line or something

Signal calls out Microsoft for poor implementation of Windows 11 Recall, blocks it by default in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Then the corpo lawyer teams say "This is a major legal liability" and say no

Why we’ve fallen out of love with dating apps in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 29 points 4 weeks ago

Here's a mirror of the old, old OKCupid blogpost against paid dating apps, some dynamic bits didn't get properly archived but the info is still there, giving a very strong argument that paid dating apps are by definition bad to find a partner. Then they got bought and the blogpost was deleted literally the next day.

And this is long, LONG before everything started enshittifying, and dating apps went all in on this. By now the odds are very much against you if you wanna find someone on those apps.

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Asking for advice: Very old abandoned Facebook account - revive and delete, or leave to rot? (beehaw.org)
 

I have a very old Facebook account i haven't touched for no less than 10+ years. I had decided to just let it decay under the reasoning that old data is worse than useless to them, but now in light of Facebook announcing they'll take it all to train for LLMs if you don't opt out, i am unsure if to continue leaving that account to rot, or if to recover it, opt out, then doing the delete procedure. What would you say is the best choice?

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Current situation on FOSS Discord replacements? (beehaw.org)
 

A couple weeks ago Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route. This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them.

Last time i checked last year there weren't many options to migrate to, mostly Matrix communities (which are not quite the same thing) and Revolt Chat (which is a non-federated but FOSS and self-hostable drop-in replacement for Discord). Revolt sounds like the logical route as it's clearly designed for just this exact role, but it seems it's still early in development and not yet ready for the average Discord user (looks like the voice functions in particular are still in development)

Has this changed or improved since then? I feel like the use case of "IRC servers, but modern!" should have been solved years ago but feels like it hasn't, i have lots of non-technical people who heavily use Discord who I'd love to rescue from it before it starts actively burning, a replacement that isn't complicated and has all it's features would be welcome.

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Is there any FOSS full speech recognition user friendly software yet? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Today somebody in a group I'm in which has some accessibility issues was yet again complaining that their Dragon Speaking software was not playing nice with Firefox, which led me to see if there was an alternative, and surprisingly i found none workable at the plain user level beyond Dragon, and upgrading for that person might actually be costly (From what they say it starts at nearly $200 but apparently can go as high as $700? Not clear yet).

So, obviously now I'm checking about the FOSS side of things, a search has been inconclusive as i see stuff for developers, multiple different projects (which is a marked improvement from a decade ago when i last tried and failed to do this), but so far haven't found anything at the user level.

Have i overlooked something? Or is it that we're many years later still at the "building libraries" stage without actual user-level stuff people can just apt-get or download?

Quick edit: I must insist, is there something for USERS, not DEVELOPERS, that i have overlooked? APIs or commandline programs or learning models are not a software i can hand to my non-programmer friend to install on their computer to replace Dragon to help them write on Firefox

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