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by dns_snek 9mo ago
$1500 represents the money you've already given them to purchase the hardware. You already overpay for that - fine - then they demand a 30% cut from $5 you're giving to a struggling independent creator. It's pure greed coming
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
They said that the users are asking for it.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
It's so lazy to resort to the false dichotomy of US vs USSR, it doesn't say anything except "It's not as bad as it could've been". Every country in the world can point a finger at someone who had it worse. And
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
I haven't seen them in person but a simple egg wash will make any baked product very shiny.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> No. It's not. Governments are not natural. So you have no "fundamental" rights here. You could make the same moot point about all societal laws. Fundamental rights are determined by the constitution, the UN declaration o
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
You can't reason someone out of something they clearly didn't reason themselves into. If they cared about the truth and evidence they wouldn't be holding that opinion right now.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
>> All the tech was already put in place by China. All that the U.S. had to do was change the filtered words. > I've never seen reports of censorship like this on TikTok before Ellison bought it.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
Enough of them to give rise to the term "algospeak" which means using words like "unalive" in place of "kill" to avoid automated censorship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak Meanwhi
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
I happen to think that's largely a self-delusion which nobody is immune to, no matter how smart you are (or think you are). I've heard this from a few smart people whom I know really well. They strongly believe this, they also bel
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> So as soon as all software has been written that can be written, I'm not sure where you got this from. They'll jack up the prices at some undetermined time in the future once the weight of reality overpowers the manic hype we
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> What do you think the grift is here exactly? The obvious? Selling subscriptions to individuals, reaching higher-ups with bombastic headlines, reaching potential investors, perpetuating the bubble.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> I think the people making out that Cursor massively and dishonestly over-hyped this are arguing with a straw man version of what the company representatives actually said. It's far more dishonest to search for contrived interpreta
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
How long will this heavily subsidized price of $200/month last? Do you really think these companies are going to let you pocket all the surplus value forever? We all know that the music is going to stop eventually and that the landscap
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
I didn't but I'm happy to make that claim - humans who exhibit that sort of behavior aren't reasoning either, and they are just as unpleasant to deal with as LLMs are.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> ".. The user must approve access on a per website, per device basis .." Of course, but a phishing website "fake-bank.com" could collect user's username, password, and then prompt them to touch their yubikey. Th
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
Well that's just self-referential. You're justifying the distinction by referring to Google's (artificial) distinction.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
It's not a vulnerability necessarily, but "Display over other apps" permission allows malicious apps to intercept interactions like users entering passwords and trick them into performing actions (clickjacking).
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
Humans who fail to reason correctly with similar frequency aren't good at solving that task, same as LLMs. For the N-th time, "LLM is as good at this task as a human who's bad at it" isn't a good selling point.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
So if public figures with a sizeable following start calling for you and your family to be chased down and gutted like animals, should they legally be allowed to do that? Do you actually believe that?
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
I think this particular scenario is far fetched as that would be economic suicide for the US, an empire-ending decision. And while not everyone has backups, many/most of the important companies do so they would eventually recover.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
WebUSB is a giant gaping hole in the browser sandbox. Innocent use cases are really nice, I've used WebUSB to flash GrapheneOS on my device, but the possibilities for users to shoot themselves in the foot with nefarious website are alm
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> So why US has "big tech" and Europe does not? Because having "big tech" is a sign that the government has completely failed to enforce anti-trust laws and allowed dangerous concentration of power to occur. It's
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
Can you name a single country which meets this definition of "freedom of the press"? It's not the US, the UK, or any of the EU countries, certainly not Russia, China, or India.
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
For the millionth time, the reason we have copyright in the first place is to encourage creation of original creative works. This is clearly stated in the US constitution (and similar phrasing is found in the relevant legal texts of other j
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
It only became off by default after those "daily rage sessions" created sufficient public pressure to turn them off. Microsoft also happens to own LinkedIn which conveniently "forgets" all of my privacy settings every ti
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> Why aught there be an exception for academics? I didn't ask for an "exception" in terms of knowledge, I pointed out a bias in favor of one specific type of assessment. I didn't do great on verbal exams but I could r
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
Just so we're clear on the standards of solidarity here, someone murdering your entire family would be tragic but not detrimental to society. How much should society do to prevent that from happening?
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
> Add a verbal examination, even though it massively increases examination time. No homework assignments, which encourage "completionist mindset" To the horror of anyone struggling with anxiety, ADHD, or any other source of mem
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
I'm not, I'm thinking of poorly engineered systems that display buggy, unintended behaviors at runtime. > observably in compliance with the spec That's so easy to say and so incredibly hard to implement! Most unintended be
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by dns_snek 9mo ago
I didn't misunderstand. I'm talking about all the exciting unintended behaviors you're adding and all the invariants that you're not preserving by arriving at solutions through randomness rather than careful design and e

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