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by anonym29 1y ago
Because SMS verification is so cheap (under a dollar per one-time validation, under $10/mo for ongoing validation), this approach really only makes sense for ultra-low-value services, where e.g. $0.50 per account costs more than the se
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by anonym29 1y ago
Mandatory phone number registration does not and never has prevented fraud. Plenty of free VOIP services exist, including SMS reception. Even when the free service providers are manually blocklisted, one-time validations can be defeated wit
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by anonym29 1y ago
njal.la! famously founded by a co-founder of TPB. great prices, great privacy. probably among the least likely registrars to ever sell out to PE
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by anonym29 1y ago
Looks like WSJ finally killed archive.is. Anyone have any alternatives?
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by anonym29 1y ago
If we're sticking to current legal rights when reality changes, then the state can live with their current tools when the math protecting my communication changes. Wiretap my encrypted communication streams all you want, don't
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by anonym29 1y ago
Have him publish his full name, date of birth, social security number, mother's maiden name, bank checking and routing numbers, credit card numbers + expiration dates + cvv numbers, nude photos of his wife, nude photos of himself, all
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by anonym29 1y ago
Additionally, one need not use gold; silver is easier to subdivide into manageable units for even smaller monetary values.
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by anonym29 1y ago
Precious metals fill all of your requirements. They do have other challenges, some shared with FIAT, some unique, but we've had the "technology" to solve this problem for thousands of years.
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by anonym29 1y ago
edit: disregard, misinterpreted
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by anonym29 1y ago
It's so disappointing to see that Twitter has only released the source code of their algorithm while all of their competitors have released both algorithms and weights.
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by anonym29 1y ago
>The 128 GB Strix Halo system was tempting me, but I think I'm going to hold out for the Medusa Point I was initially thinking this way too, but I realized a 128GB Strix Halo system would make an excellent addition to my homelab &#x
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by anonym29 1y ago
The protection factor from that degrades over time / with exposure, too.
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by anonym29 1y ago
Jesus H Christ, UV index of 15? I thought the 12 we see in the middle of Texas summers was bad. I've burnt in 10 minutes through a windshield with that.
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by anonym29 1y ago
Not just LPDDR5, but LPDDR5X-8000 on a 256-bit bus. The 40 CU of RDNA 3.5 is nice, but it's less raw compute than e.g. a desktop 4060 Ti dGPU. The memory is fast, 200+ GB/s real-world read and write (the AIDA64 thread about limite
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by anonym29 1y ago
Isn't this exactly what the mountain of liability waivers already included in the ToS are for?
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by anonym29 1y ago
I'm thinking out loud through the logical ramifications of why anyone would be upset at a proposed change to the current practice. Because if there were a large number of people who would be willing to donate, and the only reason the
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by anonym29 1y ago
Gotta love proprietary software. Not your code, not your property. Example #17,859 of Stallman being right yet again.
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by anonym29 1y ago
Were you under the impression that government agencies haven't been subservient to partisan political interests until recently?
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by anonym29 1y ago
What difference will this make though? People who aren't interested will unsubscribe or manually mark as spam. People who are interested and willing to donate were already receiving the emails and donating anyway, right? It's not
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by anonym29 1y ago
I speak from what was nearly a universal set of experience of my peer group during my teenage years. Hell, I literally threw sleepover parties where my friend group would stay up all night to watch censored Girls Gone Wild infomercials, and
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by anonym29 1y ago
POSIWID. The purpose isn't to protect children, it's to control narratives and suppress the preferred targets of TPTB. Allowlist-based parental controls already exist. Most parents never set them up because it's a pointless b
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by anonym29 1y ago
Teenage boys in public school don't need to be the first in their peer group to view pornography in order to be exposed to pornography. No amount of technical measures will prevent this. They will literally dig old porno magazines out
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by anonym29 1y ago
You are confusing present knowledge with capacity. 2/5ths of Gen Z not currently knowing how to navigate between folders in a hierarchical file system doesn't mean that 2/5ths of Gen Z is incapable of learning how to naviga
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by anonym29 1y ago
18 hours ago is "last few days"? It's open to the public right now. Members of the public are riding in Tesla Robotaxis right now. You cannot simply assume that no members of the public are able to do this just because your
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by anonym29 1y ago
Your response is factually inaccurate. Tesla's Robotaxi is open the public: - https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/want-to-try-teslas-robota...
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by anonym29 1y ago
For the same reason the TSA exists: theater. The TSA performs security theater, where they take the harder route, yet fail to even detect, let alone stop 95%+ of yesterday's threats, to say nothing of today's or tomorrow's th
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by anonym29 1y ago
Thanks for the heads up about Waymo. I've updated my original post.
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by anonym29 1y ago
Missing from the headline: 1. This is not true for the existing commercial robotaxi fleet that the public can get rides in today. 2. This is true only for the engineering sample vehicles, which do not have the robotaxi decal applied, and wh
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by anonym29 1y ago
Apple is very explicitly and deliberately building their systems to forcibly collect massive amounts of user data that they can and do provide to the federal government. While it is true that close to all companies will comply with lawful o
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by anonym29 1y ago
>PRISM compelled Apple to provide the NSA with access to cloud data they already held under FISA orders. Cloud data that's supposedly encrypted with encryption keys Apple pinky promises they don't have, right? >Apple was not

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