basilikum

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by basilikum 2mo ago
Calculating is not math. Calculators make mathematicians better mathematicians by allowing them to spend their time on actual mathematics. Writing is thinking. LLM writing makes authors worsr authors and even dumber people overall. Also
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by basilikum 2mo ago
An antithesis is a completely valid stylistic device. It's just very easy to overuse or to use as a cliché when you're not using language as a tool for a specific purpose, but just want to sound smart or think "fancy stylisti
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by basilikum 2mo ago
> we wouldn't be fascist, we'd simply need totalitarian control over every facet of business, labor, capital, leisure, transport and production. Even ignoring all the rest, that is in fact not what fascism means.
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by basilikum 2mo ago
There is absolutely nothing wrong with using AI as a grammar checker and as a help for finding formulations. But I would very much recommend to you to only use it as an aid and to actually write yourself. You can put every iteration through
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by basilikum 2mo ago
this looks like it could be an interesting read that i would be bothered to read if a human bothered to write it.
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by basilikum 2mo ago
I really need to finish the blog post for my emoji domain. What are mods gonna do when the emoji is literally in the domain?
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by basilikum 2mo ago
RSS is a free way to reach almost no one.
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Binary is the best way to count [video] (2023)(youtube.com)
2 points by basilikum 2mo ago|0 comments
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by basilikum 2mo ago
Mirai took out the internet in large parts of the US. The situation hasn't exactly improved since then.
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by basilikum 2mo ago
That's not how VeraCrypt hidden volumes work. > If you're hiding something in "empty space" it won't behave like empty space when you try to fill it. Yes, it will. It will overwrite the hidden data. When you have
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by basilikum 3mo ago
Maybe because the start menu equivalent and the task bar are their own modules. They just come precondition, but you can use lots of alternatives. But I'm just guessing.
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by basilikum 3mo ago
Not exactly the same, but Microsoft shipped the "Backup" or some similar name software that is actually just a OneDrive client in a Windows 10 LTSC update. LTSC is specifically for not getting such feature updates. They also chang
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> No singular country can put information in that wouldn't be picked up straight away by other countries. There are 70 countries signed up to it. Once that is in place it's just a tiny change to switch to a national database. G
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LPC for Speech (1993)(lists.cpunks.org)
3 points by basilikum 3mo ago|0 comments
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> The hash database is regulated and used worldwide. To get the hashes of what you mention into the database requires numerous people signing off on it. So, it's correct. What you're describing is a policy, not a technical limi
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by basilikum 3mo ago
I find you're perspective quite baffling. It is interesting in that you like the standardization and lack of certain web design crimes and I should not be overly negative to the OP showing their work^1. But man, I truly cannot understa
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> It completely fails if, for example, an author spends 4 years unpaid writing their latest book, and after the first copy is sold anybody is free to duplicate the words from that book without giving the author a penny for that work. One
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> If anything these films are a great example of why copyright terms should be long, because those films are still culturally relevant today, 60-80 years after they're made, and that people are still willing to pay for them over new
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> For instance, if copyright was just 20 years after something was created, a painting might have been created 20 years ago but never made public until later in their life, and so copyright has expired before they've ever tried to s
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by basilikum 3mo ago
What you are describing is indiscriminate mass surveillance. There is absolutely nothing stopping Apple or whoever maintains that listof hashes from putting things other than child abuse on there, like dissident memes for example. It also r
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by basilikum 3mo ago
To clarify, I am aware you are objectively describing the legal situation. I am not making a legal, but an ethical argument. We seem to be agreeing. There is even a Wikipedia article about the legality. It's quite complicated in a lot
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by basilikum 3mo ago
Fictional erotica portraying fictional children is not CSAM. There is no child abuse taking place as there is no child in the first place. Conflating the two is 1. wrong as a matter of fact and ethics and 2. a great injustice to the victims
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> I personally know of 1 who took a leak across from a playground at 2am walking home from the bars and was put on the sex offender registry because it was within 500'. You might want to look up if that's actually true. It migh
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by basilikum 3mo ago
To play devil's advocate: child abuse is usually a crime without direct evidence. CSAM is child abuse but the perpetrator films their crime as evidence. Everyone else who obtains and keeps this material also holds evidence against them
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by basilikum 3mo ago
That Jack Dorsey?
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by basilikum 3mo ago
There is no such thing as "the national government" when it comes to computer systems. They hacked one system of one government division. If their Opsec wasn't crap it is extremely difficult to try to identify them after the
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> offline backups are not made after every single transaction. All you need is an append only tape or even a printer. Interestingly in the Bangladesh Central Bank hack they used a printer to print out any transactions, but the intruders
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by basilikum 3mo ago
Or just have Opsec.
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Xkcd 3109 – Dehumidifier(xkcd.com)
3 points by basilikum 3mo ago|0 comments
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by basilikum 3mo ago
> 623 Euro, which is a nice midrange price [for a phone]. How did we get here?

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