DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
If you are not really subject to public control and re-election, it makes it much easier. EU politics don't play much of a role in the media. The older and more cynical I become, the more. I am convinced: that's by design. That wa
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
... and simple HTML / short load times.
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that when you are using an SaaS cloud solution instead of self-hosting, you are essentially subject to a digital landlord without any renters protection. A landlord who can, and will, kick you o
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Good for you! Now ... why you want to police the decisions others make (or chose not to make) with their data ... it has a slightly paternalistic aspect to it, wouldn't you agree?
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Well, considering using YouTube is something you do out of your own, free will ... isn't it a bit like going to McDonalds, deliberately not ordering the water and the salad, and then taking legal action because they made you fat? If
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
You can easily argue that the warm, fuzzy dopamine push you call 'love', triggered by positive interactions, is basically a "profit". Not all generated value is expressed in dollars. "But love can be spontaneous and
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
> I'm not going to pay extra money to disable a health concern. Honest question: Why? You do pay for toothpaste, right? If you have a gym membership, you pay extra for the convenience not to do cardio in the woods (which is great in
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
I do pay for YouTube Premium - and I still get ads when someone has YT Videos embedded on their website. YouTube knows who I am, the cookies are set, there is no reason to give me ads. It is not yet painful enough for me to invest time and
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
> You’re comparing a hysteria over D&D where no one was actually harmed People were definitely harmed, psychically, and physically - straight up to torture in 'conversion therapies' and death, over the D&D (and related
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Since early 2025. Because it is a 'user-facing game generating engine', so there is little to no control over the actual contents someone can encounter, which may include - especially violent - material the german State deems inap
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Ultimately, that's the old Star Trek 'the holodeck would - in a realistic scenario - be the last invention of a civilization' argument. I think that there will always be several strata of the population who will not be satisf
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
You are aware that you can, in fact, run models on your own, fully airgapped machine, right? Ollama exists. The fact that most people chose not to is no argument for 'mandatory' surveillance, just a laissez-faire attitude towards
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
> Good thing that "if" is clearly untrue. YMMV > If only! It's probably closer to playing star fox than a flight sim. But it's getting better, every day. I'd say we're in 'MS Flight Simulator 4.0&#x2
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Ah, 'suffering builds character'. I haven't had that one in a while. Maybe we should not want to get prepared for RealPeople™ if all they can do is break us and disappoint us. "But RealPeople™ can also elevate, surpris
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
We do see - from 'crazy cat lady' to 'incel', from 'where have all the good men gone' to the rapid decline of the numbers of 25-year-olds who have had sexual experiences, not to mention from the 'lonelines
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
I'm not as miffled about that as others, but in Germany, licenses used to be forever (unless you yourself gave it back OR there was a court order, e.g. for a traffic-related crime). Enter the EU, and now licenses come with a renewal da
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
The 180 does not surprise me at all. GDPR and associated laws are a perfect example of the old 'Good intentions, unintended consequences'-pattern we see in laws all the time. The results of the GDPR (and the unrelated Cookie Direc
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
It's Schroedinger's Red Army: Too incompetent and weak to conquer a third-rate power, but prepared and willing o attack NATO-coordinated Western Europe any day now. Such is propaganda: You need to keep the population in fear so th
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Just wait until you learn that flying straight towards an opponent's border to trigger defensive systems, then turning away in the last literal second, is Standard Operating Procedure of US aircraft around North Korea, China, and Russi
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
You tend to distrust the propaganda of the other side. You are not quite as distrustful of the propaganda of your own side. If it is clever enough not to appear as a cheerleader like this article, you may barely notice it cherrypicking the
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
A bit too horray-patriotic for my tastes. What actually happened: - A group of 40 year old Russian interceptors flew just beyond the airspace border, to test NATO response times. - NATO responded and revealed capabilities - someone in Russi
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Considering most kanji are made of 219 radicals (with a few subvariants), I'd wager: Not as long as you'd expect.
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That is mostly a dogmatic question, rooted in (western) culture, though. And even we have started to - begrudgingly - accept that there are cases where suicide is the correct answer to your life problems (usually as of now restricted to s
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Considering where most of the pictured laptops (likely) originate from, I would beg to differ.
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A lot of these seem to be from the German left-wing hacker culture (e.g. the recurring yellow CYBER-Stickers are a dead giveaway) from about 5 years ago (considering the mix of stickers presented). Think ccc-adjacent. Considering that backg
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There is very little benefit in EU trade agreements if there is no more EU.
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Germany's right-wing AfD is on a trajectory to become the largest party. One of their goals: a Dexit. An EU without the main net payer will disintegrate within months.
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Ethnicity can correlate with certain genetic or health predispositions - for instance, the U.S. has long recognized that some conditions (like sickle-cell anemia or hypertension) appear more frequently in Black populations. If AI systems we
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Increased suicide rates were being discussed, and there were doctors claiming they had empirical evidence (worse eyesight, loss of sense of reality, 'melancholy' (aka: depression) ...). Of course, that was 200 years ago, so our st
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There was a - very similar - moral panic in the 1700s about young people 'reading excessively', which was blamed for escapism, unhappiness[1] and even increases in suicide rates (see: Werther Effect). The language used was 'r

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