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by Nursie 1y ago
Yup, they can give you a secure boot chain that's otherwise hard to prove, and I've worked at places where (for example) disk encryption keys were protected by TPM encryption, using TrouSrS. They can also often be used as a (slow)
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Honestly, now you mention it, space bar/period thing is annoying :) I’m always searching for things with unnecessary dots in them, and I’d forgotten about the keyboard options on Android.
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What are all these things that are broken? The only thing I can think of that's worse on iOS is that you're forced to use safari or another skin on webkit rather than true alternative browsers. Everything else works better thatn a
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Once again you seem to have taken offence at a pure comparison, absent any value judgement. That’s on you.
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> Um, the Netherlands is not a mid-sized country. The Netherlands is entry 71 in a list of countries by population, making it very 'mid' indeed. You're comparing it to the USA, which is the third most populous nation on ea
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Bitcoin famously uses as much as a mid-sized country like the netherlands now. Wouldn't surprise me if AI use follows.
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In Switzerland, at the appropriate facilities, the state provides heroin to addicts. This has a dual effect - addicts get clean drugs and take them under medical supervision, reducing deaths, helping funnel some towards programs that will e
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Sorry I didn’t mean to come across as overly critical, and connecting with your kids is always a worthwhile activity. They certainly look like they’re having fun! I’m just wondering out loud if people aren’t sometimes teaching their kids th
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by Nursie 1y ago
From last I read, Kagi allows installing of all manner of plugins, but very few actually work.
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I’m not tied to a smartphone to do those things in the UK or Aus either. Different geographies work differently I guess. In Brazil there’s an entire payment network (pix) that is centrally run, free and hugely popular.
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In Australia I can send $20k. In the UK it was similar. These concerns seem very weird to me.
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It's an interesting toy, but I wonder if this isn't someone trying to hold back the tides of modernity by making their kids appreciate music the way they did. AFAICT most of the old musical tribes we used to arrange ourselves into
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The demand comes from people who value their children’s perceived safety over the ability of some internet perv to get at porn or for terrorists to plan atrocities. And no, they don’t want to hear about the importance of freedom to communic
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Always was. It's why I found it so dismaying when we went through years of apparently serious newspapers reporting on every twitter-storm as if it was important. Yes, it was a good if unreliable source of breaking news, but the general
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A static binary that contains a huge variety of useful posix commands (ls/cp/mv/cat/md5sum/nohup/mount etc etc), all baked into one program, which exhibits different behaviour depending on how it is called - if
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> What peasant life offered wasn't comfort but stability. Until the local lord took a fancy to a different type of agriculture, drove you off and ploughed your village back into the soil! I've been watching time-team recently a
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I remember heading out of Perth to the South about 15 years ago and at some point passing a field with various UFOs and other pieces of scrap art arranged along the roadside. I should probably figure out welding at some point! We're on
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I mean that is amazing, and I would imagine fetched a fair whack more than this theme park wants for its second-hand animatronics!
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by Nursie 1y ago
As the other poster said, these risks can be mitigated in various ways. If the property appreciates 100% over five years, your costs associated with those risks are comparatively minimal. They certainly don't constitute a depreciating
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> Have you ever wanted to own gigantic, realistic-looking dinosaurs for your backyard? Yes, we have an approx 1-acre paddock next to the road that's completely unused and I really want dinosaurs! I don't even need them animatro
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I live in Perth, Western Australia, and here 5-year price growth has topped 100% in some suburbs. Landlordism is an enormous money-spinner.
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> Homes are depreciating assets. Where do you live? Their value has been steadily appreciating in a lot of places in the west due to high demand.
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> It has to be tackled even though it won't fix things Yep, because it has become a public embarassment, it's very present in all the news coverage, and the government have promised to get a handle on the situation but haven
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Yeah that’s the conclusion I came to as well. It’s really saddening when it’s shoved in your face like that.
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AFAICT here in WA it’s “you should carry but it’s not an offence if you don’t and you can sort it out later a bit like the UK”. But I’m not 100% sure so I’m making sure I’m carrying just in case.
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And nightclubs. There was one in the small city I went to university in and (later on) lived in for about a decade, that catered to a fairly specific subcultural melange (goth, punk, alt rock). Bit of a dive it must be said, but cheap drink
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The contention that there is something so ethereal, uncapturable, so uniquely and indescribably human that is put into even the blandest piece of mass-market pop that an AI trained on all the music ever made couldn’t create a track that peo
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It’s soulless by definition, designed by committee and sung by a machine. Entirely manufactured. But people like it. It’s a counterpoint to the above argument that listeners will be dismissive of AI-produced music because it is a pale imita
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> And listeners/consumers can tell the difference between art created with intent and soul, and a pale imitation of that. Respectfully I disagree. We have had curated, manufactured pop, built by committee and sung by pretty mouthpie
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Of course it won’t help. Never claimed otherwise. That’s my whole point - while everyone’s lives and the state of the country seem to get worse, people blame the other and look for the person offering them easy answers. If their lives were

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