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There's a fork of LibReddit called RedLib which should work better: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib?tab=readme-ov-file#libr...
Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:52PM (#39374356)
KDE should already support VRR and fractional scaling with more improvements coming in Plasma 6, and no non-fullscreen HDR yet until the Wayland color management protocol gets finalized
There is currently no reliable automatic way to know whether your student used ChatGPT. Best you can do is to manually check the structure and vocabulary of the work, but even that is not obvious with good prompting
Just "All LLMs"

Also, nice username

Re:Show HN: Directory of All LLM Models(Closed and Open Source) on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:27AM (#39303916)
Large Language Models Models?
Re:AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:08PM (#39291961)
One of the CPUs of all times

Edit: the title now has been fixed

Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:34PM (#39264947)
> I worked on a chrome extension a few weeks ago that skips sponsorship sections in YouTube videos by reading through the transcript

You might want to connect that to SponsorBlock

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

According to Microsoft documentation[1], "This header is used by Windows Imaging Component. For more information, see[2]"

It's good to see Jpeg XL support in Windows, but unfortunately it probably won't become a widespread standard until it becomes available in Chrome (again)

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincodec... [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_wic/

Tell HN: Yekaterina Duntsova barred from Russian presidential election

Yekaterina Duntsova has recently become very popular in Russia as an anti-Putin, anti-war, democratic candidateShe recently held a voter meeting to get the signatures legally required as a first step to become a presidential candidate. It was not easy since the police visited all the notary offices and there was only one which continued to work. However, it was successfully doneToday she came...

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Re:M3 MacBook Pro: Base Model Has Only 8GB RAM on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:02PM (#38103232)
Well, there were M2s in the comparisons too, I'd say the improvement is still good, but again we should bench for waitmarks before jumping to conclusions here
Re:M3 MacBook Pro: Base Model Has Only 8GB RAM on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:45PM (#38102956)
We'll need to bench for waitmarks to be certain, Apple showed some good performance improvements for the new cores. And the GPU has ray tracing acceleration now
Re:M3 MacBook Pro: Base Model Has Only 8GB RAM on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:31PM (#38102748)
M3 Pro 14 is $1999 and has 18 Gigs of RAM. AFAIK M2 Pro 14 cost the same with 16, so at least there's a small improvement
You can use LibreTube without a Piped account as well - the subscriptions will be saved locally
Also check out a FOSS Android app LibreTube[1]. No ads, SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike, can proxy all the videos through a Piped instance, subscription sync with a Piped account, offline and online playlists are supported

[1]: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:59PM (#36974483)
I wonder when we'll have fully functional HDR and neural engine so that the creative professionals could try using Linux on their Apple silicon Macs (software support is another story, though Davinci Resolve is already there)
But when not appending "reddit" what you're left with is SEO optimized websites with much lower quality content. While Reddit comments might not get you the full picture, they still seem to be worth reading in many cases