An umbrella built to be a defensive baton, no I am not kidding.

If you aren’t in an enclosed narrow space and having an umbrella/parasol this is by far your best option besides pepper spray type options.

Something like this (not recommending this site specifically just using as an example).

https://www.primalsurvivor.net/tactical-umbrella/

Looks like uniq might be helpful, it appears built precisely like what you want.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2.0?topic=u-uniq-command

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/uniq-command-in-linux-with-examples/

emacs

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

https://susam.net/cc/mastering-emacs/ch05.html

• M-x delete-duplicate-lines RET: Delete all but one copy of duplicate lines in region. When executed on the whole of the example buffer presented above, it leaves us with three non-empty lines and one blank line. When duplicate lines are encountered, the first instance of each line is kept intact and the others are deleted.

https://rants.org/2023/01/count-fold-lines

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/03/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-delete-duplicate-lines/

Because it is a massive financial scam built on a lame cult.

I can’t wait for both AI and Microsoft to entirely shit the bed.

AI and gaming are becoming an inseparable match. Whether it’s AI used in modern graphics rendering or AI used in actual game development, I’ve stated several times that I don’t think they’ll be separated anytime soon.

This is going to age like milk. I hope this person gets lambasted for being so confidently wrong and is fired and discredited from being a tech writer after the AI bubble pops.

Cale Hunt is his name and he is an AI promoting hack.

https://www.windowscentral.com/author/cale-hunt

Like it or not, I can’t leave out AI integration with the OS. Based on what I’ve personally experienced with NVIDIA’s DLSS 4.5 and tools like multi frame generation (MFG), AI will play a major role in the future of PC gaming. Windows already has an Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) feature available in Copilot+ PCs, and it’s the only system-level technique on the market.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-gaming-edition-future-os-look-like

Ahahahahahahahaha

Yeah but in tech nobody questions it because there is no culture of workplace organizing.

Remember in Reaper you can change the theme and menus around all you want, so you can make it look and behave however you want if certain things annoy you.

FL Studio is great, it isn’t fair to compare other audio software to Reaper lol.

Sytrus is an amazing design for a synthesizer and Harmor is fascinating too.

Reaper works great on linux.

What relevant “AIs” can you point to that are not LLMs or the equivalent design approach in mediums other than text?

No one cares what your vibe opinions about AI are especially if you will not give even a shred of evidence to back up your assertations.

Incredible claims require incredible evidence… do you really not know that basic aspect about rational discussion?

I expect people not to spread disinformation about technology that sells a scifi fantasy as an inevitability just around the corner without providing any proof that it will happen.

You are bullshitting, stop bullshitting.

You are pointing at a remote potential you consider inevitable and saying condescendingly “Well of course this will happen!?”.

The burden of proof is on you.

I don’t know if it exists.

You are speculating about something with no evidence.

In both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.

We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.

Social media is humans being social through media, I am sick and tired of it being categorically villainized especially because the scientific evidence for it being inherently bad is laughable.

I am not a professional programmer but it seems to me that the idea that AI is needed to increase the firehose of code being written to “improve” programming and how well computers work is as absurd as the idea that the point of a university degree in a language is to increase the raw amount of words being written in that language.

The point is to convey ideas with language not produce more language, same thing with code, the point is to solve problems not produce ever larger and larger amounts of code with automation.

Something I know without a doubt is that for many people who love language, they desire a great deal less of the fake, hurtful, useless words that drown out the good ones. People who love words and work in crafting and shaping them tend to think it is inherently good to shape useful words not just mindlessly produce combinations of words in as great a volume possible.

To put it in a more abstracted fashion, relying on AI to produce more and more code faster and faster feels like a Jazz musician saying they rely on AI to fill in all the empty spaces they leave between notes with complementary embelleshing notes. The point of a jazz musician is clearly not to produce the most notes possible, it is to convey meaning with notes.

To bring it back to a concrete example, how many times has Google built a new chat program/app from scratch and then abandoned it? Sure there is lots of code there of very high quality, an intimidating amount to be sure, but isn’t the primary job of the programmer here to say “hey, why don’t we stop writing new code from the ground up for every chat app a different part of the company wants and standardize it to a much smaller codebase with a set of customizations different parts of the company can apply to the same core chat program”?

It seems to me a good programmer would be good at framing problems from a perspective that requires as simple implementation in code as possible within reason, not be best at producing the program with the most lines of code fastest that still solves the problem.

I haven’t found a way to directly add an outline frame to the text but you can go to tools->shapes and set it to outline no fill and manually do frame the text

The interface is a bit strange at first but it is a genuine multiple layer image editor it is great.

A tip, make sure to confirm/complete a tool’s action before you switch to a different one, it is easy to switch off a tool while it is still “previewing” something.

For Android I highly recommend Pocket Paint from FDroid.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.catrobat.paintroid/

https://github.com/Catrobat/Paintroid

looks over from still making shitty memes in GIMP

“Huh?”