If I read a book to inform myself, put my notes in a database, and then write articles, it is called "research". If I write a computer program to read a book to put the notes in my database, it is called "copyright infringement". Is the problem that there just isn't a meatware component? Or is it that the OpenAI computer isn't going a good enough job of following the "three references" rule to avoid plagiarism?

Am I the only one old enough to remember when "Brand X" was the obviously substandard brand that all the name brands compared themselves to?

Are they calling it "Jesse Watters Down the News"?

Fear the Weapons of Math Instruction!

“Because he’s following his principles, he is literally now subsisting on bread and water,”

And my first thought was "NOW he has principles?"

@0uterzenith I have spent the last couple of days banging on this in anticipation of moving from Evernote. Both Obsidian and Joplin look like they would work for you. I've decided on Joplin for a number of reasons that are important to me.

1. It syncs natively through Dropbox.
2. It has clients for Windows, Linux, and iOS so all my devices can access it through Dropbox. Obsidian requires a subscription to support iOS.
3. It imports the Evernote .ENEX folder export files natively and pretty cleanly.

I found a web browser extension called "MarkdownLoad" that lets you capture all or part of a web page and save it to a markdown file (.MD) that you can then import into either. Solves the one issue I was really worried about in moving from Evernote.

"I'm not saying you're a republican. But republicans think you are a republican."

I view the protest as a shot across the bow. The warning about how much impact the changes are going to cause if Reddit doesn't back off. Reddit management has gone with "damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead". It is the next round that is going to indicate whether mods and users are really ready to bail.

But then we chop them off and display them around our living spaces.

So now I get to decide if Xtwit is worth $1/year. And my answer is "No."

Updated: Touch da fishy?

Anti-vaxers REALLY are the control group. Science!

This exactly. Employers will put pressure on all wages with the simple "I can pay a 16 year old $8 an hour to do the same thing. So I CAN'T give you more."

The whole point of swearing on the bible was to get God to be involved in enforcing the oath. So your disbelief may negate this aspect. On the gripping hand, you also swear in front of a government representative to get the gubmint involved in enforcing the oath. And if it is in their interest to enforce the oath; they will. With guns if necessary.

Using Firefox on a Windows 11 box in kbin.social: Next to my username is a bulleted list icon. Hovering on that pulls up a list:

• Subscribed

• Moderated

• Favorites

• All

Selecting Subscribed brings me to //kbin.social/sub. This seems to be what you want.

@DevCat This seems to be an application of Clarke’s First Law:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke

At this point I am going into Reddit to figure out which of my subscriptions I want to find a different way to access. So either I am finding a similar magazine in kbin or I'm moving the source to my RSS aggregator (Feedly).

Interestingly, as I bounce in to do a look/see, I'm seeing a whole lot less interesting content. So the moderator "revolt" is having a big effect for me.

@spriteblood On my desktop running kbin in a browser, there is a OldGreyTroll -> Settings -> Appearance option to pick what your homepage defaults to. And ./sub is one of them. YMMV.

That is supposed to be “feed the old troll donuts”

And here I always thought the 2nd verse started “O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all of us command.” Too many hockey games?