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Are you a 'tankie' in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Found the tankie! ☝️

Windows XP in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Recall snapshots back to 2003, damn that's crazy

Why is predictive text so hard to disable? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you! This makes sense to me

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Why is predictive text so hard to disable? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)

I would have thought that, for AI training purposes, they would want humans typing things and not just regurgitating canned responses. But apparently not?

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For a game that turns 40 years old next month, it's unreal what we are learning about Tetris (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This video documents the recent feats of 15-year-old Tetris master Alex T, and the discoveries players make by pushing the game farther than it has any right to go

What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Give Srsly Wrong a shot! The Wrong Boys are funny and earnest and I always learn something from them.

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Text-to-speech options? (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?

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Finding projects that need user testing? (beehaw.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm digging into the world of #FOSS #opensource and would like to help with existing projects. My programming chops are not sharp yet, but I'm a detail-oriented communicator who knows a bit about user testing.

How do I find projects on GitHub, GitLab, or other sites that need this kind of help? The machines I would be testing on are a potato desktop running Pop_OS Linux and an Android phone. Thanks in advance!

Fudging Dice is DMing for Satan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

I had to look it up to make sure-- there is an actual Chick tract about D&D and it is both hilarious and disturbing

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