Barrin92

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by Barrin92 11mo ago
Because Mozilla is an explicitly mission driven non-profit. Linux doesn't really have a model, the closest equivalent is basically Chromium which is to say it's an open source project to which extremely large companies donate the
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>People losing their house keys is not generally an Earth shattering event. yes because if you lose your house keys you don't lose your property, precisely because there is an entire legal and governmental apparatus securing it , t
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>They're radically different because they're radically different regions. They're radically different predominantly at the street level and everyday usage, but the kind of professional English of journalists, academics and
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I've been on a bit of a retro bender and have intentionally limited myself to nothing but the manuals and games and it's been so fun to rediscover how much thought people used to put into the manuals including the presentation and
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That's what an oligarchy looks like, 'careers' consist of trying to glaze whatever moneyed person in power you can in hopes of getting a contract
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>but then taking an additional step of releasing incomplete, incompatible code as "production" nobody runs Ubuntu's six-month releases in production. Like Fedora it's cutting edge in the literal sense of that term, an
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
running political ads is in and of itself value neutral, tools for manipulation aren't. Just having them in the hands of fewer people is a straight up win in the same way having bioweapons in the hand of fewer people is. "I wish e
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
tbf 95% of the time when I get a gift card these days it's Amazon or a big retail chain, that ain't exactly a deep cut in the gift department either. We should probably normalize Chinese Red envelopes because honestly I'd tak
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
>shame on you Apple, you are acting like M$! Microsoft, for all their faults, gave us an actual operating system that people could build and distribute executables on as they saw fit with no restrictions, and they did it despite the fact
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
In Britain in particular? The NSPCC, Molly Rose Foundation, IWF among a bunch of others. 70% of Brits are supportive of the online safety act[1], it's been supported by Conservatives, Labour and the SNP. There's simply no data in
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>It's so organic and grass roots It is though. This is one of the few surveillance issues actually driven by grassroots organisations like ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Shout ) in particular when it
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
if in doubt watch it in release order but here's a good overview of the in-universe timelines ( https://imgur.com/a/v5FNHoq ) for a bit of orientation. The shows outside of the UC timeline are their own thing, a lot
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>We've been hearing politicians complain for years that they're losing the youth when it comes to long-standing foreign policy positions, When Twitter added its location feature and it turned out that political accounts with mi
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
>Russia seems poised to invade Europe in the near future only if the near future includes the year 2150 because as of right now the Russian defense ministry is celebrating the liberation of individual bakery plants on their state media
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>Vibe coding actually works. It creates robust, complex systems that work. No it doesn't. Just for the fun of it because I'm somewhat familiar with the VLC codebase I tried to fix some bugs with "agentic tooling" and
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>Nothing I’ve seen yet is compelling enough I need it in my OS I'd put it more strongly, as someone who hasn't bought an Apple device in over a decade, I have contemplated buying one now because it seems to be the only way to e
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
>"in my days, we had books and we remembered things" which of course is hilarious it isn't hilarious, it's true. My father (now in his 60s) who came from a blue collar background with very little education taught hims
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>Most CLIs also follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well, basi cli tools yes, but software like the one we're commenting on has a TUI so complex they simply emulate graphical user environments and widgets but on a text ren
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
so you just object to the semantics of 'brainwashing'? No influence operation needs to convince an arbitrary amount of people of arbitrary products. In the US nudging a few hundred thousand people 10% in one direction wins you an
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>We still love what we do over here, but we all have chosen to let our lives and loved ones come first over the project I think that's sensible but from a user perspective it's also why I think these nth degree derivatives are
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
True but I don't think that's out of the norm. The upper echelons of American society always consisted of a bunch of fake status games and abuses, a legacy admission is basically a socially accepted form of disability. Or non-abil
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
>and the company should be able to be externally steered via regular elections in a manner that benefits the public and not just its founders. Why would anyone believe that this means an organization is well run, or to everyone's be
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
I think the more pressing advice here is, limit yourself to one name ( https://wanderfugl.com/images/guides.png ) this must be one of the incredible AI innovations the folks in Seattle are missing out on
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>The people doing official collegiate level competitive programming would find AoC problems pretty easy. I used to program competitively and while that's the case for a lot of the early day problems, usually a few on the later days
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I'll second Clojure not just for the data structures but also because of the high level functions the standard library ships with. Things like `partition`, `cycle` or `repeat` have come in so handy when working with segments of lists o
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There's a different read of this by people such as Stirner. As he pointed out, people only ever abandoned the divine subject but left the divine predicates intact, making the tyranny even worse because now even the unbeliever can'
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It's the opposite. Modern movies are obsessed with plot. Inception being an example of this. It's everything else, the image and characters that's lacking. You're never going to get something like Tarkovsky's Solari
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Because TikTok is free, had no competitors and network effects given that it is a social media platform. ChatGPT already depends on subscription income, has to compete with companies that can offer the same service for free and has no netwo
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>We all had supercomputers in our pockets. You still do. There is no "AI movement" you need to participate in. You can grab a copy of SICP and a banged up ten year old thinkpad and compute away, your brain will thank you. It&#x
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a town square isn't just a place, it's always a polity that requires common values and a shared culture. Otherwise you at best have an airport lobby. A town square in Cologne where 90% of participants don't hail from Cologne

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