Notices by Jure Repinc :linux: :kde: (jrepin@mstdn.io), page 3

https://floss.fund/ (by Zerodha in India) is offering $1 million per year grant to open-source projects. But very few applications have been received so far, and it needs help spreading the word.

Please RT/boost and upvote it on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42273107

#foss #OpenSource #sustainability

IMO, eventually, all the inconsistencies, compounded bugs, added bloat from copypasta code, and "ai" slop added to non-FOSS OSes and software will reach a critical point, where nothing commercial will work or perform the functions they were designed to do; but it will still be able to get online, mostly because the boxes that make internet actually work all run on Unix/Linux.

#ai #LLM #garbage #windows #apple #Linux #Unix

No, ChatGPT won't help in the classroom, won't save teachers time, and doesn't represent a set of skills students need to learn.

On OpenAI's latest nonsense:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-has-no-place-in-the-classroom/

@pluralistic so I fully expect them to argue that, for an AI to be trained on your book is no different than for a kid in a creative writing class to read your book and learn techniques they will later use in their own writing.

Now, of course, AI isn't actually intelligent. I don't know if true AI is possible but we both agree that we definitely haven't achieved anything close to it yet.

One could therefore argue that "training AI' is not like learning because it's not a real intelligence and isn't capable of real creative development on top of what it learned.

But do we really want governments deciding who or what is sentient ? What could go wrong, eh ?

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To follow all accounts to an "Astro" list download and import this file:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRA5Aef7KPIlw6unflo2V1DairG-4B7SNgko3Rs3WScj-2BXSqVeksf_-_qmhWdly69jOm8oju6a6Co/pub?output=csv

Download the .csv file (click above) >>> Preferences >>> Import and Export >>> Import >>> Import type dropdown: "Lists" (NOT "Following list") >>> Browse to select "Astronomy - list.csv" >>> Upload >>> Confirm

#FollowPack #MMFP #Astronomy

@jbqueru @eugenialoli Awesome. Glad to hear it worked out in the end. And remember to file any feature request or bug and hopefully help make Kate even better in the future
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kate&bug_severity=wishlist

@eugenialoli @jbqueru
Strange. Just tried it and still works fine here. Probably best to file a bug report about it, if it happens on the latest version.

@eugenialoli @jbqueru I see. You mean "anonymous" session, without explicitly saving one. I never noticed that since I never needed it. Probably best to file a wishlist report about this at
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kate&bug_severity=wishlist
If it is not already in the system. Or if maybe somebody else knows if it is possible to enable that. I remember seeing it work with X11 session restore long time ago when I left Kate running and restarted the computer and it restored even unsaved files.

@eugenialoli @jbqueru Kate does remember the last session here. Using version 24.08.3. Usually I just launch the desired session directly by typing the name in KRunner, or hand pick it from the startup window. But also just tried setting Settings → Configure Kate → Session → Load Last used session, and it appears to work fine here.

Excellent! We all know rapid growth = success (hey, if it works for cancer…) and, please, do ensure you sniff each and every tech bro brain fart before trying non-corporate alternatives. https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/113483702634402329

🤑 It seems straighforward that big polluters shouldn't be allowed to write the rules of climate action or use COP partnerships to cover up their role in fuelling the climate crisis.

More info: https://kickbigpollutersout.org/COP29FossilFuelLobbyists

#kickbigpollutersout

@eugenialoli @jbqueru What do you mean by ruler? If that means a vertical line at some column then Kate does have this. You can enable it via menu View → Word Wrap → Show Static Word Wrapper. The column can be set in Settings → Configure Kate → Editing → Wrap Words At.

#KDE #Kate #KateEditor

@luka Maš prov ja. No takrat na »odrast« niti pomislu nism. Se mi zelo dopade ta primer.

@eliasp @EcksDy You can also use Yakuake, which is a drop-down version, which uses the same components in the background with same features that Konsole is using
https://apps.kde.org/yakuake/

Also you can help modernise Konsole by reporting concrete proposals on how to make it less old-fashioned
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=konsole&bug_severity=wishlist

@ovtsa @g1smo
Ekola anketica objavljena.

I've worked on the colors of my interactive physarum
(https://github.com/Bleuje/interactive-physarum)
(Unfortunately it seems that on my instance we can only post very small video files.)

@ovtsa @g1smo
Jp Jp. Mogoče bi spremenili na »Nehaj slediti«? Bi moralo biti približno enako dolgo kot je sedaj. Če se zdi bolje. Ali pa mogoče kar anketico naredim tu pa potem spremenimo na zmagovalca :)

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EMILY M. BENDER: SJayLett adds, "I suspect it emphasizes how the people behind this don't really believe the mind is embodied in any meaningful way," which I think is very true.

For really no reason at all 😇 here's why I find the user experience on #Mastodon better than in that Nazi Chatroom when it was still called "Twitter":

- 500+ characters
- post editing
- follow hashtags
- better s/n ratio
- no ads

Plus, https://quintsns.pianeta.uno/ does a pretty good job at replacing paper.li

So I wouldn't go back, even if someone resurrected Twitter. Now, FriendFeed on the other hand... 😆

@pluralistic says it best, why #BlueSky is no alternative:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

@bibianaprinoth I studied astronomy and is still my hobby. Although I mostly works as a software engineer. For some time even worked on some astronomy/space related projects for ESO and ESA.