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  • infeeeee@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldDid you know this?
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    3 days ago

    It’s in a lot of program, not just ff. You can also see some letters are underlined in that menu, if you press that letter after alt, it would invoke that command or open that drop down without using the mouse. This is a convention at least from DOS, but I suspect it may be even older.

    So actually alt doesn’t unhide the menu, it waits for a letter input to what command you want to start. It just happened that this old type of menu is hidden by default in a lot of programs and alt could be reused for this as well.






  • It’s a feature of an Android app (I even guess it’s preinstalled on some devices), and it was clearly stated in the title, that it’s not an Android feature, but it’s a feature of G**gle Authenticator.

    Yesterday you agreed to my comment, that the problem is when Android and other app features are mixed up. Here it’s clearly stated that it’s not an Android feature.

    You request more tight moderation, but unnecessarily strict mod control can kill communities. This news is related to Android, and isn’t against any of the rules on the sidebar. If you don’t want to see it downvote and move along. If a lot of us downvote it maybe OP will think differently and stop posting these articles.



  • Some feedback:

    • On white background the text next to the logo is not visible
    • Add screenshots in the README, it’s a GUI app
    • Requirements.txts for dependency management is the old way, read about pyproject.toml you can merge them a single easy to read and edit file
    • “Install the dependencies” means nothing to a non-python developer. Direct users to install your project via pipx, that’s modern and secure way of installing a python application with dependencies for non developers. Publish it to pypi for even easier installation.
    • Add a notice that currently it’s windows only os.path.join(os.environ["APPDATA"], "Tagify", "config.yaml") will fail on *nix systems. Use pathlib.Path instead of os.path. Use pathlib, I see on a lot more places it would make your life much easier.
    • I have a feeling that the file icons are not your work. If you copied them from somewhere make sure their license is compatible, and add an acknowledgement.

    Keep up the work, it seems like a nice project!



  • It’s a marketing article with nearly zero actual facts. One screenshot about the actual product.

    MS and others already use AI for drawing building countours for OpenStreetMap and OvertureMaps from aerial imagery. In osm these AI generated lines are only allowed to be imported after a human supervision and currently it’s very hit or miss. On low density areas it’s mostly good, but in dense city centers it’s unusable.

    In overture maps these lines are imported automatically, that’s why you can see buildings on rivers.

    They don’t write about these shortcomings in the article, and how they solved AI hallucinations









  • They are users not developers. An academic or civil engineer who uses a CFD simulator usually has not enough programming knowledge develop such a complex application. The employer has not enough funds to pay for developers (see, they use a pirated software). Paying for developers is still more expensive than buying an already developed product.

    Just look at the state of FOSS CAD software. There are some, but they are very-very limited compared to proprietary alternatives. Most people don’t care, they just want to get the work done. Not everyone is a programmer, even if it looks like that from our lemmy bubble.


  • In the Register article they didn’t copied from the source that the scientists were from Egypt.

    Flow3D has different academic and research licenses: https://www.flow3d.com/academic-program/

    • There is a free research license available, but it’s only for 4 months. It’s short, researches can take much longer than that.
    • There is a free teaching license, but it can have limitations for using the software outside education. It may be forbidden to use outside classes, so it’s possible that they had a teaching license, but they couldn’t use that for research?
    • There are licenses for full departments, but it’s available for selected countries only.

    It’s strange that they went after these scientists. In 2nd and 3rd word countries software privacy for work is still common. Everything is cheaper, but software prices are the same as in the US, so they pay relatively more for the same tool. I found that a normal license for Flow 3D can cost USD 100k. According to a quick search civil engineers get USD 2000 yearly in Egypt.

    Usually American software companies don’t really care about piracy by individuals in these countries. The rationale is that it’s better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor without payment. They go after bigger companies, at least that’s my experience.

    That’s why this story is strange to me, or at least something else should be behind it.