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WillieShen@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen someone you personally know|knew in porn? If so, who?
101·5 days agoIn other words, you find the median of human attractiveness greater than the mean of it.
WillieShen@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening as you go about your day — but Apple may be risking a Meta Glasses-style backlashEnglish
71·5 days agoConsidering the amount of Apple devices in the wild, I guess what I talk physically to people will be mostly recorded then, not to mention that Google assistant or smth like that maybe doing the same, what a Brave New World.
WillieShen@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[CBH] BentoPDF can now edit existing PDF text along with two new engines.English
1·17 days agoI selfhosted it on my phone and laptop. Great as a replacement of ILovePDF and those CLI tools that have no common interface (I could write some functions to make one tho).
WillieShen@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•There’s a common perception in the U.S. that taking public transit is dangerous. It's actually safer than driving.
51·17 days agoAs a Taiwanese, I have a perception that the US is dangerous, with lots of drug users and gun shots, and even in schools. Is that stereotype or fact?
WillieShen@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•To people outside the UK : Do you recognise this man?
3·18 days agoTaiwanese here. No. And many white people look just resemblant for me in my small Asian eyes.
WillieShen@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developersEnglish
2·20 days agoI think it can be removed, at least for my phone, in the settings > Google or just use adb.
If they really care about users’ security, they should make Graphene OS’s GMSCompact and explicit permissions the new standard instead of restricting what apps can they use and forcing invasive system apps. And centralized censorship and requiring an account is not what makes apps secure. Source available and reproducible build is.
WillieShen@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Does Mastodon bring anything of value to a Lemmy user?English
5·20 days agoI came from Mastodon. I think Mastodon does have some good features that haven’t come to Lemmy such as account migration and bio sites verification, while Markdown and no word count limit in Lemmy excels Mastodon. Other difference are more due to the different nature of them, just like Twitter compared to Reddit, for example, more organizations, artists, developers, etc. post on Mastodon.
Also ban Google. I think we should ban any schoolwork in required courses that requires students to agree to any third-party EULAs, such as Google account and Windows OS. For selective courses, considering the de facto status that many fields don’t have a mature enough open source software, banning is a bit exceeding proportionality IMHO. And offering Windows computer is probably ok as long as it’s not the default choice IMHO.
In my freshman year in the Electrical Engineering department, I took a required computer programming course, the course that I supposed it to be most aware of the existence of GNU/Linux, free format, and so on. However, it uses Google Sheets for homeworks and demands a Google Drive link of an exe for final team project and YouTube link for presentation. When they let students evaluate each other, I just got a bunch of exe, half of which doesn’t even open in Wine.
I also think they every school should offer NextCloud. Otherwise when team work occurs, Google Drive/Docs/Slides/Sheets is the de facto only choice.
BTW, I think LaTeX with git is more customizable and extensible and should be taught instead of teaching MS Office stuff. I actually take all my notes in LaTeX in a GitHub repo and do reproducible compilations.

Off topic but I guess it might be useful. YouTube channel RSS is
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id<channel_id>, or with gnu sed:echo '<channel_url>' | sed 's|https://www//.youtube/.com/channel/|https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id|'