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... and I was reading the "What's new?" page. Spotted the new "Reading mode":
Quote: Simplify your reading experience
You can make it easier to focus on text by reducing distractions from images and videos with Reading mode. You can also adjust the font, text size, background color, and more to what works best for you.
- Go to a site where you plan to do some reading.
- Right-click on the page and select Open in Reading Mode. Text from the site will appear in the side panel.
- Select which reading customization options to apply to the text. If you want to resize the side panel, click and hold the Drag
icon
Could be useful; I'll try it. What page ... Hmmm ... How about "What's new"? It's kinda cluttered ...
Quote: Reading mode isn’t available on this page
Reading mode can't find the main content on this page
Doesn't work on CP either.
Google, Google, Google ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Doesn't work on CP either.
Whereas Firefox's Reader View[^], which has been around for nearly 10 years, has no problems with The Lounge. 
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You've done it, finally Microsoft. All your effort paid off. You successfully drove me away from using any of your mail clients as of now.
On top of all of the other problems I've had since Microsoft forced Outlook on Windows users just now I was typing an email and the stupid app just crashes. Goes away. Right in the middle of me typing. How professional.
Launch again and the Draft is just empty.
Microsoft clearly does not want me to trust them, or to use their insipid, software shaped garbage like Office.
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Thunderbird[^] - you'll never use anything else again.
/ravi
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Unfortunately, TB fails at the first hurdle for me. Trying to access my Office365 email account, it opens a window with an embedded browser to sign in. That embedded browser blocks all cookies, so the login just redirects to an error message. 
On top of that, the last time I tried it, it didn't find any of the folders in my account; only Inbox, Sent, and Trash were shown.
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I have a club that needs a membership solution, less that 1000 records they prefer a windows solution and I expect to put it into a database with a WPF front end (on multiple machines). Trick is it needs to be accessed but multiple users at different sites. So I'm looking for a solution that is either free or minimal cost to the club.
The current solution is excel on google drive but they are not happy with excel. Ideas would be appreciated.
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Take a look at Airtable or Seatable.
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I received email from Chris (probably) for
"Our CodeProject Community Survey 2024. Less than a minute."
All of the out links in the email were blocked for me because they all had link trackers through DoubleClick and developermedia.com, so I'm already well over the promised minute on this.
Blergh
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Probably you need to raise this with the admins - try here: Bugs and Suggestions[^] or reply to Chris directly via the email address the link came from.
I get the same if I click (mostly accidentally) on one of the ads on CP.
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I get the same. I can read the articles fine but the top 2 items - presumably ads, will never open.
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I have a Samsung smart TV that does everything I need it to except for watching CBS tv shows. Using the same method I use on my PC/browser, I open the internet app (which is Samsung's browser), go to cbs.com, click the show and episode I want to watch and it should start playing. Instead it displays a "optimizing your viewing experience" message ad infinitum. This happens during high-volume times (6-9pm) as well as late night/early morning times. I have no streaming services to further test with. I can watch YouTube videos whether in the same browser or in the YouTube app, both with no issue. My solution was to use the CBS app on my phone and share its screen with the tv. That works fine. This seems odd since (I think) twice the amount of traffic would be going back and forth on my home's Wi-Fi network.
Any ideas as to what might be going on here?
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My best idea as to what's going on is that the CBS stream is triggering some undocumented "feature" in the television's firmware.
Maybe there is a firmware update for the TV that you could try.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'd try talking to your local Samsung tech support first. And CBS tech support second if they aren't helpful. I'm guessing it's not going to be "just you" with the problem ...
Have you tried turning your house off and back on again? 
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Playing down problems is business as usual for bigger companies.
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Interesting article and I get the issue...but it took the author a very long time to communicate the problem.
* AI egines (LLMs) have a reproducible bug that causes them to babble incessantly
* AI Companies either a) don't care or b) have no one with enough knowledge to understand that the bug could be severe (could cause AI to do something it shouldn't)
(or don't care and don't understand it)
This seems like the normal situation that I see from every company these days. 
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They have a much larger problem than this bug - did they get permission to use published works to train their systems? I'm running into more authors who are putting disclaimers on the front of their eBooks that if the company want's to train using their work, they need to contact the author for approval and potentially payment. I'm waiting for companies like Amazon, with their huge Kindle Unlimited system, and library publishers to start filing copyright infringement cases against the LLM companies.
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Except - of course - any LLM that Amazon decides to train on all those ebooks (especially the Kindle Unlimited). And many of those ebooks (especially Kindle Unlimited) are probably generated by LLM, so it's The Circle of Life...
TTFN - Kent
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obermd wrote: authors who are putting disclaimers on the front of their eBooks that if the company want's to train using their work, they need to contact the author for approval and potentially payment
I'm betting the net result of that will be that the LLMs start putting disclaimers in their responses to say that if anyone wants to use the response to train an LLM, they should contact the company for approval and potentially payment.
Because of course the "AI" companies aren't going to start reading and respecting those disclaimers; they're just going to point their scraping tools at the book, and blindly shovel it all into their models.
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I'll play - what's an llm?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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