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by autoexec 4mo ago
> Again, every detailed study on the subject has found that the number of teenagers who have negative experiences on social media is tiny. The study they linked is just self reported data from an internet survey. I'm sure that 13 ye
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Specs will have more data collection and ads though
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by autoexec 4mo ago
When looking at a document I think it's all distracting/annoying. I still prefer plain text https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5233.txt
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Spammers know to just cut out the +whatever. It's a simple regex to keep those from even getting into a database.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> The younger 20somethings all complain “boomers are too stupid to use an app” and have no concern for privacy apparently. They were literally trained not to value their privacy. The first generation of ipad kids now have driver's l
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Companies have been using data brokers to get info on potential employees for ages in violation of the law. The law has almost zero enforcement and when something is done nobody does to prison. It's almost always just the government wa
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> do the illegal thing ASAP, let the courts argue for months or years, and maaaaaybe get a slap on the wrist sometime way in the future. don't forget that the courts have already decided that anything this president does is legally
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> Meanwhile the actual national debt soars, and under who? Yep, fucking right wingers again. Exactly. If the people on the right cared at all about government spending they'd never vote republican again, which just shows us that the
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by autoexec 4mo ago
The war is making a lot of money for trump and his family, the science was just making some of Trump's biggest bribers look bad.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
They still need to buy food, but when the price of something goes up too fast they look for cheaper alternatives to what they normally buy or just stop buying certain things entirely. It's rare the cost for the cost of everything to sp
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I'd expect that everything they see gets used for for training purposes (and data mining in general) regardless of if it's flagged or not. It'd take a whistleblower for you to ever find out either way.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
All they'll need is hundreds of billions of dollars, more RAM and GPUs than are currently available, and a huge number of environment destroying data centers. We're sure to be spoiled for choice!
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by autoexec 4mo ago
What do you use to lubricate them? I've got a few PS2s that are starting to give occasional disc read errors and a little laser maintenance might be overdue
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Publishers are to blame for much of the situation, but so are professors. I've seen them do things like require overpriced books they authored or charge insane prices for nothing but photocopies held together with binding combs
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by autoexec 4mo ago
"Feeling ripped off" is the immediate reaction to sticker shock. It takes active messaging from companies to get ahead of that reaction and plant in the mind of the consumer a justification that they'll think is fair. Compani
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> A rationale for the price rarely affects my choice. This would make you the exception. Companies are constantly increasing prices to see how much they can charge consumers before they feel cheated and stop buying and/or enough cu
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by autoexec 4mo ago
3.5mm to bluetooth adapters are also an option for wireless headphones if you don't mind the quality loss and other bluetooth annoyances.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> While SHiFT insists that the method of smudging your disc will give you enough time in a lag to beat the SpongeBob game, he adds a clear caveat that it's not worth the risk of permanently damaging your game or original Xbox consol
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Large websites resorted to PHP and server side includes to get headers and footers. Smaller websites resorted to frames and copy/paste. It wasn't perfect, but it also wasn't horrible or unusable either.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Opting out at the very least means that you aren't the problem. I'd agree though that it's long past time people organized against these issues because one person has very little influence over how corporations act.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Even if you don't set up a pin it still collects your name, photo, phone number, and your contacts and stores that information in the cloud forever.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
The back up service is optional, but Signal still collects your name, photo, phone number, and worst of all, your contacts. That is not optional. There is nothing you can do to stop it. That information will be collected and stored in the c
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> Frequently we wave our hands and say exactly this, critical thinking. But, not everyone is capable of that, nor is everyone capable to the same degree. It doesn't help that there have been active efforts for decades to prevent peo
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by autoexec 4mo ago
It's probably got something to do with the billions/trillions of dollars corporations and industries have to push their chosen narrative onto an uneducated public. They've successfully turned a lot of people into suckers.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
So a very small number of people can get very rich off of the suffering of a massive number of other people I guess
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> But if you hold that position, you also have to be fine with companies not offering products and services in your country. What sounds like a win to me. I certainly hope my country makes it dangerous for companies to break the law and&
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> Almost all jurisdictions allow businesses which cannot be held liable for all their actions. Imagine losing you house because someone decided to smother themselves in your infused cooking oil and light themselves on fire. How would tha
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by autoexec 4mo ago
That should be brought up to the school board and parents should be up in arms about it. I don't see how it's even acceptable to require you to do paperwork every time you kid is late to school. If on the day I couldn't get a
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Thankfully there's nothing to suggest that LLMs will ever bring us AGI (or any well working AI)
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by autoexec 4mo ago
"Turn this outline/lose idea for an article/4 paragraphs of text into a blog post similar to these previous blog posts, but make sure that this one has a table of contents and a bunch of references"

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