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• Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Modern Terminal Emulators?

  18-12-2022 23:56 via tech.slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader SoftwareArtist writes:Terminal emulators have barely changed in 30 years. They're still just scrolling windows of unstructured text. Why is there so little innovation in an application we use every day?
  There are so many ways they could be modernized to help us be more productive. For example:
  - If I type ls to show a directory listing, I should be able to right-click on a filename and get a list of operations to perform on that file, just like a file browser.
  - If I start to typ
  
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• Is AI-Generated Art 'an Insult to Life'?

  18-12-2022 22:56 via slashdot.org
  Set in Fascist Italy before and during World War II, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is "a magical but distinctly un-Disney-like tale of parenthood, grief, life, death, and war," writes Decider.
  "Using hundreds of puppets with movable silicone skin, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and his small army of animators and puppeteers shot simultaneously on 60 stages, 60 cameras, and 60 sets," they add, saying he crafted the two-hour movie that premiered on Netflix this month (and in select theatres) into "
  
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• Stack Overflow Survey Finds 74% of Developers are 'Actively' Looking or 'Open to' a New Job

  18-12-2022 21:49 via developers.slashdot.org
  Stack Overflow has the announced the results of its annual survey of developers. ZDNet reports:
  Almost three-quarters (74%) of developers are actively looking for new roles or are open to fresh opportunities, according to research.... The highest percentage of active job seekers is in the 20-24 year-old cohort (27%), with 21% for 25-34 year-olds, 17% for 35-44 year-olds, and only 12% for 45-54 year-olds.
  Additionally, the percentage of younger developers actively searching for their next role in
  
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• Samsung Ditches Samsung? New Team Formed for Building Its Own Chipsets

  18-12-2022 20:49 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "Samsung's Mobile Experience (MX) Business has formed a completely new team for designing and developing its own chipsets," reports the Business Standard, citing media reports. "The company has formed an application processor (AP) solution development team within the business."
  A similar position already exists with Samsung System LSI, which designs logic chips such as Exynos, which MX uses in its Galaxy phones. According to sources, the MX Business is forming its own identical team either to op
  
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• Artists Opposing AI Image Generators Use Mickey Mouse to Goad Copyright Lawsuits

  18-12-2022 19:48 via slashdot.org
  AI tools like DALLÂE 2, Lensa AI, and Midjourney "can be told to create imagery in the style of a particular artist," notes this article in the Daily Dot.
  Yet "The current legal consensus, much to the chagrin of many artists, concludes that AI-generated art is in the public domain and therefore not copyrighted." So...
  In response to concerns over the future of their craft, artists have begun using AI systems to generate images of characters including Disney's Mickey Mouse. Given Disney's h
  
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• Researchers Propose New Structures To Harvest Untapped Source of Freshwater

  18-12-2022 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  An announcement from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign:An almost limitless supply of fresh water exists in the form of water vapor above Earth's oceans, yet remains untapped, researchers said. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the first to suggest an investment in new infrastructure capable of harvesting oceanic water vapor as a solution to limited supplies of fresh water in various locations around the world.
  The study, led by civil and environmental engi
  
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• GitHub To Offer Coders Free Scanning For Leaked Keys, Tokens, and Other Secrets

  18-12-2022 17:34 via developers.slashdot.org
  TechCrunch reports:Every developer knows that it's a bad idea to hardcode security credentials into source code. Yet it happens and when it does, the consequences can be dire. Until now, GitHub only made its secret scanning service available to paying enterprise users who paid for GitHub Advanced Security, but starting Thursday, the Microsoft-owned company is making its secrets scanning service available for all public GitHub repos for free.
  In 2022 alone, the company notified partners in its se
  
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• For the First Time Hundreds of Amazon Workers Will Go On Formal Strike in the UK

  18-12-2022 16:34 via news.slashdot.org
  CNBC reports:Hundreds of Amazon workers will go on strike, Britain's GMB union said Friday, marking a first for the company's employees in the U.K. Employees at Amazon's Coventry warehouse in central England voted Friday to go on strike, with the walkout likely to happen in January 2023. Roughly 1,000 people work at the Coventry facility.
  The workers are unhappy with a pay increase of 3%, or 50 pence per hour, Amazon introduced in the summer, which they say fails to match the rising cost of livi
  
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• America's Workplace Safety Agency Announces Ongoing Investigations at Six Amazon Warehouses

  18-12-2022 15:04 via yro.slashdot.org
  Friday America's Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched an ongoing investigation into six Amazon warehouses in five different states, and has already cited Amazon during those inspections for failing to properly record work-related injuries and illnesses.OSHA issued Amazon citations for 14 recordkeeping violations, including failing to record injuries and illnesses, misclassifying injuries and illnesses, not recording injuries and illnes
  
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• How Scammers Took a Winnipeg Town For $430K Using Bitcoin

  18-12-2022 12:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  Slashdot reader lowvisioncomputing shares a story from the CBC about an elaborate heist discovered "when the chief administrative officer of a southwestern Manitoba rural municipality [population: 3,300] noticed the series of unusual cash withdrawals from its bank account...."
  It began with a job advertisement. A seemingly legitimate company, with a professional website and a Nova Scotia address, claimed it was looking for cash processors. The contract was for one month. Employees could work fro
  
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• How an Unlikely Subpoena to Google Helped Solve a Complex International Missing Person Case

  18-12-2022 09:54 via yro.slashdot.org
  Long-time Slashdot reader wattersa is a lawyer in Redwood City, California, "and a Slashdot reader since 1998.
  "I recently concluded a three-year missing person investigation that unfortunately turned into an overseas homicide in Taiwan. I was authorized by my client to publish the case study on my website, which is based on our recent court filings..." And yes, he writes that the case was solved with a subpoena to Google:I filed that case in late 2019 and then used the subpoena power to try to
  
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• Xfce 4.18 Is Released

  18-12-2022 05:54 via news.slashdot.org
  Long-time Slashdot reader slack_justyb brings news from the world of Linux desktop environments: After two years of development Xfce 4.18 is now live!Several new features are available in each package. Thunar the default file manager for Xfce now includes a image preview sidebar, an editable toolbar that let's you reorder toolbar icons, file highlights, recursive search, and expanded undo/redo support.Several new desktop settings allowing you to further configure the layout of the desktop are in
  
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• America Now Requires Drone Manufacturers to Include 'Remote ID' Transmitting

  18-12-2022 03:44 via tech.slashdot.org
  On Friday, long-time Slashdot reader NewtonsLaw wrote:Manufacturers of drones made after 16 September 2022 must, from today (16 December), ensure that those drones are "Standard Remote ID" compliant. This means that the drones must broadcast packets of data once per second (using Bluetooth or Wifi) that contain the position speed and path of the drone, a unique identifier and the operator's position including height above ground....Already, several companies have announced their intention to bui
  
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• Amazon's Internal Study of Its Culture in 2021 Found 'Stress, Burnout, Churn'

  18-12-2022 00:34 via news.slashdot.org
  Business Insider reports:
  An official Amazon study run as part of the company's "Earth's Best Employer" initiative showed mounting employee frustration and other challenges around the time the crucial project was getting off the ground.... The 11-page document, created in October 2021 for Amazon's most senior leaders, gives a brutally honest assessment of employee sentiment.... "We learned we are not seen as distinctively innovative and that our innovation culture is not fun. Innovation at Amazo
  
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