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by b112 7mo ago
A very wise move! With the current state of AI, the loss and cost of RAM, with GPUs and CPUs being eaten up, we'll all need to move back to C64s soon. Really, and I mean this honestly, I had immense fun on my C64 using BBSes, playing
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by b112 7mo ago
Things are not black and white, clear cut, absolutes. The problem can indeed be "the asshat contingent", but at the same time, it's not blaming the victim to say that certain situations open up opportunities. A lot of our law
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by b112 7mo ago
Definitely, "usable thing" such as ammo will be the currency. After all, if it is societal collapse, that means no society , hence no bartering for shiny bits of metal. Why would anyone care about gold, or silver? There's
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by b112 7mo ago
All of these questions, and more, are answered by examining what happens with phone taps. Phone taps, which historically were treated precisely the same, and further, there was only ever one phone company in a region back then. All legis
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by b112 7mo ago
Interesting point re: satellites, I'd say the best tactic here is to presume all gone immediately. Eg, from a planning perspective. The reality may be that the war may need to stretch out a bit, before action is taken. Of course any
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by b112 7mo ago
Getting a warrant for each person is not "mass surveillance". Why do you think a warrant is not required? It is.
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by b112 7mo ago
There is no warrantless access to data here though. None. It's merely showing the warrant to the person being 'searched'. As mentioned elsewhere, the same has been true for decades with someone's phone being tapped. T
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by b112 7mo ago
I don't even understand the concern here. Perhaps the parent thought this meant "a warrant is not required", which is absolutely untrue. Instead, the judge still creates the warrant, and any trial/arrest/action mu
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by b112 7mo ago
One might want to think, should I continue to integrate more tightly with a company that will screw me over, or should I choose something else? One thing which is a constant, if they're screwing you over and you take it, they're n
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by b112 7mo ago
I envision them all gone seconds into any large scale war. The G forces are another thing. I wonder why they aren't stsrting wth missle platforms instead. Sure, winged flight has uses, but taking a missle platform, adding small muniti
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by b112 7mo ago
That is absolutely not my experience here. My local robins eat bugs and worms all year, however, I do see them eating fruit (wild raspberries) here, when they are in season, and the fruit of some trees. I've never seen a robin eat a
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by b112 7mo ago
That's how endless insects, ones genetically design to survive our winters, do so. They crawl under leaves and dying grass, which insulates them from the cold a bit. Their bodies can freeze and thaw, and they'll be fine. If you
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by b112 7mo ago
Yes, but what does that have to do with anything? If you can make a compound, then of course you're worried it will be taken from you in times of stress or unrest. Why wouldn't you? What's the point of making it, if it can
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by b112 7mo ago
Just do a charge back.
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by b112 7mo ago
I don't understand this. That is, if you have $1B, I think you'd be a lunatic to not spend $20M in "insurance". Why wouldn't you "prep"? I'm not rich, but I live in rural Canada. So I have the poss
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by b112 7mo ago
Lol, no one gives a shit on the internet. This is now, not the future. Times change.
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by b112 7mo ago
Yes, precisely. This means that only sites which verify identity will have any value in the future. And by verified, that means against government ID and verified as real. No amount of sign up fee works as an alternative. Note that a site
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by b112 8mo ago
How much do you want to bet that Amutable, via its founder's control of the systemd codebase and ability to drive change, will be first-in-line to force a switch to its variant of systemd, along with a module for age verification? I do
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by b112 8mo ago
Prophesied, all things claw are highly dangerous. Sometimes I wake, this video from the late 90s in my dreams, and wonder if the conjoined magnet + claw, is a time traveler reference to just wipe openclaw before we all die. https:/&#
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by b112 8mo ago
Iranian hackers have been at place for quite some time beforehand. And it's not a war started, its a "war" responding to decades of heinous, vicious, deadly funding of terrorist organizations, and bombing of innocent civilian
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by b112 8mo ago
I absolutely think there should be ramifications for such acts. What I find bizarre, is that China and Russia do this daily, and "oh well". If such states sent over people to, you know, do damage using a bomb instead of a hack, t
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by b112 8mo ago
Interest rates on things like CDs and low-risk bonds have been decent for a while now. It’s not been painful to sit on cash reserves provided you were smart about where the cash was parked. Just make sure you can unpark it, else you'
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by b112 8mo ago
Teslas have the wrong sense-gear, coupled with immense randomness. Pesky pedestrians. Waymo seems to be doing quite well in comparison. Regardless, a cat isn't a dog, and real-world navigation isn't posting on Facebook. It woul
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by b112 8mo ago
Common people go to such sites for updates from friends, or to follow celebrities. Their friends will start using more and more AI, ans celebrities will become all AI. Why read a friend's page, if it's just AI drivel. Same for a
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by b112 8mo ago
Within a few years, LLMs will be indistinguishable from human text. Think how easy it was to tell the differences a year or two ago. By 2030 there will be no way to ever tell. The same is true of all video, and all generated content. The
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by b112 8mo ago
A good idea, but I lament the downfall of Slashdot. They had the same sort of system. Friends of foes, they calldd it.
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by b112 8mo ago
There was more, then less, but once upon a time there was 'most'. I miss most.
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by b112 8mo ago
Cygwin is nice, but it's a Frankenstein's monster. I'd hold back critical thoughts and feelings, until testing elsewhere. You'll be happiest.
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by b112 8mo ago
It could be just "good enough" as it is. That is, as another poster commented, there is a Th1 or a Th2 reaction. And these in a sense compete. Only one appears to be active. The current framework of our immune system could go b
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by b112 8mo ago
PunterNet, the C64 BBS by Steve Punter, was far more popular for a time. The C64 was the most sold computer of all time, and may still be. It wasn't until later that clones existed and became popular, and then FidoNet dwarfed PunterNe

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