As someone who hasn’t watched GoT, I was put off from watching it because I heard how bad the last season (or two?) was. I do hear the first seasons are good, but is it worth watching if I have to either stop mid-way and cliffhanger myself or watch the bad seasons? Both seem like crappy options.

Yes, it’s an export option in Gimp, and I also use it everywhere. It’s smaller than both PNG and JPG, does the job of both (lossy and lossless), and has better quality at the same size.

Because it’s ragebait. The restaurant accepts baht as normal, but the customer didn’t have any cash on them. The restaurant agreed to accept payment in renminbi as a workaround.

What they refused is one particular payment method called ThaiQR, which is not accepted everywhere.

What journalism? This is the banned author posting on Twitter, they are the primary source, and could have said anything, including that Google didn’t give a reason, if they didn’t.

but does that really matter?

No, which is why I started my comment by saying it doesn’t matter.

AI moderation is bad regardless. Now that we have that settled, and have established Google is the bad guy here, I am interested what he was banned for.

No, why? I came up with an extreme example to illustrate my point: It’s suspicious that they didn’t say the reason for the ban, because if it’s a bad reason they would have said what it is.

I don’t imply any reason, especially the example I have given.

That’s the implications the narrative tries to create by saying the content is “his own”, and yet never spells it out, which is why it seems like a red herring to me.

Like, if it was his own CSAM, it doesn’t make it any better he is the author.

Not that it changes anything, but why nobody is saying, or asking, what was it flagged for? I find it suspicious the reason for the ban was not given in the story.

We start here: You see an URL -> if it’s a shortened URL, that’s problematic, if it’s a normal URL, it’s ok you can click it

Now we add a QR code to the equation: You scan a QR code -> You see an URL -> if it’s a shortened URL, that’s problematic, if it’s a normal URL, it’s ok you can click it

But you don’t agree.

Why is adding the “You scan a QR code” step making a difference? You compare looking at an URL to reading a 40 page EULA, I don’t think 1 line of text is comparable to 40 pages of text, but let’s go with it. Some people won’t read it, I definitely agree with that. If they click links without reading then, then they click links without reading them. Again, why is adding the step of scanning a QR code before the link shows up, making anything different? You can read and choose to click it or not all the same, whether the link appeared due to scanning a QR code, or whether it was on web page.

I don’t understand, why is a QR code a dark pattern?

Edit: I have now read the entire Wikipedia page on dark patterns, I didn’t find one that would match.

Your QR code scanner showns you the URL before you choose to open it, right? So I don’t really get the comparison to short URLs. As with any normal link, you get to see the link before you choose to “click” the QR code after you scan it.

Most software most people run is closed source and doesn’t have an arm version. Isn’t this the usual situation? Aunt Flo isn’t recompiling her tax filing software for arm. She just runs it, and it works because the arm laptop she has came with this built in.

It’s hard to balance. I used to work on an open source project with UI that grew organically with added features, with no plan. At some point it was just a disorganised mess of things added on top of other things.

So we remade the UI from scratch and the result, I think, was much better, intuitive, and approachable to new users. But of course some existing users were unhappy, because however bad the existing UI was, it was one they were already used to.

I used to attend an event that happened every March. They sold calendars that went from March to the next March, when you presumably attend again and buy the next one. No reason really for a calendar to start with January.

Then they should be happy with same sex marriages. A miracle might occur with them just as well.

There is none. VR is a fools errand on Linux. You can maybe get something to technically run, but with missing features, worse performance, and even then only some VR will even attempt to launch to that broken state.

I have a Windows VM for VR gaming. Dual boot also works. For all non-VR gaming, Linux is pretty much flawless nowadays.

Which Distro? Pick one that has existed for at least 10 years, with the desktop environment your like the look and feel of most, and most popular and well supported from that.

You are giving him to much credit of you think he’s just pretending to break things.

LTT will define his Linux desktop experience

I’ll just say LTT is a channel not a person, and the latest “Linux challenge” has three participants each with their own approaches and opinions.

I see what you mean now, you were talking about what words people use, not whether the definition of the word program applies to something.

How is a mobile app or a function-as-a-service not a program though? They are clearly programs, at least to me.