freedomben

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by freedomben 8d ago
Alaska was like this. Taking your trash to the transfer station or dump was expensive , so people throw it all over the place, trashing the highways and vacant land, or they use burn barrels and cause massive pollution torching plastic an
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by freedomben 8d ago
sadly, it is often true though. I learned early on that "free" usually meant "trash I don't want to deal with disposing of". There are of course people who don't do that (like myself) but that "price&quo
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by freedomben 8d ago
You're not wrong of course, but removing the tedious parts of a job can be really nice. I still work the same hours of course, but now I get to work on things that are more meaningful, more design and architecture oriented, and less ab
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by freedomben 10d ago
> it seems that vibe-coders, or “slop kiddies” as the modder dubbed them, used AI to detect a bug that they were using to crack consoles, and reported it to Sony for a bounty. That would indeed be incredibly demoralizing, even crushing
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by freedomben 10d ago
Check out droidify or neo store for a better front end to f-droid
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by freedomben 10d ago
The people I vote for never win. Am I really any more empowered with the government than I am with Google? At least with Google I can de-google my life (with some significant losses of convenience, but it is doable)
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by freedomben 11d ago
Indeed. Ace Combat 7 (a great game) already explored this. Both sides destroy each others communication satellites at nearly the same time and it creates utter chaos on the battlefield. Had one side succeeded and the other failed, it wou
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by freedomben 12d ago
Indeed, fair point. I've conflated those in my comment above!
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by freedomben 12d ago
Sadly, the success rate is significantly better than 0.1%. as a broad strategy, it clearly works. I wish it didn't, but there is a reason why all these companies do it.
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by freedomben 12d ago
I'm very much on the side of xcancel and nitter on this one, but I do think it's fair to point out that Twitter is free of monetary charge. It's not free in the sense that you do have to provide some personal information and
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by freedomben 12d ago
I don't disagree, but I do feel the need to point out this was not Apple's plan A. Luckily for them they have so many tools and options at their disposal, that they are able to massively fail at developing their own models and st
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by freedomben 13d ago
> Funny that we picked democracy for our government but we just left corporations as little feudal kingdoms. Ianal but I don't think the laws care about governing structure of corps. You can start a new corp and run it democraticall
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SpaceX Backtracks on Starlink Data Cap After Complaints(pcmag.com)
3 points by freedomben 14d ago|0 comments
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by freedomben 15d ago
> Those are just compliance tits. Ha! At one point some years back, in an internal presentation somebody used an image of an old computer that if you really, really squinted and looked closely, had a topless woman in ascii art in a sm
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by freedomben 15d ago
I'm not GP, but I've been experiencing this too. All my coworkers are in the same boat though, so we don't really have anyone with the deep understanding. Our approach (which has been working pretty well, we've solved
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by freedomben 18d ago
What are some of the more ethical tools? I would like to check them out
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by freedomben 18d ago
For real, it's been the most validating of my use-open-source ethos than any other examples I can think of! For this open source isn't about the cost, it's about the vendor dependence/neutrality, and that's quite i
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by freedomben 23d ago
I'm still seeing 404s
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by freedomben 24d ago
Came and went in a flash
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by freedomben 24d ago
> If, instead, it was done at USPS offices or even by postal workers on their routes, no one would complain. You must have had better luck with post offices than I have. Having lived in a dozen states and used many different post office
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by freedomben 24d ago
Well for me, at least, it's those features that make me a subscriber. If not for those I wouldn't do it
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by freedomben 24d ago
It might be political survivalism to avoid getting hammer-dropped by the admin
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by freedomben 25d ago
In principle, I would agree, however, the types of comments Claude writes are sometimes absurd. It will leave a 25 line comment above a variable talking about how in a debug session, it turned out that this value was too low, so it was incr
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by freedomben 25d ago
Do your apps do anything with security? I can't hardly use Fable on our authentication service because it constantly trips up and refuses to write tests. Even just doing a security review usually triggers opus.
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by freedomben 25d ago
> Apparently it's all about self-organising teams and having no leadership. Gross over-simplification. For anyone curious they have videos out there, though they are 10+ years old now so may no longer be accurate, but in 2019-era
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by freedomben 25d ago
> edit: am i missing something here? those disagreeing, please let me know why you believe you deserve a refund in this situation, knowing that ubisoft only advertised support for windows. You're probably downvoted by people'
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by freedomben 29d ago
> And your data is on your machine. Not really true anymore, especially on mobile. Plus the privacy invading abilities of native are much higher
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by freedomben 29d ago
Right, and I can't remember the last time the battery in my credit card died or needed recharging. Phone has died plenty of times when I needed it
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by freedomben 1mo ago
You don't think that regulation would require everyone to embed watermarks and guids to make sure that nothing objectionable is being generated or created?
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by freedomben 1mo ago
I'm on the other side of this one, but take an up vote for a glorious closer. Well done good sir.

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