BlueTemplar

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by BlueTemplar 4mo ago
I have only had the minimum of time to look into it, so far I only found his own vague justification, his wife supposedly(?) being part of Open AI, a multimedia platform he made then maybe or maybe not un/ethically provided the data of
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by BlueTemplar 6mo ago
> a free software license alone does not empower users to be truly free if they lack the expertise to exercise those freedoms This is a bullshit argument, and I'm surprised that people aware enough of these issues would try to push
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by BlueTemplar 7mo ago
The use of black boxes like neural networks is already effectively illegal in some governments for this very reason.
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by BlueTemplar 7mo ago
Oh yeah, plenty of that, even scientists and thinkers were tempted, we had plenty of details even before the 'files', thanks to Maxwell's phone book : https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10&#x2
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
No, I'm upset that he took money from the Kremlin and hosted a show on Russia Today. (At least it was before 2014 I guess...)
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
How is it far off if it's already used like this, just on the side of submitters ?
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
No, exposing Western corruption is all well and good, but the problem is that at some point Assange seems to have decided "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", which was a very bad idea when applied to Putin's Russia.
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
How is this different from flat earth / creationist papers citing other flat earth / creationist papers ?
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
But then, assuming we are fine with this state of things with LLMs : why would it be upon them to submit in English, when instead reviewers and readers can themselves use a LLM translator to read the paper ?
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
And then, Einstein was a « citizen scientist », wasn't he ?
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
OP is talking about developing an alternative to Overleaf. But they are still trying to do it inside a browser !
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
Assange became a Russian asset *while* in a whistleblowing-related job. (And he is also the reason why Snowden ended up in Russia. Though it's possible that the flight plan they had was still the best one in that situation.)
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
It's likely to be an age thing too. Were you in hacker-related spaces when the Snowden scandal happened ? (I expect a much higher than average share of people in academia also part of these spaces.)
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by BlueTemplar 8mo ago
But what's the point ? To end up with yet another shitty (because running inside a browser, in particular its interface) web app ? Why not focus efforts into making a proper program (you know, with IBM menu bars and keyboard shortcuts)
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
The takedown is (also ? first and foremost ??)'against' Patreon, a USA company.
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
So is HTML and XML and bbcode... The question is more why Markdown is slowly but surely outcompeting them.
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
Yeah, that trend came up in search, hence my confusion. Thanks.
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
That's what churches are (also) for. (A synonym of 'church' is 'gathering'.)
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
IMHO online 'friendships' are dangerous in this context : they would fill part of the need for socialization, thus making you more complacent in not trying to seek out 'real' friendships. Not to mention the time sink and
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
The End Times went legacy mode : https://www.gog.com/forum/general/magog_a_search_engine_for_...
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
Could be using time links and/or commenting too much.
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
"dad jeans" ?
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
Wero is just a layer on top of the already working SEPA. (And a layer that is potentially worse than Visa / MasterCard, as long as it's only implemented on Google / Apple smartphones.)
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
It's not just transaction fees, since Patreon succeeds while Flattr (2.0) failed.
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
Wait, isn't fossil based on sqlite ? Or does fossil itself still have the same issues ?
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
It is concerning to me that there are now international (Western ?) guidelines[1] (2016) and conventions that don't seem to realise the consequences of taking a hard stance on the combination of three of their points : - a child is any
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
That doesn't make sense : Signal is slightly older (both 2014), and was end-to-end encrypted from the start, while Matrix only got it officially in 2020 ? Isn't it more that they have different use-cases : Matrix is PC-first, whil
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by BlueTemplar 9mo ago
It cannot be the worst when it's not one.
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
Seems like it was only newly introduced for Australians wanting to access Discord (not-)servers (and/or channels) declaring themselves 18+ only.
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
Wait, isn't in that movie... what was it called... ah ! «Brazil»

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