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by bscphil 4y ago
Is there anything proving this is actually Z-lib and not just a clone of it? Weren't the people running the site supposedly arrested?
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by bscphil 4y ago
I was surprised that the pressure at 62 feet is still low enough that the internal air can be exposed directly to the water without a controlled pressure differential. When I started reading I figured it was going to be something like a per
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by bscphil 4y ago
From the page: > In environments where cross-signing and verification are enabled, adding a new unverified user adds a warning to the room to indicate that unverified devices are present. However, it is possible for a homeserver to add a
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by bscphil 4y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, the "Sign in with GitHub" referred to by the OP was a styled button on the attacker's site, entirely in their control. There's no way to force a site to be well-behaved about this. The questio
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by bscphil 4y ago
They probably mean not allowing passwords for Google services.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> I mean, let's assume you post something popular, The issue is that there's no federated "popularity" metric. Every user that has followers on 17,000 servers has every single one of their posts pushed to all 17,000.
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by bscphil 4y ago
That is the point that my example was intended to illustrate.
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The media transcoding components aren't written in Ruby, it shells out to ffmpeg or Imagemagick.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think this response is more than a little breathless. The problem isn't in the filtering approach, it's in the polarization of the source material. For example: > I tried to get it to answer some factual questions based on go
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by bscphil 4y ago
I vouched for this comment because it's a good question, although I'm worried that your account is not long for this world with an inflammatory username like that. The problem probably starts with the inefficiency of RoR, as you&#
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think it's fair to say (speaking as someone who repeatedly defends GIMP from criticism on this website) that GIMP is a flawed tool with several missing features. It works well for a range of things, but doesn't for others. There
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by bscphil 4y ago
I see, so vegans recognize that speciesism is "true" in the sense that some animals do have more valuable lives than others, and harms to some animals are worse than harms to others? Makes it a bit hard to know what the term is de
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by bscphil 4y ago
So - caring more for a human or ape versus a mosquito, for example, would be speciesm?
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by bscphil 4y ago
Partially agree, but I think a lot of the public outrage is over the use / killing / botched experiments on monkeys, which are widely acknowledged to be among the most intelligent and human-like of non human animals. Regardless of
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by bscphil 4y ago
> It is always better to save the lives of many people, especially children, rather than sacrifice one person to save them. FWIW it isn't consistent about this. I saw someone do a similar trolley problem the other day and it was aga
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Person B doesn’t understand why, so asks why 30 minutes and not 4 hours? Person A thinks Person B is judging them for their personal preferences, and says that they chose 30 minutes because they like it. Person B then deduces that Pers
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by bscphil 4y ago
Oh? That's very strange, it instantly works in private browsing mode, taking me to what looks like a desktop. I tried it again in non-private browsing mode and I still get the login window. Edit: deleting cache and offline website da
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by bscphil 4y ago
> I didn't give them anything; I also don't recall their asking for anything. When I click the link, I see only a login modal over some abstract background art. I don't even see the link to the terms of service you have th
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by bscphil 4y ago
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "profit". If money made by the National Park Service goes back into park improvements, land purchases, better facilities, etc, that seems great. If the money goes back into the government&#
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Ahh yes, the "I really want the fourth of july, but I can only book X months in advance. So I'll book a week early, and book the 27th of June through the 4th of july weekend. Then i'll wait months, and then pay the $7 fe
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by bscphil 4y ago
It's interesting that it's clearly trying to have the first letter of each line be the next letter in the alphabet, but just casually skips "B". Wonder if maybe it should have been "Big and strong,".
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by bscphil 4y ago
> There's trustworthy crypto banks, they just don't offer interest. If you think you need interest on your crypto you've already lost the plot somewhere. That's sort of the whole point encapsulated, isn't it? Mos
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by bscphil 4y ago
> "crypto isn't trustworthy" This tends to be a bit of a motte-and-bailey point. What people mean when they say "crypto isn't trustworthy" is that if your spouse wants to "invest" in crypto, you pu
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think the thing that confuses a lot of people is that if he's actually savvy, why on earth has he agreed to do so many damaging interviews? He's either (a) naive in at least some respects, (b) actually doesn't care about
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by bscphil 4y ago
I just categorically disagree that you can conclude anything about GIMP on this basis. I will strongly agree with anyone who says that GIMP is missing features and that it's subpar for graphic designer work. But I've used GIMP for
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by bscphil 4y ago
A feature that doesn't work well can still provide value.
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> There's a slow burning genocide afoot that's taking place though "reasoned debates," that serves as a counterexample. I don't know if this is the right place to share a feeling, but I'm going to try to exp
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by bscphil 4y ago
Well, it's certainly confusing. But LA County isn't the only source of funding for the police either. The city appears to contribute ~1.9B a year out of a 10.5B budget in discretionary police spending. https://cao.lacit
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by bscphil 4y ago
23% seems shockingly high to the point that I wish activists would get the number right so that the story wouldn't be "activists heavily overstate how much of your tax dollars go to police" and instead "a shockingly high
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think part of what "not designed for humans" is probably suggesting is that you shouldn't have to drive away from your nine lane residential street in order to go find something to do.

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