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by Fluorescence 1y ago
The impact of machinary forces re-evaluation of any concepts defined in terms of human capability because scale/automation changes their nature. Just as duplicating a fragment can be legal, duplicating any fragment on demand is not. Re
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
It's different but not in ways that make such interventions irrelevant e.g. why would we only care about lost sales? If copyright has been violated as a necessary means to generate new value, haven't the content creators earned th
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
I'm surprised we never discuss a previous case of how governments handled a valuable new technology that challenged creative's ability to monetise their work: Cassette Tapes and Private Copying Levy. https://en.wikipedi
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
I've faced the repair tools things in Europe. No meanness besides taking most of them. I managed to save a few by arguing how ineffective as weapons they would be and then watch as two security staff try their best to pinch each other
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
I have zero tolerance for ads but have happily used a Poco for years. IMHO you only buy one knowing you won't use some of the default apps. Choose alternatives and you never see a Xiaomi ad. It's a minor nuisance to get amazing ba
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
Yup. Cities often have lots of impressive public green spaces so I expect this a massive underestimate. It may be worse for a rural kid. All that countryside that surrounds you is private farmland. Of course, now and again, you trespass and
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
The Shar's CIA trained secret police, SAVAK, tortured and murdered thousands and yes, they raped prisoners. The Federation of American Scientists reported their torture methods included: "electric shock, whipping, beating, inserti
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
> clean build of a few thousand lines of rust took close to 10 minutes That doesn't sound likely. I would expect seconds unless something very odd is happing. Is the example symbolicator? I can't build the optional "symbol
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
The UK eradicated rabies 100 years ago with a vaccination program.
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
Only 11GB... but I guess it will allow you to not do anything useful just as well as 12GB will :) You can however solder on double-capacity memory chips to get 22GB: https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/double-you
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by Fluorescence 1y ago
Maybe the same can be applied to the human patterns too because this bit made me feel a bit sad: "mechanised winding system, ending the requirement for somebody to climb the narrow, winding staircase each day to the clock room to do th
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
>> someone who gives kingdoms The article doesn't claim that so it seems your Christian sensitivities have skewed your reading comprehension. It's referencing a Forbes article using the term to distinguish between thoughtles
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
The equivalent in my area are "bus gates" i.e. lanes at junctions reserved for buses during certain periods that automatically generate fines. In principle, great, but the trick is that the signage is such an inscrutable combinati
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
>> I've watched the Holocaust movie series of the 1970s Do you recall Karl is sent to Theresienstadt where the art studio secretly paints the holocaust? That is the "paradise ghetto", the potemkin village concentration
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
> Richard II You quote someone famously deposed by rebellion and died in prison as an example of uniquely British repression preventing revolution? It's absurd and toxic to claim the sentiments of Richard II are uniquely British. Eu
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
> very easy way to get around such a requirement from legislation: Just call it licensing instead of a purchase. Licensing should come with enhanced consumer rights e.g. an explicit license duration and allow the consumer to return the l
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
People scratch their heads about how "just a default setting" can be worth an annual $20 billion payment from Google. It makes more sense if it's actually for a raft of wildly illegal under-the-table measures this. Imagine wh
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
> Android devices have been plagued with vendors having out-of-tree device drivers that compile for linux 3.x, but not 4.x or 5.x What's preventing adding a driver compatibility layer over the unstable API? I would accept a some per
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
AWS is not a greener solution because it fails to solve the primary goal i.e. DIY, decentralisation and self-ownership. Besides, the environmental cost of AWS is not the power-draw of your VPS, it's the externalities of monopolistic-ca
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
I kind of hope they don't. I like the humble, democratic, FOSS spirit - it's like Dogme 95 / "Vows of Chastity". "rules to create films based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, while excludi
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
This is what I would have chosen too as it's natural for programmer sensibilities. I can see it as a choice from the "plain text first" philosophy i.e. the things you typically write in plain text should not need escaping. My
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
> Making * always be used for bold This is probably to support potential ambiguities and intraword emphasis e.g. underscore is a common pseudo-space so doesn't support intraword use but * does e.g. is_not_italic this*is*i
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
I seem to be capped at 98 ms (FF/chrome ubuntu 24.04).
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
Thanks! Also nice to see a width setting and remove animations which improves my experience. Funny how I didn't even think to look for appearance settings.
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
I don't think the Romanian Revolution counts as a civil war. Over the space of a week or so, it was: protests/riots, violent crackdown leading to military defection/coup. Look at Syria for how a similar pattern of events did
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
Hmm - rather than identity, I suspect it was more of a marketing trope. I associate this genre of photo with the photo-shoots with Gates, Jobs and others. All the interviews and full page ads in the 80s 90s had variations of sitting/ly
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
Looking at other parts of the site, I expect it's attack/abuse mitigation. These unfortunate souls are trying to host interesting free content. I expect they are getting crawled to dust and unfortunately, so much nuisance came fro
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
It is censored. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c786wlxz4jgo https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
Jan 6th would be the Beer Hall Putsch. Notable this time round for no legal consequences for the main character. A Reichstag Fire would be an inciting event early in the next term, committed by a member of a regime out-group, used to justif
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by Fluorescence 2y ago
No, not over a certain level (low/no fibre would be it's own type of bad). Carbs give a type of satiety I can't replicate with unlimited fat/protein/fibre. IMHO it's not actually hunger/stomach related but

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