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in reply to Leaflet

there should always be default decorations glares at gnome


Tumbleweed Faces Regression with Wicked as Network Stack



in reply to Petter1

Honestly, why can we not configure that in the device tree (fwnode)?
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Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims


cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1040526

A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

The lawsuit was initiated by a group of developers in 2022 and originally made 22 claims against the companies, alleging copyright violations related to the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant.

Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and another alleging breach of contract. This decision marks a substantial setback for the developers who argued that GitHub Copilot, which uses OpenAI’s technology and is owned by Microsoft, unlawfully trained on their work.


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Despite this significant ruling, the legal battle is not over. The remaining claims regarding breach of contract and open-source license violations are likely to continue through litigation.

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in reply to pnutzh4x0r

Copyright exists to bully ordinary people. It does not apply to megacorps.
in reply to pnutzh4x0r

I hope "normal people" start exploiting that decision too. Training AI to consume stuff from big corporations and using the result to create open source/copyright free stuff from copyrighted works.




How to install the game CLAW from Internet Archive


Hey guys,
Recently I wanted to play Claw but I lost my old cds. So I decided to get the game from Internet Archieve.

When downloaded I got these files from it
- CLAW_2018_meta.sqlite
- CLAW_2018_meta.xml
- CLAW.BIN
- CLAW.CUE
- __ia_thumb.jpg
- Claw_1997_Game_Cover.jpg

I have no clue how to use theses files. If it is possible to convert to an exe, then I might be able to run through bottles.

Thanks for all the help

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in reply to Thumper

the bin and cue files are a cd/dvd image. IIRC you can't mount those directly, but you can convert them to iso with bin2iso (there are probably other tools too)

iso file you can mount something like mount -o loop /path/to/my-iso-image.iso /mnt/iso and then pull the files out from there.

As for directly pulling files out from bin/cue.. dunno.

in reply to Malix

I'd expect linux to have some way to extract a .bin image file or open it in a file explorer, even windows can do that. The .cue can be opened with a text editor, it's just a bit of text indicating where tracks begin and end on said .bin image
in reply to Thumper

I don't know if this applies to CLAW, but many games back then had their audio stored as CD Audio Tracks. If that is the case, you might want to actually emulate a CDROM drive instead of just extracting the files. There is a CDROM emulator for Linux, called CDEmu, which can read CUE/BIN CD Images.

Oh, and that game seems to have an ancient 16-bit installer, which might not work on modern systems. However, according to WineHQ Appdb one can just copy the files from the CD and it works.



Fyra personer dömda för mord i Västberga och Tullinge. Södertörns tingsrätt har dömt fyra personer för inblandning i skjutningar i Västberga och Tullinge. Anstiftaren och skytten dömdes till fängelse o 10 år respektive 12 år trots att de vid skjutningarna endast var 15 år respektive 16 år.

blog.zaramis.se/2024/08/28/fyr…

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in reply to Magnolia_

I'll probably switch my school laptop to Fedora from windows 11/tiny11 because why not, all of the stuff I really need for it can be done on a browser anyway. Also it'd be funny to confuse everyone around me about what it runs, and act like I'm hacking by using cmatrix Infront of them like a silly goof.


Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match


  • Paleontologists found matching Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints in Brazil and Cameroon, showing where dinosaurs walked before Africa and South America split.
  • The footprints, mostly from three-toed theropods, date back 120 million years and reveal how dinosaurs migrated across the supercontinent Gondwana.
  • Geological evidence supports that these areas were connected before the continents drifted apart, forming the South Atlantic Ocean.




To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say


in reply to Socialist Mormon Satanist

That makes a lot of sense.

TL:DR they think the Clovis culture used pikes braced against (maybe in) the ground rather than throwing spears.


in reply to Socialist Mormon Satanist

Probably from when it got popped out of Earth by a massive strike, which is I believe the theory.


The promise of synthetic cells



in reply to Surp

I hope not, cuz I got a lot of shit I wanna do!
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Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean


in reply to jadelord

Yeah, that's not true. Pangaea is a libtard hoax designed by the globalists to make you think the world was smaller at a time and normalise everyday Americans losing their jobs to China. In reality China has always been this far away and stone age American traders would have also had high import tax on shoddy imported axes and knives.
in reply to BeardedGingerWonder

Everybody knows Americans in the ancient era should focus on scouting its home continent so you can plan and maximise the manifest destiny modifier
in reply to jadelord

That's only because it's too abstract a concept for them to get riled up about. They just fold it into their young earth creationism and go on not thinking about it because it hurts their head.
in reply to jadelord

Let me tell you about these people that call themselves "flat-earthers"...


A nova explosion may soon be visible in the night sky. Here's where and when to look


In the second half of 2024, a nova explosion in the star system called T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, will once again be visible to people on Earth. T CrB will appear 1,500 times brighter than usual, but it won’t be as spectacular as the event in 1054.
in reply to gedaliyah

That was a very long article for so little "where and when to look".
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Insecure attachment to fathers linked to increased mental health issues and alcohol use


in reply to ooli

This is a totally new idea that hasn't been known forever


Twilight zones discovered deep underground – and sceintists don't know what they are


The mysterious zones have the power to slow down seismic waves by up to 50 per cent, yet experts don’t know what they’re made of or what role they play.

These strange black holes (figuratively speaking) are located within the Earth’s lower mantle – near the core – and are known as ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs).

in reply to karashta

Why all the downvotes? I guess "twilight zones" is a little click baity, but it's just an article about the little understood geology of Earth's lower mantle. It's neat, I think.


Neutron Star Mergers Could Be Producing Quark Matter


When neutron stars dance together, the grand smash finale they experience might create the densest known form of matter known in the Universe. It’s called “quark matter, ” a highly weird combo of liberated quarks and gluons. It’s unclear if the stuff existed in their cores before the end of their dance. However, in the wild aftermath a neutron-star merger, the strange conditions could free quarks and gluons from protons and neutrons. That lets them move around freely in the aftermath. So, researchers want to know how freely they move and what conditions might impede their motion (or flow).