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by Terr_ 1mo ago
"I don't worry because I have nothing to hide, based on my perfectly accurate perception of today's political and legal forces in my state and nation which will stay safely static forever ."
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
Careful, that's a pitfall there if we assume MAGA words reflect an internal belief system. Too often the words are whatever they have to say in order to secure continued membership in the group: The Emperor's New Clothes are a glo
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> questions like “should I steal this money now that I am alone” or “should I backstab this friend who pissed me off today.” Ah, yes, a very BOFH approach [0] to workplace quandaries. > I mean I use coffee quite a lot Perhaps, but I d
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> a unique identifier into every image you create Printing (even text) is also a risk: It's very likely your printer is secretly adding marks to the page that contain its serial number and the current timestamp. [0] Meanwhile Micr
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I don't think it's quite as bad, but I'm imagining someone in the 1950s going: "People just have to use methamphetamines responsibly in their work, and then we'll see the massive benefits as widespread adoption un
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Is it often flat-out wrong where you live? My most-common frustration with it is when products I want to compare don't have the same quantity-denominator. (Either a different unit, or sometimes a different dimension like weight versus
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Not really the same, since your average calculator doesn't take over executive function . The user thought and decided what needs to happen, down to one extremely well-specified task, which is so unambiguous that it can be completed b
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Importantly, the things being built don't have a great alternate use. You can't recover value from an LLM processing-center by selling the chips for gaming or CGI rendering.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'm certainly not alone in trying to make sense of it all without completely destroying my faith in averaged-out humanity. A hypothesis: The "spite" is secondary to their insecurity and fear of not belonging to a "safe&q
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
What's the difficulty? This US Republican administration has screwed-up and reneged/lied about negotiations again, the same way it's been misbehaving for the past two years with multiple other countries. It's not credibl
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I hope it leads to conversions, because WSL means Microsoft is still building a sneaky "telemetry" dossier on every user, their devices, which users are near the same devices and networks as others users, etc. Plus "helpfully
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
IANAL, but I think there are three aspects to this which should be teased-apart: 1. Contract terms that require committing a crime are void and unenforceable. 2. "A contract made me do it" is not a defense to a crime. 3. "The
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
To put it another way, crimes are usually [0] only something the government can/must prosecute, victims don't get to choose. The media-popularized phrase "would you like to press charges" isn't asking for your permi
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Then it needs a pin A compromise to this is that many phones have a "lockdown" mode, where it isn't fully off but refuses to accept biometrics until a code/pattern is used to bring it to a more day-to-day mode. It&#
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
An increasing portion of phones are eSIM [0] only these days, and the difficulty of swapping can be weirdly-bad depending on provider. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> [Item 5] The answer is yes, but the title is irritating in the same way: It gives the impression of a live debate when none exists. [...] > [Item 6] The answer is immaterial. What’s irritating is when a title suggests a novel, inter
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> NEW Reddit has recently started blocking logged-out access too. That'd be an important milestone in enshittification when it comes to other entities that were previously happy to outsource their fan-forums, support, announcement s
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Also, only knaves and fools would be concerned with The Crown's modest regulations for reporting "meta data" on all guilds and meeting-houses. "Using Metadata to find Paul Revere": https://kieranhealy.org
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Another thing they got right was [...] None of these people really believe in anything, though sometimes they pretend to as part of some power play. I think it's worth asking whether "nobody really believes anything" is
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Company selling X tells you X is most important. Not automatically wrong, but it lacks a certain testimonial power. I'm kind of disappointed, since the "infrastructure" I feel is "more important" involves how yo
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> No one wants to know about the three other approaches tried when reading the first sentence of a function's documentation. Worse: Possibly the three other approaches that weren't actually tried--but are the kinds that someo
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Soon: "The 7 weird tricks about your Pull Request WEB-1725 that THEY don't want you to know!"
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> It never asks for elevation. It doesn’t need root, UAC, or sudo, because nothing it wants is root-owned. SSH keys, AWS credentials, browser profiles, wallet data, .env files - all of it is user-owned by design, because you need to read
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
They phased it in gradually, so there are several submissions about it already.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Another aspect I like to harp on about is that the shape and kind of error is different. So even if a system has the same rates as humans, if we can't solve for the mismatch in our ability to predict and recover from errors, final ou
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Or to put it another way: You need to block the chaos-machine just as much as any utterly-hostile actor. Simply assume it'll be possessed by a vengeful blackhat ghost at any time.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
If you're going to look upwards for blame, why stop there? Keep going and you reach all the the White House bigwigs busy violating the Presidential Records Act and FOIA willy-nilly. I mean, remember that one top-manager who kept rippin
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
The "records" in this case are likely the researchers saying: "WTF is happening, my work is canceled, and it seems like the politicians are starting to talk about us as scapegoats to be metaphorically lynched, let's talk
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Yes, and on multiple levels of meaning too. I think it could go either way depending on how genre-savvy the character is, in the story-document being emitted by the LLM. For example, perhaps the Kaiju-flavored narrative demands that Militar
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Ahhh, but does that change when the target of the nuclear strike is Godzilla?

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