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It lets you have a local configuration that keep tracks of what videos you watched and allows for custom playlists. Without a Google account. I don't know if a smartphone app is available, as I only use it on my PC.

FreeTube + integrated SponsorBlock

It blocks normal ads, plus Sponsored segments and some other segments if you wish to. Its configurable. This addon is also available for Firefox. I do not use Firefox to watch YouTube anymore.

Most people using a smartphone use the default YouTube app. And that app does not have any ability to block ads. Most people don't know they can block ads or even if they did, they don't know how.

Looks like XDG Desktop Portal is using dbus and expects it: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/common-conventions.html

XDG Desktop Portal uses D-Bus in a slightly uncommon way, due to the potentially long-running nature of some of its requests.

And for the one user in your link https://snoo.habedieeh.re/r/voidlinux/comments/1471jbk/why_do_i_need_to_start_sway_with_dbusrunsession/jnxpxz7/?context=3#jnxpxz7 stating instead using d-bus, would use seatd, I assume it has compatibility with d-bus. He recommends to uninstall d-bus in that case. I have no idea what seatd can do and if this is applicable to other distributions than Void Linux. So unfortunately I don't know more than you. It makes sense that some sort of messaging is required in sandboxed environments.

Funny enough I just looked in my Archlinux based system and look what we have, seatd is installed already. And dbus is also installed.

Using another LLM model to fine tune it and then saying they spend a fraction of the money of those who created the model its based on, is just ironic. They used the Google model and fine tuned it. Its like someone building a car for millions of Dollars, I take the car and make some changes for much less money. Then I claim that I build a car for 50 Dollars. This is the level of logic we are dealing with.

In short, X11 is a bit unsecure in its concept (like every program can read keyboard inputs you are doing right now). The multi monitor configuration possibilities and mixing different setups is basically impossible (I mean stuff like mixing 4k@120 Hz with G-Sync and another one with 1080p@60 Hz with just V-Sync). X11 or XOrg has a long history since the 80s with many versions, the code base is spaghetti code and its not a pleasure for developers to work on.

Wayland is new, with a fresh and modern code base. It eliminates the security and monitor issues. Programs not written for Wayland does not work, but luckily there is XWayland, which allows running X11 games on Wayland. You can think of like Proton for X11, but without the benefits of Wayland, just a compatibility mode. In Wayland there are sub protocols, meaning standard definitions, that are developed and added after some time passes. I personally think protocols being like an addon that allows doing more stuff in a standardized way across all systems that support it. Developers in Wayland have a much better time working with its modern code base.

Have a look at https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch03.html .

Firefox Translations now supports more languages than ever! Pages in Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can now be translated and Russian is now available as a target language for translating into.

Oh finally support for these Chinese, Japanese and Korean! Less reason to use Google translate. Edit: Just tested it on two websites, oh my goodness, it works well!

Yes, that's the exact issue. Ubuntu does that for years. You use apt to install deb, but Ubuntu installs silently the Snap version. The article I linked was talking about that almost 4 years ago and talks about how to stop that. It's an old issue not many are aware off.

It's a known and documented issue that Ubuntu does. They secretly install the Snap version, even if you tried to install the Deb package. This is an issue since years: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1345385/how-can-i-stop-apt-from-installing-snap-packages (posted 3 years and 7 months ago)

I use Zstd specifically with tar to make backups ever since I realized how fast it is. But that is a complete different thing than this day to day tool, where Zstd is not needed.

I have no mouth and I must write YAML

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Well I used to use gzip to create .gz files. But as I use 7z a lot, that inspired me to write this function to get a similar functionality. Only the auto delete original files is not implemented. Maybe in the future. BTW I also use tar for backing up files with a custom backup script. Want to share it someday too, but never got around to make it usable for others. So at least I'm half greybeard. :D

No, I'm just used to use 7z. As it does lot of formats, its my default program for archive stuff. In example I also use often 7z as file format too (toarchive 7z files). And to calculate crc32, not sure if the other tools print that information.

If they require weird install scripts you don't want to install on your system, then do not install it with Distrobox either. For those cases you don't trust the weird install script, I recommend to use a Virtual Machine; if you really really need the program.

Some jokes are not amusing.

According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.

I think that I can decide better than an Ai tool if a text is written by an Ai. Not a fan of this. I find it weird to use an Ai tool, to detect Ai text. Also I wonder if those Ai fake tools can utilize Fakespot detection to improve the actual fakeness. They can train their Ai until Fakespot does not detect anymore.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/deep-fake-detector/
• https://www.fakespot.com/dfd/models

They talk about their proprietary model, plus several other tools. Highlight any text online and request an analysis. Nowhere in the article, the download page and their Fakespot website is once mentioned if this is local and offline. So, I'm 99% sure the data is sent to their server for analyzing the highlighted text.

I think its only about the iPhone released in China. So the US Bill has nothing to say there. From article:

But despite the heavy marketing for its AI features Apple is yet to introduce them in China which is a major region for the iPhone.

One major reason that Apple Intelligence has still not made its way to China is that the company needed to approve an AI model that would run it.

What are you talking about? What bad faith are you saying to me? I ask you to show me the repository that contains the source code. There is none. Please give me a link to the repo you have in mind. Where is the source code and training data of DeepSeek-R1? Can we build the model from source?

Nobody releases training data. It’s too large and varied.

That's why its not Open Source. They do not release the source and its impossible to build the model from source.