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incompatible commented on Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux mark.stosberg.com/univers... · Posted by u/uncircle

db48x · 10 days ago

Sure, but the API is primitive and limited. The browser puts it in CLIPBOARD, but then the user pastes from PRIMARY and gets something they didn’t expect. And the author of the web page probably included some event handler(s) that breaks the selection, so that selecting text doesn’t copy to PRIMARY like it should either.

incompatible · 10 days ago

I suppose something like that is going on. Perhaps if I use some kind of "clipboard app" I'll be able to recover it.

Edit: Hmm, got one already called clipman, and it can display the two types of selections, now just have to figure out how to use it.

incompatible commented on Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux mark.stosberg.com/univers... · Posted by u/uncircle

koiueo · 10 days ago

The universality of copy/paste is overrated. It's literally just adding shift in terminal emulators, no biggie.

A bigger UX problem (on Linux) imo is the multitude of clipboards, we have x11, vim... Those can be synchronized or not, they manifest different behaviors...

And btw while apple is often offered as some golden standard for key bindings, I think the situation there is much (MUCH) worse: apps often intercept and handle common combinations on their own, with unclear precedence, which leads to non-deterministic behavior and a complete mess if you want to override any standard combination.

incompatible · 10 days ago

I don't even like the solution. "Buy a new programmable keyboard." The keyboard I've got generally works fine. It's not programmable as far as I know, but who knows for sure.

The clipboard has always been annoying. Even today, you often see a "copy to clipboard" or something on a web page, and it never works on Linux. Not as I've got it configured, in any case.

incompatible commented on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

greenchair · 11 days ago

no need to consider all angles about an issue. not possible anyway. think about how much time you've wasted on HN reading opposing views that add no value.

incompatible · 10 days ago

Also bearing in mind that most of us can't really do much about issues in the news, apart from posting a few pithy comments of our own which will disappear into the noise.

incompatible commented on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

dlachausse · 11 days ago

> I don't follow people who post misinformation

A little off topic, but where do you get your news? I am having the hardest time finding credible news sources that aren't full of misinformation or bias to the point of being Soviet Union Pravda levels of propaganda.

The best I've been able to do is pick a few sources that are left leaning and a few that are right leaning and try to glean the truth myself using critical thinking and for particularly important topics, more in depth research independently. The problem is that this is very time consuming and exhausting.

incompatible · 10 days ago

Various, but including The Guardian and ABC News (Australia). I don't think they knowingly post misinformation in news reports, but there's still selection bias (I usually just read headlines, there's little I really need to know in depth). Their opinion and fluff pieces may or may not be interesting on the day.

I lost interest in "right-leaning" when they basically went mad some time before the first Trump term. Neoliberalism was already on its last legs as a credible doctrine. I'm more or less an anarchist at this point.

Edit: the ABC is somewhat right-leaning, and the Guardian doesn't really lean very far left.

incompatible commented on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

squigz · 11 days ago

> I don't really need to see opposing points of view as though they are novel thoughts that I've never considered before

I mean, that's fine, if you think that you can consider all conceivable angles thoroughly, by yourself. I for one welcome opposing views, but I suppose if my idea of that meant "religion or conspiracy theories" I'd probably be avoiding it too.

incompatible · 11 days ago

I follow people I can learn from, not people who try to convince me that everything I already know is wrong. I don't follow people who post misinformation, reject science, or who think that ad hominem attacks are a valid form of debate. There are a lot of them out there!

incompatible commented on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

unsignedint · 11 days ago

Social media as a vessel for diverse discussion is a tall order. It’s too public, too tied to context, and ultimately a no-win game. No matter how carefully you present yourself, you’ll end up being the “bad guy” to someone. The moment a discussion touches even lightly on controversy, healthy dialogue becomes nearly impossible.

Think of it this way: you’re hosting a party, and an uninvited stranger kicks the door open, then starts criticizing how you make your bed. That’s about what it feels like to try to “fix” social media.

incompatible · 11 days ago

"Diverse discussion" is just something I don't want. Of course I've made up my mind about all kinds of things and I don't really need to see opposing points of view as though they are novel thoughts that I've never considered before. Sure, tell me again why your religion or your conspiracy theory proves that the scientific consensus is a hoax. Maybe you'll convince me this time?

I don't mind Mastodon, but I'm pretty selective in who I follow, and diversity of opinions isn't one of my criteria.

incompatible commented on Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations niemanlab.org/2025/08/jap... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

staticautomatic · 13 days ago

“Reproduce” in this context reads like “copy/republish”, which would not be a derivative work.

incompatible · 13 days ago

Yes, if it's an exact copy, but I don't know if their system is actually presenting entire articles, or just fragments (copyrightable, perhaps) and perhaps mixing them with other text.

incompatible commented on Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations niemanlab.org/2025/08/jap... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

stubish · 13 days ago

> So it sounds like they definitely scraped the content and used it for training, which is legal

It certainly seems legal to train. But the case is about scraping without permission. Does downloading an article from a website, probably violating some small print user agreement in the process, count as distribution or reproduction? I guess the court will decide.

incompatible · 13 days ago

According to the article, they are complaining that the downloaded content had "been used by Perplexity to reproduce the newspaper’s copyrighted articles in responses to user queries." Derived works.

incompatible commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox

saati · 14 days ago

Except the effort and money needed to be OSA compliant. As the whole enwiki is permissively licensed everyone is welcome to do it though.

incompatible · 13 days ago

Fairly easy, just make it a read-only mirror.

incompatible commented on Double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials news.mit.edu/2025/famous-... · Posted by u/ColinWright

ziofill · 22 days ago

Quantum physicist here. I can only say that reality down there at the quantum level is really really weird. You can get used to it, but forget making sense of it.

A delayed choice setup is not too dissimilar than a Bell inequality violation experiment. The weirdness there is that you can set things up such that no signal can travel between the systems being measured, and yet the outcomes are more correlated than any classical joint state can be.

So the conclusion is that either locality fails (i.e. it’s not true that outcomes on one side are independent of how you measure the other side) or realism fails (i.e. you can’t assign values to properties before the measurement, or in other words a measurement doesn’t merely “reveal” a pre-existing value: the values pop into existence in a coordinated fashion). Both of these options are crazy, and yet at least one of them must be true.

incompatible · 22 days ago

It's the measurement problem, I think? Energy is moving as a wave, but the energy can only be transferred in quantum-sized values. At some point it "collapses" to a particular interaction with some other wave, and we can only probabilistically calculate where this may occur.

Edit: the Bell experiment is something else. It's like a wave can exist as an entity outside of time and space and only comes back to reality when it interacts. Perhaps it would make sense for electromagnetic waves if the distance and local time elapsed contracts to zero per relativity when travelling at the speed of light.