It has indeed been a difficult year for GNOME, financially. If you benefit from GNOME as a user, we really need your donation:
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Of course, this is a choice: I *could* choose not to use LLMs. When I ride my bike, I don't bemoan the fact that a car could do it faster – the goal is exercise.
But nobody's paying me to ride my bike. If I were a delivery driver, it'd be pretty unprofessional to show up an hour late with a cold pizza just because I like biking.
With LLMs, it almost feels like malpractice *not* to use them at this point. I can't justify taking ~3x longer to ship a feature just because I don't enjoy using them.
It has indeed been a difficult year for GNOME, financially. If you benefit from GNOME as a user, we really need your donation:
تعجبني التصاميم المختلفة للوحات الشطرنج، اللعبة معروفة وثابتة لذلك الاختلاف الوحيد الممكن سيكون في التصميم.
I think a good Industrial Design student assignment, particularly for sophomores, would be: Design and make a set of minimalist chess pieces--no digital fabrication nor individual sculpting/carving (unless making the pattern for a mold) allowed. This would cover a lot of skills that industrial designers need to develop. Sketching: What
هناك حلوى إسبانية اسمها alfajor، نطق حرف j يشبه حرف الخاء، فتكون الكلمة الفاخور أو بالعربية الفاخر، لسنوات كنت أظن حرف j ينطق مثل جيم فتكون الجملة "الفاجر" 🤦♂️
الحلوى تأتي بأشكال مختلفة ولها تاريخ يعود إلى حقبة الأندلس.
سامسونغ تثبّت تطبيقات إسرائيلية المنشأ لجمع بيانات المستخدمين في غرب آسيا وشمال أفريقيا
It's been 2 months since Israel blocked critical supplies of food, aid & water. Gazans are slowly starving & dying.
The silence & complicity of the international community is nauseating.
When they want, coalitions of countries do come together to push for an end of hostilities (e.g. in Ukraine or India/ Pakistan). But in this case, the West is happy for its arms to be used in enabling genocide amidst mass starvation & dehydration.
Apparently #PerplexityAI CEO is annoyed that people are sharing that article where he is quoted saying that their browser will track everything users do to sell more ads.
> “That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said.
This is that article, in case you'd like to share it:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/
Receipt:
https://xcancel.com/AravSrinivas/status/1915812398470205461#m
Since October 7, Israel has killed more than 51,000 Palestinians in #Gaza.
- 65% of the dead are children, elderly women, and elderly men.
- Over 18,000 children killed.
- Over 12,400 women killed.
- More than 2,180 families completely wiped out (parents and all children).
- Over 5,070 families killed, leaving only one surviving child.
- More than 1,400 doctors and medical staff killed.
- At least 113 Civil Defence workers killed.
- Over 212 journalists killed.