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@Max_Imum @DaddyO @Wyliesau @fkq1q2r2 yeah, I follow him on X too. Haven’t heard from him in a while. I do have his address in Switzerland too, and sent him a Hahn New Year card. Maybe that’s what made him go dark?🤷🏻♂️
The United States has stopped supplying interceptors for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, artillery supplies and missiles to Ukraine for several months. The New York Times (NYT) newspaper writes about this, citing American officials.
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A few days ago I asked about taking the big leap, but I use my PC for work in the arts (voice over, music, digital art, etc).
I've been playing around with Bitwig to replace Cubase and ideally Adobe Audition. It's... a learning curve but I'm willing to make it work if I can get everything about my PC lined up with Linux.
I then discovered Wine and Proton. So, they're basically bridges that allow you to use some Windows programs in Linux? I read they can use vst files with a bit of work, and people have had some success with Cubase, though Adobe is still right out but I'd love to get away from Adobe anyway. Also games??
Is there a difference between Wine and Proton or are they basically just different programs that do the same thing? The big leap might be more feasible than I thought if they do what I think they do.
Edit: This seems like it could suit most of my needs. I need to do more research into it but you guys answered my questions. Appreciate you all taking the time, thanks!
Wine and proton are the same valve takes wine and adds some tweaks to it to work beter for games. Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn't rely on it for your workflow as wine could always be playing catch up when your software updates versions.
Wine/Proton is a translation layer that translates windows system calls Linux system calls. So if wine/proton doesn't have a feature windows has for your knew version then it will break. That's okay for games but for something you need for work that can be a deal breaker. If you can switching to something Linux native will benefit you in the long run.
Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn't rely on it
In this case I would say the other way round. Proton works in a container, so getting to the sound interface for example might be harder than just using Wine
Comments on Reddit seem to suggest that UI problems with NeuralDSP plugins seems to be solved with some onstallation of DirectX libraries (? Not sure about the technical details) :
was able to fix it just yesterday after seeing someone suggest this:
install WineGUI
use it to install DirectX 9/10/11 and DirectX 12 packages
This instantly fixed the GUI not being responsive, tested with the new Nolly X
As a side note, a couple of things that might be handy for you:
Bottles is a GUI for running Wine things that might make it a bit easier to navigate. It's helped me out a few times.
Also there's an AppDB on the Wine site where you can search for specific software to find out how well it runs/tweaks that people have used etc.
ALSO yeah games are in a pretty good place on Linux nowadays. I have a Steam Deck and it runs a surprising amount of stuff, even things that aren't listed as being compatible. I think the main source of trouble is the online AntiCheat stuff, that's not always compatible with Linux (although sometimes those work too, I think it just depends on the game.) There's also protondb for checking which games work in Linux.
Proton is built on top of Wine in order to make sure games specifically work well.
You can check protondb.com/ before buying a game (with Steam or otherwise) to insure it works as expected. A lot will work with 0 tinkering but some might next extra command line parameters.
You might get the same result with Wine directly but Proton it doing everything it can to "hide" away those (hopefully small) challenges away from the final user, a gamer (like me) who wants to just sit down and play.
So... the heuristic is basically :
games? Proton
not games but Windows applications that somehow do not have a better open-source equivalent running on Linux? Wine
Edit: for the anecdote I wrote this reply on my SteamDeck, the gaming console by Valve coming with Steam, and Proton, and running Linux to... just play BUT I also use it to work while traveling. So yes, works like a charm!
Proton is designed for gaming and its a fork of Wine, designed for gaming contains alot of tools and patches for gaming compared to regular wine. Wine is designed for apps, but can be used for gaming.
I find using Lutris for gaming is easier, but there is also Bottles, both allow you to setup all the MS junk as needed per game, including options for using Wine's Proton if need be or desired.
Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
@WeirdWriter Looks like an insult generated by LLM-ai in the style of witty satire. It's uneven tho, starting at the beginning where it says they are "an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster." A human writer is a 'who' not a 'that.' And it demands you take extra time to re-work your creative writing while saying the goal is to help ppl increase writing speed.
It's interesting the piece invokes the term 'open-source' (near the end) like a talisman ... or a jab?
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It’s a shame that only a minority of Ontarians even fucking voted for the second time in a row. Maybe don’t let Conservatives walk into power and then complain about all the damage they do.
Those of us who live in the province but voted for someone else aren't quite sure, but the fact that a lot of people seem not to have realized the last election was even taking place may have had something to do with it.
To be fair he didn't really offer. He threw around the term buck a beer a couple times but booze has actually been increasing in price since hes been elected.
Half the reason we are in this mess is Toronto was too smart to elect Doug mayor and now instead the whole province gets to deal with him. He also gets to get revenge on Toronto by demolishing bike lanes.
Didn't doug run after his brother? I'm not 100% familiar with Torontos political history i just remember something about doug not winning mayor of Toronto.
TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in American history.
TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in Ameri…
We need to see a list of those who are - by their objection to this BBB - are authoring the biggest tax increase on the middle class in American history.
Es gibt übrigens in Deutschland mehr antimuslimische Gewalt(!)fälle als antisemitische.
Ja, selbst wenn für zweitere die teils herbei fantasierten Zahlen der RIAS genommen werden. Natürlich ist die Zahl der Muslime als potentielle Opfergruppe weit größer, logisch. Die Untererfassung allerdings auch. Außerdem können nach RIAS-Logik ja auch nichtjüdische deutsche Polizist*innen Opfer "antisemitischer" Gewalt durch jüdische Demonstrant*innen werden, von daher ist die potentielle “Opfergruppe” für die Antisemitismusstatistik sogar größer. bird.makeup/users/tarek_bae/st…
Es ist ein Skandal auf so vielen Ebenen. In Berlin hat die Senatorin für Integration, Cansel Kiziltepe (SPD), die Stelle der Beauftragten gegen antimuslimischen Rassismus eingeführt. Eine gut qualifizierte Wissenschaftlerin, Antisemitismus- und Rassismusforscherin namens Yücel Meheroglu bekam die Stelle. Das missfiel der Israel-Lobby (![url=https://onlycasino.legal/users/MostlyHarmless])[/url], angeführt von Volker Beck, dem Präsidenten der Lobbygruppe DIG. Ihm nach müsse die Stelle des Beauftragten gegen Antisemitismus exklusiv bleiben und „antimuslimischer Rassismus“ sei ein „Kampfbegriff“. Was macht Berlins Bürgermeister @kaiwegner (CDU)? Er nimmt die Ernennung einfach zurück. Die @berlinerzeitung nennt die Wissenschaftlerin Meheroglu dazu kurzerhand „Muslim-Aktivistin“. Einfach so. Offenkundig, weil sie ein Kopftuch trägt.
Wie sehr will sich unser Land noch durch Rassismus und Israelfanatismus zu einem Karnevalsverein machen lassen?
Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
In this discussion with the Holmes sisters, Cynthia Chung goes through the historical context of British figure Winston Churchill and answers the question “Is there any reason at all why Calgarians shouldn't be celebrating a Churchill statue recently…
Israeli fighter pilots returning from air defense missions during the 12-day war with Iran were routinely authorized to unload their leftover munitions on the Gaza Strip, according to a 2 July report by Maariv.
The move, initially a pilot-led initiative to “assist” Israeli ground forces in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, was quickly expanded by Air Force Commander Tomer Bar into a daily operational policy across all squadrons.
The report outlines how, during the operation, pilots assigned to intercept missiles and drones launched from Iran were equipped not only with air-to-air missiles but also with air-to-surface munitions.
After completing their Iran-related missions, pilots contacted Gaza operation control rooms and offered to drop remaining bombs on designated targets in the enclave.
Air Force officials embraced the initiative. Within hours, the ad hoc proposal became standard practice, with squadrons instructed to coordinate with ground units before landing and to strike Gaza “Hamas targets” on their return.
Military officials described the program as a “force multiplier” that allowed the air force to expand bombing raids in Gaza without additional resources.
“Instead of bouncing planes off the ground for an attack policy, planes that were already in the air carried out the missions,” an Israeli Air Force source told Maariv. “It saved a great deal of resources and increased the Air Force’s capabilities.”
The result was what the report describes as “waves of powerful air strikes” on the strip, far removed from the Iranian front. According to the Israeli army, dozens of fighter jets participated daily, each releasing surplus munitions over the besieged enclave before landing.
While presented as a resource-efficient strategy, the practice effectively turned Gaza into a secondary front in a war that had no operational connection to the territory.
The attacks were directed based on instructions from Israeli ground forces already operating in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, amplifying the daily bombardment of areas already under siege.
Israeli officials described the move as a resource-saving measure, but the result was intensified bombing of Gaza by jets returning from unrelated missions
@cbrooklyn112 the driveway has really needed to be replaced since we moved in 27 years ago. I just keep putting the $200 patch on it by sealing it at least once a year. There have always been other projects that have taken precedence.
@cbrooklyn112 already spent a few hours a couple of days ago using trowel grade crack filler to fill in most of the large areas/cracks, now it’s just putting the tar down on top.
my father did it for decades. in his last decade he had a service come out to do it. So if you tire of it make sure you know there are services. Also cement is a satisfying alternative.
@scottdhansen as I said, I’ve wanted to replace it w/concrete for years. Unfortunately the $10k investment in it has always been overshadowed by other priorities (i.e. furnace/AC, plumbing, water heater, interior remodels, etc.) as long as I can drive to my garage (oh yeah, garage replacement happened 15 years ago too) I can keep patching it. Winters here are rough, so eventually I am sure I’ll need to do it.
I know the gulp I did when replacing mine but it was a joke. Having the damn garage in the backyard added an extra run of concrete that ate up a shit ton of capital. I’ve too have no end of stuff on the capital expenditure list to sort and prioritize.
News story this AM on the local broadcast, Independence Day cookouts are more expensive this year. How much? “Almost 2% for a group of 10”. But this amount was not stated until the very end. They spent the time saying how much the price burgers/beef or brats have have gone up.
So NOW they want to tell us how inflation is affecting us. But under 4 years of Biden when inflation was running much higher (forgive me, I’m too lazy to go look up the amount) it was never talked about.
« Comme tout le monde, j’ai souvent pensé que je n’avais pas le temps. Jusqu’à ce que je fasse preuve d’honnêteté envers moi-même : le temps, je l’avais. Simplement, je ne le prenais pas ! »
Several perch over 2 pounds was caught yesterday. These are the two biggest and both new personal records closing in to 3 pounds. My friend new record is 1290 gram (2.84 pounds) and mine was 1305 gram 2.88 pounds and 49 cm long. I also caught a small zander wich is a rare fish where I live. #fishing #sweden
Dr. Marwan Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, his wife, and their five children were killed when Israeli forces shelled their home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of southern Gaza.
« votre pourquoi, la raison profonde pour laquelle vous désirez vous lancer dans un projet en particulier. Ce pourquoi est un moteur qui donne sens à vos actions et vous permet de ne pas abandonner.»
This study investigates the association between speakers' personal attributes, such as political stance or military experience, and their variable pronunciations of Iraq/Iran, as elicited through a rapid anonymous survey. For both target items, speakers' choice of variant appears to be associated not with political affiliation but with two other factors: ability to speak a second language and military service. English speakers who report being able to speak a foreign language are more likely to employ a variant more aligned with the source language, [irɑ:k]/[irɑ:n], while those with a record of military service tend toward the Americanized variants, [ajræk]/ [ajræn]. These results suggest that while specific variants might index political attitude in contexts where the construction of a particular political identity is desirable, in the absence of such a context, speakers' choice of variant is governed primarily by experiential factors.
It sounds exhausting but delicious, I'm sure it will all be very much appreciated. You better rest up on Monday. I shall issue a finger wagging lecture if I see you doing anything strenuous after this weekend.
Good, i hope you can get some decent rest between now and then too but a good lie in is a nice treat. I've often found the days that I plan to lie in I usually wake up early, so I just read in bed.
Just finished Keeping hubby awake for his drive to work. He asked about what’s for dinner. I said anything you want. Him zero clue cause made him breakfast today. lol
Maybe just suggest something you know he likes and have all the ingredients for. I must admit I hate it when people ask what i want, I've been living alone long enough that I just go make stuff that I'm hungry for.
I can‘t repeat their language or insults they tell their ex husbands. But can tell you why no husband.
My mother’s in laws dying wish was for me to take care of him. I agreed. I married the favorite. Plus I have the blessing of his parents both. So that is that.
« Mes amis Lorsque l’on est persuadé d’être très compétent, on stagne dans son apprentissage, car on ne voit pas l’intérêt d’approfondir. Demandons-nous alors : « Et si je ne savais pas tout ? Et si je jouais la carte de l’humilité ? » L’humilité fait apprendre. Lorsque l’on se lance dans l’apprentissage, il se peut que l’on se croie doué au départ, jusqu’à ce qu’on découvre qu’il existe une infinité de choses à apprendre ! Nous n’en finissons jamais. Nous tombons dans la vallée de l’humilité : je sais que je ne sais pas tout, que je peux toujours progresser. C’est ainsi que je progresse.
Lorsque l’on est persuadé d’être incompétent, on se bloque aussi, car on considère que c’est peine perdue. Demandons-nous : « Et si j’en savais plus que je ne croyais ? Et si je pouvais progresser ?
»Réfléchissez à ces biais cognitifs, afin de vous entraîner à accueillir de nouvelles pensées, une nouvelle vision du monde et des choses. Chaque fois que vous êtes persuadé d’avoir raison sur un sujet, osez une remise en question. »
Je n'ai pas le temps de regarder pour l'instant. J'ai écouté Branco sur Thinkerview. Il me laisse toujours un peu dubitatif, sorte de mélange de Tintin et de Robin des bois. Mais il est intéressant, et dans le quasi désert intellectuel et politique en France (hors quelques "complotistes" et plateformes "alternatives") ce n'est pas à négliger. Donc on va suivre ce gauchiste bourgeois en voie de rédemption.
An investigation by The Guardian revealed that the Israeli military used a powerful 500-pound bomb, likely an MK-82, in its attack on Al-Baqa café by the #Gaza seaside.
This bomb, caused a massive explosion and scattered shrapnel over a wide area, leaving a large crater at the site. The use of such a weapon may amount to a war crime.
El durian es tan maloliente que su consumo está prohibido en interiores, pero la popularidad de esta fruta, considerada un superalimento, no deja de aumentar en China y en el resto de Asia.
On July 22, 2025, the US President sent more than 100 American aircraft to bomb Iran, which is a few thousand kilometres away from the Unites States. This
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And who will pay the medical bills? Are they covered by the company insurance?
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The last I heard he had moved to Twitter/X and was seen posting their. But that was months ago.