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by XorNot 8mo ago
I mean, sure? But I don't do that. For city driving OsmAnd makes a sensible route which sticks to main roads whereas Google Maps was getting so bad me and my wife stopped using it because it's choices were bafflingly weird, and wo
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I think that's the point though? Plenty of things not worth engaging with also aren't technically violating any rules: but wasting the brainpower on them also isn't worth it in a reliable way. That's where an ignore syst
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by XorNot 8mo ago
People I want to ignore I usually disagree with as well, but that's not the problem: the problem is they are repetitive and boring.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
At this point I prefer OsmAnd navigation over Google maps. Maps reliably does stupid things like route through winding residential streets because it thinks that's faster and can obviously be done at the full posted speed limit. OsmAnd
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Why care about single use coffee cups? They begin their life as oil in the ground and end their life as plastic in the ground (in landfill). I've grown rather weary of performative complaining about trash which has a waste lifecycle wh
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Fossil are not equally polluting. There's a difference between living next to a generator with exhaust at ground level, a properly designed smoke stack, and just being further away so the reactive emissions can dilute and degrade. CO2
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by XorNot 8mo ago
China deploys more solar and wind power then the US. Americans seem to love to count their past successes and then declare the game is over and they won. History doesn't end though.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
But would they pay for it? That's the difference.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Except this isn't an argument because "a video game" isn't a real thing. There are a diverse range of specific video game titles, but they are incredibly broad in content and scoring system. What specifically are you act
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by XorNot 8mo ago
You are interpreting this entirely wrongly: these are LLMs. They don't have experience, they have token probabilities and they all originate from a text corpus of the Internet where "AI orders nuclear strikes" is one of the d
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I wonder if you could just ignore ignore settlement by provisioning for hydraulic slab jacking instead? Include a built channel for injecting hydraulic grout a few months later once the settlements happened to correct it out.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Currently I need Thunderbird to support Oauth login using a yubikey with a webauthn and a pin. I can't enter a pin to authenticate, so I can't use it.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
The employees of the actual subsidiary entity follow the laws of the country they're based in.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
You're missing the part about layered controls which is what elevator access control is. Limiting the number of people who can incidentally travel to and loiter outside your primary office entrance is one level of control - it raises t
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by XorNot 8mo ago
I guess that's fortunate then because the Boring Company notably really sucks at drilling anything.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
That's exactly what's going to happen because it's already happening: companies and people leaped on "it wasn't us it was the AI" immediately.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Lotta just following orders going around in the US right now.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
No you're switching intent around here: age verification for social media is very popular. Whether any given implementation is popular is a different question. But people aren't attacking implementations: they're attacking th
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by XorNot 8mo ago
So they can die from dehydration while we spend 3 days trying to figure out who ordered the weird coffin sized box no ones coming to claim?
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Are they? The goal isn't to draw a hard boundary it's to create layered defenses which increase the difficulty and reduce opportunity. If instead of open access you need to tailgate on a limited set of employees, that increases di
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Theres footage online of a basic security door stopping an armed robber from escaping despite him trying to shoot the lock. Bullets aren't universal door openers, and shooting your way through one lock doesn't magically unlock the
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Except a decent part of security is literally just deterrence. Will my front door stop someone robbing my house if they want to? No: I have sidelight windows you could just smash them and come through. But the one time a house I was in got
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Age verification in Australia had like 70% popularity. That is an astounding consensus in a system which regularly decides elections by 51%. You're not getting mandated from up high: it is democratically enormously popular to do this.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
This is a fairly weak argument though: the layperson also cannot verify the software updates we push to their phone/computer or any number of other critical devices in the chain. All of this is reputation management: if technical exper
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Except it wouldn't need to be every request. Just the first one. All these services have accounts, and the only time you need to do an age check is when the account is created.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It's the overconfidence of 90s kids who knew how to program the VCR and use the modem.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
YouTube and Google are very confident this feature exists but drilling down to my model the answer is no it does not. I think I'm getting the screwdriver out this weekend.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
The site was created for the express purpose of enabling bypass of sovereign policy decisions: so yeah, it's going to be blocked.
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by XorNot 8mo ago
Pretty sure it'd just be a thumbdrive. Are the Taalas chips particularly large in surface area?
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by XorNot 8mo ago
It's questionable whether the ghost cities truly exist though. I was under the impression they were a product of China's bizarre savings and investment market, and that a lot of them have since filled up?

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