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by gausswho 2y ago
Got any details on this apparent cozying?
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by gausswho 2y ago
Strangely this reminds me of exactly how you would navigate in parts of India before the Internet became ubiquitous. The steps were roughly: Ask a passerby how to get where you want to go. They will usually confidently describe the steps, e
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by gausswho 2y ago
By a whisker, I would bet you're right. But only because of your clause 'completely done by AI'. And I think that renders the bet kind of irrelevant. I would also bet that sometime in the next 10 years, we'll have a mast
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by gausswho 2y ago
I use VOIP numbers for that. One per business.
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by gausswho 2y ago
Given the rampant privacy abuse on phones, I use a laptop.
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by gausswho 2y ago
Things have come a long way. The GrapheneOS installation in particular is very straightforward. And most banks work just fine as apps, and if not via their website.
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by gausswho 2y ago
There was a time when BEM ruled (and scarred) the world. But names aren't a problem if you abandon the C in CSS and scope all styles to component.
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by gausswho 2y ago
I did enable that setting. But it still didn't work for me. I remember seeing it was showing up and tried various tools related to MTP but none of them were able to access the files.
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by gausswho 2y ago
They may be less gatekeeping than others, but they don't let you get data off the device without a cloud account, at which point all your biometrics are for sale.
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by gausswho 2y ago
I picked up an Epix Pro during the holiday sales. Aware that they'd had a data breach, I was dismayed to find there is no way to get the data off it without using an app and that app won't even start without an account. Despite th
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by gausswho 2y ago
Github, and others, have strategies to mitigate culpability. One way, as you note, is to hand off such responsibility to the consumer. Another is to suppress the training set from passing through too close to verbatim. To be crystal, I am s
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by gausswho 2y ago
Eschewing the ethics of such an action, my take would be that it happens (and will happen) regardless of license and no one can stop it unless those utilizing such code leave evidence that they disregarded the license.
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by gausswho 2y ago
"The note observed that including the LibGen material would help them reach certain performance benchmarks, and alluded to industry rumors that other AI companies, including OpenAI and Mistral AI, are “using the library for their model
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by gausswho 2y ago
I've been using GrapheneOS for a couple years now. I'm glad to see an Android fork that holds their ground as far as Play services are involved. You call them compromises but I see at more as providing visibility when apps are doi
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by gausswho 2y ago
App stores being a useful tool of state control (vis a vis the open web) does make one wonder if it factors into the government pursuing them as an abuse of market competition.
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by gausswho 2y ago
And that person you pay fakes the numbers on your invoice, because everyone else does.
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by gausswho 2y ago
The whose a what?
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by gausswho 2y ago
Wild to read the copyright statement. Gives permission to reprint any of the poems in magazines books or newspapers as long as they are given away free. Like a precursor to the copyleft movement / GPL.
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by gausswho 2y ago
I agree even just an auto mute functionality would go a long way. People used to hack on this stuff decades ago. I suspect it's not as common now because for those who care (said hackers) they already cobble together some ad blockers a
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by gausswho 2y ago
I'm surprised we haven't seen the "AI-powered" uBlock Origin of video yet. Not blocking by the web request but rather by analyzing the video signal itself. Or even a nice appliance-tier solution. I want to buy an HDMI sp
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by gausswho 2y ago
I almost fail to see what harm could come from nationalizing YouTube at this point.
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by gausswho 2y ago
I'm not holding out, I'm taking the cue that it's finally time to exit Microsoft altogether. Their October deadline is when everything MS finally gets wiped from my hard drives. It does look like I'll have to make some s
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by gausswho 2y ago
The existence of these workarounds allow Microsoft to achieve their goals. It doesn't behoove them to tighten the screws completely, because they still get to capture the vast majority who do what they're told to. And after enough
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by gausswho 2y ago
I wonder how long it will be before theories, beliefs, superstitions, hunches, are no longer combined with grievance and pride and packaged up as somehow empirically relevant.
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by gausswho 2y ago
I do mean the coast, and it does sadden me how little of it is publicly accessible, compared to the Pacific coast.
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by gausswho 2y ago
Many don't know that part of Canada secretly exists in northern NY and VT.
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by gausswho 2y ago
Someone please turn that into a the backing vocals of a techno song.
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by gausswho 2y ago
This is just what I needed as I stare out the snowy window scene. A request: would be nice if it did not constrain to the dimensions of a phone when on an iPad. Thanks!
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by gausswho 2y ago
Having lived bi-coastally, I agree this is an idiosyncratic distinction between east and west. Particularly northeast and west. And we have great mounds of thinkers who have raised the thought. Thoreau. Steinbeck. Kesey. How wonderful it is
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by gausswho 2y ago
I also chose Proton for the same reason. It hurts that their product development is glacial but that's a crucial component that I don't understand why Fastmail doesn't try to offer.

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