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by goda90 2mo ago
I see a lot of "don't worry about privacy invasion X, because privacy invasion Y is unavoidable." when talking about this stuff. People are being trained to accept "normal" violations
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by goda90 2mo ago
> As omnivores above the poverty line, we can all make conscious and conscientious choices about what we eat. This being a forum of mostly tech workers, many of us can afford to choose more sustainable animal products and support agricul
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by goda90 2mo ago
Managed grazing along with other regenerative techniques can sequester carbon in the soil. Factory farms have the problem of concentrated dung disposal which usually leads to letting it sit in methane producing conditions and also feed for
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by goda90 2mo ago
Reminder about Firefox's built in reader mode, which is great for working around annoying styling or mobile rendering issues.
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by goda90 2mo ago
I haven't tried it myself but I have heard that LLMs can be much better at handwriting OCR than previous tech. This opens the possibility of handwriting and then scanning and digitizing notes for organizing and search.
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by goda90 2mo ago
Footnote in TFA: >Regardless of one’s opinion regarding pseudoscience and occultist horseshit — pro, con, or indifferent — one might reasonably think it wrong for Apple to disallow or discourage such apps from the App Store. In fact, the
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by goda90 2mo ago
> Who consumes the goods produced by the factories and mines? Not all consumption is good. It can harm health, relationships, etc. And many goods have been ravaged by planned obsolescence and other corner cutting such that we're for
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by goda90 2mo ago
"Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" So many of these things DON'T benefit the public, especially as automation reduces the number of jobs they produce. They mostly benefit the capital holders and they'll take s
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by goda90 2mo ago
AI data centers aren't the source of America's prosperity. In fact many arguments can be made that they will contribute to its loss.
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by goda90 2mo ago
People are going to assume any data center project will have all the worst possible qualities. And a this point I'd say they're justified given how much dishonesty and corruption has been flying around. I don't envy any compa
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by goda90 2mo ago
>An entire SimCity clone based on a different economy like this could be fun. There's this example of such a game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources...
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by goda90 2mo ago
I enjoyed his rant videos about soul sucking landscaping and the ways it could be better with lower maintenance native plants.
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by goda90 2mo ago
The Party was great at using Viewscreen technology to catch thought criminals.
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by goda90 2mo ago
I live someplace with abundant groundwater so my water comes from a well less than a mile away. But millions of people have aqueducts leading to their city providing a significant portion of their water supply.
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by goda90 2mo ago
> People also thought aqueducts were the best way to move water for thousands of years. They still do because they still are? I'm hard pressed to think of a better way to move water than creating a gently sloped channel(this include
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by goda90 2mo ago
Looks like this is based off the TonUINO. As a new father looking to build a card based music player for my kid, I'm surprised how many projects I've found now to make these things: Yaydio ESP32io ESPduino Phoniebox more I can&#x2
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by goda90 2mo ago
Someday that GameCube will break and so will all the others. And someday that PC capable of running open source emulators will also break. And all that will be left is corporation controlled hardware running corporation controlled software.
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by goda90 3mo ago
Someone would complain that without ID verification kids would be able to sneak onto the regular Internet and therefore we should eliminate privacy on the regular Internet, just like they're doing now.
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by goda90 3mo ago
Besides the page header and footer, the post has 0 use of the word "Android", which feels telling of Google's approach these days.
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by goda90 3mo ago
LineageOS is still a thing too.
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by goda90 3mo ago
Spoilers for the movies 'Her' and 'Bladerunner 2049': Both portray a love interest AI hiring a human proxy for intimacy with the protagonist.
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by goda90 3mo ago
My suburb got rid of Flock after enough people complained at a city council meeting. I think more places in our county are following or attempting to follow in our footsteps.
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by goda90 3mo ago
I do have to say that if you're interested in privacy, tap to pay or even a credit card is the opposite of that. Cash would be the way to go for private transactions.
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by goda90 3mo ago
Of coal use, yes. That's what inspired this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by goda90 3mo ago
But what if the work is useful beyond just crunching numbers for the sake of proving it?
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by goda90 3mo ago
How would this network protect itself against spambots? Is there any sort of reputation system or barrier to entry that would be fine for an average user but annoying to bot operators?
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by goda90 3mo ago
Is this really transitioning into another AI company? It's an integration for having a 3rd party AI vibe code plugins for their hardware's interface.
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by goda90 3mo ago
I see quite a few male nurses too, except for in the birthing and family care suites when my wife gave birth. All women across the several days we were in hospital, with the exception of a few male OBs and lab techs.
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by goda90 3mo ago
We should make it the goal as a species. We have the resources and technology. We decide to be limited by economics.
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by goda90 3mo ago
The goal should be to provide every human being with the best care possible. If a system can't handle that, then we need to assess why and make changes.

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