if you have ever to work with pdf beyond merely staring at one you'll realize to what extent that format is an absolute disgrace. there are a zillion tools out there to manage pdf in a zillion ways and not a single one of them gets pdf parsing and layout right 100% of the time, not even adobe's. the only thing pdf had going for it was that it wasn't msword, and that's why it spread like a virus, but we could really benefit from having a proper truly portable (and universally adopted) document format even at the cost of a reduced functionality or scope.

but the article isn't about that, like the post above yours says llms probably ignore the format altogether and just ocr-parse a printout. what this is about (apart from being clickbait to take you to the verge) is llms having problems in processing text in general exactly the way we would want them to, which is old news. the underlying cause is that llms simply predict text and lack real understanding, which is why their output often looks surprisingly good but is often not quite ok or completely wrong. this is the limit of what their statistical model can offer, now we're trying to furbish them with other supplementing techniques ... with only discrete success so far.

let's say we don't know how to do that ... yet. but we do know about several ways to compromise phones. and we tacitly know there are ways we still don't know. if you have access to the app encryption might not be a problem.

it may not need a backdoor. insider knowledge and some 0-day to get in might go a long way. both exist.

oh, the aim is just to pretend they're fixing the it system, that huuuuge barely tractable problem that eclipses all the endemic corruption in their bureaucracy, government and justice system and their decades long cover-up which was the real cause of all that misery and death. if you can destroy a person's life because a bug in your software, and do it again, and again, and again, and do it over and over for over 30 years then software never was the issue.

but if you fail to fix the system in 5 years, and get another 4 ctos to fail at it again ... after another quarter of a century nobody will remember anymore what the whole thing was about.

it has ofc had some effect on my health, but i'm managing. was/is it worth it? can't say, life is a long winding road. maybe i'm just lucky but i have no strong regrets in that regard, if that helps.

oh, you can hardly become poor from smoking, and being disliked can be just right sometimes! let me show you ...

/puffs into your face

/puffs in your general direction ...

that reality doesn't preclude particular interests in particular segments either, and there are precedents. so a targeted operation on discord is far from proven, but not unplausible.

also (going back to our exchange a few days ago) this instance clearly shows that personal info protection in age verification processes is far from what it is touted to be. this again might be deliberate or just greed and incompetence. in the latter case it would be showing really gross and possibly criminal incompetence, but still, who knows. it certainly is something that raises reasonable suspicions regardless of the motives, if any. (i.e., hardly a conspiracy).

apparently not. half of it seems to be males roughly of military age. i.e., the group you would expect being the meat of an insurgency:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthesocialshepherd.com%2F....

possibly beause he seems less interested in the actual (true) facts than in using them to uplift trump and demean biden (*1). that's a guaranteed reflex trigger for any fan of both mutually opposed but fundamentally equally noxious us oligarchies, and you're guarranteed to find plenty of both but more of the latter here.

*1 given his goal, it's logically irrelevant to him that most of the few tanker seizures under trump had little to do with russia's oil trade, and a lot to do with the currency employed in oil trade in general, and public perception.

btw, eu countries have no way around buying russian energy, nor does it appear that they will in the near future. their only concern is doing it in a way they can deny.

... superstition, selfishness and entitlement, as 95% of posts eloquently corroborate. slashdot never disappoints!

i don't care because i've done away with meat years ago anyway. i used to love it but i long don't crave it anymore, it actually started to disgust me pretty soon after withdrawal. physically i'm fitter than i ever was in my lifetime despite my age. however, turn that vat meat it into some spicy chorizo or llonganissa or some tasty morcilla or jabugo (shouldn't be hard, if you manate to get the fat right) and i'll buy now & then. i might even have a burger once every 3 months!

oh, yeah, and there's that bucolic fantasy given to us via corporate marketing. the overwhelming majority of meat production nowadays would turn anyone's stomach ... well, probably not everyone's on slashdot.

they're not weird, they're the default. as i said every desktop environment has some sort of equivalent that takes 5 minutes to learn, and that's enough to fully operate a desktop.

my philosophy here, after a very long time of use, including periods of extremely customizing very different uis, some quite esoteric, is that less is more. now, you might want more for any reason, that's ok, and if kde suits you in that regard then i'm happy for you. i'm not going to switch from something that works to something else just because it has just released a few new flashy ui goodies i really couldn't care less about.

oh, please, don't leave me like this. tell me how i should be using my computer. i've only been using computers continuously for about 45 years, both for fun and professionally, all sorts of them, from micros to mainframes. i can't wait to be enlighted and inspired by your wisdom.

super+t: terminal
super+start typing name of program, +ret, launches program
super+shift+direction: resize or move windows around or to another monitor
alt-esc: cycle programs

that works pretty well and it's hard to get any frustration out of that, and that's what i use most of the time. that means 98% of the time. 1% is when i want to check the time (the clock is right there at the top) or i have to adjust wifi or bluetooth (it's right there at the top-right corner), the other 1% is when i install some program or do some maintenance, terminal behaves as expected.

actually, about any desktop environment (including windows!) offers these features which get less than 5 minutes to learn. i cheerfully ignore everything else gnome offers without a care in this world, so i couldn't know about what your frustrations with gnome are. maybe if you tell me about them i could tell you how exactly you're wasting your time with your desktop environment. please don't get upset or offended, we only live once and my tonge is as usual firmly in cheek but i'm also dead serious.

however, frustrating is e.g. windows which way too often nags me trying to install crap i don't want and doesn't belong on a desktop in the first place, trying to place random crap apps on my screen, spewing nonsense about some idiotic notifications, forcing updates on me or attempting to coerce me to set up an online account (in vain, for now) or periodically screwing up my bluetooth. that's a bit frustrating indeed. gnome does none of that and the day it does it will go down the drain, since linux (unlike windows) still has alternatives.

oh, there is. the most important thing of a desktop metaphor is that i don't realize it's there. i want to launch programs, and that's it. the more functionality you add to it the more it gets in my way. that's (imo) a very good reason to avoid plasma from what i see in this release.

don't get me wrong, i surely could go with plasma. i've used them all, i have fiddled around a lot, but now i care so little about desktop environments that i usually go with the default of the distro i install, which currently happens to be ... gnome of all things!

probably to prevent accidental leaks of their dirty games. anyway, as the selective release of epstein manure has shown there is plenty of intentional leaking without ai being involved.

so how many hours a day do you spend choking on nafo brain rot? more than this girl on instagram? you could sue them ...

indeed, nothing really does. there is no clear cut definition of addiction, it's a subjective judgement depending on the perceived harms of the consequences. to some they seem bloody obvious, to some they're barely perceptible.

dialectic. they were trying to corner him to admit something that is likely true and would harm his interests, but they overdid it in terms that carry maximum severity but cannot be proven, so he weaseled out. rather easily, actually: he threw it back by escalating it to "it's not clinical addiction" which is doubling down on the nonsense, as such doesn't exist. even medical professionals would be emitting nothing but their personal opinion when qualifying something as "addiction", if they ever do. the term "addiction" is seldom used anymore in clinical contexts except in generic terms.

but the crowd loves these games. always smoke and mirrors. jean coctou put it well: if you hear someone say: "x has killed himself smoking opium" you should know that it is impossible, and that this death conceals something else.