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by Last5Digits 4y ago
It may not look good, but it's a strong argument. The problem with the current discourse is that we're hung up on things that are largely irrelevant to providing an actual solution. Arguments like "my IP is being violated&quo
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Most people don't care in the slightest about supporting people that are suffering. Do you have sleepless nights because you know that the device you use right now required slave labor to be constructed? That's the main issue at p
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
This was cathartic to read. The almost complete lack of calm, productive discussion about AI is honestly frightening. No matter where you land on this issue, you have to admit that there is a credible chance of significant societal changes
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
No, I meant American sitcoms like Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, Modern Family, etc. None of these shows show anything dramatic or larger than life - it's just a couple of friends or a family going through relatable yet sanitized
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I think it's more like sitcoms. A cast of slightly funny and charismatic characters going through mildly interesting experiences has been a mainstay of entertainment media for some time now.
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I definitely agree with a balance of both approaches being optimal. Some people need one and some people the other. I'm actually someone that would've probably also benefited from a tougher approach, as I've wasted a lot of y
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I'm sure there are benchmarks out there that comprehensively cover thermal behavior of laptops, but many sadly don't. I've had many laptops with great benchmarks that completely fall apart under prolonged load (>1 hour) Us
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
While I agree that being direct is sometimes necessary, the approach one takes must be well considered. As I said in the previous comment, I've personally met people whose lives were ruined by people being "tough and straightforwa
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I feel like you're being overly charitable to laptop manufacturers. If such manufacturers always considered the thermal limits of their products when advertising their performance, then I don't think many people would complain. Si
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
If you don't mind me asking, how did you make the switch? I've been writing cursive since early childhood and "chickenscratch" would be too nice a word for what my handwriting looks like. Every time I've tried to ch
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
By that logic, pretty much 99% of all humans would be "sad stratospherically socially inept stupid fuckers". People don't like being insulted or demeaned, and I would wager a guess that you would be pretty reluctant to accept
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I'm disappointed that you didn't actually think about my points, and instead decided to pick out one sentence to interpret in the most bad-faith way possible. I assume you did this to "turn the tables" on someone you per
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
What is "dodgy"? What makes something "dodgy"? Your feelings about it? You keep pretending that you are the ultimate arbiter of what goes and what doesn't, and it seems to me like your criterion is simply instinctua
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Great! Then why are you arguing with someone that called out this exact behavior in the first comment of this thread? Said comment called people who engaged with this bot "sad fuckers" and "stratospheric level of socially ine
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
This surely can't be the case, right? If it was, then what's stopping me from taking any possible byte sequence and applying my copyright to it? I could always show that there exists some function f that produces said byte sequenc
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
This article leaves a bitter aftertaste. The people the author chose to represent this issue all seem to come from high-powered high-earning careers. These same people tend to extoll the virtues of individual responsibility, of pulling your
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
There is still a human in the loop for now, but I'd wager a guess that this won't be the case for long. A lot of the "humans will still be needed" arguments implicitly rely on the assumption that the trend of AI progress
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
But you don't need a backdoor. Log incoming and outgoing traffic from a VPS and you'll have all the information you need to deanonymize you. This is something that they will probably do as a policy, simply because "AWS used f
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
What purpose would this information be uniquely useful for? I don't think ad networks have some exceptional interest in what you torrented or what porn sites you visit. If you're implying that they'd do something illegal lik
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
The confidentiality required by businesses with billion dollar contracts is far removed from the confidentiality required by a VPN user. Do you think Ebay or Uber would care that their web traffic can be linked to them? Even in the low stak
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Why do you think VPS providers wouldn't be interested in extracting your data? Whether you use a VPN provider or a VPS provider, it's always going to depend on the company whose service you are using. Pick a cheap, untrusted VPS p
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
But can you really do that? In the end, you still use the network architecture of the VPS provider. What's preventing them from logging traffic outside of your VPS? You also don't get the benefit of your traffic getting mixed tog
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Sure, but if I need to trust someone, I'd rather trust a company whose reputation is staked on not giving out my data. A VPN provider that easily bows to authorities is a VPN provider that will lose a massive portion of their user base
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Have you found a good way to use org-mode on your phone? I remember trying to find a suitable app for weeks, but without any success. Even simple things, like following links into other files, were not possible. Edit: Ah, I missed you menti