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by __d 1y ago
The social media ban is broadly popular. The clear majority of voters support it. It’s a political win for the government to push this through, over the objections from Google, Meta, etc. The fact that social media makes a stack of money
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by __d 1y ago
That’s not universally true. In Australia, young people skew significantly progressive, and young woman even more so.
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If you substitute the word “television” for “YouTube” or “social media”, you can almost exactly replay the arguments of the 1970s.
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by __d 1y ago
To state it plainly: We humans, when given enticing bad choices, will often give in to the enticement. That universal tendency can be overcome by strict application of willpower, which can have long-term benefits. It is possible to exploit
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by __d 1y ago
I don't think you can reasonably complain that the 9fans moderators rejected your argument when they stated that the problem was that they perceived your posting as having been AI-generated. Many forums are struggling with AI-generated
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As an example, I started working on Y2K issues in 1991, and it was a project that had been running for several years already. It was an enormous amount of work, at least 25% of the bank’s development budget for over a decade. 30 year mortga
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by __d 1y ago
Fascism implies (paraphrasing Wikipedia): * a dictatorial leader * an authoritarian government * nationalism and/or racism * militarism * promotion of a "natural order" I don't think any of those accurately characterize
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by __d 1y ago
The majority of the comments here reflect an acceptance of or even an enthusiasm for an LLM-using future. An embracing of the technology regardless of its downsides. A disregard of those who question whether it’s all a desirable future. I
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by __d 1y ago
https://archive.is/IVIUd
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by __d 1y ago
There appears to be a variety of mechanisms proposed. I assume some of them, at least, will be able to be fooled one way or another. But if not, a $5/month VM in another country and a VPN tunnel should do the job.
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by __d 1y ago
Anyone who cares will ask their mates at school, who will assist them to set up a VPN and thus circumvent this silliness. Then the same people who've pushed this solution to their perceived problem will start to target VPNs. The real
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by __d 1y ago
> Do you buy bottled water from the store? No > Do you filter tap water? No > What filter do you use? N/A > Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Yes (Australia) > Something else? I use unfiltered tap water
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by __d 1y ago
Citation needed
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by __d 1y ago
My experience with retro computers is that things start to fail from around the 10-15 year mark, yes. Some things are still good after 30 years, maybe more, but .. capacitors leak, resistors go out of spec, etc, and that means voltages drif
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by __d 1y ago
I think so. I click on “reject all”, and at worst “manage settings” and disable a bunch of stuff. I didn’t have that option before.
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by __d 1y ago
Pew says there were 11m undocumented immigrants in 2022. That’s some way from 10’s of millions — does your figure include other groups as well?
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by __d 1y ago
What does/did Switzerland do?
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by __d 1y ago
No. Part of why I prefer to use a search engine is that I can see who is saying it, in what context. It might be Wikipedia, but also CIA world fact book. Or some blog but also python.org. Or (lately) it might be AI SEO slop, reworded acro
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by __d 1y ago
Is this like ... broken.example.com? (See https://www.iana.org/go/rfc6761 )
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by __d 2y ago
In general, you can’t. You could work for a company that open sources your work. You can consult. A very few people can make enough to live off from donations or support contracts. But … ultimately I think it’s the wrong approach. Open So
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by __d 2y ago
I was surprised a couple of years ago to read that the US no longer made the aluminum tubing used to make bicycle frames. Despite having quite a significant custom frame building scene and many craftspeople, such a simple raw material was
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by __d 2y ago
It's funny: there was a time when Apple understood that it could attract customers by making its devices the first choice for developers. And it did a good job, with a real Unix underneath that wasn't overly hidden, with a lot of
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by __d 2y ago
I've looked, but never played (this being my primary personal device, it's not something I want to have out of service). I guess that's probably also why I feel like this is the wrong solution for me. I don't want to ha
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by __d 2y ago
My daily driver is a 2014 MacBook Pro. It's had a few repairs over the years, but in addition to Apple no longer supporting current macOS for it, I'm starting to feel the performance is impacting my work as well. I'm still d
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by __d 2y ago
Information would absolutely be useful. The current generation however will struggle: there won't be an Internet, so all the information will be in paper books. And finding what you want when presented with a library without a paper c
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by __d 2y ago
I'm absolutely no expert here, but tin comes to mind. It was a critical ore with limited sources during the bronze age, and required a substantial trading economy to exist to allow bronze-based technology to flourish. Extracting resou
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by __d 2y ago
I think this is both true and yet completely insufficient. There’s a whole system that produces the people and materials that enable every field of endeavor. Having the books and the eg. sub-nanometer scale silicon wafer etching machine do
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by __d 2y ago
I think it’s unlikely that a reboot gets us to iPhones again (within hundreds of years anyway) because of the easy resources all gone issue. Can we get back to imperial Roman quality of life? Or 1600s Europe? Maybe, but different. For the
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by __d 2y ago
So we had finger, talk, irc, smtp, nntp, ftp, etc, all layered on TCP. And now we have dozens of popular implementations of roughly the same functionality layered on REST/HTTP or JSON/WebSockets or whatever. I suggest that the com
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by __d 2y ago
Well, I believe there were military radar projects that shipped in reasonable quantities and served for reasonable lifetimes. I think I remember some medical imaging products as well? I don’t dispute that the Transputer was ultimately unsuc

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