Leonard_of_Q

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by Leonard_of_Q 5d ago
Answer the question much? You're just quoting labels like 'democratic socialist' as if they mean anything. Remember what PDS stands for? The modern left is just as infused with revolutionary ideology as the left in the 60&#x2
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by Leonard_of_Q 5d ago
It won't. It will probably change it a lot but kill? The internet is a network of interconnected networks, why would "AI" kill that? Just because 98% of the end nodes turn out to be slop doesn't mean that the remaining 2
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by Leonard_of_Q 5d ago
The fare-dodging example is valid for recent movies and music but it falters for older stuff where "older" means "older than the original copyright term", i.e. between 18 and 21 years. Beyond that it is more comparable t
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by Leonard_of_Q 5d ago
What makes you think Die Linke gave up their "religion"? I don't see any indication of such a conversion in either the Party's saying or doing. The same claim was made about other communist parties, e.g. "Vänsterpar
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by Leonard_of_Q 5d ago
Of course there is competition: "piracy". The thing streaming was supposed to (mostly) eliminate by being "legal", easy, not too expensive, ad-free and easy to use while offering a wealth of things to see and hear. It ev
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by Leonard_of_Q 7d ago
There will be on HN. Artisinal Intelligence, Biological Inference, Living Local Models, whatever. If the AI hype turns out to be real there will be a counter-revolution where the usual suspects start pushing their abacus-enhanced lifestyles
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by Leonard_of_Q 7d ago
Yes, which gave us luminaries like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Chavez, Maduro and all those other Great Leaders. In other words, you reap what you sow.
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by Leonard_of_Q 7d ago
Because it is the hot new thing and HN is a hype machine. Before AI there were crypto and blockchain, after AI there will be something else.
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by Leonard_of_Q 9d ago
That point is said to lie somewhere around 640 KB if I recall correctly. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2863/did-bill-g...
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by Leonard_of_Q 10d ago
> high levels of public service motivation - eg. the civil service, judiciary, NGOs, civil infrastructure, education. Many of these are mostly known for harbouring activists, not public servants. They serve a cause, not the public and as
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by Leonard_of_Q 11d ago
A little history goes a long way: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-... The enmity between "the West" and "the middle east" goes back to the islamic colonisation era which
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by Leonard_of_Q 12d ago
> On Android I think most apps still prefer to keep their own background connection open Many Android apps give the option of using either FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google's push service), UnifiedPush or polling.
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by Leonard_of_Q 12d ago
I've been using it for years, so has my family and recently a group of some 60 friends with whom we communicated about a large party ont of my friend and me organised. I made an invitation site with an instance of converse.js at the
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by Leonard_of_Q 12d ago
On that same page: UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.
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by Leonard_of_Q 12d ago
I never liked Twitter and I don't like X as a medium but they were and still are used by others as a communication channel. To partake of what is communicated without having to sign up and/or subject myself to the barrage of nonse
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by Leonard_of_Q 17d ago
The trees, man, the trees. We never should have left the trees.
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by Leonard_of_Q 17d ago
My neighbour - a few hundred metres further up the road - has two dogs, one of which a surefire genius as it has no problems barking out 334543333-bit RSA factorisations. It must have been solving NP-complete problems for years by now, nigh
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by Leonard_of_Q 18d ago
By your spelling of the word "germofoob" I get the impression that you're Dutch, am I correct? In that case I suspect that the "dozens of animals" you see "shitting on the same spot" are dogs in a small gr
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by Leonard_of_Q 19d ago
You didn't "consume" that "content", that's newspeak which we'd all be better off without. You read books, listened to music, saw movies, plays, etc. You didn't "consume" them either, they&#
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by Leonard_of_Q 19d ago
> On iOS.. There's your problem, you rented a terminal managed by the fruit factory so they get to decide who the thing serves. Either "jailbreak" the thing or get a Google-free Android device with an AOSP-derived distribu
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by Leonard_of_Q 19d ago
> I've gone to great lengths to avoid ads - but it's a war I am losing. Content is now interleaved with ads at the creative stage... In the end you'll win this war, maybe not in the way you envisioned but win it you will
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by Leonard_of_Q 19d ago
Standard answer fit to keep the parasites fed. There is no "the answer" here, there are many answers depending on which lawyers you ask and how much you can afford to feed them. Just release the code somewhere, anonymously, it isn
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by Leonard_of_Q 19d ago
The same is and has been true for Reddit for a long time, the difference lies mostly in the ideological sauce flavouring these places, i.e. Little-endians vs. Big-endians. If you're a Reddit-endian you'll despise the Tube-endians
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by Leonard_of_Q 20d ago
Reddit infected by Youtubers sounds like pest getting cholera, i.e. Reddit did not need an infection to be a bot-infested cesspit.
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by Leonard_of_Q 20d ago
Now all that's missing is Chatlib , a self-hosted proxy for ChatGPT which makes it possible to a) query the service without leaving a personally identifiable trace and b) separate out the facts from the dreamt-up fiction. Using Redlib
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by Leonard_of_Q 21d ago
The reason to use it is that Reddit does provide the occasional answer to questions like "how to get a Samsung SCX 3400 to run on a Raspberry Pi" (etc.).
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by Leonard_of_Q 21d ago
The solution is to run your own instance, create a few accounts for it to use and put it behind a reverse proxy with basic auth. Hand out logins to a few people and it will remain useable. If you put your instance out in the open it will so
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by Leonard_of_Q 21d ago
Use Redlib [1] or one of the other alternative Reddit frontends. [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
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by Leonard_of_Q 23d ago
They are insured against such risks and with that the insurance costs will be another fixed post on the expense list.
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by Leonard_of_Q 25d ago
You can have it use more than one account and more than one user can use the instance. Also, I do not use it to hide my occasional peek at an X thread linked to from some article from the X-man, I use it because it is at least 10 times fast

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