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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Asked chatgpt "Summarize this post for me. <post text>" and the result was surprisingly useful: The author of this post was invited to speak at RustConf 2023, but the organizers later changed their talk from a keynote to a r
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Also, don't expect Google to keep the "no ads" policy to YT Premium for long. They can still make people pay for "less ads", as twitter does. Just remember cable TV on the old times.
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
YT Premium only makes the problem worse by requiring you to log in using an account that is tied to your real world identity and was used for payment processing. You just end up giving more data points to Google to track you, cross-referenc
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
Or download it locally with yt-dlp and watch in a video player.
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
> Honest question - why not? YT Premium only makes the problem worse by requiring you to log in using an account that is tied to your real world identity and was used for payment processing. You just end up giving more data points to Goo
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
> Why linux? Why not *BSD? GPL can force manufacturers to cooperate with users. Of course, they can still use closed source binary modules and userland programs ...
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by gaius_baltar 3y ago
The show goes a bit deeper in the references to it. Second season shows some widespread blackouts/burnouts due to events from the first one. This entire show is a jewel of good storytelling (and technical accuracy that should already h
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Fire Horse (Hinoe-Uma)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gaius_baltar 4y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Swearing an oath on a book in which the main protagonist counsels against swearing any oaths always seems a bit awkward. Or a pretty good message if you are legally required to swear on a book.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> huge success... I'm still alive... > valve? But but ... does she said she's still fully alive or half-alive ? (we can keep the joke alive too)
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Isn't that basically Genetic Programming? En passant, it's a bit sad that today's AI is almost 100% neural networks. I wonder how many evolutionary approaches are being tested behind closed doors by the metaphorical FAANGs.
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Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by gaius_baltar 4y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
There are forks who use URL unfurling to simulate quotes, so I think this can be a good approach if you can convince your instance to migrate... but, of course, every other instance won't see them nor will the desktop/mobile clien
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Linux Kernel Pleroma Instance(social.kernel.org)
2 points by gaius_baltar 4y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> a relatively fringe group of consumers actually want Pretty big chance that we are falling victim to a paradox here. If the majority of users think "I can't buy a phone with a replaceable battery because all high-end phones f
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Elon’s claim of “humans drive with eyes so a car can drive with cameras” is naive. Specially because we don't drive with eyes only, we use at least our ears too for hearing unusual noises and the balance sense for detecting vibra
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Not _openly_ I'm pretty sure everything that affects the profits of these companies is downplayed by the recommendation system.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Really disapointed, Also small rant: on most website you get suspended but without transparency on the exact infrigement, that's awful. You have to appeal and even then you are not sure of getting the exact reason. One of the most
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Never seen any intellectual value in a BBC drama, comedy, or nature documentary? The C of BBC does not look like the current practical meaning of corporation for or typical case. Being state-owned change a lot of things.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
They are dominant in the market, so it's just a matter of time until they start abusing their position.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Why do people still work at Tesla, or does this toxic behavior attract toxic employees? A lot of money, perhaps? I'm not familiar with Tesla compensation levels, but this is the only reason I can think people may have to cope with
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
I tried asking "Why does Mark Zuckerberg look like an human being?". His name is blacklisted, so all I got was "Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
That's why I pirate; no reason to pay for these streaming companies, and have my personal info collected to be sold and receive ads. Just frak these companies, I'm tired of this. Remember that old meme (I was not even called a
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Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform(github.com)
1 points by gaius_baltar 4y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Does apple publish a checksum of software you’re installing? Reproducible builds: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
And link previews. Groups are never secure, too. Also AFAIK Telegram has access to the plain text data from stickers so when they are downloaded by a person on a secret chat, everybody with server access can also figure a bit of the context
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> the number of people that can see the chats between me and my mother has just gone from two (me and her) to 500 (all the engineers on the telegram team). And everyone from all companies to which Telegram will sell the data once they fi
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Revival of the Gimp Developer Website(gimp.org)
1 points by gaius_baltar 4y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
> Has sqlite been forked before? There is a fork called SQLCipher with native encryption. Probably lots of others too, but this one is the one that I remember.
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by gaius_baltar 4y ago
Specially when demanded by entitled companies that want the work of FLOSS developers for free. And, curiously, these are usually the same companies that cry about (L|A)?GPL.

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