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by 0x_rs 4y ago
MKULTRA and all US-based human experimentation and study projects done both on their own citizen and foreigners from other (complicit) countries are quite a trip to read through. One would assume the government pouring so much money and man
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I remember how a set of people back in the day would praise that decision from a certain company and all copycats later as "courageous", "innovative" and so on. "It'll give space for a better battery" may
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I'm implying it's not possible not to have an human in the mix , not currently and I don't see it possible in the future. The manners in which it would be (or at least I think, with real 2FA, passkeys, et cetera) are not a c
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Quite the opposite. It is only the most vulnerable people that won't manage to resolve whatever issue they may have that an endless loop of FAQs (looking at you, Google) with no actual contacts (or very meticulously hidden away, if the
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Machine translation has been a curse for those who enjoy content that's not usually promptly translated and instead sits there for years if not decades. Not uncommon are people asking in broken English how to use certain tools e.g. aut
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I predict disappointment. -untog (2012) I don't even need context. Always applicable. https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=3337 EDIT: this is a fun one: I predict lots of people will make predictions, but we'll n
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I don't like this guide at all. Some of its points are questionable, but the thing is, it doesn't know what it wants to be and aimed at whom. Starting from the most obvious red flag, falling for the baseless boycotting of 7zip lik
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Unauthorized copying, as Stallman would call it rather than the purposefully scary, deceitful p-word is one way to avoid things such as this, via blocking remote manipulation and removal of features from your licensed software and thus bein
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Sound quality from a phone is most certainly going to suck, conversations are going to be barely intelligible when in your pocket, and battery life will be disappointing compared to a dedicated recorder. There certainly are phone applicatio
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
It's not that straightforward. When people will start buying more of them, they'll fall for the same tricks too. Here's a recent example. You must fight for consumer rights instead of jumping ship to the least worst. https:&
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Consumer, commonly found inkjets are absolutely crammed with.. I was going to say "dark patterns", but it's an euphemism when your product is being rendered unusable due to a fixed number in its firmware, so maybe.. criminal?
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
About 40% of the GPGP is made of fishing nets. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
This isn't the first time Twitter users' PII is on for sale [0]. I think it's legitimate to badmouth this company because—other than their popularity—there's no redeeming quality but a terrible reputation and a massive t
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Hubble's composite of SMACS took 5 orbits, which ends up being about a couple hours maximum. Most websites talked about the deep fields such as XDF (hundreds of orbits) while showing the comparison between the RELICS and JWST pictures,
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Inexcusable. Yet no considerable action will be taken against this corporation nor the corrupted, lobbied politicians that enabled this will ever be held accountable, let alone be cornered to resign from whatever seat they occupy. It's
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
The switches "plague" is a very well known issue [0] and it's not reassuring for any potential buyer as you have to return affected devices eventually, DIY replace the switches or hope contact cleaning spray keeps the problem
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
What a truly useless, detached from reality statement. Furthermore, this may be a good indication of intent to keep the most sophisticated models away from public, as it really already is, and behind "ethics boards" and such that
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
>If you don’t like it, roll up your sleeves and submit a patch. Please, does this argument ever work? Submitting a patch seems useless if it goes against the project's vision (or complexity thereof, see two following links for examp
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer, nor very well versed in the vast world of licenses and their definitions in court contexts, but I've been wondering about something with the growing appeal ML-generated content has for the average person (and the
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Most (if not all) current phones available in the market cannot even boot without a battery connected, is that correct? I'd feel a lot more comfortable without having to worry about it and risking forgetting about it for any unspecifie
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
If somebody's interested, I would strongly suggest checking out both sides of the dispute and not only that, as the NYT story caused quite some ruckus at the time. https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/ny
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
> Finally, the proposed Regulation contains safeguards to ensure that technologies used for the purposes of detection, reporting and removal of online child sexual abuse to comply with a detection order are the least privacy-intrusive an
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by 0x_rs 4y ago
Welcome to the automated account suspension age of the internet, where companies shoot first and don't care later, as the amount of false positives is not worth putting any meagerly (if there's any already) real, physical support
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
It is, because misinformation goes both ways. Twitter makes it really, really easy for lies or misrepresentations of reality to get popular, even more so when "verified users" themselves may be spreading falsities. This seems a pr
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Unfortunately, according to the blue checkmarked Gerashchenko, "Ukrainian patriot. Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine", doubling down on this claim, you're lost in russian lies. (also despite a simple DNS
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
What's the most likely explanation? Addresses of hostels raising a red flag because of past abuse, and most companies do just that. What does "sex workers" or "cross-platform surveillance" have to do with it? From w
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
If you watched the video, I'll have to be the one asking you — why do you think looking up somebody from your comments section, making them sign agreements under a false pretence and setting up an interview, and then making fun of this
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
That video also resulted in him, Osman, setting up a fake job application interview with one commenter for the sole purpose of filming and posting it online on his YouTube [0]. Which is, in my opinion, very petty and immature. It's goo
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Making friends is hard. It's a big commitment for both parties, you have to dedicate quite some time to it, and find common grounds to talk and share things about. It's also harder without some task or activity that can be done to
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by 0x_rs 5y ago
Honestly a very harmful sort of "doing something about it". As if deleting someone's (presumably, normal people) files will make them more understanding of the difficulties in the ongoing conflict. Lying about it is also pett

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