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by dzdt 8mo ago
This would be a natural role for the Post Office to take on, to provide a neutral ad-free, privacy-respecting messaging platform accessible to all.
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by dzdt 8mo ago
You can see on archive.org where it captured directory info for files which were not stored: https://web.archive.org/web/20031218202130/http://www.sonic.... When you navigate those directory archives man
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by dzdt 8mo ago
Early in the 2000's one of the original authors of Sfarflight posted a massive dump of information online: design documents and source code. That is the "Technical Articles Saved from Oblivion" link in this repository. Sadly
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by dzdt 8mo ago
Hard shades of Google dropping "don't be evil".
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by dzdt 8mo ago
And people who like getting raises dont like leaving things alone...
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by dzdt 8mo ago
vibe-shoring
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by dzdt 8mo ago
(2023)
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by dzdt 9mo ago
If you install 100 apps on your phone, and 50% are participating in the kind of ad network that this data is sourced form, and 10% of the apps convince you to enable location services either by having a plausible need for it or by dark pat
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by dzdt 9mo ago
People use crypto all the time to buy dollars. Thats its main purpose: spend sanctioned rubles to buy crypto to buy dollars; use randomware to coersively obtain crpyto to buy dollars, etc.
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by dzdt 9mo ago
Is there a good heuristic now for which things on nih.gov.or cdc.gov are real science?
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by dzdt 9mo ago
The first footnote here had me cackling aloud. Don't miss the footnotes!
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Is Alexa Overloaded
2 points by dzdt 10mo ago|1 comments
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by dzdt 10mo ago
In this case there wasn't even any trial, here or abroad. Just sent to the torture gulag with zero process whatsoever. So its even worse than that.
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by dzdt 10mo ago
In the before times the close eyes were by directors and funding committees at the institutes like NIH and NSF. Now those roles are played by political appointees and funds controlled at the whim of the office of the President and their fun
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by dzdt 10mo ago
"It just radiates jank" ... that line resonates with me, but is sonehow a bit attractive. Like this is how things might be done in some alternative grittier universe. Like this is how Kaylee would make data formats execute on the
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by dzdt 10mo ago
Thanks. I watched a few snippets of the video but I hate video. It did look like it would have been an interesting blog post but no way I am sitting thru that.
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by dzdt 10mo ago
Google maps is doing the same thing to local business success that social media algorithms are doing to political success. The algorithm controls what you perceive as the consensus of others. It is a dangerous world to have such power so hi
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by dzdt 10mo ago
> The latest work has again been made possible by funding from Time Team, for a new programme they will be making next year. This is funded by a TV show whose primary concern is ratings earned by how exciting is the entertainment value.
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It was never about the numbers: the dying American news industry(wordsaboutwork.news)
2 points by dzdt 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 11mo ago
I don't think that passes the toothbrush test. I don't need to survive a zombie apocalypse every morning.
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You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app: DHS document(404media.co)
7 points by dzdt 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 11mo ago
[Edited] For anyone like me stuck on his language: the phrase "move from" should be understood as a technical term loosely related to the English language meaning of the words. I think the post would be better if he explained this
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by dzdt 1y ago
By what legal mechanism is it restricted that not any random company can make their own independent implementation of hardware that interoperates with x86 software?
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by dzdt 1y ago
You make it sound like there must be a real high-Level strategic reason behind this. More likely it’s just a low level face-saving exercise. Someone probably spent 10s of millions of Secret Service budget chasing some threatening text messa
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by dzdt 1y ago
This post jumps into the center of some controversy in a very unclear place. Is there a short (preferably neutral) summary of what this is all about somewhere?
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by dzdt 1y ago
If this was true wouldn't there be a market for a ruggedized version that has the toughness of a case, from the factory as shipped? Its a little silly for Apply to shave every possible half-millimeter from the design and then have 99%
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by dzdt 1y ago
Some overlap but not identical. There are 38 Mac patterns compared to 32 geos patterns. Of these I count 27 that coincide; 5 are unique to geos and 11 are unique to the Mac. I think certainly the direction of copying is geos copying from Ma
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by dzdt 1y ago
Most languages that have made it big have been the primary language for a platform that made it big, and it is really the features of the platform more than those of the language that have driven that.
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by dzdt 1y ago
Mathematician here, so educated layman on the physics but expert on infinity if you like. Mathematically, "infinity" doesn't imply every possible option. But in terms of quantum physics, yes it kind of does include every poss
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by dzdt 1y ago
GNU Terry Pratchett

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