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The big AI lie is that compute capacity is scarce. The fraud was propped up by SpaceX announcing big rental deals with "friends" (google a big owner of spacex, with deal 1 week before IPO) that have massive exit clauses for the buyers.

AI hype started with Meta/Xai needing all of their compute for their own AI ambitions, and that was the source for compute scarcity. That they have no special competency means that they resell their compute, is flooding an already well supplied compute market.

Over the years, I've downloaded a lot of old emails to my laptop, which I saved as .eml files and then converted to .docx, .odt, and .txt files (mostly the last two).

The unfortunate habit of almost everyone (including myself, but no longer!) of quoting the original message as part of an email exchange has left me with text file(s) full of repeated sentences and paragraphs. What I've tended to do is to dump all the text from a one on one correspondence into a single file ("Dad-Erinaceus Complete Correspondence.odt," for example) and then try cleaning it up and re-ordering the messages by date.

Apart from the emails, I have I guess what you'd call a "journal" which is a very long .odt file that runs to about 300 pages or so. Much of this has the same sentences and paragraphs over and over again, but sometimes with slight variations that I would like to keep. So far, in either .odt or .txt files, I've started by searching for the first sentence, deleting subsequent appearances of it, and then going on to the next sentence, and so forth. Very time consuming! Is there a faster (and safe) way to do this?

There is quite possibly a very simple solution to this that I haven't thought of, but I'd be much obliged for any suggestions.

https://archive.ph/wRFRf

Also relevant: https://netdollar.cloudflare.com/

As a Linux user forced into a temporary truce with Windows for gaming handheld compatibility, I refuse to run the OS in its "out of the box" state. I’ve put together a manual optimisation guide that skips the "one-click" de-bloat scripts and focuses on permanent Group Policy (gpedit) and system-level tweaks to make the OS semi-tolerable.

The Guide Covers:

Killing AI Spyware: Disabling the "Recall" background service, snapshot recording, and "Click to Do" screen scraping.

Telemetry Lockdown: Redirecting "Allow Diagnostic Data" to the Security level (0).

Start Menu Surgery: Decoupling search from Bing to keep local file searches actually local.

Performance recovery: Disabling Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) and background hypervisors for bare-metal gaming speed.

Edge/Widget Removal: Stopping background "loitering" and accidental UI stutters.

This is a reproducible, manual workflow for those who want a clean(er) environment without relying on third-party scripts.

https://archive.ph/NtQTw

https://archive.ph/MwwHV

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49396067

by Zoë Kooyman
Published on Jun 17, 2026 10:50 AM
in #FreeeSoftwareFoundation Bulletin

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https://archive.is/sQvr0