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Some books deserve to be banned.

I would put Kevin MacDonald's antisemitic trilogy The Culture of Critique, the Turner Diaries ( which calls for mass extermination of non-white groups in the USA ) and Mein Kampf in the realm of books that should be shunned.

Your ePub Is fine 1 month ago

"EPUB is an amazing open standard for ebooks, and yet so many implementations of it are just fundamentally flawed, all in the name of keeping IP lawyers happy."

Easy to be dismissive, but IP violations can cost a large company hundreds of millions.

IP lawyers are more important to many companies than their software developers.

If you doubt that, check to see who gets paid more...

A lawyer I know who specialises in rape, and is excellent at getting the obviously guilty exonerated, lost a case last year because of GoPro videos.

Her client was recording while committing the abhorrent crime. The criminal would otherwise have got off.

From my perspective, the GoPro camera produced a good outcome. Still, one has wonder why anyone to record their criminal actions.

Linux 7.1 1 month ago

Current default for Arch is 7.0.10

Looking forward to 7.1 rolling out soon.

Words of wisdom. PG is always worth Reading.

The haters do not seem to be actually reading and comprehending PG's article.

I have news for you.

The article is not written for those of you who are comprehension challenged...

Leaving Mozilla 1 month ago

Rust was an own goal foot gun.

Interesting language with a passionate community / cult, but the value to Mozilla was vanishingly close to zero.

Despite the protests, he admits using AI and then charging his clients full price...

"But maybe I will ask Claude’s opinion, and if one of the suggestions is smart—cutting a paragraph, for instance, or clarifying a sentence—I might accept it.

When I started translating 15 years ago, we used to paste uncooperative sentences into Google Translate to see if it had interesting ways to phrase things differently. Then came DeepL—same idea."

I had transliterated lyrics of a song * with stanzas in Urdu , Braj Basha, Persian and Arabic , that I wanted to understand better ..

Gemini did a pretty good job of translating this to English .

Sure a professional human translator would have done a more nuanced job if I was willing to invest the money and time . But ...

* tajdar e haram originally by Payam Saihalwi, later versions by the Sabri Brothers and recently by Asif Aslam

Glioblastomas have a poor 5 year survival rate.

The poor man was made into a local Australian celebrity by the media.

Australia has an unenviable track record of promising sounding companies that get funding from government sources and soon go belly up.

Poor implemenation, poor quality control, complacency and the lack of educated personnel all contribute to this.

Meanwhile, the technology is studied, improved and transferred by enterprising Chinese and soon becomes a billion dollar company in Guangdong.