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by andrepd 8mo ago
Lol. I use a vpn every day to access geofenced content abroad. It also provides extra layer of anonymity by giving you a different address which is the same for everyone going through that server. Which was what the question was about. Othe
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by andrepd 8mo ago
Email is an open protocol, perfectly suited for delivering messages between people. Discord is a closed application, unsearchable, any server or account may be nuked at discord's discretion, thus it's entirely unsuited to replace
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by andrepd 8mo ago
Kids today are alarmingly bad at technology. This is not a "kids these days" situation, this is absolutely true. They understand "tap on icon, open app, there's a feed and DMs". I mean it, the tech illiteracy of gen
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by andrepd 8mo ago
People tried warning that moving all your discussion forums into a proprietary, closed, unsearchable platform was a bad idea. And it was. But nobody cared.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
A VPN helps. You can essentially mix your traffic with thousands of other people.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
This chatbot has several C compilers in its training data. How is this possibly a useful benchmark for anything? LLMs routinely output code verbatim or modulo trivial changes as their own (very useful for license-laundering too).
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by andrepd 8mo ago
These clean-shaven wide-eyed SV types give me the uncanny valley heebie-jeebies. Everything, from their tone of voice, to their appearance, to (most importantly) the way they phrase things... there's an almost AI-generated quality.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
It's hardly tinfoil to understand that companies riding a multi-trillion dollar funding wave would spend a few pennies astroturfing their shit on hn. Or overfit to benchmarks that people take as objective measurements.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
You're very much off the mark there. That may be true for gacha games or similar slop from the 2020s, but Runescape2/OSRS never had any sort of pay to win, or pay to skip the grind. Neither did WoW for instance.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
I get anti-West sentiment. I get anti-US imperialism. I get pointing out the double standard of the West regarding Israel, their atrocities and genocide. I get looking with cynicism at the great powers' manouevers. I don't get—nev
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by andrepd 8mo ago
Again, AI deepfakes are not sketches in a piece of paper. There's a massive difference between drawing your coworker naked on a piece of paper (weird, but certainly not criminal), and going "grok generate a video of my coworker bo
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by andrepd 8mo ago
> You're sketching out some nude fanart on a piece of paper. Is twitter a piece of paper in your desk? No, it's not.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
We can't keep our already perfect planet livable, but we're going to terraform a totally new one. Yeah right buddy.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
The UUID is unique per service. All it tells you is that two people are not the same person. The "authentication service" is the national id. The tax man already knows your name, address, date of birth, financial possessions, inco
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by andrepd 8mo ago
Please re-read my comment, if you don't understand I will try to explain in a simpler way.
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by andrepd 8mo ago
False dichotomy. Plenty of governments have a digitalised id/login service to log into the tax office, government portals, whatever. This is usually also offered as a "single sign-on". After signing on, the website can reques
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by andrepd 8mo ago
Well computers are a funny story. The groundwork had been laid and the theoretical and engineering advances that would produce programmable digital computers were well underway in the 1930s. It would have happened very soon even if there wa
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by andrepd 8mo ago
Thank you for illustrating my point in a far more unhinged manner than I could have possibly expected. Someone from a first world country in 2026 unironically defending that "thieves should be shot" needs to take a hard look at hi
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by andrepd 8mo ago
That's why those "scammer gets owned" videos made by douche youtubers, full of people gloating in the comments about how superior they are, never sat right with me. Those people crammed into warehouses are obviously extremely
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by andrepd 8mo ago
Why would people from place X be more interested in abuses happening in place X than in a country literally half a planet away that they have no control over? Truly a mystery, probably they are just DEI crazies (whatever that means).
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by andrepd 8mo ago
It's a funnily relevant parallel you're making, because designing everything around the car has absolutely been one of the biggest catastrophes of 2nd half of the 20th century. Much like "AI" in the past couple years,
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by andrepd 9mo ago
I just now noticed the username. There's really no point arguing with you on any topic is there Walter?
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by andrepd 9mo ago
There were concentration camps before and after the Holocaust (not to mention millions on non-Jewish people were murdered on the camps you allude to). Also, tens of people have already died in those concentration/detention camps.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
"Chatgpt writes scientific papers" is somehow being advertised as a good thing. What is there even left to say?
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by andrepd 9mo ago
> Soccer is exclusively about atmosphere and identity, so the experience of being in the crowd and the experience of the game itself are only nominally associated, in the same way going to see the Grateful Dead in the late 1980s was only
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by andrepd 9mo ago
That not true. Drunk driving is not remotely the biggest cause, let alone the "vast majority". Speeding is. And also: note you're only considering the pov of a person inside a car. In the last decade deaths among pedestrians
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Crucially, deaths among pedestrians and cyclists are skyrocketing in the last decade; those people can't really "control" whether the 4-ton SUV with a 6' high bumper mows them and their kids down.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
> You're orders of magnitude more likely to die in a road accident, but people don't fear that. They fear terrorist attacks far more. On the contrary, a competent and responsible government should counter the hysteria, not enab
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Occupy Wall Street was a turning point for me. It's staggering how many things today follow directly from the 2008 gfc and its disastrous aftermath.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
I want the future to focus on things that actually solve the massive problems that come from mass use of automobiles: I want bike paths and trains. Yes, so boring compared to EVs I know! And so cheap! And no catchy names like "gigafact

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