Pretty sure that’s how most of them work…?

It’s a single function call to randomize the order of a list in most randomization libraries. The hardest part would be to persist this randomized list across program restarts, and it’s not hard either.

I’ve never seen any search engine officially confirm this, but search across all search engines became terrible just a few months after the release of ChatGPT.
Which is why my assumption is that LLMs are being used to generate heaps of credible-looking, but ultimately worthless webpages. And search engines have to try to filter those out or their results would be even worse.

But then there’s no obvious distinction between a human-crafted blog and some spam webpage, which means the human-crafted blog is likely to be caught in the crossfire and get filtered as well.

Well, and on top of that, search engines presumably got hit by AI scrapers looking for training data, so that’s why I would assume, they now limit the search results to one page…

Yes, but they’re legally required to speak like this:

organise your … time … or … smth

It’s just this self-important wankery with hardly anything being said, because they need to talk like reverse Yoda the whole time.

Ah yeah, it’s just a translucent overlay slapped on top of everything. It’s the fallback option when nothing else works.

Lots of apps that advertise lowering screen brightness below 0% just do that, so I thought that’s what you mean.

There is also a way to properly filter the colors, which doesn’t discolor things as badly, but I believe you need root for that, or for it to be built into the OS, like the “Extra Dim” option that various ROMs have.

I guess, there might also be ROMs where the manufacturer decided to limit how low you can set the brightness via the UI, even though the hardware would accept lower values. In that case, yeah, try what @hexagonwin@lemmy.today posted with writing to that file via ADB.
Maybe you can also do that via Termux somehow, if you’ve got root on your device.

I used this app before it came built into the OS for me: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jmstudios.redmoon

There’s a foot/bike path out in the fields here, and man, people go completely stupid unleashing their dogs. Was walking there for an hour yesterday, saw like 8 dogs and none of them had a leash.

3 of them came running towards me, at a distance where their owners could not have intervened anymore.
The owners of 2 of them then also really struggled to keep them off the path as a bike came downhill.
And man, I really had to stop myself from kicking one of the dogs, because it ran right up to my feet.

Relevant Wikipedia article, as per usual when this is posted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

Hmm, not a good sign that this meme is being extended every few years…

By the way, I did not procrastinate posting this since July 25th. The file name does not say 2026-07-25. That did not happen. Nuh-uh.

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I still don’t understand how the sink in my bathroom gets dirty. Objectively the object in my household that is washed most often, yet regularly needs additional washing for whatever reason.

Well, politics isn’t about finding the one principle to rule them all. The folks/companies that find restricting access to children important, probably don’t particularly care about some Linux devices being excluded. And other folks/companies find not restricting their Linux server really important, so that’s a compromise that can be made.

I imagine, they landed on specifically open-source being excluded as the more abstract rule, because open-source in particular has a problem here.
Anyone can download open-source software and run it. In most cases, there is no central backend, which could handle age verification.

And even if there is, it’s not really financially viable to offer that for anyone who downloads the software for free. Requiring payment to access the binaries or the source code would also effectively kill the open-source ecosystem, which is also not in the interest of most people.

I always feel like the much bigger challenge is whether anyone can still maintain the codebase afterwards. You throw away so much institutional knowledge by doing a conversion like this…

Well, in hopes that you’re not just trolling, maybe you’ll believe a dictionary that “stable” is ambiguous in this context. Because this is one of the listed meanings:

(computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stable#Adjective

It also lists your meaning. I’m not saying that you’re wrong. I’m saying it’s ambiguous, i.e. there’s two meanings that could apply here.
Well, and personally, I do feel like more people will interpret “stable” to mean bug-free here, because Debian is a piece of software to them.

Yeah, but that’s exactly the meme that I’m talking about.

It’s always ambiguous what is meant by stability. And as soon as you complain about Debian actually breaking very easily, folks will readily tell you about the technicality that it just means it doesn’t change very often.

Having btrfs+snapper set up by default sounds good. I wish Debian-based distros in general would finally make a move there. It’s a bit of a meme that folks laud Debian for its stability, but you can easily break it with one wrong command.

And who knows, maybe TuxedoOS adopting it can serve as a proof of concept and get Debian itself to adopt btrfs sooner.

Yeah, some colleagues from India expressed their concern last week, because they heard how hot it was here.

Felt really weird to have that be actual concern and not just them mocking us, because they’re used to + equipped for worse temperatures.

I find that setting the power profile to “Power-Saver” makes a huge difference.

KDE has support for that built-in, although I’m not sure, if distributions install the corresponding daemon on desktop systems: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon

You should be able to cycle through power profiles with Meta+B on KDE.
You can also see and change the profile via the systray icon for the battery, but on a desktop system, that presumably won’t be shown by default.

Otherwise, powerprofilesctl is also an option, as described in that link.

Not quite a direct answer, but I feel like this world view is linked to seeing art primarily as a commodity rather than a way to express emotions.

With expressive art, it doesn’t particularly matter whether you write the millionth poem in a standard rhyme scheme and meter, so long as what you express comes across.
But commodity art is explicitly ‘clean’, it does not carry a message or at least not a particularly complex/interesting message.

And then, yeah, suddenly you ask yourself why would someone look at this particular drawing of a dragon, when there’s been a million drawings of dragons before.

Alt+F3 can also work (possibly in addition to Alt+Space)…