you can create a python virtual environment, and you do not even have to install python for that. you can install python in a user only mode, and then create a virtual environment (these can be made anywhere, so for example, your downloads or documents folder(assuming you are allowed to access these folders, you usually do)), script would have to be modefied a bit, but still doable. In case you need help for this, feel free to reply/message

I am not sure, but was not there a work profile app in fdroid (possibly by the name of shelter, have not used it for a long time though, so not sure). If is/was on fdroid, it is likely to be foss, and not have these things.

Also, unless the app has internet permisions, I would not worry much about it. Apps can send data even without internet permissions (by means of using a 3rd party, like gms (google play service) or something else), but if your app relies on some 3rd party app, i would not consider it safe to begin with.

edit: yes the app is called shelter - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

the app has not been updated for 1.5 years, but readme suggests that it is in a functional state, and just requires maintainance on newer sdks, which they suggest that they still provide. - https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter. There issues do seem to be active (https://lists.sr.ht/~petercxy/shelter), so I would not worry about that either.

you have encountered the same bug as me (https://lemmings.world/post/28452192) the problem is that arch (or cachyos) now defaults to using wine-wow64 builds (no 32 bit libraries required) and that has something to do with it. I have not beeen able to fix it, and do not know where to report (wine team will not consider bugs concerning pirated installers)

I do not think so. the image is doctored, it was likely some other marketplace. Also, the image shows 4y ago, and flohmarkt was basically not present back then (certainly not in a hosted form which was big enough)

Not going to lie, the reveal has blown me to pieces. The design is just peak.

What I meant was for example, if someone is weak in, let’s say, english, but understands their shit, then they conduct their research however they do, and then have some llm translate it. that is a valid use case to me.

Most research papers are written in English, if you need international cites, collaboration or accolades. A person may even speak english but it is not good enough, or they spell bad. But then the llm is purely a translator/grammar checker.

But there are people who use it to do the latter, use it to generate stuff, and that is bad imo

I am no body to stop you. If you feel that is the way you can get a leg up, feel free to do so, I do not want to do moral policing here if this helps

you would find more and more of it these days. people who are not good in the language, or not in subject both would use it.

others have given pretty good picture of what you have to do, but you can also do this in some other language, for example in binary, or ascii, and then reduce the font size to something close to 1 pixel. the actual text of pdf is stored in seperate xml tags. Plus you can also write it simply in plain text anywhere near margin of page (no need to do color or size shenanigans) and simply crop pdf out. Cropping of pdf does not remove the stuff, just hides it. Unless you rasterise pdf afterwards and then submit, the stuff is simply there with no special amount of work required.

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that someone else in the chain of custody of my work decided to do the same, and suddenly this is attached to my name permanently.

sadly, that is the case.

The only useful application for me currently is some amount of translation work, or using it to check my grammar or check if I am appropriately coming across (formal, or informal)

that could be the case. but what I have seen my younger peers do is use these llms to “read” the papers, and only use it’s summaries as the source. In that case, it is definitely not good.

you can do that if you do not have integrity. but i can kinda get their perspective - you want people to cite you, or read your papers, so you can be better funded. The system is almost set to be gamed

my bad. i did not look at url bar (in my browser, it is at bottom), and could only recognise the copilot logo at the top right, so I assumed it was bing. Sorry

the image shows bing though

often this stuff is added as white text (as in, blends with backround), and also possibly placed behind another container, such that manual selection is hard/not possible. So even if someone reads the paper, they will not read this.

gemini here is a protocol (gemini is modern gopher, which was an alternate to http)

I did not know what the word stoic or stoicism meant, and just read, and apparantly (I have still not completed the wiki article yet, but I am guessing I got the gist of it) that is what I have been living by. Thank You!

yes and no. You would like to do it in relatively cheap and less populated area, and where cracks are a bit closer to surface (you do not want to drill a lot, as that would not be economically beneficial)

I know this is a meme, but in case someone is interested, we usually do not want to use strong acids/bases to maintain buffers, instead, weaker acids (for eg, acetic acid), weaker bases (nh4oh), or their correponding weak-strong salt pair, or if it is really close to 7, then weak-weak, weakly dissociating salts (likr (nh4)2 co3).

I am probably forgetting the proper names for this, but idea is that waker acids/bases do not dissociate completely. for example, iirc, nh4oh is something close to 9-10, so if you want a basic buffer, then you use nh4oh in bulk to get close to required absolute amount of oh- ion concentration (maybe, because you want some reaction to happen in proper stoichiometric ratios), and for fine tuning, use very low concentration of stronger acid/base (depending on the fact that your target is above or below the value of bulk). stronger acids/bases almost immediately completely ionise. for example, i want to make something like 8.5, then i start with nh40h with 9, and slowly add hcl to reduce ph. with this, you make nh40h + hcl -> nh4cl + h2o. this nh4cl, is now acting as weakely dissociating. this reaction is also reversible. around the equillibrium ph, if you add more h+, then reaction goes forward. but simply by adding more water (or diluting), you can reverse this. with salt like nacl(nacl + h2o -> na+ + cl-) , they will practically never recombine, and you can not use this to your advantage.

the actual salt/acid/base to be used will also depend on solubility of present ions, miscibility, organic or non organic (in this context, organic means carbon related molecules)