Maybe ccleaner was fine, there were a bunch of these tools and ccleaner is the one i remembered the name. Wasnt really trying to criticize ccleaner specifically

This is reminding me of those pc optimizer tools like CCleaner that promised to find a bunch of things to uninstall and redundant/trash files to delete and make your pc 3000x faster, but ended up breaking your system.

What do you mean? Chinese people cant host a lemmy server? Or just the main servers worldwide arent available there?

“Exerting control” or “getting you cknditioned to follow orders” is the default motive for conspiracy theories that people cant think of a good motive for. I heard it a lot about using masks during covid.

No need for that “and”, it’s redundant.

For tex, i would suggest taking a basic template, and writing what you need, looking up how to do things as you need them. Theres a bunch of documentation on sites like overleaf, and you can learn a lot by looking at stackexchange threads.

Libre office exists

The associativity thing also doesnt make sense.

That the script could incorporate some checking mechanisms and implement an “i dont know” for when the LLMs answers fails some tests.

They already do some of that but for other purposes, like censoring, or as by recent news, grok looks up musks opinions before answering questions, or to make more accurate math calculations they actually call a normal calculator, and so on…

They could make the LLM produce an answer A, then look up the question on google and ask that LLM to “compare” answer A with the main google results looking for inconsistencies and then return “i dont know” if its too inconsistent. Its not a rigorous test, but its something, and im sure the actual devs of those chatbots could make something much better than my half baked idea.

The chatbots are not just LLMs though. They run scripts in which some steps are queries to an LLM.

They have a point, chatbots are built on top of LLMs, they arent just LLMs.

They could be programmed to do some double/triple checking, and return “i dont know” when the checks are negative. I guess that would compromise the apparence of oracle that their parent companies seem to dissimulately push onto them.

If too much of these services are provided by another country, that country could severely cripple your infrastructure by denying you service. In times of international conflicts, this could be a very serious problem.

I use simple tab groups on firefox, it allows you to set a default container to tabs in each group, so its very convenient to manage.

Im convinced i just post rationalize my instinctive behaviour. But my instincts react not only to the external world, but also to my previous thoughts. So my reasonings influence somewhat my behaviour, they dont dictate my behaviour, but they influence it.

So when can we stop with this “free markets” nonsense in the third world aswell??

If i got it right, flatpacks gather all of the dependencies of the package and bundles them with tha package. Maybe those extra 290mb were from dependencies that you already had installed but that flatpak wanted to install another copy.

I think pirating scientific papers is a good thing all around. The research isnt funded by the selling of access to those papers, much on the contrary.

Doing the right thing isnt always safe… Dont get me wrong, this antiimmigration thing is disgusting, but them covering up is not a good indicator of shittiness.

im glad that it works for you, but my point is that we should have the right to have a non-intrusive phone just as easily as we have intrusive ones. People shouldnt be expected to learn how to unlock a bootloader, or import one of the few phone models that support these alternative roms with all security features in place. In the process of installing these roms, some people might fall into the trap of installing them from a suspicious source.