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So one the one hand, we're still worried about discouraging "illegal torrenting, streaming, and file-sharing".
But at the same time, we're giving big business free rein to steal everyone's words, pictures, music, and videos to train their "AI" models to make more money.
This is fine[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Great, now I have steal a bunch of copyrighted material next time I see an anti-piracy slogan, else my manhood is threatened. /s
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I am deeply annoyed by threatening messages trying to make me think what I am doing is illegal, when Norwegian Law explicitly allows me to do what I am doing.
Norway always had very liberal laws for making individual copies of protected works for private use. The general rule is that as long as you do it yourself, for your own private (non-commercial) use, and the only right protection you break is one who can be generally considered to be broken (such as video disk zone and CSS), you can freely save any broadcast, make copies of your friend's CDs and movies.
There are a small handful of exceptions: You cannot make private copies of databases, nor of computer programs. You must make the copies yourself, you cannot to any sort of 'copying service' to have it done. Your right is limited to making 'single copies' (but 'copies' in plural); if you own a copying robot, you cannot make a series of 100 copies to share among your friends.
I am not doing that anyway. I am doing what the law explicitly grants me permission to do. So I am offended by these threatening messages trying to make me feel like a criminal. I am not!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in AI, and it wants everyone to use Copilot on Windows. Maybe you could ask the Copilot to show you the desktop
Possibly the part of the taskbar I click most often
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Do you know the "shake a window" trick? Not sure it works on W11, but probably?
Grab a window and wiggle it vicariously.
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It still leaves the shaken window open. Closing that one window 'manually' is of course much simpler that closing 42 individual windows, but still it is only an approximation of 'Show Desktop'.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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The hardest button to button
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And why is it so often used? Do you store important documents on the desktop?
Are you one of those people with hundreds of icons on their desktops? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My reasons are my reasons.
But no - the only thing usually on my desktop is the waste paper basket.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Possibly the part of the taskbar I click most often
Windows-Key + D (both ways... show desktop and go back)
Problem solved   
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Just a matter of programming my fingers now, thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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You are welcome 
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A new feature of the Visual Studio installer, the automatic install of “recommended” components even when not specifically selected by the developer, has prompted objections from the coding community. Of course you need it, disk space be damned!
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The model delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate."
They released 1.0 last week, 1.5 this week, can they keep up the pace?
"This means 1.5 Pro can process vast amounts of information in one go — including 1 hour of video, 11 hours of audio, codebases with over 30,000 lines of code or over 700,000 words." <<- ufda
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More and more, I'm seeing job recruiters encourage the addition of "soft skills" to your resume—here's when you should (or shouldn't) follow that advice. Does my belly count as a soft skill?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does my belly count as a soft skill?
I don't know yours, but my kids say mine yes... they get most of the days asleep using it as a pillow 
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It's going to depend on the job you're applying for. If you're looking for a pure technical job then soft skills will probably be a lower priority than if you're looking for a leadership role of any sort. Also, take a look at the overall job posting and if it mentions collaboration or gives any other indication of needing soft skills, add them to your resume.
You do make a custom resume for each application, right?
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Apparently, one of the "soft skills" is lying; the "expert" claims to have done 36 interviews a week for 16 years. (More if he took time off.)
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Salesforce Inc. said today it’s building on the generative artificial intelligence capabilities within its Slack messaging and collaboration platform. The AI are already Slacking off
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The rear-facing camera on your Surface Pro tablet will soon have a new purpose as Microsoft is working on the ability to connect to Wi-Fi networks from the Camera app. I don't see how that could possibly be abused, do you?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I don't see how that could possibly be abused, do you?
If it only were that... I would be already happy if they don't break anything else while "improving" this
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A peek under the hood of GitHub Advanced Security code scanning autofix. Because it has always been due to human error
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To fight the story below?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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That would imply common sense... are you sure about it?
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A number of nation-backed groups are starting to use large language models to help with research, scripting, and phishing emails. Maybe the AI will be kind enough to write some flaws in their hacks?
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