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  • VPNs for UK users?

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  • Mullvad.

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    Searching through massive files

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  • Try ripgrep instead of grep. Unless you go for index etc.

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    Why does everyone hate Income tax ?

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  • Whining about having to pay income taxes by themselves. Could also be that many are self employed.

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    Why does everyone hate Income tax ?

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  • I don't think it's enforced by law. Only federal tax. Maybe different in different states? Anyway, Americans are always whining about it, so I figured it was national/federal.

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    Why does everyone hate Income tax ?

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  • In theory, it's not the most economically efficient. We want people to work, and taxing labor decreases the incentive to work. However, there isn't any viable alternative given the current circumstances. Labor creates all value in society and you can't easily hide labor off shore (though I guess that's what happened with globalization and China).

    One should understand that income tax should be a tax on the consumption of labor (just as a tariff is a tax paid by the importer/consumer). Right-wing politicians have made the employee pay the income tax (to decrease acceptance of the system), but it should always be the employer that pays the tax.

    If we start to call income tax "labor VAT" or something similar, that will probably solve a lot of misunderstandings.

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    Why does everyone hate Income tax ?

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  • Making the employer pay the tax before the money reach the employee solves quite a lot. I understand that's not the practice in the US.

  • The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies

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  • What do you guys think about AnySoftKeyboard? Could it be a "sleeping agent"?

    Country of origin is Israel according to: https://alternativeto.net/software/anysoftkeyboard/about/

    (I know this doesn't mean anything, but still..)

    The main developer seems to live in New York: https://evendanan.net/

    He's probably a good guy. Just got a little suspicious (or curious) when I saw the Israeli flag on AlternativeTo.

  • Any good alternative to Google Translator in Android?

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  • Not same results as DeepL but.. You can use any popular online LLM for excellent translation. There are also "small" language models that you can run on your phone (if you havet a reasonable modern/powerful phone that is): https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm

  • Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?

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  • Because the political and economical situation is extreme.

  • Better alternative to GitHub with good git speeds?

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  • Any shitty old laptop can self host any git service as long you only have a single or handful of users.

  • What are the career fields where you definitely don't need a LinkedIn?

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  • I'm in tech. LinkedIn has only done damage when it comes to finding a job. It brings a lot of noise into the process. Will never use it again.

  • [Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite?

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  • [Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite?

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  • Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?

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  • My only advice is that you stick to one model and give it some time. You need to "learn" your model. I will probably never go back. I had huge issues with getting good results from Google and my subjective experience is that this is far better. However, I do still use conventional search engines as a complement. It's not all or nothing.

  • Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?

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  • This is the one I use: https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/agents/

    Just tell the modell to do web searches in the system prompt.

    All providers should have something similar. With a user friendly UI.

    If you code your own agent and utilize an API or run a model locally, you can of course do even more. There are many tools if you want to do RAG on your own local data.

  • Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?

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  • Because it's useful. Have you tried? But the LLM has to be able to use conventional search engines as well. I tell my LLM agent to prioritize certain kinds of websites and present a compressed answer with references. Usually works way better than a standard Google search (which only produce AI generated junk results anyway).

    You can get very good answers or search results by utilizing RAG.

  • Something's fishy with the votes

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  • Yes. That was it. Don't know why the setting changed.

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Something's fishy with the votes

  • Who should americans be more concerned about: MS-13 or Russia?

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  • Russia. MS-13 is nothing in comparison. Though it wouldn't surprise me if Russia supports MS-13 as part of their hybrid warfare. That's how they work.

    Understand that Russia has largely been able to put US to its knees through hybrid methods that utilize and enhance the negative effects of american arrogance, neoliberal dogmatism and the war on drugs. Trump is the final stage before the empire comes down. It's probably too late to turn the ship around by now. China + EU is already the facto world leaders and the US is doing everything to destroy itself and there is no real political and economical self-awareness among people with power.

    The US should have started to decrease inequality, stop the war on drugs and enforced (sane) tariffs and migration policies 15 years ago. The EU has the same problems, but there isn't the same level of inequality and political extremism and fundamentalism, which makes me believe that the EU will survive as a western democracy and relevant world player, but the US will not.

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • Maybe give Doom Emacs a try? Anyway, I thing we can put IDE/Editor in the subjective quality bucket.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Will Trump tariffs and implied trade war have a significant effect on the global emissions of greenhouse gases?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    What are your thoughts on FUTO?

    futo.org /about/what-is-futo/
  • Actually Useful AI @programming.dev
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    Full size DeepSeek R1 within the EU?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Has the USA turned into an oligarchy?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How do you solve dynamic DNS?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    What the EU’s new software legislation means for developers

    github.blog /open-source/maintainers/what-the-eus-new-software-legislation-means-for-developers/
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?