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by amiga386 1y ago
There is also what's called "Oversight", which performs actions that are invisible to the public and administrators alike (though not invisible to some very privileged people) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by amiga386 1y ago
The text adventure guy, or the cartoonist who went batshit?
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by amiga386 1y ago
This seems like a judiciously designed API to me. You don't need to check if err was nil before calling resp.Body.Close() https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Get > When err is nil, resp always contains a non-nil resp.B
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by amiga386 1y ago
There are 53 states (out of 193 UN states + 2 observer states) that have not abolished, and continue to use the death penalty. "First-world" is Cold War terminology meaning Western countries and their allies, as opposed to second-
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by amiga386 1y ago
Uh... no. The purpose of the laws (GDPR et al) is to give me control over who does what with my data, data about me. The operator of the website is who the law binds. It's not even about the website - if I phoned or emailed, the sa
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by amiga386 1y ago
Since the first games, many fans have clamoured for "Assassin's Creed in Japan"... I suspect they fantasised about being a male Japanese ninja running across rooftops in the moonlight, sneaking over nightinggale floors, and s
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by amiga386 1y ago
Were any on these topics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contentious_topics#L...
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by amiga386 1y ago
I think you can categorise Amiga enthusiasts in various ways, this is my taxonomy: 1. Hardware enthusiasts who specifically love the Amiga's original hardware, its peripherals, and the early post-Commodore direction (PowerPC accelerato
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by amiga386 1y ago
> There are at least 3 rewrites of AmigaOS (AROS, MorphOS, AmigaOS 4.x) but despite so much passion nobody bothered to bring the desktop to Linux? The passion is there for the whole AmigaOS, of which the desktop metaphor, Workbench, is j
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by amiga386 1y ago
I notice you didn't use the word "fair" though. Probably because FPTP is not fair. In FPTP, if your vote doesn't elect the winner in your constituency, it was wasted. Even if you voted for the eventual government party i
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by amiga386 1y ago
That is not the case. The government was elected with 33.7% of the vote. You were trying to make a distinction between "government" and "executive" -- that's not how it works here, matey. His Majesty's Governm
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by amiga386 1y ago
Validating a public person's birthday using Wikipedia? *laughs in Taylor Lorenz* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Taylor_Lorenz/Archive_1#R... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Taylor_
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by amiga386 1y ago
That's why it's called Churnalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism Also, if any news orgs are listening: when you are regurgitating a press release about, say, a report or scientific paper, please ma
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by amiga386 1y ago
Just to pick a random example in England: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.5577247,-0.238575,3a,75y,287... This is a small neighbourhood. There are all types of houses there. To your right is half of a regular semi-deta
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by amiga386 1y ago
They do have that right, but at the same time, a chaotic and vindictive adminstration can revoke the visa of, and then physically abduct, a non-citizen. They can then make statements that plainly make it clear they did that because of what
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by amiga386 1y ago
Which part of the text "You can get DeCSS from http://lemuria.org/~tom/DeCSS/ " on a website constitutes distribution of "technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof" ? Judg
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> but can you point to any prosecution of someone for a _prose description_ of circumvention (as opposed to actually making code available)? I'll do you one better: 2600 Magazine was prohibited from saying which website hosted DRM
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by amiga386 1y ago
> But you now have people sitting on top of each other. Is this good? Yes, it's good. The US seems to have either massively spaced out single family housing, or high density skyscrapers. That's not good. Most other part of the
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by amiga386 1y ago
Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but you're not seeing the distinction because you're expanding the definition of NIMBY beyond what it means (a person who objects to developments done near them). You used a fine phrase there, &quo
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According to an article today, there are 16 data centres in Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77zxx43x4vo
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The project was proposed in 2015 but it didn't seriously start until 2020. That's purely politics. I'd say the lion's share of time was spent seeking planning permission, writing environmental impact documents, plannin
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by amiga386 1y ago
EGL2 was proposed in 2015 and was meant to be operational by 2023. It wasn't even approved until August 2024. Construction began a month later. EGL1 has already suffered a 16 month delay thanks to its constructors: https:/&#x
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Yes, but you have to factor in that you can't eat houses. Being given money immediately for your living costs might be more attractive to you, than trying to retain value in an asset you'll only realise in 20 years time when you s
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by amiga386 1y ago
The government were mooting "we'll give you free electricity for life if you let us build the pylons near you" in 2024 https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-electricity-py... It's currently
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by amiga386 1y ago
This is all true, the NIMBYs are real and we must construct additional pylons... but the largest part of curtailment costs come from the UK energy sector's project mismanagement. 1. We have two undersea cable projects (EGL1&2) to p
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog > The phrase man bites dog is a shortened version of an aphorism in journalism that describes how an unusual, infrequent event (such as a man biting a dog) is more likel
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by amiga386 1y ago
Boeing vs Airbus: count() AS total, sum(desc LIKE 'BOEING%') AS boeing, sum(desc LIKE 'AIRBUS%') AS airbus, sum(NOT (desc LIKE 'BOEING%' OR desc LIKE 'AIRBUS%')) AS other, great
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by amiga386 1y ago
The purpose of an LLM is not to do your job, it's to do enough to convince your boss to sack you and pay the LLM company some portion of your salary. To that end, it doesn't matter if it works or not, it just has to demo well.
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by amiga386 1y ago
There is plenty of moderation on 4chan. It actively avoids breaking the laws of the country it's hosted in (the USA). You may not like what's on it, but it's not "extreme". It used to be more extreme, it's not
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by amiga386 1y ago
Reminder that Google owes Russia more money than exists in the world, for continuing to disobey the Russian law which commands them to allow the Russian state to upload its propaganda on Youtube. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news&#

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