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121.
by fooqux 6mo ago
Well, it's property of his workplace, and they're usually resold when the employee gets a new one. And it's not exactly mint any more, is it.
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by fooqux 6mo ago
Something I often think about is how we can barely define what AGI, consciousness, etc are. We may be pretty sure that what we have currently is an illusion, but at which point is the illusion good enough that it no longer matters? Especial
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by fooqux 6mo ago
It's not sand on the beach, it's garbage on the beach.
124.
by fooqux 6mo ago
It's still unnecessary e-waste given that they work fine for their intended purposes.
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by fooqux 6mo ago
There's plenty of people panicking, just not the ones in position to affect any change. It's a fairly commonly-held belief that certain high up individuals want the protests to escalate so that they can point to them as examples
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by fooqux 6mo ago
The spirit of it seems to live on in a few examples, such as Immich and the other software by Futo.
127.
by fooqux 7mo ago
It's not now or never. It's now, or the next attempt or the next.
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by fooqux 7mo ago
> They want to get established as the de facto standard and get a whole bunch of people on their platform so by the time they need to "get profitable" they have a captive audience, a leg-up on other labs. It's a tale as ol
129.
by fooqux 7mo ago
I don't see how that matters. If someone is acting in your name, you best keep tabs on what they're doing.
130.
by fooqux 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure they don't care about hypocrisy. They have the power to do this and get away with it, so they do.
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by fooqux 7mo ago
> Isn't that an obligation when you own a trademark? That you sue people, or else you may lose the trademark? It's not quite as cut and dry as you suggest. Besides, in which way was a trademark being violated? Last I knew merel
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by fooqux 7mo ago
> As citizens of an open society, government exists to serve us, not the other way around. I really wish this was true. It should be true. It used to be true. But I don't think it is now. > With enough users, they will have t
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by fooqux 7mo ago
Aw phooey. I didn't realize it had already made the rounds here. Thanks for the link. I'll go peruse the conversation there.
134.
by fooqux 7mo ago
Note that this is a link to Part 1. There's parts 2,3,4, and 5 where the mystery is slowly unraveled.
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U+237C ⍼ Right angle with downwards zigzag arrow(ionathan.ch)
1 points by fooqux 7mo ago|4 comments
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by fooqux 8mo ago
Eh, you're trying to boil the ocean. This functionality built into the browser would cover 99.9% of the use cases. Applications can be monitored separately, and I'm at a loss for why my OS needs to know about my age. None of this
137.
by fooqux 8mo ago
> That's words, not facts. Ok, what sort of facts would you accept here?
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by fooqux 8mo ago
> One other thing. If the author cut corners because he's too sick to write, but did so anyway because he thought his job would be in jeopardy if he didn't publish, maybe it's time for some self-reflection at Ars regarding
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by fooqux 8mo ago
> The issue is that a single service can't just implement this. If I'm a service and I need age verification, I need something that I can implement by myself. I don't understand. A simple if age<18 check is quite a lot
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by fooqux 8mo ago
It's an interesting legal question, but I would imagine for a federated service, the burden of proof should be on the individual's home server for age verification. That's where the user account is, after all. Matrix is basic
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by fooqux 8mo ago
> The real danger is if management sees this as acceptable. If so best of luck to everyone. Already happening. It's just an extension of the "move fast and break stuff" mantra, only faster. I think the jury is still out on
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by fooqux 8mo ago
It's also a different country with a different culture, etc. Norwegians drive roughly 50% less than people in the US. There's probably a bunch of contributing factors, but the point is that reduced range is less of a problem if yo
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by fooqux 8mo ago
The protection scheme where they used a laser to burn a small hole in a specific sector of the disk is just mind boggling to me. How'd they figure out where to make the hole?
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MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks(dosdays.co.uk)
52 points by fooqux 8mo ago|4 comments
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by fooqux 8mo ago
> professional audience, not the general public. Yeah but that doesn't help when the entire purpose, when what we need , is an informed general populace.
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by fooqux 8mo ago
Why? Makes perfect sense to me. Designing a product with a specific use case in mind is good. When you've got the limited resources of am open source volunteer project, trying to solve every problem is a recipe for burnout. If it can e
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by fooqux 8mo ago
> Our devices should generate _noise_. Huge crazy amounts of noise. Extraneous data to a level that pollutes the system beyond any utility. They accept all this data without filtering. They should suffer for that choice. I like the idea
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by fooqux 8mo ago
Capital One is the same. I eventually stopped caring; I know these paper mailings are costing them money. Maybe they'll get the point someday.
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by fooqux 8mo ago
I wouldn't say that. Software support for Linux is a chicken and egg problem. No software because there's no users because there's no software. Proton helps fix the users part. If a critical mass is accomplished, that can hav
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by fooqux 8mo ago
You're thinking of now. Proton didn't exist yet the first time they tried Steam OS. To be fair to Valve though, back then, there was a lot of movement in direct ports for Linux games. Humble Bundle (before they were bought) was sp

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