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Xelbair
1y ago
That limitation is enough to kill such proposal. Also authority could also do it. Nothing stops them from that.
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Xelbair
1y ago
the issue is that it shouldn't NEED to be solved by user in the first place
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Xelbair
1y ago
because technical people are aware that anything you type over the internet isn't private unless e2e encrypted.
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Xelbair
1y ago
Unfortunately yes, by a lot of non-technical people.
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Xelbair
1y ago
Nuclear has the lowest costs per MW out of all options.
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Xelbair
1y ago
Are they? Usually most analysis ignore costs of having a buffer in the system - either batteries or water reservoirs for pumped storage. That also inclides efficiency of storage, and the fact that cycles of power generation in most cases do
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Xelbair
1y ago
you know what annoys users more than broken arm? a splinter! (and i fact i do have a splinter in my hand right now).
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Xelbair
1y ago
after short help with bumping kernel version for one friend(newest AMD cards weren't supported in default kernel included with mint at that point).. it just works - they are gaming without issues.
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Xelbair
1y ago
anecdotal evidence, but even my non-IT friends prefer to try out Linux than upgrade to w11. Meanwhile most corporate already swapped to w11. 53% is a huge failure on MS part, but that's what happens when you design OS to be a bad copy
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Xelbair
1y ago
You know, we had separation between church/religion and state for a good reason.
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Xelbair
1y ago
are you unable to comprehend difference between pull and push communications?
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Xelbair
1y ago
is it? it was always easier and faster to spew bullshit than to refute it, and now we can automate it.
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Xelbair
1y ago
Are you being obtuse on purpose? Or is it natural?
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Xelbair
1y ago
you're unable to comprehend why people have a long-term hobbies?
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Xelbair
1y ago
Of course I would hate it. Ads are just mental warfare against you. Its someone trying to manipulate you for profit. If I drive somewhere I know where I want to go. If I need supplies I can pull over and check on the map where the nearest s
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1y ago
The only way my internet can be safer if i get a DNS that's fully outside of any government control(including soft power over private providers).
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1y ago
>I don't understand what's the difference if Italy develops its own or buys it from somewhere else. because the one who sold it quite likely also gets a hold of all information captured by it's user. Check your other posts
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1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON 5eyes(spying agreement between US, UK, CAN, NZ, AU) utilizing a loophole to spy on each other's citizens. Tons of ca
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Xelbair
1y ago
are you... serious? no I'm genuinely curious - because no matter who you sell it to it will be used against its own populace - look at bloody PRISM(mass data collection of internet traffic in US by NSA in case you weren't aware),
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1y ago
I've just seen too much abuse stemming from censorship, including second hand accounts(From friends and family) of people getting dissapeared due to it. as soon as you propose me a system that will stop such abuse and have censorship i
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1y ago
Worse. Models aren't deterministic! They use temperature value to control randomness, just so they can escape local minima! Regenerated code might behave differently, have different bugs(worst case), or not work at all(best case).
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1y ago
does bandaid help for broken arm or cancer? Censorship makes things worse, by entrenching different group - it's just that you like that one.
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1y ago
From what i've heard from creators youtube ads are such a small fraction of revenue that they don't count it - maybe horrible clickbait content mills depend on it but world would be better off without them. Mostly it comes from pa
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1y ago
Now a counterpoint: we banned government censorship for a good reason(or tried to). Why would a private 3rd party be allowed to do so? especially if government can heavily incentivize the 3rd party(using either stick and/or carrot) to
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1y ago
Then i'll just stop using their services. And if they're too big for people to not use them, then they need to be split up as they've attained (virtual) monopoly over specific market.
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1y ago
and that differs from chrome dictating standards how? also this could've been handled easily by committee(ugh), or a 3rd party open source organization akin to linux foundation that just makes js library that all browser vendors use. O
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1y ago
you're forgetting that modern games REQUIRE company releasing them to host a server, and there are no ways to host a community one. Some of them take enormous effort to create a fan server if it is even possible - as some games stream
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1y ago
I used it whenever i studied anything, but with a 'recursive' twist. Every time i did repetition, i've made a shorter note about the subject. Then next repetition cycle, i'm reading the note, and making shorter note base
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1y ago
the thing is - countries have set down legal rules preventing selling of food that actively harms the consumer(expired, known poisonous, addition of addictive substances(opiates) etc) to continue your food analogy. in software the regulatio
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1y ago
if the fire it lit under them, after their software leads to widespread hack - they will care. that's the point - to put pressure on them to CARE.
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