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by autoexec 27d ago
dynamic/discriminatory pricing will be based on your chat history, your search history, your location, your purchase history, and every and any other data point that can be leveraged against you. Buying something near the birthday of a
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by autoexec 28d ago
> As a counter to your position, imagine a well-dressed man with diamond and gold jewelry, a very expensive watch, and money spilling from his pockets, casually strolling into a slum known for its violence, and all the while thinking qui
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by autoexec 28d ago
> A human creator can just as easily lie or not fact-check all their sources Not "as easily". A human creator can make a video without fact checking anything, but people using AI can push out thousands of bullshit videos in the
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by autoexec 29d ago
An 8.5 min video where the "action" starts after 7 minutes in.
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by autoexec 29d ago
Don't think so, maybe your textbook was censored.
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by autoexec 29d ago
Tons of people complained about the renaming of Mt McKinley for the same reason people complain about "Lake America" now. It has nothing to do with the names and everything to do with the reasons for the renaming.
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by autoexec 29d ago
> Almost everything (tech, cultural, etc) you have now is because of "dead hands". And a bunch of those hands belonged to total assholes who gained their foothold in our lives and culture by fucking over vast numbers of other p
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by autoexec 29d ago
If you have an enterprise contract with them you're still unlikely to ever know that you've been lied to unless some whistleblower at the AI company comes forward and even if you do somehow find out, it's too late. Once they
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by autoexec 29d ago
I've seen supermarkets that offer targeted "in app only" deals. They're trying to condition people into accepting and being comfortable with discriminatory pricing, where different people pay different prices for the sam
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by autoexec 29d ago
> Maybe I just don't mind having an app on my phone because I know that I can set it to basically never bother me. Apps are a problem in more ways than just the nuisance of notifications and having an icon on your home screen. As lo
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by autoexec 29d ago
I've seen restaurants that required a QR code to get a menu. I simply walked out. Lots of other places to eat exist with more reasonable practices. Forcing people to scan a QR code to see a price is a great way to use the data from the
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by autoexec 29d ago
> Ads are at the root of all the problems with the modern internet and mobile tech. Ads aren't the problem. It's really the tracking and invasion of privacy which are the problem. Ads are just the publicly acceptable justificat
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by autoexec 29d ago
> Somewhere on my desk, I keep an old FairPhone 3 that I repaired after it took a deep plunge into the ocean. It runs the Google-free /e/OS operating system. But why? The reason is simple: sometimes, you are forced to use an ap
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by autoexec 29d ago
If you were looking for how the investigation ended here's the press release from the USDOT https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-t...
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by autoexec 29d ago
Some companies have so much money that there's no fine which would ever be punitive enough to matter to them. I'd bet jail time for executives could be extremely effective though.
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by autoexec 29d ago
> I always find DMV (or whatever your state's equivalent) inefficiency arguments to be hilarious. They're run extremely efficiently for the government. It's real funny until they pass a law that says you need an ID to vote
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by autoexec 29d ago
I once planned a trip to New Orleans around the various locations in the game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. I visited spots like St. Louis Cathedral, Cemetery No. 1, Tulane University, Jackson Square, Dumaine Street, Napoleon House,
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> The process of installing and using Firefox for a non-technical user is no different from Chrome Most non-technical users are exclusively using android devices and chrome is pre-installed. Today you can still install firefox for others
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> they don't have the theory of mind to distinguish between what they care about and what the average user cares about. The average user doesn't really understand what a browser is, or how it works, and will never bother to loo
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by autoexec 1mo ago
I've seen people complain about Firefox in terms of performance and compatibility to justify using Chrome, but there aren't many chromium-based browsers appealing to those with ethical standards to choose from. Ecosia maybe? Ultim
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Eventually we'll have ladybird too
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by autoexec 1mo ago
It's not an either/or situation. For many years now people have been begging Mozilla to allow them to give money to help fund firefox (and only firefox) but Mozilla has refused. I can't promise that allowing it would provide
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Some things are absolutely worth refusing to compromise on.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
A lot of existing forks are just Firefox with a couple features added or removed. It's very different from a fork that continues being independently developed as a separate project.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> At this point I will gladly take an announcement where CloudFlare buys them out and frees the Fox from annoying corporate interests I don't see how cloudflare buying firefox would keep it from being a victim of corporate interests
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> But it is still so much better than using a chromium browser, and that must be acknowledged. As much as Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of Good, the existence of Worse shouldn't make anyone stop demanding Better. Generally, wh
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> i hate being jaded because you can see where things are headed every time on repeat, but i also hate the term "power user" carries a lot of pc gamer energy and i simply could never assess that i know more then the next guy fo
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by autoexec 1mo ago
There are forks which will keep the sanity alive, but I worry about how long Firefox will survive if everyone moves to them, and I have doubts about how well those forks will be maintained after Firefox is gone.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> Meanwhile, the over thinkers on Hacker News come up with convoluted reasons to hate on Firefox every time the subject arises...Firefox is our last best hope for browser engine diversity and competition. It's exactly because Firefo
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> Your point is valid - we do need to classify things for our own mental convenience - but I don't think the Pluto case is an example of it. Obsessing over the definition of "planet" to that degree doesn't actually ac

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