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by cormorant 10mo ago
Not only that, but they post a sign about this at every register. (That must be required.) So you can point to the sign. I think a typical store manager would comply. Maybe I'm not cynical enough.
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by cormorant 10mo ago
Here's that short documentary if you're interested: https://archive.org/details/restoring-the-civil-war
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by cormorant 11mo ago
The "IP address" shown is in the private range 172.16/12. What other incorrect claims are lurking in this "article"?
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by cormorant 11mo ago
EDIT: https://archive.is/MYBSe Site is down, not in archive.org or archive.today. This Yandex Cache link worked for me: https://yandexwebcache.net/yandbtm?fmode=inject&tm=176237557...
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by cormorant 1y ago
Classically, spies are motivated by: money, ideology, coercion, or ego [1]. I wonder which it is. A Russian woman "marrying a target, having kids with a target — and conducting a lifelong collection operation" on an "aerosp
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by cormorant 1y ago
Worrying about editing git history buries the lede. Any comment system allows users to insert data into your site, which, if it might be illegal things, is a legal risk.
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by cormorant 1y ago
But someone else did: https://san.com/cc/exclusive-evidence-of-cell-phone-surveill... using a different tool, "Marlin". The article has some technical details.
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by cormorant 1y ago
What is the significance of the half-erased numbers in the sand? (You seem to imply it's a hidden message?) What is "rootα" (root alpha?)?
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by cormorant 1y ago
There are mirrors and backups of Wikipedia. Archive.org has no substitute.
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by cormorant 1y ago
Interesting, good to know, though I wish it weren't so. I wonder how long until the pendulum (of SEO) swings the other way, and then following it, AI websites' style.
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by cormorant 1y ago
Wow, that's...something.
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by cormorant 1y ago
Yes and even in the New York Times[†], but somehow it's still different in some way I can't articulate. [†] Q&A format: https://archive.is/20250828121105/https://www.nytimes.com/20... ; Bul
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by cormorant 1y ago
Honest question: how do you all sense when a page is AI-written? To me, the many headings, lists, and frequent use of bold stand out stylistically. Additionally: the multilevel numbered table of contents; the parenthetical acronyms (to the
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by cormorant 1y ago
> Note on the title: “Artificial Inanity” comes from Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem . Which was awfully prescient in 2008: https://archive.org/details/anathem0000step/page/794/mode/2u... They
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by cormorant 1y ago
Are you saying an algorithmic content recommendation system is an important part of "collecting all the world's knowledge"?
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by cormorant 1y ago
The article mentions a setting in Chrome only. Someone using uBlock Origin is not using Chrome.
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by cormorant 1y ago
Can anyone explain how Wikipedia supposedly is in Category 1? [1] And if it marginally is, how come they cannot just turn off their "content recommender system"? Perhaps an example is the auto-generated "Related articles&quot
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by cormorant 1y ago
Richard Severo, the author of this obituary, died two years ago!
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by cormorant 1y ago
It would be astonishingly hypocritical if the author ( https://www.maalvikabhat.com/ who btw does academic research on societal influences of AI) wrote the following using AI (a quote from beyond the paywall follows). If any
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by cormorant 1y ago
The second half of this post is behind paywall, in case you didn't notice.
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by cormorant 1y ago
Why are you quoting an article about WhatsApp after making a claim about iMessage and what Apple builds in? (Not that the article has any evidence supporting the same claim about WhatsApp, either. In fact, the article describes WhatsApp&#x2
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by cormorant 1y ago
> It's a feature of iMessage with various names such as "zero click". All web results for `imessage "zero click"` are about vulnerabilities/exploits. Are you claiming some of these are intentional, or what?
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by cormorant 1y ago
"common but not representable RGB spaces like Adobe 1998 RGB or ProPhoto RGB cannot use CICP and have to be identified with ICC profiles instead." cICP is 16 bytes for identifying one out of a "list of known spaces" but
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by cormorant 1y ago
With Apple silicon, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a Linux USB boot. The install instructions for Asahi begin from macOS. Even if there were, it may be orthogonal to the anti-theft online Activation feature that wpm was talkin
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by cormorant 1y ago
> Heck, even establishing plain http ... connections is tricky on phones now. I had no idea. I guess this refers to app-store rules? Related to https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/applicat..
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by cormorant 1y ago
> do they get any usage (beyond the test calls)? Usage stats: https://randtel.co/stats.html
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by cormorant 1y ago
How would cash be made to "suck less"?
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by cormorant 1y ago
Not quite. According to a quick search [1]: "Under California law, it's illegal for a landlord to require cash and/or electronic deposits as the sole methods to pay rent.1 Landlords must allow a tenant to pay rent using at le
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by cormorant 1y ago
The checkpoint is supposed to be in a place where it's safe to wait.
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by cormorant 1y ago
I mean, they already sentence people to jail for speeding, as in this amusing case of an automotive journalist. https://www.jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-fro...

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