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by TheDong 8mo ago
I think the least dystopian is a semi-government owned app, like WeChat in china. iMessage is also controlled by a private company, and by my estimate, one of the most evil ones. Apple and Google are the two companies most complicit in feed
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by TheDong 8mo ago
In most countries, the most used messenger app is Whatsapp or Wechat or LINE or KakaoTalk or whatever. In the USA, the most common messenger is iMessage. Unfortunately, unlike all the other apps I named, there's no Android app for it.
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by TheDong 8mo ago
In functioning states, the ID contains a chip with a private key that can be used to sign a message, and ID verification would not be an image of the ID card, but rather holding your phone's NFC reader to the card and signing a message
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by TheDong 8mo ago
There is an easy solution to this - require a government ID, and only permit government IDs that can be verified with the state's government. There are a lot of countries and US states where such validation is possible. Given the state
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation They are explicitly choosing to only release security updates for 18.x to devices which are not eligible for liquid glass. iPhone 14 was deemed capable of running
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by TheDong 8mo ago
There's a searchbar, and the amount of content you search through is far more than you could do with clientside search. Definitely not just static content.
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by TheDong 8mo ago
I dunno, I'm pretty happy with my thinkpad. Even if I could run Linux flawless on a macbook (which you can't unfortunately) I'd still take the thinkpad hardware over a macbook. A macbook air is 1.25kg, and my thinkpad is 910g
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by TheDong 8mo ago
There are some real differences. All the homebrew packages have checksums and are versioned in git, so if the upstream website is compromised and a malware installer is put in place of the package, `curl | bash` will just install the malwar
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by TheDong 8mo ago
If the debian maintainers don't align with your preferences you can: 1. Create your own apt repository with newer software, and install from that. It's easy to package things, you can share the repository with trusted friends, run
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Civilization is about cooperating with your fellow man to build great things, not bowing to the feudal lord Apple Inc. A truly civilized person would use Linux, OpenBSD, etc, a free operating system where they may contribute fixes for their
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by TheDong 8mo ago
I wish the mac users would switch to a real OS, linux, so that software companies would release linux versions of stuff first. Codex, Claude Desktop, etc etc all starting out as "macOS exclusive" feels so silly when they're t
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by TheDong 8mo ago
There's one additional question we could have here, which is "is AI here to stay and is it net-positive, or does it have significant negative externalities" > What we really want to ask ourselves is whether our economy is
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by TheDong 8mo ago
I guess you're saying that because a waymo car can't walk into the DMV and get a license, it shouldn't be on the road? (which of course it can't, you have to have a legal human identity to get a normal driver's lice
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> you can replace their built-in Windows OS with the Linux flavor/edition of your choice. From the arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Samsung > Samsung Book5 - Internal Speakers not work
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by TheDong 8mo ago
You've imagined a scenario around remote drivers having access to the internal microphones. Waymo tells you explicitly that all the microphones inside the car are off unless you press the button to call rider support yourself. If you&#
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Waymo has a blog post on what these remote assistance people do: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/ They effectively are answering questions like "is this road closed", or "is
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by TheDong 8mo ago
I don't think that really proves anything, it's unsurprising that recumbent bicycles are represented less in the training data and so it's less able to produce them. Try something that's roughly equally popular, like a T
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Installed apps can track you even more, so what you're arguing for is presumably not "don't use websites on your phone", but rather "do not use your phone, just use your desktop computer". Which sure, not using
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Because 'sh' isn't in moreutils and is harder to remember, next question. Why use something portable when you can use cat pee?
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by TheDong 8mo ago
The 3 most common ISPs in the US are Comcast, Spectrum, and AT&T Comcast blocks port 25: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/email-port-25-no-lo... AT&T says "port 25 may be blocked from customer
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by TheDong 8mo ago
This comes right after the news that Gabe purchased another Yacht (like his 6th or 7th?), so at least some fraction of the money is going towards normal billionaire stuff, which certainly doesn't help the homeless, or the even more opp
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by TheDong 8mo ago
You don't need any auth to send an email from your domain, or in fact from any domain. Just set whatever `From` you want. I've received many emails from `root@localhost` over the years. Admittedly, most residential ISPs block all
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> I've always found it odd that there isn't a standard command to write stdin to a file that doesn't also write it to stdout If you happen to have moreutils installed, you can do that with pee echo $NUM_PAGES | sudo
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by TheDong 9mo ago
I find it so frustrating that Lockdown Mode is so all-or-nothing. I want some of the lockdown stuff (No facetime and message attachments from strangers, no link previews, no device connections), but like half of the other ones I don't
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by TheDong 9mo ago
Ah, yes, the "efficient market hypothesis", it's well known that no company has ever gone bankrupt because every company only does things that are optimally efficient and profitable. No company has ever made an investment in
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> Would love for someone to make the case for why it actually makes total sense, because it’s really hard to see for me! Elon musk has a history of making improbable-sounding promises (buy a tesla now, by 2018 it will be a self-driving r
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by TheDong 9mo ago
It's much closer to a fork-bomb.
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by TheDong 9mo ago
But would the DMCA ("Copyright Act") still apply when there's no copyright? Here, let's read together: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 > No person shall circumvent a tec
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by TheDong 9mo ago
My experience using AI is that it wildly increases burnout, not decreases it. Writing code is fun. Solving interesting problems is fun. Debugging deep problems is fun. Debugging slop code is a painful suffering experience, having to constan
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by TheDong 9mo ago
1. It's cheaper to make a vacuum on earth around a computer than it is to send a computer into space. 2. That would also presumably work on earth, unless it somehow relied on low-gravity, and would also be cheaper to benefit from on ea

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