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by afarah1 7mo ago
I've used it for several years now, it's a great app. Not perfect, there is noticeable lag to capture high resolution images, and lacks shutter speed control. Still, beats other FOSS alternatives in my experience.
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by afarah1 8mo ago
And for most it would be a valid point. Nozick makes the best case for this.
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by afarah1 8mo ago
>every country that has imposed a considerable sugar tax has seen benefits across the board Is there strong evidence for that? The first study that pops up if I search this suggests otherwise, that it could increase consumption of sugar-
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by afarah1 9mo ago
Reminds me of this 2023 post "re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code": https://blog.scottlogic.com/2023/05/04/langchain-mini.html We did just that back then and it worked great, we used it i
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by afarah1 9mo ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response.
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by afarah1 9mo ago
A comment with an article citing published medical literature on risks associated with this type of vaccine was flagged and hidden. Why? I don't know the author nor am I a medical doctor to understand the topic at depth, so it's a
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by afarah1 9mo ago
FYI: NetGuard is an open source rootless firewall for vanilla Android which also allows per-app network access control, for those unable or unwilling to go with other OSs. Works by leveraging Android VPN to block instead of tunneling packet
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by afarah1 9mo ago
With the hability to see and track every payment?
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by afarah1 9mo ago
In Brazil there is a similar problem, but it's not as widely discussed. Here, police investigations revealed that a website sold access for less than $4 to the nation-wide surveillance system, which included live feed of public safety
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by afarah1 9mo ago
How do you hook it up and how do you control it remotely?
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by afarah1 9mo ago
That's not a good answer, unless you just want cable. YouTube, Netflix, etc won't work. Buying hardware is paying extra which is already a deterrent, but anyway just shifts the problem to that piece of hardware - is the stick vett
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by afarah1 9mo ago
Of course they have a choice. Just don't do it. All you said are predictions of what may or may not happen in the future. The opposite could be true - the audience at large may get sick of AI tools being pushed on them and prefer the b
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by afarah1 10mo ago
Interesting read, thanks. The related article shows that even more robust anonymization techniques may still be insufficient (in the case of the taxi rides, spatial-temporal analysis could still lead to de-anonymization). More reason to red
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by afarah1 11mo ago
This seems to be more about political power and government overreach than money. The narrative seems to be focused solely on concentration of the later, lately.
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by afarah1 1y ago
Any setups without Claude Code? I use CoPilot agent heavily on VSCode, from time to time I have independent grunt work that could be parallelized to two or three agents, but I haven't seen a decent setup for that with CoPilot or some o
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by afarah1 1y ago
Android also has limited photos access nowadays.
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by afarah1 1y ago
But is it a game changer vs CoPilot in Agent mode with Claude 4 Sonnet? Because it's twice the price and doesn't even have a trial. I feel like if it were a game changer, like Cursor once was vs Ask mode with GPT, it would be wort
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by afarah1 1y ago
Poor comparison, none of these are attached to the manufacturer, you can and usually do get these services from other companies of your choice. You don't need VW-Gas(TM) from VW-Station(TM) in your tank for the car to run.
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by afarah1 1y ago
... how would it be enforced?
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by afarah1 1y ago
Which is costly to do...
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by afarah1 1y ago
Same for any legislation piece. A law that costs 100M people $1 and benefits 100 people with $1M. Would be, as you noted, costly to oppose, not worth the $1 nor the time. And at the same time, very profitable for the 100 to spend hundreds o
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by afarah1 1y ago
I got interested and got down to the FAQ. The "how much it costs" question doesn't give any price figure in the answer. I'm still left with the same question and feeling like a fool. Nor is the data privacy question answ
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by afarah1 1y ago
I also don't like it but it seems to be what most institutions are going for. It's a strong factor if required in person, the problems start when accepting it remotely. But having to go to the bank seems like the past.
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by afarah1 1y ago
The solution already exists: MFA and IdP federation. One factor you know (data) and the other you posess, or you are (biometrics). IdP issues both factors, identification is federated to them. Kind of happens when you are required to supply
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by afarah1 1y ago
I don't see enough talk about reducing the amount of data collected in the first place. Even if it's kept within one jurisdiction, it can still be the target of a breach by a local criminal, a foreign spy, or a new government agen
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by afarah1 1y ago
Camera and microphone usage should be hard-wired to an LED
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by afarah1 1y ago
As a side note / curiosity, the world's fastest electric car had a top speed of 357 mph (574 km/h), I was just watching a video about it (and other cars) the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DaGwTHl
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by afarah1 1y ago
It can be used in the desktop (web) with the phone turned off since a few months (years?) ago.
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by afarah1 1y ago
>follow-up thought I'm hoping somebody else has also thought about [...] dark energy as _negative energy_ [...] Maybe like a black hole evaporating Another layman's thoughts: Isn't the energy theoretically lost by black h
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by afarah1 1y ago
Interesting read, but even if we assume the author is correct, and the cosmos formed as a black hole in a larger universe, the question remains, how did this larger universe formed, then? Might just be impossible to know.

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