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This. It's exactly why Microsoft use modern frameworks such as React Native for their Start Menu used by billions of people every day.
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Something tells me Jeff from accounting can still freely show photos of him "hunting" with some dead wild animals and few will consider it gross.
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> That industry is also full of subscription scams Visa / MC are the ones who enable subscription scams and benefit from them. They implemented "convinience" option of "updating" your credit card data with replac
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This. I dont know who do you need to be in order to pay for the porn that you can pirate for free. In case of games or music or movies there is collecting and convinience, but porn is pretty much opposite. But at the same time chance of &qu
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Hooray! Now 2x safer killbots from "AI safety and research company".
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1y ago
If you're okay to void warranty there are repair shops that will solder larger NANDs for you. It's not cheap though.
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Well, childcare is easy to measure. It's easy to see whatever it sufficient or not so it's a bad topic for politicians. But you can “save the children” as many times as you want and there will always be another thing to save them
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It's still heavily used in Buddhism around the world, but good lord what happen if you put it on your house in US or EU.
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It's not like this unique to LLMs either. By some little trolling on internet you easily can turn hand "OK gesture" into a hate symbol of white supermacy. And fools will fall for it.
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Booking is the worst of them. You can open two tabs of one account next to each other and since one is from Google Maps pricing gonna be. 20% different. Also all kind of cashback or discount offers just bake even higher premium than Cashbac
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To be honest I was thinking more about it more as just measure for anti-spam and limiting bots, but obviously it will only work for certain audiences since in countries like UK like 20-25% of people simply dont hold the passport at all. I c
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To proof-of-human and some UUID you only need valid signature on passport data.
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Thanks for details. Actual validation methods would be actually cool to read about. Since if we ignore legal diffuculties of storing the data then we can actually use passport cryptography as something like actual proof-of-human without pes
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Countries like UK actually have publicly database for e-visas (share code) that can easily be verified via online API. So probably at least some foreign governments can cross validate some of passport data with each other.
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I always wondered isn't this kind of specification also have digital signature of the passport issuer or something? Otherwise how do other countries can verify it's not a fake one? I read this article, but seems like any informati
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Tbh even visiting much more authoritorian countries can be quite a pleasant experience as foreigner. As long as you not plan to work or become permanent resident they usually nicer to foreigners than to locals. With exception of might be Ru
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> Especially since most of the traffic that will go through there is probably copyright infringement? Copyright infinging materials dont go "though" trackers. Trackers only keep torrent hashes and lists of peers.
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A lot of OS / GPU / driver combinations dont actually let you setup virtual displays with arbitrary settings. And you might want it for setting streaming with OBS or games streamings via Steam / Parsec / etc. Some years
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If you have lots of aging population and not enough of workforce to run infrastructure you have a problem. We can pretend that AI and robots will come soon enough, but that can as well not happen.
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If you can financially sustant all children you want then you are exception. Majority of people don't have this kind of option to begin with and the more children you have less financial resources you have.
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My company is making pixel art games with high quality art and we released 3 titles so far. While we don't use AI at all we still do experiment with it not to miss what's possible. And so far I just can't agree you can produc
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Well, that only works until bank accounts of somebody disloyal become frozen. And if you compare chances of that with chances of being deported to El Salvador prison... Well let's say frozen bank accounts doesn't sound that imposs
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Banks are good if you live in a functional democratic country with sane politics. If you don't then you'll easily get the bad side of it since abusing the power is not that hard.
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1y ago
I'm not iPhone user to begin with. You completely missing the point.
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This have nothing to do with Apple. One of largest anti-war public channels in Russia by relatives of mobilized people was marked as "FAKE" for a very long time by Durov's personal decision. Durov serves kremlin as much as an
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This kind a sucks if you're inside the US, but as someone outside I'd rather use service reporting to single country intellegence rather than 100 of them.
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Telegram dont have E2EE by default. It's all you need to know. 99% of communications on Telegram are in plain text. Also Telegram banned or shadowbanned serveral protest channels / bots during elections and when war began.
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Might be something have changed recently, but CloudFlare is kind a infamous for not taking down some questionable services. At the same time companies like Apple and Microsoft still continue to censor stuff on requests from Russia where the
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Many will disagree here, but I really respect Cloudflare fight against government-enabled censorship and abuse of power by anti-piracy whatever. Yes, sometimes CloudFlare used for some actually bad stuff, but same can be said for any cloud
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Free tier that let you hide your server IPs, cheap domain registry (with no margin) and even some also tunnels for zero trust. Like I used them for a lot of personal and tbh even commercial projects for years paying them $0. Also they have
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