Liquix

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by Liquix 4y ago
It can definitely break a sweat while compiling, but even at that point fan noise is very minimal. (12th gen)
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by Liquix 4y ago
Now imagine heroin had just been discovered ~10 years ago... and corporations were peddling it to average folks who didn't know any better... And it was ruining people's lives... Oh yeah, that happened! Bayer knew on some level it
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by Liquix 4y ago
It's MIT licensed, so anyone can incorporate based on the original author's work and turn a profit. He is not owed anything. This is an eventuality you are implicitly accepting when choosing MIT over GPL.
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by Liquix 4y ago
David Nichols was cranking out novel psychedelics at Purdue around that time. There's also a bit of a renaissance going on in the EU with 1P-LSD, 1V-LSD, 1cP-LSD, etc. The chemist responsible was recently interviewed and basically says
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by Liquix 4y ago
> It's just a massive feel good exercise. At best. At worst, it is a concept pushed by corporate giants to pin responsibility for plastic/trash production on the working class. "It's not our fault for shipping everyth
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by Liquix 4y ago
Certain amphibians (i.e. tree frogs) have a "natural anti-freeze" compound in their blood. This allows them to hibernate through 20°F freezes - without any cell walls rupturing due to ice spikes - and just thaw back out in the spr
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by Liquix 4y ago
Would a "widespread upswell in piracy amongst the general public" ultimately be a good thing? How much more accessible can it get? If A.) clicking through a software installer and B.) reading file names is too high a barrier of en
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by Liquix 4y ago
Being strongarmed into giving up your phone number is as much "for your security" as manifest v3 is "for your privacy". They could care less that you have 2FA enabled, they want that phone number. Many people never chang
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by Liquix 4y ago
A work of art :) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6048761 (177 comments) (2013)
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by Liquix 4y ago
Firing means press attention, severance packages, and accountability. None of these are desired by the business. It is absolutely malicious.
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by Liquix 4y ago
Anyone interested in the history of DVD DRM / region locking may be interested in the "illegal number": a hex code which defeated DVD AACS encryption, prompting an attempt by the industry to surpress it across the internet, l
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by Liquix 4y ago
It seems DDG has recently started ignoring entire keywords in a 3 or 4 word search phrase without informing the user a keyword has been excluded. Something like "2015 camry leaking exhaust" could return nothing but "2015 camr
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by Liquix 4y ago
Users of Privacy Redirect and LibRedirect may find it worthwhile to check out farside [0]. The long lists of mirrors can be replaced with singular farside links (e.g. https://farside.link/libreddit ) which will always redire
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by Liquix 4y ago
This is the aim of the farside [0] project. For example instead of juggling a list of up/down invidious mirrors, just plug in https://farside.link/invidious and it will automatically redirect to a working instance. [0]
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by Liquix 4y ago
Excellent extension with one glaring flaw: IDCAC accepts cookies if there is no option to decline them. You don't see annoying popups anymore, but the cookies are still there tracking you. This can be combated by combining it combine
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by Liquix 4y ago
BTC being portrayed as "bad for the environment" is just as ridiculous as trying to guilt people into buying meat alternatives or electric cars because their way of life is "bad for the environment". Almost 90% of the wo
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by Liquix 4y ago
AMD is also the way to go for non-Windows users. There are hopes that NVIDIA drivers will become usable in wake of the wake of Lapsus$ hijinx, but for now AMD cards work so much better with GNU/Linux
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by Liquix 4y ago
These corporations are not bastions of self-awareness nor moral fortitude. They are machines with the singular goal of making the red line go up. It will continue to get worse as long as people continue buying their products.
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by Liquix 4y ago
But when everyone keeps buying ""smart"" TVs and accepting the spyware, pretty soon they will start shipping with baked in 4G chips, and there will be no other option. Vote with your wallet by never buying a smart TV un
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by Liquix 4y ago
It does give better results. The filters can also be quite powerful. The problem is paying a steep fee to proxy Google's index... It benefits you and Kagi in the short term, but strengthens the Google/Bing/Yandex index oligop
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by Liquix 4y ago
Awesome idea! For anyone interested in the concept of adverserial clothing.. Medium size patch defeats/confuses person recognition: https://towardsdatascience.com/avoiding-detection-with-adver... Anti-facial recognitio
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by Liquix 4y ago
>barely legal (revoking people's access to what they bought ...) Kind of like when Microsoft bought Mojang and locked one of the world's most popular online experiences behind talking to M$ servers? There is no way to play the
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by Liquix 4y ago
Free speech is free speech and must be protected at all costs, even if 99% of people think an idea is reprehensible. These people aren't going to shrug and walk away because a website goes down, they'll congregate somewhere else.
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by Liquix 4y ago
>They steer views to foreign countries where no one is likely to buy your music or follow you Worst case scenario. Best case scenario, your advertising reaches local folks and your business does well... Which makes your main source of re
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by Liquix 4y ago
BEN Drowned, smile.jpg, The Russian Sleep Experiment.. Some of these were so well done and haunting. What a macabre thing to get all nostalgic about! For further reading - this site has been up for over a decade and is fairly comprehensive:
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by Liquix 4y ago
The "Amazon's Choice" label seems to be almost as gameable as reviews - sellers somehow have a way of creating categories it would take very little work to be #1 in, such as "Amazon's Choice for <company name>
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by Liquix 4y ago
The big reasons people seem to be looking for alternatives are privacy concerns and increasingly aggressive optimization for NLP. DDG and Bing both have ~1% market share and both return decent results - why support the one that will ostensi
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by Liquix 4y ago
There are a few tinkerers, a few nice setups, and a lot of younger posters copying things off GitHub for internet points That last part isn't necessarily bad - it gets people excited about running GNU/Linux. "Come for the D
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FWIW smart TVs are "cheap" because of how lucrative it is to sell the data they collect. Gen Z probably has even less privacy than they do purchasing power. And while the economy will invariably bounce back - that data stays colle
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by Liquix 4y ago
Google conclusively found there was a statistically most pleasing shade of blue in their 41 Shades of Blue experiment. This type of testing can be and is being leveraged for profit. It's not too difficult to imagine Apple tuning iMes

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