compass_copium

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by compass_copium 8d ago
The endpoint safety problem obviously applies to me and every person connected to the World Wide Web, but the grandparent was talking about The Olds who install the AskJeeves and the Yahoo! toolbars and Bonzi Buddy and... If computers aren&
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by compass_copium 8d ago
I like it. I asked a real question and got some decently thought-out answers. I answered a few as well, so at least I know it's not 100% AI responses!
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by compass_copium 10d ago
At some point computers need to stop being treated as magical boxes that no reasonable person can learn how to use safely. We expect people who use cars to learn how to use them safely, we expect people who use lawnmowers to not stick their
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
Being part of a domestic terrorist group is protected by the first amendment in the United States. Being part of a foreign terrorist group is not. You can pay dues to the KKK, you cannot donate to Hezbollah.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
True, but I am vaguely aware of people taking like Zyn for performance enhancement reasons, and I don't think anyone starts smoking like that.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
European politics are very different than American politics, and I am not terribly familiar with them so I won't weigh in. Antifa in the US is "guys with a Signal group chat who do black bloc stuff."
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
"Comintern" means "Communist International"--meant to guide the various national parties.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
With respect, this is false. JDL members were certainly charged with crimes. They were not charged with belongimg to the JDL, since that would be a first amendment violation. There are interesting reports on state.gov describing the difficu
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
A/I collective is not being accused of that, but of hosting information and providing communications services.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
Copy-pasting my comment to the other poster making the same point: "Antifa" is not being presented as an ideology, it is being portrayed as a global terror cell. The specific purpose for this is to be able criminalize leftist poli
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
There was a national Communist Party as well as several Cominterns. Communists are pretty big on democratic centralism.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
"Antifa" is not being presented as an ideology, it is being portrayed as a global terror cell. The specific purpose for this is to be able criminalize leftist politics, since the state has many more tools to prevent association wi
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
You're not wrong about smoke always being bad--there's a reason American Spirits have to have a disclaimer about "additive-free" not meaning healthier. Tobacco takes up alpha emitters from the soil and leaves them in you
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
Super Cannes should be a perfect place to start for anyone reading this site.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
You already know the answer to that question
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
Damn, and I just bought a used Garmin hybrid watch, too.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
Cheers, thanks for all the work you do on the project. There is still a philosophical reason for supporting a version of Linux for mobile devices that is not dependent on Google, but is community-driven, for users with different priorities.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
GOS is broadly compatible with most phone use cases out of the box--chat, mail, browsing. A Google Play profile lets me use almost all apps (including my bank apps, but I understand that's not true for everyone). In principle I agree a
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
>the developers churning out agent work on supergigaultramax effort are fulfilling the transitive preferences of people like supply chain managers, etc. Some of them are doing this at their jobs, but there are also tons of people pushing
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
And yet, AI is broadly unpopular: https://techstrong.ai/features/public-sentiment-sours-as-ai-... The fact that people try out ChatGPT does not change that. People are complicated!
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
The specific examples are not the point. Obviously some people hate Netflix and some people love Lobster Jesus. There is a rising sentiment against AI: https://techstrong.ai/features/public-sentiment-sours-as-ai-... &g
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
Ah, the job-killing stuff, right. Don't forget selecting Iranian girls' schools as targets for missile strikes, AI is doing that, too.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
I'm a hobbyist IT enthusiast, not a professional computer guy, but from my point of view there's a big difference between a bunch of servers hosting something people want, like Netflix, and a warehouse full of GPUs running around
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
That's an arch issue, not a Linux issue.
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by compass_copium 1mo ago
What, you don't find it charming that they shoehorned in the old right click menu without even changing its appearance to match the rest of Windows 11? It really shows how much thought Microsoft is putting into Windows now.
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by compass_copium 2mo ago
As long as a researcher said "we controlled for confounding variables," there are plenty of people willing to take it at face value. It's really difficult (maybe not possible) to do that in these large retrospective studies.
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by compass_copium 2mo ago
I would have "show sphere" on by default--this kind of threw me at first, too. This is a really nice project. Great work and a great write-up. Thanks for sharing.
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by compass_copium 2mo ago
With all the salt, you'd turn your fields into the next Carthage.
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by compass_copium 2mo ago
Again, inaccurate. You can get a PrEP shot twice a year now. Access is a valid point. Perhaps the money being used to fund a superfluous vaccine should be used to fund access to PrEP in the Third World.
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by compass_copium 2mo ago
This is completely inaccurate. There is PrEP that requires dosing two times a year. You can also get PEP if you engage in a risky activity without PrEP.

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