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by cronix 5y ago
Some, like this MSI subsidary, were actually selling on ebay at scalper prices. > MSI has admitted that one of its subsidiaries has been selling RTX 3080 graphics cards on eBay at almost double the MSRP. > The controversy first appear
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by cronix 5y ago
Yes, but from what I understand, it won't be the most advanced plant making the smallest feature sizes, so it's not like Apple is going to be utilizing that plant (maybe for ancillary chips, but not main processor). Understandably
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> Spotify's original client back in 2008 started out as beautifully light, custom rendered native client. I think time is a large contributing factor. A lot of things start off simple and elegant. Then you have to come up with new
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by cronix 5y ago
NW is running low as well, so don't count on it. We're getting less snow each year, so the spring/summer melts aren't contributing nearly as much as it used to. I've been to about 20 different reservoirs (I like to
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by cronix 5y ago
> Why on earth does a keyboard app need network access? "a keyboard app" is different than "this keyboard app."
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by cronix 5y ago
Your keyboard doesn't have an option to post gifs and other images from a service that needs network access to retrieve and show the thumbnails and retrieve the full sized gifs?
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by cronix 5y ago
> But an even more direct example is skipping the discounts associated with club cards for privacy reasons. Right, but most still pay with a credit/debit card when checking out which gives the cc/bank the same info. At least wi
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by cronix 5y ago
Yeah, not much more power than gov'ts have. Controlling the flow of information is pretty banal. https://time.com/6075539/facebook-myanmar-military/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018&#
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by cronix 5y ago
They're even lower now. A few months ago, the federal gov't cut off a lot of farmers in S. Oregon from water that they use for crops. To save fish. > Amid historic, climate change-driven drought, the federal government in May s
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by cronix 5y ago
Far-left and far-right intersect at totalitarianism.
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Not what I said. Did your friends and family give you specific permission to give FB their private contact info, which FB uses to associate private relationships whether they are on FB or not and track people across the web? Nothing to do w
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by cronix 5y ago
You mean after FB has already shared your friends list and phone numbers? And tracked you and your friends, most if not all of who did not give you permission to give FB their private contact info, all over the web?
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> It's no secret that Apple has lobbyists which by turns have a "pulse" on the trajectory of Bills in the House and Senate. Great, let the bills pass and then they get to publicly blame congress for being "forced to l
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by cronix 5y ago
Yes, it does sound terrible, on any level. Just get rid of minority viewpoints rather than enforce some sort of basic civility when discussing them? Just get rid of the harassed rather than the harassers? How will that iterate over time? Th
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by cronix 5y ago
Another thing Tik Tok does is get rid of people who are obese, queer, or otherwise the target of harassment. Their stance is it's easier to get rid of the person being made fun of or limit who can see their videos rather than the 10k p
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by cronix 5y ago
It sure would be interesting to see how much green house gasses and similar are emitted as a direct result of autoplay. It takes computing power and bandwidth and electricity. Much more than text and images. Autoplay is anti-environment, if
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by cronix 5y ago
> Mass eviction, both in and out of pandemic times, is best understood as a symptom of a system out of whack. I think the shock will be releasing the dam all at once after you've held back all of the water in its entirety for over a
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by cronix 5y ago
Has Apple even once admitted knowing of, or that they participated in PRISM even when official documents were released showing that Apple joined PRISM just after Jobs died? Nope. None of the companies listed did, in fact they all publicly
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by cronix 5y ago
As soon as Cook became CEO, he let the NSA's Prism program into Apple. Everything since then has been a fucking lie. > Andrew Stone, who worked with Jobs for nearly 25 years, told the site Cult of Mac last week that Steve Jobs resis
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Several of the key personnel at Commodore went on to create products that have touched the ears of most people on this planet in a way that Commodore didn't. They went on to found Ensoniq, a digital synthesizer company, who was later a
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> that prison populations are used as forced labor I was recently reminded of this due to a strange story having to do with covid and a shortage of license plates in Washington state, due to "social distancing" in the DOC. So t
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The sound of falling Redwood trees is what they used for the sound of At-At's walking in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (those huge 2 and 4 legged walking machines). Boom, boom, boom. The Ewok scenes on forest planet "Endor" w
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by cronix 5y ago
I was a kid in the 80s and teenager in the 90s. My favorite thing during that time was pirating video games. A game would come out, and it was cracked, usually within hours and often before the game was even released to be sold. That's
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by cronix 5y ago
Not a single joke was made about child abuse. The specific subject of child abuse is irrelevant in my commentary. It was a commentary on the general category of AI, used all over, for many things, and more and more every day, but nice try.
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Don't worry, AI is very good at these things and never makes mistakes. It is so advanced it even understands nuance and complex communication mechanisms like sarcasm in text, even if it's only a single sentence to contrast! It wil
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This reads almost identically to Steve Jobs history at Apple revealed in Walter Isaacson's biography of him. > But it’s a difficult and exhausting book. Jobs was a world-class asshole. He was a selfish, self-centered man who heaped
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I've always been curious as to how many patents exist where the holder actually had no intention of building the thing, for whatever reason, but didn't want anyone else to either.
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by cronix 5y ago
That is true. It's really hard to find news in MSM about this stuff though. I had to get to page 3 on google (tried ddg first!) results to bypass defense news type sites as most people would just poo-poo those. Things haven't been
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That's a niche use case. You might not be able to choose what app they require to communicate over, but you can choose what device to install it onto, like a burner, couldn't you? Some apps you might not mind on your personal phon
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A depressing thought experiment a professor once posited many years ago....Hitler comes to power in the internet era and now has state of the art tools to find people of certain traits, vs manpower and spies to discover them. Ability to go

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