brandon272

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by brandon272 2mo ago
The effort to erode privacy is so much greater than the effort to preserve it. Governments around the world are like a dog with a bone when it comes to increasing surveillance. An apathetic and ill informed public doesn’t help matters.
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by brandon272 3mo ago
Where is your DeepSeek model hosted?
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by brandon272 3mo ago
When you are bulk copying data off your former employer's network share, that is a lot more than "stealing ideas".
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by brandon272 3mo ago
"Not training on input data" is not the same thing as "We will never use your data for any purpose"
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by brandon272 4mo ago
Not sure about the "last true revolution" claim, but the release was a seminal moment in computing. Growing up in the 90s, for me it feels like the milestone achievements or turning points were: - Windows 95 - Broadband Internet -
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by brandon272 4mo ago
Unfortunately the configuration I need is not available through any of those retailers. The way I approach these purchases is amortized cost over time. I do not expect prices to be lower in 2 years but if I can keep using my older hardware
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by brandon272 4mo ago
Was looking at upgrading my M1 Air (16/1TB) to an M5 Air (24/2TB). This price increase changes the time horizon of that upgrade from “now” to “let’s try and get 18-24 more months out of this thing”.
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by brandon272 4mo ago
Politicians pretend it’s much lower. Or claim that deflation is occurring through statements like “we are bringing prices down”.
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by brandon272 4mo ago
Some people have a much better instinct for when and how to ask for permission than others, including when "asking for no" is the right move. It's a dance with nuance and it's hard to capture it as advice in an article.
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by brandon272 4mo ago
I admit to not having yet taken a deep dive on Apple's privacy claims (i.e. on device, private cloud etc) but one thing that Apple is going to be providing in this case is an actual privacy commitment that takes into consideration the
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by brandon272 4mo ago
I have always had this notion that buying a Mac is the "premium" option, not just in quality, but maybe in price too. I am in the process of trying to find a business notebook for my spouse who is a Windows user. The goal is to ha
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by brandon272 5mo ago
When Dropbox first came out I loved the simplicity of it for years. That rock solid little icon in my system tray that never bothered me, just reliably synced my files. It was excellent. At a certain point (mid-2010s) things started to go o
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by brandon272 5mo ago
>it's not going to get those same students a job What jobs? The job market is anemic AND these students are literally being told that jobs as we know them are soon to be a thing of the past. At the same time, no one is explaining ho
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by brandon272 5mo ago
I think that AI is less analogous to "traffic jams" and more analogous to "wheel-based transportation". It's an entire category, not a specific problem. The traffic jam is more analogous to excessive energy consumpt
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by brandon272 5mo ago
> Seeing who is being laid off, especially on my team, it's the people who make things run. As a Cloudflare customer, that's reassuring! .. not.
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by brandon272 5mo ago
It feels absurd to have seen E2EE fought for and considered table stakes by many users, especially the technically-oriented, now rolled back a short time later by these companies who never really cared about privacy to begin with and clearl
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by brandon272 5mo ago
> The biggest UX issue Apple has for that persona isn't the wallet, it's the lack of physical home button. I'm in my 40s and don't have much trouble with reaching Home by swiping up from the bottom. But anecdotally, w
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by brandon272 6mo ago
>Covid causes a loss of grey matter affecting impulse control and emotional regulation. It seems this statement is not fully supported by the data. While there have been mixed studies linking COVID with impacts on grey matter, we can&#x2
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by brandon272 6mo ago
A limited total addressable market doesn't necessarily have anything to do with profit potential.
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by brandon272 6mo ago
Well, my point is that these niches are probably more commonplace than people who live in areas blanketed by multiple 5G providers probably assume. I'm sure there are Starlink customers using it as an option in some interim period whil
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by brandon272 6mo ago
I might be biased because I live in an area where it is fairly easy to find locations that don't have cellular coverage and won't have cellular coverage anytime soon. Globally, there's a lot of places that are sparsely inhabi
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by brandon272 6mo ago
I find this hard to imagine. There are so many rural customers where it is totally uneconomical to run fiber vs. just paying for Starlink.
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by brandon272 6mo ago
I have used Arq for years. It has always been the least problematic, least intrusive, most reliable backup and restore option for me. Appreciative to Stefan Reitshamer for creating and maintaining it.
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by brandon272 6mo ago
> 3. It's $10 per year and not month. My apologies, I was working off memory from when I first looked at it yesterday. I think that $10 per year is totally reasonable. But given the current extreme distaste for subscriptions, I thin
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by brandon272 6mo ago
My point is that proportionality and fault seem to be entirely subjective. In an insurance denial, the insurance company does not treat you. The people who refuse to treat you are actually the doctors and nurses and hospital. They have the
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by brandon272 6mo ago
Feedback: - Would like the ability to customize colours or themes (i.e. taskbar background, application menu button colour, chip background colour, chip active state colour, etc.) - In another comment you mention that you haven't figur
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by brandon272 6mo ago
Facebook is needed to check the time?
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by brandon272 6mo ago
> Both of those people condone(d), support, amplify and drive horrific violence. This seems to be the point of contention. What constitutes "violence"? A lot of people seem to define violence as a purely physical act: a missile
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by brandon272 6mo ago
Difficult to reconcile the justification of current efforts of "Iran can't have nukes" with the unequivocal claims made less than a year ago that Iran's nuclear capabilities had been "obliterated". https:&#x
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by brandon272 6mo ago
Completely forgot about ZoneAlarm. I remember using it in the early 2000s!

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