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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Agreed. This kind of "journalism" is sheer garbage, whether it's supporting your viewpoint or not, and probably poses a more serious risk to the country than Covid ever will.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
I'm suddenly reminded of the sweeping intermittent blackouts we've had on sites like Youtube in recent years. Youtube is ostensibly just a recreational site, and yet it still caused a fair bit of disruption. Imagine a world where
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
This has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but to clarify: the business model used to be "everything (almost) is a dollar." Now it has shifted to "Everything is a (seemingly) low price, and all prices are rounded off.&q
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The difficulty is that it can be both. Dollar stores almost certainly do SOME kind of good, otherwise they wouldn't exist. Unlike SV startups, I doubt the companies behind them are interested in burning piles of money without turning a
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
"Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. Revenue: 8.09 billion USD (2020)." Who needs reputation?
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
An outcome that absolutely no one could have anticipated. No Sir.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
There's an obvious solution to this: don't treat websites like programs, and never trust sites. I learned this lesson over a decade ago. After being burned over and over because some shitty browser or site bug ate my post I now us
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Hasn't it been common knowledge for over a decade now that self-hosting email isn't "allowed" in practical terms? Sure, you can put up the server, but most people are on one of the big providers, and chances are they&#x2
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
"Nor a reptile." I'm doubtful.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
This is attention-grabbing posturing, in the style of most Twitter posts. Amazon is most definitely cruel to its employees, but that cruelty is not applied for the sake of launching Bezos into space. It's applied to make Amazon (and Am
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
What baffles me is this: what's the endgame here? If you're a spy, and you assassinate someone, that has clear benefits. Same with bribery, blackmail, etc. What does making someone briefly ill and possibly giving them minor brain
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
It's interesting that nearly everything that might benefit the lower and lower-middle classes seems to lead, inexorably, to inflation: UBI, a living wage, decent benefits, the list goes on. One might almost conclude that inflation has
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Same here. Exclusively for txt files. Especially useful because sometimes you ONLY need a txt file with a title, no content, to act as a crude bit of meta-data for a folder. The excuse given in the article however just seems like rewarding
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
A comment from the article's author: "You have to understand that the it wasn't "open", they were only permitted to do several big events a year. So yeah, it was pricey, but it was an event kind of thing, not a casu
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The sad thing is, this is what the web was SUPPOSED to be, more or less: a series of static documents, text and images. The only interactivity (setting aside the occasional CGI forms) was that you could click certain images or text and go t
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
It's a neat piece of hardware, but I have a hard time believing it will be any more than a fad. Who is this for? Serious PC gamers? Why not just play on the "real" PC they already have, with the super-expensive monitor, graph
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Oh it's absolutely dead man walking at this point. Just a question of when they finally decide to admit it, turn off the lights and go home.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The lead developer has open contempt for the users, for one thing. Also, anyone with a few neurons to rub together can tell the UI is absolutely terrible from a functional perspective. Form over function, on a browser whose target demograph
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
It's not at all uncommon for monopolies to provide benefit to the public. They're uniquely capable of doing so, given their vast wealth and power. The problem is that they ALSO cause harm, and that benefit ends up not being worth
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The general mass of humanity never does things because they're "right": Ethical, Forward-Thinking, Better For Society etc. They do them because they're easy. To the extent that wide social change ever happens, it only ha
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
So he went to all the trouble of issuing an executive order so he could...create a committee with no real teeth (and declare that a bunch of stuff was "the policy of this administration" without actually doing anything about it).
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
This had been my feeling watching all this unfold, but I'm starting to reconsider. I was there in the early days of 4chan. Back then, brigading/mob justice felt the same: a force for good, a bunch of snappy underdogs thumbing thei
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
I think Peertube is "marketed" in the wrong way, perhaps inescapably. Making a simple video-hosting platform is going to invite comparisons to Youtube, but Frama is very clear they don't see themselves that way. Peertube is N
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Check out the Youtube channel Two Minute Papers if you haven't already. He covers a lot of stuff like this, and much of it comes with Google Collab demo scripts ready to run. Of course they're often poorly tested/maintained,
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
If you don't mind a video that's a bit "Youtube-y", Corridor Crew had a great example of the situation here (including Runway!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJ74774RO8 . The short answer is that AI i
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
One of the things I wonder every time this car gets brought up is what the fallout (heh) of an accident would actually be. I'm sure it would be bad, yes, but HOW bad exactly? The dose makes the poison after all, and a car-sized reactor
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
It's always fun seeing younger (or just less experienced) people come off the Fallout games and go "Wait, that was real? That actually happened?" Indeed it did. That's the fun of Fallout: it's only about 25% satire,
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The advantage of the paper is that it has a great deal of detail and research, done apparently by someone with actual knowledge of the law and case history in question. Usual discussions of the common carrier or public space argument tend t
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The solution to misinformation from without cannot be the tyrannical coercion toward state-sponsored misinformation from within. Free speech and a free society have always been vulnerable and difficult because bad people can come in and say
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Two very different groups hate social media for two very different reasons. Ordinary internet users hate it because it represents a serious loss of autonomy for them, and a degradation of service. It makes the internet less free than it use

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