everdrive

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by everdrive 2mo ago
I block all canvas requests. When I can no longer do so, I will just try to use the web less.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
Hypocrisy is really not as useful as people think. Imagine if some man, who beat his wife, made a career of talking about the important and harrowing issues of domestic abuse. People would rightly scratch their heads at such an over-the-top
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by everdrive 2mo ago
It's been done before, and continues to be done in some places. It requires high group trust, and a strong group identity.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
I cannot imagine the answer is strictly just one of those two. Young men in particular who have no prospects can and nothing to domesticate them (parents, jobs, relationship prospects) can especially be a lot of trouble. That said, I'm
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by everdrive 2mo ago
That crowd doesn't -- but they often do the following: - reject all 3rd party cookies - selectively refuse to load 3rd party domains - block javascript - block webgl - block webrtc - block canvas - use a generic user agent because &quo
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by everdrive 2mo ago
There are places where 20% of society (or more) are unemployed. They're not nice places. They're run by gangs or warlords. They're the kind of place where teenagers sit on steps and just wait for the wrong person to walk past
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by everdrive 2mo ago
Thank you. I had previously assumed that everyone did share my exact values, and that I could merely introspect and then successfully understand the perspective of any person on earth.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
I wonder if this also means that a normal user with a privacy-focused browser also gets this version. I can't see the point (except for click fraud?) of showing ads to AI, so it feels like this is more for the ad-blocking and privacy c
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by everdrive 2mo ago
I'm also not advocating for this. I strongly believe that there's not much we can do about a lot of these things. The world is going to move on an be worse, and most people will boil themselves like frogs. They already own TVs tha
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by everdrive 2mo ago
Well if all I had were the best movies before 1998 I would still have a really awesome movie collection. Books fall into a different category in mind. They're leisure but are also deep personal enrichment and education.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
How many games do you need in your life, though? I'd say the top 500 games on the GoG catalog would be more than a lifetime of gaming. That's not even including open source or rom sets.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
>With Microsoft, you will be forced to consume some second-rate engineer's unmanaged, Or, you'll find the official Microsoft documentation, but will just be out of date, or wrong, or otherwise will not reflect the actual Micros
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by everdrive 2mo ago
Well in fairness so long as you describe the goal as "largely destroying the frontal cortex and all the functions that go along with it," then lobotomy is incredibly sound.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
People don't know how to turn the ratchet back. It's pretty maddening. Think about it: when people go to a cabin in the woods, quite a bit of what they do is just live without tech, go on walks, sit in the sun, etc. Quite a bit of
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by everdrive 2mo ago
I didn't mean to sound rude at all :(
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by everdrive 2mo ago
I think very few people are thinking about the harder economic arguments here. We know that if companies are drawing prices, they'll do it in the way that most hurts the consumer and most benefits the company. Or more realistically, in
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by everdrive 2mo ago
Even if we take your point that internet may be disappearing. A good way to brace yourself is to expand your scope: books, exercise, hobbies, etc. (and probably download a few romsets) will protect you.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
> Patreon only works for famous people This is flagrantly false, and I suspect you've never had the chance to glimpse at the entire catalog. Quite a lot of it is _distasteful_ but it's also incredibly niche content from absolut
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by everdrive 2mo ago
I really do understand your sentiment, but please remember that "meatspace" is the whole world. You can hate stupid marvel movies and chain department stores all you like, but the entire world of books, hobbies, technology, etc. i
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by everdrive 2mo ago
The internet of the future is an IQ test. Are you smart enough to get in, do your work in a focused manner, and get out so that you live your life? Many, many people will fail this test.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
>And as a counterexample: some captchas require you to compute something expensive to prove you're not a llm scraper or whatever. I've never run into one of these. What do they ask you to compute?
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by everdrive 2mo ago
This is called a "ClickFix" attack. There is really _never_ a time when a CAPTCHA will require you to execute code on your machine. The attack is basically getting someone to accidentally run malicious code. - ctrl + R brings up t
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by everdrive 2mo ago
What would stop people from shifting to different kinds of wealth transfer? Extreme investment in education, squirrely work-arounds, nepotism, etc? I don't see how you can attempt to prevent people from providing as much benefit to the
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by everdrive 2mo ago
>oh my god can we stop acting like the only possibilities are american "capitalism" or soviet "communism", it's exhausting No way -- I threw in 1600s Europe as well as subsistence farming in there. I think the Pa
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by everdrive 2mo ago
>A lot of artists suffer from this last point where they are being productive but not in ways that capitalism values. I'm just not convinced. If there's not a market for your art, yes you will not be able to sell it and make a
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by everdrive 2mo ago
I bristle a bit when it comes to discussing productivity an an ill that is _specific_ to capitalism. It's certainly an ill of capitalism as well, but I don't know many other systems where productivity is not valued and lack of pro
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by everdrive 2mo ago
Is there anyone who currently thinks that AI could replace the classroom? I'm not aware of anyone making this argument.
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by everdrive 2mo ago
People didn't used to own so many clothes. Respective to income, clothing used to cost a lot more. As prices fell off a cliff, people's closets started overflowing. It's been a long time since we've had a sense for how e
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by everdrive 2mo ago
In fairness to the victim, he did really need to have that phone. What if there had been a restaurant with a QR-code menu? What would he have done then? So yes, we've created an authoritarian hellhole, but the alternative is even MORE
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by everdrive 2mo ago
Here you are! Whether or not you find them compelling is up to you :) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/xrynt2/why_i... -- linked from /r/academicbiblical in this discussion: htt

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