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Screw all smartphone users as well!

Not the person you are replying to but Reddit does not make the content you created available for everyone (blocking crawlers, removing the free API) but instead sells it to the highest bidder.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the article

A wise choice in this case. It's 23 paragraphs that mostly describe standard Thunderbird features (as the author usually does not use email clients) and only one list with three (!) bullet points of new features in Betterbird.

Edit: to save you a click, here's the list from the article (the actual feature list on the project page is longer):

Some notable features include:

• System Tray Icon (Linux)
• Accent Colors (for folders)
• Multi-line Inbox View (disabled by default)

Oh didn't they tell you? Making a profit is the most important thing in this world. Stop doing stuff that does not increase shareholder value!

I hate this "feature" but there is always a way to deactivate it in both the web version and the app: you can change the audio track on the settings of the video (e.g. behind the cog icon on mobile)

Thanks for posting this. Been using Linux exclusively for almost 10 years now but I still miss scrolling by clicking the MMB. I have some problems with my fingers so using the scroll wheel is rather unpleasant, yet necessarily, especially when scrolling down slowly and steadily for a long time (e g. while reading/scanning stuff)

Because this is not about being easy, it's about being funny

I for one appreciated your post and the insights it gave me (an outsider).

Really enjoyed that (audio) book recently. Nothing really new but well told and an easy listen

Yeah I think most complex and long-term OSS projects have "employed" contributors paid by donations or sponsorships (e.g. Linux, Blender, LibreOffice, ...)

Minds are blown, thanks for the correction!

*lynx (links are the things that tie the www together)

I loved the idea of FreeCAD but having no experience in CAD software at all I always struggled with fundamental basics that were not covered in the tutorials I watched. The huge amount of work benches (some of them 3rd party) did not help since most forum posts or tutorials were based on different or outdated versions.

Having a go with build123d now, trying to model stuff using python. At least the number of available API functions is manageable and everything else is just programming (which I already know).

I think the benefit of third party AI services is exactly a way around that limited context window. The service can summarize the previous conversations and key facts about the user, store it and feed that back into the AI prompt.

Instead of wasting most of the context window for pages and pages of conversation, it can just prompt the AI with something like "the user is called Timmy, he works as an accountant, he has a girlfriend called Tammy, yesterday he told you that he thinks about proposing.".

I think even ChatGPT does something like that, but as it's a very general tool it might not be the best in filtering out information that is relevant for a "personal" conversation.

All this picture says is basically "the bigger the jaw, the more biting force". And then it compares animals with bigger jaws than humans

Yeah that is absurd. I've found exactly one comment that is at least not negative.

Yeah this thread is full of people not getting a simple joke...

Thanks! No idea why we'd have to fake the photo if the original is pretty meme-y already

If a website with old-school passwords gets hacked, the hacker only gets salted hashes of passwords - this does not seem to be much worse?

(Websites that store plaintext passwords surely won't implement passkeys either...)

You can listen to the recording of each entry by clicking on it. Sometimes it does seem to be only noise but maybe the machine has better hearing than I do...