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by concinds 3y ago
> iPhone addiction This is not a thing. "Screens" aren't 'separating us from one another', or 'distracting us'; that's fuzzy verbalistic nonsense, made up by marketers who want to sell you non-phon
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by concinds 3y ago
> The no credentials are accepted policy makes sure the experts stay away in droves. Imagine someone putting in decades of work to gain expertise in a field being told they need to argue with a neckbeard with too much time on their hands
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by concinds 3y ago
(edited before seeing the reply below) The author of that ridiculous Mastodon post is overcompensating for his history of calling Muslims "vermin" and other assorted hate speech, to the point where he was cited in Anders Breivik&#
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by concinds 3y ago
You're kidding surely. that quote comes from random social media posts. A rather lazy narrative by VoA, which will get its readers to stereotype China as anti-Semitic, or as being more tolerant of anti-Semitism than the West, stereotyp
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by concinds 3y ago
> have a specific Android app open Google integrated this into Android, no need for an AirTags detection app anymore.
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by concinds 3y ago
The US also does extensive industrial espionage. You just don’t hear about it because other developed countries don’t want to harm their relations with the US, and authoritarian countries see no propaganda purpose in disclosing that they’re
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by concinds 3y ago
I have no idea how they manage to recruit talent. They're trying to generate hype, yet there's no hype, just universal criticism. See here, see Twitter, see the comments on that TED Talk speech. No one's buying into it. Plus,
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by concinds 3y ago
Called it. A group no one had ever heard of before, suddenly gets widespread media coverage just a week after their website is created. There are way too many groups trying to manipulate democracy through bad-faith marketing campaigns, us
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by concinds 3y ago
The point is many are blaming [BigCorp] while still consistently being early-adopters of their products.
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by concinds 3y ago
There's one way to stop it: online culture must shift toward blaming early adopters for not waiting, instead of blaming companies for bad QA. TotalBiscuit pushed that for game preorders, and it worked, preorders declined. Change always
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by concinds 3y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.
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by concinds 3y ago
Since titanium covers the whole back and sides, wouldn't it act as a "thermal bottleneck" regardless of the aluminum?
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by concinds 3y ago
I've heard QuickTime extensions will come back in Sonoma
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by concinds 3y ago
If you did what I'm thinking of, you could have just turned sync back on and all the notes would have reappeared.
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by concinds 3y ago
This is what democratic backsliding looks like. Each side believes the other is escalating and trying to seize absolute power, and so each side escalates in response. There's never, ever a "good" side in backsliding countries
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by concinds 3y ago
Something I don't understand: wouldn't clicking all the ads still help build tracking profiles of you? (except, inaccurate ones, which still carry the chance of harming you?) They seem to compare themselves to TrackMeNot, which
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by concinds 3y ago
Your assumption, that if without these extra taxes, more banks would be created and the industry would become less concentrated, seems untrue. The banking industry seems to be becoming hugely concentrated in every Western country, regardles
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by concinds 3y ago
By the way, authenticating porn site visitors through government sites will be done through something extremely similar to Apple's Private Access Tokens (Privacy Pass) and Google's recent Web Environment Integrity (WEI) proposal.[
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by concinds 3y ago
Adding: For example of sheer propaganda, framing Privacy Pass (and by extension, Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal) as a "win", with zero discussion of downsides, see WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com&
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by concinds 3y ago
> No one thinks that the French government is going to require that browsers block Pornhub, Reddit’s gone-wild subs, or Xvideos Very wrong! France is currently deciding whether to ban five porn sites, including Pornhub, Xvideos, and XHam
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by concinds 3y ago
Well put. I think the cause of the decline is this: The narrative used to be set by newspapers. Now, the narrative is set by a subset of Twitter/Fediverse users: the "respectable" users that journalists follow and are followe
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by concinds 3y ago
WaPo talks about backlash against constant negativity, but I avoid news for another reason: for any field I care about, I hear news weeks/months before it reaches mainstream press, and it's unpleasant and cringeworthy to read thei
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by concinds 3y ago
I read a survey once, that found that a huge number of PhDs/researchers in the studied sample gave an incorrect definition for what a "95% confidence interval" (/p-value, etc) actually means, and that several popular int
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by concinds 3y ago
I think my point (c) is flawed: governments already have equivalents with finalized implementations, and will soon legally mandate them. That cat is out of the bag, and dropping WEI would have no effect. And these alternative methods propos
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by concinds 3y ago
Yeah. I think that sign would be more effective if both lines were swapped: "Must Turn, Overheight" rather than Overheight Must Turn". It sounds like a generic warning, I bet these truck drivers don't think it's spe
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by concinds 3y ago
Hey. I know you’re well-meaning and the proposal isn’t meant to harm the web. But please, retract it. WEI’s purpose is to block out bad traffic. The question isn’t whether all website owners will block non-attesting clients once this is r
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by concinds 3y ago
I hate how websites hinder VPN users. Google Search often shows me captchas on Mullvad, and sometimes blocks my request entirely (no captcha). Screw them. I don't see the issue here at all. Apple added this because otherwise the web wo
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by concinds 3y ago
Fundamentally untrue, and disheartening that it's the top comment. You can't use a model's output to train another model, it leads to complete gibberish (termed "model collapse"). https://arxiv.org/a
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by concinds 3y ago
The Notion setup he showed me wasn't some fancy overengineered "life dashboard", just a pretty basic Kanban board with notes, no fancy process. So it sounds about right.
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by concinds 3y ago
Most successful guy I know tried todo apps and didn't find them useful. Mostly used pen and paper notebooks, then partly started using Notion. It's far less rigid than todo apps and doesn't have the same huge maintenance burd

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