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> First, consider separating state actors from companies Can you? Ok, "definitely private company who doesn't operate at the behest of the state". That's a loophole you can fly a country through. > Countries active
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> The “market handling it” would mean liability lawsuits Amazon and Temu sell so much illegal and dangerous junk and no lawsuit changed this. People still get hurt or killed by battery fires, malfunctioning products, intoxication with al
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> Companies should be forced to comply with local law when they have a physical office there What happens when they send signals in that country, like Starlink is explicitly doing? What if companies in Mexico or Canada started blasting s
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Microsoft's own Outlook.com flags Windows Insider emails coming from a .microsoft.com domain as junk even after marking the domain as "no junk". They know themselves well.
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It was a joke that aimed too high I guess, that LLMs can't yet fake face to face interaction.
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Why don't you come say that to my face?
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You can already see the “sane defaults” vary with the person. When it comes to safety it’s a bit more clear cut. The job of a heating system is to heat so don’t turn off heating when this can endanger people and houses. The job of a lawn ir
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> The need to punish perceived slackers is just too high. That's because the US was always in a race to find more enemies to fight. It's an easy way to rally the many under a single banner and then move the banner around as nee
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Faster screen refresh rate improves the pixel switching latency (frame to frame). How do modern OLED screens in Game Mode compare to old CRTs for input latency (cable to screen)?
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One more vote here for Scrypted. I have a bunch of cameras from various vendors, some with open FW, some with their original FW, all cut off from the internet. They used to be connected to Frigate but due to performance issues I offloaded t
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I am talking about the 4 rules posted by GP above [0] from FSF’s definition of free software, after selectively removing the part that wasn’t aligned with their point, then calling that part “moot”. I was not talking about the content of th
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If you’re going to throw the commandments of software freedom at someone to make your point you do not get to exclude exactly the part that explicitly contradicts what you say with a dismissive “except that, that doesn’t count” because it
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> people struggle to deal with leaving the Blue Dot behind, esp. when they see footage from the earth, rainforests, etc. 5 generations on, the people on the ship didn't leave anything behind. They were born and will die on the ship,
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You omitted an important clarification stated before those freedoms: > The word "free" in our name does not refer to price; it refers to freedom It's free as in libre, not free as in gratis. They don't prohibit the ex
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What you said stays equally true even if every US school had a shooting morning, noon, and evening, while Europe had exactly 2 shootings ever, both in the past 10 years. A statement of fact can be worthless or misleading too if presented a
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If this map [0] is accurate, in the past ~60 years Europe had 166 school shootings while the US had 2980. That's 18x more shootings in the US compared to Europe. Shootings per million people 0.22 in Europe vs. 8.68 for the US, 40x diff
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> Some people are always upset with change You defended "change" in general, not in this particular case. "Change could be good so this change must be good" is a weak argument that can be used to defend any change. Th
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> need for this to track down virus creators I think they’re just going to track down a random person in a random country who put their name down in exchange for a modest sum of money. That’s if there’s even a real person at the other en
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The only thing that can accurately simulate a process or system is the real process or system. Any simulation that perfectly simulates something becomes that something. Everything else contains simplifications and approximations and is an i
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The print is a different picture from the one in the submitted article. That looks like it could be a different angle (90deg) of the bird on the same burnt stump.
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After setting up an Android phone for someone recently, I think it's stuffed with dark patterns. The amount of times that OS was pushing me to enable or opt-out from syncing different things to their cloud and generally sabotage the pr
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> it'd be an opt in limit Aren't these 2 different topics? MS and big-tech in general make things opt-out so they can touch the data before users get the chance to disable this. I expect they would impose a limit to how many ti
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The motion is still off, as it was 2 days ago [0] in the previous submission. There's something that just doesn't look right, and some particular setups trigger very unrealistic behaviors. Not sure if this got a second lease on li
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On a DS920+ users will run various containers, Plex/Jellyfin, PiHole, etc. The Celeron J4125 CPU (still used in 2025 on the 2 bay DS225+) is slow when used with the stuff most users would like to use on a NAS today, and the software r
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Pointing out bias when debating an opinion hardly sounds ad-hominem, and in this case it looks more like OP's way to strengthen the veracity of the report while showing surprise rather than dismissal. Is it still ad-hominem if you actu
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It doesn't matter if it's accurate or not, such judgements are made by most people every day. Someone who was professionally formed somewhere has a higher probability of ties to them later on. Being intelligence services this migh
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I own multiple FireTVs, Google’s Android TV, and an Apple TV and for almost everything I do the AppleTV is far ahead. The only thing the FireTV had as an edge was the Xbox game streaming app which worked fine over WiFi6E. Otherwise it was a
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> What counts as acting? Acting is doing something, as opposed to saying something. One of them counts as freedom of speech and hint, it's the one you quickly attacked. It's when you go to work and do your job as per the co
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I don't know but isn't this the usual go-to for all those supporting the surveillance state? Think of the kids? But the terrorists? What's good for the goose is good for the gander, if he eschews being surveilled just like ev
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This goes double for him personally. I take his insistence on singing the praises for pervasive surveillance while avoiding it himself as an admission of him committing the worst crimes.

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