DirkH

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by DirkH 3y ago
We have been forcing people and companies into compliance of some sort since the dawn of civilization.
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by DirkH 3y ago
"Tyranny and control" I can't get the boomer comic where the guy pulls the calendar and sees the next year is 1984 out of my head now.
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by DirkH 3y ago
An alternative - and you have to admit reasonable counter-hypothesis - is that everything you just wrote as a belief is - to some degree - American Cope to explain away why the US can't have what Europe does. Also known as projection.
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by DirkH 3y ago
Inconveniences are predicated on whether you use sandboxed Google Play or something else. With sandboxed Google Play it is an identical experience. Everything works. If not and you use something called the Aurora Store, prepare for nightmar
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by DirkH 3y ago
I'm concerned regardless. If I am paying for a product and a 90% majority of its features I don't care about and only care about 10% of it working really well I'm going to feel like I'm overpaying since I only use and ca
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by DirkH 3y ago
It doesn't eliminate it silly. It downranks it and upranks things without a lot of tracking relative to Google. So on Google you miss out on things that might otherwise be hidden gems because Google wouldn't rank it as highly. The
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by DirkH 3y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how stubbornly good we are as a species at believing that if we create something that is smarter than us in every way possible (e.g. super-AI) then it still will not in any way pose a threat to our (or government
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by DirkH 3y ago
Enable the code interpreter. It isn't enabled by default.
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by DirkH 3y ago
The AI in photoprism was too embarrassing that I gave up on it. How did you get it working properly?
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by DirkH 3y ago
The fact that on my day job and also as per most engineers I know ChatGPT is now the first line of defense for finding quick code snippets where for over a decade Google held that distinction is profound.
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by DirkH 3y ago
There's a huge fucking difference between "yo, the neighbourhood and country is unsafe and there is no strongly upheld norm here of people not seeing if they can enter someone else's house if their door is easily unlockable.
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by DirkH 3y ago
Nonprofits die all the time because they run out of money
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by DirkH 3y ago
You wouldn't know how much demand there could be till you build it, iterate and innovate. You can't ever do that if regulations stifle it completely. I don't care. But I'd rather live in a world where tinkerers can tinke
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by DirkH 3y ago
Then why on earth did they do this? If this is really unambiguously and completely illegal they are just going to get eviscerated and bled dry. And they would have known that. They aren't dumb.
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by DirkH 3y ago
I don't disagree and believe Israel's response is a mistake that is going to backfire, but would like to point out this numbers game people play is not actually that strong argument at all. When the allies invaded Germany a LOT of
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by DirkH 3y ago
We aren't at war. Propaganda in peacetime and bombs at any time are so disanalogous it is comical. You win a war of ideas by presenting better ideas, not by censoring bad ideas.
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by DirkH 3y ago
I could just as easily claim there is more of a "they are just capitalists trying to sell a white knight narrative" narrative than an actual white knight narrative. They're a smaller business that wants to make money, but App
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by DirkH 3y ago
But... It wasn't simple. No other app has been able to create the bridge they created. We all saw their initial trending HW post and the impressive technical breakdown. If it were simple many others would have done this by now.
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by DirkH 3y ago
Also also people: Haha, look at these silly people who can't figure out what they want. They're back where they started but now pay for their own office. Also also also people: damn do I hate my commute. Guess there's no othe
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by DirkH 3y ago
I use user profiles since I figured I wanted more than just 2 profiles. Am thinking the increased privacy is not worth the decreased convenience and I'd advise others to start using work profiles and only start using user profiles once
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by DirkH 3y ago
It is certainly not perfect but it certainly way faster and seamless than rebooting into another OS. If you don't mind the battery drain and having both profiles running it is just a menu drop down + single button and ~1 second wait an
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by DirkH 3y ago
I used to use CalyxOS till GrapheneOS got Google Place Sandbox working. Now there is nothing I can't get working on GrapheneOS. Everything works including Google Pay. I just have a user profile for when I need to use an app that needs
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by DirkH 3y ago
So is protesting against any unjust law then. How is protesting a law you don't like by violating it not also an immoral breach of the social contract?
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by DirkH 3y ago
Assuming employees are not incentivized by $$$ here seems extraordinary and needs a pretty robust argument to show it isn't playing a major factor when there is this much money involved.
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by DirkH 3y ago
What's so shady about it?
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by DirkH 3y ago
Read their third paragraph. They completely agree with you
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by DirkH 3y ago
This is about as bad and ethically compromised a take as someone who hates crypto-bros and would immediately cease all contact with anyone they identify as pro-cryptocurrency (say believe it superior to the current financial system) and bla
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by DirkH 3y ago
Let's not pretend our industry doesn't immediately up the prestige and desirability of anyone who has worked at Google. I can already think of a friend off the top of my head who worked there. They will tell me their engineering w
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by DirkH 3y ago
It's not the same thing for the same reason that a shiny billboard for an ad right outside your bedroom window that you can't not see every time you look outside is not the same as a text ad on the first page of a book you want to
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by DirkH 3y ago
Those words have meanings. Look them up it you don't understand them. They're well used in this context to get the author's point across. I dunno if I agree with the author. I've never been to Burning Man, but their word

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