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by bradley13 8mo ago
It's not even just data stored on US servers. According to the CLOUD Act, any data stored by a US company, regardless of location, can be demanded by any authority in the US. No sovereign nation should use US companies for data storage
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by bradley13 8mo ago
That's great, but it's always just one agency, or one very local bit of government. If we (Europeans) really mean it - and we should - the top level of government just needs to make the declaration: as of X, all Microsoft licenses
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by bradley13 8mo ago
Maybe I've misunderstood something, but how can they know the accuracy of the test? It is the best test out there, so if it misses a diagnosis, how do they reliably catch the false negative?
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by bradley13 8mo ago
Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers. Honestly, I don't see the problem here. It's like the "sexualized Images" idiocy. Someone asked Grok to put some politicians in bikinis. It did, the images were dumb, but the pol
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by bradley13 8mo ago
I've been living in a non-English speaking country for 35 years or so. Although I read a lot, my English is still somewhat "frozen". I would still ask you if you have "mown" the lawn - a tense that is now almost los
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by bradley13 8mo ago
I haven't logged into Facebook for many years, but this made me curious. I'm a guy, in my 60s. Looking at my feed, the first two posts are family/friends, the third is some video about a guy I never heard of, the next three f
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by bradley13 8mo ago
Does it matter? Really? I can type awful stuff into a word processor. That's my fault, not the programs. So if I can trick an LLM into saying awful stuff, whose fault is that? It is also just a tool...
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by bradley13 8mo ago
Desperately lonely people living a fantasy. No good solution.
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by bradley13 8mo ago
The amount of accumulated cruft in the x86 architecture is astounding. Being a geezer, I remember when there was, for a brief moment, a genuine question whether National Semiconductor, Motorola, or Intel would win the PC market. The NS proc
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by bradley13 8mo ago
Recording public spaces should be illegal. Public street? Public sidewalk? Not your turf, no cameras, no recording.
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by bradley13 8mo ago
As usual, this has nothing to do with protecting children. It is all about forcing people to identify themselves on social media. Free speech in Europe is under serious attack.
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by bradley13 8mo ago
We use a PiHole, plus ad-blocking browsers, so we see very few ads. According to Claude, around 40% of users in the West use ad-blockers at least some of the time. You would think that advertisers would understand that they are killing the
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by bradley13 8mo ago
Goes for small business and individuals as well. Sure, there are times that cloud makes sense, but you can and should do a lot on your own hardware.
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by bradley13 8mo ago
So what, if the content is good? Also, some of us draft our comments offline, and then paste them in. Maybe he drafted two comments?
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by bradley13 8mo ago
The honestly of clients, even businesses, is...questionable. I have an acquaintance who sells a very expensive software suite that is absolutely needed in a particular industry. Price for a perpetual license is 6 digits. The big boys in the
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by bradley13 9mo ago
Just do it. I bounced back and forth for a few years. Now? Not even dual boot, not even a VM. Maybe Linux did not get better than Windows, opinions differ. However, Windows certainly has gotten worse than Linux.
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by bradley13 9mo ago
"Delegate everything" - delegation is hugely important. But not everything, obviously, as a team lead your responsibility as "transparent umbrella" cannot be delegated. It also sounds like he is talking mostly about exte
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by bradley13 9mo ago
This. I did my dissertation in the early '90s, so very early days of the internet. All of my data and code was online. IMHO this should be expected for any, literally any publication. If you have secrets, or proprietary information, fi
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by bradley13 9mo ago
"We should distinguish the person from the deed" No, we shouldn't. Research fraud is committed by people, who must be held accountable. In this specific case, if the issues had truly been accidental, the author's would
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by bradley13 9mo ago
Teams in the browser, on Linux. That is reasonably harmless.
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by bradley13 9mo ago
I feel the same way. I retired last summer, but that only means that I found a place that needs me, where I can work part time without worrying too much about money. I remember, decades ago, reading an article about some African politician
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by bradley13 9mo ago
Ah, I remember that story. Brilliant. Asimov was a wonderful writer.
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by bradley13 9mo ago
I totally understand. I "retired" last summer, but I continue to work about 50%, mostly at a new place that needs my help. I like what I do. Anyway, gaming/reading/etc. are fine and dandy, but not something I want to d
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by bradley13 9mo ago
The point of backwards compatibility would be to allow IPv4 devices to work on an IPv6 network. Not to run a parallel stack. 127.0.0.1 needed to be a valid IPv6 address, along with all the others. Pick a particular prefix, say 0. . .* and a
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by bradley13 10mo ago
No, it's not. If I have an ipv6 network, an ipv4 address is invalid. It's that simple.
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by bradley13 10mo ago
Simple reason it didn't take over: the lack of backwards compatibility with ipv4. Yes, it would have marred the beauty of the new specification. But we will continue paying the price for another 30 years.
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by bradley13 10mo ago
All of my Steam games work under Linux. For one or two, I gave to select a specific Proton version, but that's the only issue. Try dual-booting, and see if your games work...
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by bradley13 10mo ago
I'm no expert here, but my employer uses no less that three different SSO services (don't ask).., and all of them work under Linux. Web-based really ought to work. Maybe your admins are being weird, and checking the user agent?
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by bradley13 10mo ago
Welcome to the club. After years of dual-booting, I deleted my Windows partition a few years ago. And it's not just techies. My non-technical brother-in-law asked me to install Linux for him last fall. I installed Xubuntu, showed him h
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by bradley13 10mo ago
In Switzerland, the major train lines announce in English (as well as German and French). Minor train lines often only announce in the local language. Honestly, I don't see the problem. As a tourist, you have to be prepared with apps,

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