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by g-b-r 2y ago
> fuck the system This app is the system, with a "trust me bro" approach to privacy and security. Its creator is probably well intentioned, but this is likely to result in bad things for its users.
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by g-b-r 2y ago
The black squad member was Bobby Kinch, “American, Christian, White, Heterosexual”
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Or be racist
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by g-b-r 2y ago
It's just the truth Even if you didn't notice that back then, all the no-vax groups (that I'm aware of) ultimately became overt supporters of Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. There was no opposition to the first, much more
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by g-b-r 2y ago
There's a gazillion of companies outside UK legislation; if they only went against companies doing fingerprinting, only those subject to their legislation would refrain from doing it Having Google forbid it makes a lot of sense
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by g-b-r 2y ago
I'm not a no-vax to any degree, but I agree that one of the biggest problems was lying
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by g-b-r 2y ago
There was even more contradictory nonsense outside the US, in countries without elections in sight
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Russian disinformation
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by g-b-r 2y ago
The prevailing wisdom before 2020 was that almost no virus was airborne; and you needed to assume new ones weren't, lest all hell break loose. That's how we got the pandemic.
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by g-b-r 2y ago
It's also easy to make assumptions, such as that it's few users
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by g-b-r 2y ago
> I used Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, etc in the era before Google - and it was worse. I guess you were only talking about the search engine, then. The technology was ready, PageRank was inspired by other work, and Google came to a good degr
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by g-b-r 2y ago
> that I (and millions of other people less fortunate than me, that couldn't "afford" the non-ad-supported cost of these services) have benefited tremendously from the existence of Google and its ilk. People who were into
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The AI Bias Before Christmas [video](youtube.com)
1 points by g-b-r 2y ago|0 comments
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by g-b-r 2y ago
It's not that nobody gives a shit, it's that the alternatives have been taken away
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Yeah, they just cost a ten times more
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by g-b-r 2y ago
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Oh and it's not the only one, there's also “Fighting Faults in Distributed Systems” [1] and several others from other students..! [2] [1] https://decomposition.al/CSE138-2024-01/zines/zine-ali.pdf [2] h
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by g-b-r 2y ago
I link to the pdf directly in hopes that it gets more attention, a post from 7 hours ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330776 ) didn't get any. I recommend people to check it out, it's delightful ! Very n
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Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography zine [pdf](decomposition.al)
2 points by g-b-r 2y ago|2 comments
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by g-b-r 2y ago
"cautionary", "real life vs", "Nothing is more difficult or dangerous", "exist purely in that imagination". You're claiming that real life is always as in this episode; and so, I guess, that you
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by g-b-r 2y ago
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113366551082791729
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Zyme is an ancient Greek word that means leaven, a lot of organizations and companies use it
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by g-b-r 2y ago
The "AARO" text itself reminds me a lot of Scientology material
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by g-b-r 2y ago
> Confirmation bias is a problem for everyone, both of us are subject to it. Yeah, of course (personally, some of my own ideas were not confirmed in the last year)
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by g-b-r 2y ago
> People formed a narrative and are forcefully trying to make the bricks fit It's healthy to wonder, from time to time, if it might be you that's doing such things
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by g-b-r 2y ago
If other entries on the list had less scholarly consensus (even such widely accepted ones as the Darfur and Rohingya ones), this deserved to be on the list. I guess that the list title could be considered misleading, if not all the entries
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by g-b-r 2y ago
I saw, nice It seems to not check it automatically, though?
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by g-b-r 2y ago
> When asked how having multiple competing repos all claiming to be Rust would be beneficial to the Rust community they had nothing to say Being able to call the commands of a fork rustc, cargo etc would allow trivial drop-in replacement
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by g-b-r 2y ago
They added something to verify if the binary came out of their CI only a few months ago; I haven't checked now, but it seemed extremely convoluted In any case, there's for sure no GitHub certificate added to the APKs
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by g-b-r 2y ago
I sure don't use dubious WhatsApp mods, but in general, the advantage of updating through a website rather than through an internal update, is that you're much less likely to receive "customized" updates; it's more

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