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New blog post: https://popcar.bearblog.dev/awesome-free-software/

I wanted to highlight some great free software that I use and would recommend to anyone. Check it out.

#blog #tech #recommendations

My List of Awesome Free Software

A personal list of great free software that I use in my daily life

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Another characteristic feature of them is an absolute fear of any questions. They can only shout out a piece of dirty lies and immediately block anyone who disagrees.
Aggressive warmongers from the sofa like @tivasyk @[email protected] @[email protected] @skykiss are loud and bold only because they are many thousands of kilometers away from the actual military action and know that they are not in any danger.
Looks like #Obsidian Web Clipper and #Syncthing is viable #Pocket replacement for me.

I found a pretty cool example of using #Java and #TeaVM for web game development. Welon by @unascribed

https://welon.y2k.diy/

Welon

Surprise surprise... using AI to think for you makes you dumber.

'the ChatGPT group not only "consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels," but also got lazier with each essay they wrote'

Make your choice.

https://buff.ly/mW2kL0T

I still can’t get over how Defector - a sports blog - has the most fun science journalism around https://defector.com/how-ivory-the-contraband-sniffing-giant-african-pouched-rat-gets-it-done?giftLink=6993c23797fb3abdeb0c6de2736e3ebe
How Ivory The Contraband-Sniffing Giant African Pouched Rat Gets It Done | Defector

Species around the world are threatened by the illegal wildlife trade, which peddles in wares such as pangolin scales, elephant tusk, rhino horn, and rare woods. Smugglers stow these artifacts, or even the wildlife themselves, inside large shipping containers, which are too expensive and time-consuming to scan with an X-ray. To help sleuth out these […]

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But officer, its the same as every LLM training data trawl. I mean, it's on the Internet, it's fair use. But the LLMs make billions of $$$. I don't think libgen make anything.

#ai #GenAI #llm #copyright #piracy #libgen #librarygenesis

Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/pirate-library-must-pay-publishers-30m-but-no-one-knows-who-runs-it/

Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.

Ars Technica
Great new music disk for A500 by @h0ffman & co :) Runs in high res-lace! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFl5skmhrLA https://demozoo.org/productions/358673/ #demoscene
Pattern Syndicate - Tactical Transmissions - Amiga 500 Music Disk

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