LocalH

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541.
by LocalH 1y ago
> A friend got a warning from reddit just yesterday for saying not that a certain dictator should be assassinated but that he should be sentenced to death and then executed by anyone in a position to do so. A lot of social media today wi
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by LocalH 1y ago
The end result of all that fighting over the years was that Apple Computer gained full rights to the mark, and licenses it to Apple Corps for the limited use of identifying Apple Corps and related marks.
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by LocalH 1y ago
I got a chuckle out of that, since this also shares a name with the Amiga GUI
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by LocalH 1y ago
Ah, prescriptivism versus descriptivism. Prescriptivism is appropriate for technical or legal discussions, where the specific meanings of words are hugely important. Descriptivism is appropriate for casual communication, where it's fin
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by LocalH 1y ago
You can't reduce every single thing humans do to a cost-benefit analysis. Nor should you privatize everything that can be even remotely profitable. Our society today worships at the altar of the dollar, which is destroying it from th
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by LocalH 1y ago
Satellite has a lower cap on latency, until we figure out faster-than-lightspeed radio transmission (if that's even possible)
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by LocalH 1y ago
If the recorder uses digital video as its storage, it's a real DVR, even if the video input is that weird HD variant of NTSC that's everywhere in security cameras
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by LocalH 1y ago
It's very interesting how the industry spent decades refining the art of 2D animation, only for most of them to throw it all away when 3D became cheap and good. Especially Disney.
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by LocalH 1y ago
The title of the blog post is currently "The tradeoff between AI and human context" which can have a subtly different meaning to the HN title
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by LocalH 1y ago
Because Republican Americans tend to overwhelmingly think "government bad, private business good". Even the "small-c conservatives".
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by LocalH 1y ago
Money. It's always money. How many did this guy get away with (and how many others are doing it) before getting caught so blatantly?
552.
by LocalH 1y ago
We're sorely behind schedule on that one.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Nothing but legalized thuggery. ACAB, because non-bastard cops don't last long in the field. Cops that break the "thin blue line" and push back against this type of thing get ostracized.
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by LocalH 1y ago
To be fair, the chances of a breaking server change being unintentional or a natural evolution versus being a hostile move from the provider are about 50/50. AOL was known back in the day for making actively hostile changes to AIM for
555.
by LocalH 1y ago
Any time a law has a contrived name to fit some cutesy pre-determined name, it's a bullshit law, and will almost never achieve the goals that the cutesy name brings to mind.
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by LocalH 1y ago
The current administration is fully on Israel's side of the conflict.
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by LocalH 1y ago
I would suggest this range of fonts over Perfect DOS VGA 437: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
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by LocalH 1y ago
Generative AI was a huge mistake. We also see the flip side of this in "AI detectors" ensnaring people who are writing the way they always have. We see it in the idea that "if you use too many em dashes, then you must be AI&q
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by LocalH 1y ago
The slowly boiled death of general-purpose computing
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by LocalH 1y ago
I mean, compared to the music, TV, and film industries? YouTube is very young. Even many of today's media conglomerates have some sort of root that goes back 100 years or more.
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by LocalH 1y ago
The original point of cable was Community Antenna TV, where you'd get a much better quality signal (and often even additional out-of-market but nearby channels). Then broadcasters decided to go into specifically seeking nationwide co
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by LocalH 1y ago
It's funny how experiences can be so different (likely by Google's design, of course). I've been having degraded experience with YouTube using uBlock Origin on Vivaldi. I elected to make use of a one-month trial for Premium.
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by LocalH 1y ago
It's like the tolerance of intolerance.
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by LocalH 1y ago
They don't care about people being desensitized to violence. Need a new generation of soldiers, after all. But sex? Other people being able to see sexual depictions literally gets people's panties in a twist.
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by LocalH 1y ago
None of which are hard AI tells.
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by LocalH 1y ago
It wasn't shorthand, I'm pretty sure it was basic obfuscation. It was done by shuffling bits around then translating to letters using an algorithm that I don't know off the top of my head, but is well-documented. To me it sho
567.
by LocalH 1y ago
It gave me South Park bank "......aaaand, it's gone" vibes
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by LocalH 1y ago
TIL UEFI is apparently a "Windows boot process" /s
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by LocalH 1y ago
It irks me that Microsoft managed to shim their way into the Linux boot process like this. No key signed by Microsoft should ever come into play when booting Linux, on a moral basis.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Too much generative AI. No thanks

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