Kbelicius

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by Kbelicius 10mo ago
So blockchain requires trust in third parties. What is the point of it then?
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by Kbelicius 10mo ago
> The high prices ("price gouging") perform a social function because some cannot afford it; they prioritize what matters to them more, and ram is left available to those who absolutely require it. This is not true at all. It i
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by Kbelicius 11mo ago
The article linked here brings some more details, but also, the official statement doesn't use the word "compromised". If it did, well it would be a statement with different meaning than the one that was released for us to re
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by Kbelicius 11mo ago
Why wouldn't there be incentives? If you are thinking monetary then the existence of youtube disproves your statement.
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by Kbelicius 11mo ago
> Define runtime then. From GP: "But you don't use AI to define rules on the fly." Neither Claude nor Perplexity change the rules they work by on the request to request basis. Code that Claude outputs isn't the code t
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by Kbelicius 11mo ago
> Some systems (notably BattleEye) actually have Linux support, they just need to enable it, but there's no incentive for them to do so. This isn't really true. As GP said, there isn't a kernel level anti cheat for linux.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> Firefox itself lost trust when Mozilla tried to push the new Terms of Use earlier this year. Those terms of use aren't in place any longer. I'm surprised that listening to the users is viewed as something bad.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> How long have these laws been out and we are still dealing with these issues. They seem to have gotten worse, not better. No, they have gotten better. Earlier reject all was barely seen on the internet. Now it is on the majority of pla
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> That's like saying "don't visit places where people get murdered if you don't want to get murdered." Nope. Murder is an action after which the victim can not make any more actions. It would be like saying &quot
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
Yes, we live in a society. You aren't allowed to do anything you want. But you are wrong. You had no option before, now you have. How is that taking away freedom from you?
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> I'm asking "if cookie consent banners are the less than idea solution, why isn't the official EU government site implementing it in a way that is ideal?" Cookie banners are perfectly valid solution to the problem. G
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> If that was the case, then why does the site from the EU first off track If you are asking why there isn't a "reject all" button on their webpage then the answer is simple. There is one. The "Accept only essential c
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> The main reason I don’t turn off cookies everywhere is so many sites put my login token in a cookie. Hopefully as a random nonce but even so, it’s using cookies for security. AFAIK there is no need for a cookie banner for a login token
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
You can freely share your data under GDPR but the owner of the website can not request data as form of payment for the access to the website.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> People don't want this, so there is a quick reversion to "pay with your data". Which, since 2018, is illegal in EU.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> You don't need to write the perfect law. Just write a law that has more or less the intended effect. What is the unintended consequence of GDPR?
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> If you can't enforce the law, then it is a bad law. It isn't that this can't be enforced, it just lagged because of the size and changes that this law brought. > Also, this is a problem that naturally solves itself ov
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> No, the problem is 100% the law, because it was written in a way that allows this type of malicious compliance. There is no malicious compliance here, just breaking the law. So if it is the problem of laws that they are broken then acc
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> Disagree. The popup is the enraging problem. It's not a small annoyance. I click them multiple times every single day and it's ludicrous. Then don't visit webpages that do illegal things and are hostile to their users. &
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
AFAIK on linux they are not kernel level and thus are easier to work around. It isn't just that devs are lazy or hate linux.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
It seems that you haven't used it in a long time then. You don't need to go the terminal to update the system. Mostly you get a message that there are updates for the system. You click it, click update all and your done.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
Why would Russia voluntarily give up money by constraining the supply during the war? That makes absolutely no sense.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> The point of sanctions is just to slightly reduce Russian government revenue. In combination with other measures this provides some leverage in negotiations over a peace settlement. The words you apparently missed from what GP wrote ar
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
Great. Russian revenue from gas and oil fell considerably since the start of the war.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
No, he was not comparing reactions. He went back to check the Bin Laden comment section to see if there were such comments to warrant a sticky from dang.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
This sounds like for you a grate musician(s) only play music that you personally like and they stop playing music when they earn enough to live of it. Louis Armstrong seems to be a mediocre musician by your definition. I'd say that tha
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> The is a case for banks but there is also a case for me keeping a chunk of my money in stable coins so its actually mine. Considering that stablecoin wallets can also be blocked what is the case for you keeping a chunk of your money i
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> The ECB also had one of those CBDC built much earlier than people have been told. They already had something quite advanced around 2020, with a optimist launch date in 2022 I believe. > It obviously failed miserably They had a CBDC
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> the entire first world has credit checks No it doesn't.
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by Kbelicius 1y ago
> How is "being happy from helping others" not having emotions? Nobody said that. What I was pointing out to you is that GP said that not having emotions is worse than having them since intelligent actors need some form of comp

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