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by beloch 10mo ago
"Without commenting on ongoing cases, he called on European authorities to activate a mechanism that could limit the impact of US restrictions." ------------------- ICC member states should take steps to ensure the sanctioned judg
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by beloch 10mo ago
Yes, there are tradeoffs, but LCD, etc. technology is now sufficiently good that displays in the same general price category tend to look quite similar once calibrated. The differences are much more noticeable when they're using the
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by beloch 10mo ago
"Duffer’s advice highlights a conflict between technological advances and creators' goals. Features like the ones he mentioned are designed to appeal to casual viewers by making images appear sharper or more colorful, but they alt
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by beloch 10mo ago
Bang on. It's advertising, so literally looking at where people are getting their info from is the way to go. Google searches don't produce good results these days. The enshittification has become too extreme. Google openly admit
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by beloch 10mo ago
"while the flood of gold into Spain in the 16th century seemed like a big haul at the time, by modern standards it was a trivial amount. Total world gold production during the 1500s is estimated to have been around 36 tons;" -----
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by beloch 10mo ago
"And beyond my selfish curiosity there’s also the Fedorovist ancestor simulation angle: if you die and are not cryopreserved, how else are you going to make it to the other side of the intelligence explosion? Every tweet, blog post, Gi
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by beloch 10mo ago
The judicial branch is violating a decree of the legislative branch in order to cover up the crimes of the executive branch's leader... who is ultimately responsible for enforcement of the legislative branch's decrees. Wild. As
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by beloch 10mo ago
It's almost like there's something happening on Friday that is so scary that there's a need for a full-on "Wag the Dog" shooting war.
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by beloch 10mo ago
Looks like I was a little out of date. https://itsfoss.com/news/mozilla-lifeline-is-safe/ Google pays Mozilla, basically to make Google the default search engine for everything in Firefox. Previously, it looked li
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by beloch 10mo ago
The current pattern in software is, sadly: 1. Innovate 2. Dominate 3. Enshitify to cash in. You can't skip step #2. Right now, Firefox's market share is a rounding error compared to Chrome. Users are starting to switch away fro
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by beloch 11mo ago
"We see both sides – genuine infrastructure expansion alongside financing gymnastics that recall the 2000 telecom bust. The boom may yet prove productive, but only if revenue catches up before credit tightens. When does healthy strain
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by beloch 11mo ago
This one makes automatic site-specific masking slightly easier. You can just click a button as opposed to writing an entry in settings. Good find!
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by beloch 11mo ago
>The changes come as critics say Apple, once a tech leader, is behind in the next big wave: artificial intelligence. It might pay off to be a contrarian on AI or, at least, to appear that way. MS is currently facing significant user ba
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by beloch 11mo ago
There's nothing too unexpected in this post. Firefox + uBlock is pretty much standard now. It's been impossible to recommend Chrome ever since Google moved to manifest v3, which can only be described as deliberate anti-privacy e
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by beloch 11mo ago
This feels very much like "United Stats vs Paramount Pictures: The Sequel"[1]. Vertical integration was the key problem back then. Major studios owned major cinema chains. They made it hard for independent cinemas to show the fi
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by beloch 11mo ago
The full quote from that section is worth repeating here. --------- "If you could classify your project as "AI," you were safe and prestigious. If you couldn't, you were nobody. Overnight, most engineers got rebranded as
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by beloch 11mo ago
The distributed nature of Wiki's makes them hard to "shut down", but they can be blocked and the editors/contributors can be harassed, arrested, deported, etc.. Is it paranoid to think this might happen in the U.S.? Now
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by beloch 11mo ago
Musk has previously called for Wikipedia to be defunded and boycotted[1]. The linked reference is from January, just after Musk bought an election and when he was plugged directly into U.S. presidential authority. If he'd had the self
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by beloch 11mo ago
I left Facebook very early on because it was too intrusive and didn't respect my privacy. Some people want to share every aspect of their lives on social media. I don't. I'm from the generation that uses codenames online w
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by beloch 11mo ago
I've seen a fair number of articles suggesting that the finances of AI companies have lost touch with reality and that the AI sector is now well within bubble territory. If AI companies continue to scale up and buy massive amounts of m
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by beloch 11mo ago
1. A lot of archaeology is "rescue" archaeology. i.e. Either natural processes (e.g. rivers shifting) have threatened a site or the decision has been made to build, but there is a legal requirement to have the site surveyed and d
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by beloch 11mo ago
As for dating apps... The great thing about the dating app biz is that the competition is universally awful at providing good matches that lead to long term relationships. The same goes for pro match-makers, speed-dating events, etc.. It
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by beloch 11mo ago
Make product worse, get money, go out of business. It's interesting that this article uses the restaurant industry as an example, because it is rife with examples of restaurants that debut to acclaim, enshittify their offerings, and th
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by beloch 11mo ago
It's directly analogous to China issuing export bans. They tried this with critical minerals. Critical minerals aren't actually all that uncommon. They just weren't being actively extracted in most places. Now many extr
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by beloch 11mo ago
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by beloch 11mo ago
Satellites once used propellant for attitude control. When the propellant was used up, the satellite lost the ability to maintain or change orientation. Very much as this article describes, control moment gyroscopes took over because they
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by beloch 1y ago
>"Despite this, Musk has insisted he leads a largely unglamorous lifestyle. He said in 2021 that he lived in a Texas home valued at $50,000 (£38,000)." >... >"There has been various speculation over the years that Mu
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by beloch 1y ago
The blog article is a repost of a Palladium mag publication, which is free to view, for obvious reasons. It's billionaire propaganda backed by Peter Thiel. The arguments of this article are pretty consistent with the billionaire mindse
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by beloch 1y ago
First, if some parents let their kids use social media and some don't, all kids will eventually use it. You can't cut kids off from social spaces their peers are using and expect them to obey. Second, this move by Denmark reflect
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by beloch 1y ago
The majority of these submissions are not from anonymous trolls. They're from identifiable individuals who are trying to game metrics. The threat of boosting their number of plagiarism offences on public record would deter such indiv

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