beeflet

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by beeflet 10mo ago
Oh no, online propaganda and smear campaigns
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by beeflet 10mo ago
All operations as a public institution should be transparent. We fund them through taxes, we have a right to know what is going on. I don't know what you are getting at with "self serving and harmful to other citizens"? Like
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by beeflet 10mo ago
I support transparency for institutions and privacy for individuals. Not the other way around.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
yeah but what if comma.ai or something cannibalizes this with open source tech?
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by beeflet 10mo ago
It is at odds with the unix standard for programs to succeed silently but fail loudly.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
just turn autocorrect off. You can learn to type pretty quickly without it, and you aren't subject to mind control.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
conventionally, it should have been abstracted by a higher-level language.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
The highly specialized vehicles of war are not that threatening in a civil conflict. Think about how much tax money it takes to purchase a tank for example. There is maybe 1 tank for every 1000 people, let's say. Yet it only takes a si
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by beeflet 10mo ago
What value do technocrats extract? It is a totally one-way dependency of the serfs upon the technocrats and not the other way around.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
What happens when the killing power is a autonomous machine? Like now?
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by beeflet 10mo ago
"killbots, mow down these stupid protesters"
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by beeflet 10mo ago
do the benefits of a closed-source OS outweigh being able to do whatever you want?
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by beeflet 10mo ago
There is such a reason: it isn't modular enough for the economics to favor repair over replacement, what with the economies of scale and that.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
the tokenized assets are only as good as their backing entity allows them to be. It's a centralized system with a facade of decentralization. Same applies to stablecoins. You inherit all of the inefficiency of cryptocurrency and none o
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by beeflet 10mo ago
IRC works in the browser now thanks to IRCv3. Matrix is another option The invitation system gives a false sense of privacy. There are bots that crawl publicly posted invites, public IRC channels, etc. Eventually people will understand that
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by beeflet 10mo ago
back in the 90's a minority of people were on the internet in the first place. it predates eternal september. The internet is now dominated by the opinion of the lowest common denominator, so we find ourselves holed up on forums like t
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by beeflet 10mo ago
Have I been cloudflare'd?
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by beeflet 10mo ago
There are some new-ish attempts to improve crypto anonymity and decentralization. For example zcash and monero.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
I don't realize, care to enlighten us?
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by beeflet 10mo ago
Apple maintains efficiency and single-core performance dominance with the M-series processors by reserving capacity for cutting edge fabrication processes.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
Asashi is a project built on sand. I'm not giving apple a dime
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by beeflet 10mo ago
what is so bad about raping and pillaging
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by beeflet 10mo ago
Shifting costs downstream is the point. It imposes a cost on consumers for the externality they are creating by purchasing goods manufactured overseas. The method you describe is way more easily gamed than a tarrif. What constitutes x% of t
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by beeflet 10mo ago
me very smart. me go college get fancy paper. me move money out of ai stocks. flat rocks not think so well, use too much fire. me trade for shiny yellow rock instead.
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by beeflet 10mo ago
The "players run their own servers" model has worked fine in TF2. If you played community-run servers, you never ran into the bot issue. There are even ranked, private competitive leagues like TF2Center
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I don't think anyone believes the idea of meritocracy applies to starving homeless slaves. Luck is often the deciding factor in meritocracy, but we also make our own luck. You can have all the privleges in the world and still end up as
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by beeflet 11mo ago
>Probably not. Probably not, but possibly yes. Which is more than the cuck license guarantees. See postmarketOS and such, which would be impossible in a BSD world. >The vast majority of vendors that use Linux embedded never contribute
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I have been thinking of a device to thwart license plate readers by dumping a ton of IR and/or visible light on the plate before it gets read. Perhaps combined with some reflective coating? Retroreflectors are promising
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by beeflet 11mo ago
If there is a backdoor in an open-source system, and people know about it, then they will organize independently to patch it out. So it will be ineffective to the extent that the technology allows reprogrammability. The only way you can bea
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I think mostly in a budgetary sense: Corruption, tax evasion. You can't just have a flow of wealth into some bureaucracy that goes unchecked, because the power the bureaucracy has to extract even more wealth increases over time. In the

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