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by autoexec 2mo ago
Google is a lot more public than it should be, but there's nothing private about chats with Claude or any other chatbot that isn't running locally. It's funny that last year Anthropic tried to say that robots.txt was enough t
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by autoexec 2mo ago
It was never about the end user.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
I doubt most people would be willing to pay what MS would have to charge them to make up for the value of the data MS gets by spying on everything a person does while using their computer.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> Why do Europeans get paid so much less than Americans There are lots of reasons though I doubt one of them is that it costs companies a fortune to document disciplinary actions before they fire someone (Is that even a law everywhere in
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> I am 100% sure that I make more than the average person in my role and level..Why should I support a union? Even if that is true today, it may not be tomorrow. The corporation you work for is not your friend. They aren't looking o
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> In the past, software engineers had a lot more agency than they do now, because nowadays the supply/demand ratio no longer favors software engineers, and as a result we have weaker negotiation power. Now we're more afraid of
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by autoexec 2mo ago
it's not as if stocks can't go up in value following a layoff. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/26/tech-layoffs-jump-in-january...
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by autoexec 2mo ago
These companies hire out third parties who are very aggressive and often use half-assed automated systems with no oversight to find "infringing" content. They don't care about the accuracy of their notices. They know most peo
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Everything has been optimized towards giving a small number of companies total control and surveillance over our media. That means forcing people to store their files on someone else's servers. Those companies don't really care ab
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Their argument is that comparisons against the driving record of cab drivers better represents what they should expect from waymo vs comparing them against every kind of driver everywhere. Considering the driving skills of some cabbies I&#x
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Unless those people are also driving taxis maybe. Waymo Robotaxis Record Higher Serious Injury and Fatal Crash Rate Than NYC's For-Hire Fleet ( https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/waymo-robotaxis
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> I've been counting them myself to keep track, since I knew other sources of the data would eventually disappear. So far, eight people have been deported. If only 8 people have been deported so far that would mean American children
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Four of the five largest protests in American history have been against this administration. None them have involved 3.5% of all 330+ million of us, but people haven't been "ignoring it and doing nothing" either.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> In 60's almost nobody was living alone (less than 400k people). In the US, back in the 1960s you could own a home, a car, and support a family all on a single income. If we got back to that home ownership would skyrocket.
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by autoexec 3mo ago
"Sadly, you must enable JavaScript to get past this challenge. This is required because AI companies have changed the social contract around how website hosting works. A no-JS solution is a work-in-progress." One of the best thing
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by autoexec 3mo ago
The multi billion dollar company has a lot of influence over the people in your community and the things that they gossip about. It also has influence over an increasing number of areas in your life as well. "Targeted ads" are jus
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by autoexec 3mo ago
I mean, when it comes to things like ring/nest cameras and ALPRs everybody is pretty upfront about the fact that all the footage they collect is going to be used against you in one way or another. It's pretty hard to get a more di
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by autoexec 3mo ago
I should have been more clear. I myself am not Christian, but I did grow up in a Christian household and have studied the faith. I think there is a worrying amount of idolatry in MAGA, but I'd agree that Christian nationalism plays a h
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> Forces like MAGA are fundamentally rooted in the Bible Belt. Their lives are bound up with religious community, and they become right wing based on those values. I think this is very clearly not the case. MAGA acts in direct opposition
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> and the technology is nonsensical like having humans watch every citizen on camera instead of just using computers I think our current world proves that being watched by humans hits people in a way that being monitored by computers do
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> Cece lingered by the door while her mother resumed talking to the thing she was calling Sapphire. Roschelle told it that she wanted to write a book about her daughters. She talked about Zi. “My daughter has autism,” she explained. “And
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by autoexec 3mo ago
At least in that case the software he fell in love with was offline and wasn't sending every conversation no matter how mundane or intimate to someone else's servers where they'll be stored and analyzed to profile the guy so
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by autoexec 3mo ago
Is there any reason to think that the government couldn't force Apple to hand over the same data? They may or may not have taken over entire rooms at Apple ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ) but you can bet
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by autoexec 3mo ago
They might actually be a bit stupid, but maybe they'll do it if you tell them it's because you are worried that you would fall for a scammer impersonating them. That at least would let them keep their stupid pride.
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by autoexec 3mo ago
That and having an app gives you a ton of options for data collection
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> When GP says their actual app is "pretty much garbage" and that there was red tape and nitpicking - Apple is trying to stop garbage! and failing at it, because that garbage got published on the app store.
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> Sounds like it worked as designed? It didn't, because his admittedly garbage app ended up on the app store, because the app review process doesn't actually keep out garbage apps.
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> Am I not buying "a safe, checked app"? I wouldn't presume that. Malware ends up in the app store all the time.
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by autoexec 3mo ago
I guess it depends on who you ask. https://bbj.hu/budapest/travel/tourism/budapest-tops-list-of... https://sg.news.yahoo.com/world-dirtiest-cities-including-on... https://dailynews
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by autoexec 3mo ago
Wikipedia says that Budapest is home to one of the most populous Christian communities in Central Europe and it's considered to be one the most dirty places on Earth. Rome is often called Europe's dirtiest cities. Also Christian.

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