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931.
by gruez 6mo ago
>if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota Source? Can bluetooth devices do that without the user's knowledge?
932.
by gruez 6mo ago
>People want affordable housing. Luxury condos are clearly Not That Luxury condos increase supply, driving down the price of all housing. It's economics 101. >You're actually saying that people want affordable food, but obje
933.
by gruez 6mo ago
Because in practice that just means nothing gets built at all. It's like having a food shortage but not wanting to buy/grow more food unless it's fair trade, organic, permaculture certified, non-gmo, certified kosher/hal
934.
by gruez 6mo ago
Adding link tax doesn't change any of that.
935.
by gruez 6mo ago
>I don't think it's the demographics that have changed, but the state of the internet, and the awareness that big tech's stranglehold over our media is a problem. The less charitable interpretation is that interest groups
936.
by gruez 6mo ago
>and we know the open models are closing the gap (~6 months behind according to the benchmarks). Looking at just the benchmarks might be misleading: https://x.com/scaling01/status/2050616057191072161
937.
by gruez 6mo ago
>when the competition is.. near-equivalent-capability DeepSeek/Qwen/Llama on a $1k GPU with a break-even of 5 months of subscription costs Lol no. Chinese AIs are definitely not "near-equivalent-capability". The empir
938.
by gruez 6mo ago
>It's worse than hard drives using 1000 vs 1024. So like SSDs? If you fill them up near 100%, performance tanks.
939.
by gruez 6mo ago
>I was sent a phone with a defective modem that they refused to replace To be fair, how would they even verify this? Unless it's outright broken (eg. no cell reception), someone with a "defective modem" is basically indist
940.
by gruez 6mo ago
There are various localities that add recycling fees to electronics. They're on the order of 1% of the purchase price, so it's unlikely to make a difference in the repair vs replace calculation.
941.
by gruez 6mo ago
>It means we're doing less with more Labor is an input too. Fixing something in a way that saves some materials, but requires hours of skilled labor and specialized equipment doesn't straightforwardly mean you're saving ov
942.
by gruez 6mo ago
>the cost of (not) utilizing garbage is externalized No, it's the exact opposite, because the consumer is on the hook for the purchase price as well as any repair costs.
943.
by gruez 6mo ago
So if reddit is more left than you are, it's "manufactured controlled opposition which is designed to look crazier than unchecked capitalism", and I guess if it's less left than you are, then they're a bunch of DINO
944.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Reddit is heavily botted, including by capital interests. Is that why /r/all is consistently anti-capitalism and anti-business?
945.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Maybe it was a poor financial decision on their part, but he took advantage of those people for his own profit, when he didn't even really need the money. Your own article contradicts your narrative that Jackson was somehow doing i
946.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Michael Jackson did this with concert tickets, sort of. You had to pay hundreds of dollars for the chance to buy a ticket to his mega tour, to be refunded if you didn't manage to get one. People send their money in and have to wait
947.
by gruez 6mo ago
> it's always been black-letter law that if I misappropriate $1,000 from you, put it on red 27, and turn it into $36,000, I owe you all $36,000. Only if you "stole", and only if you get caught. If you asked $1,000 for an &
948.
by gruez 6mo ago
>But then again this dude shits himself on live TV [...] source?
949.
by gruez 6mo ago
So if your kid downloaded a shady app, and it turned out that app had some residential VPN SDK, are you on the hook too? Does it stop at DDoS attacks? If it turned out they were scraping linkedin, can they sue you for a thousands of dollars
950.
by gruez 6mo ago
>I've tried reporting them to ICANN and never received a response. So ICANN is complicit too? After all, if we adopt your interpretation, in some way ICANN is also turning an blind eye, both to what cloudflare is supposedly doing an
951.
by gruez 6mo ago
>They protect (from legal consequence or even discovery) the attackers and host them on their infrastructure so they're untouchable Victims can't file a subpoena to get account details?
952.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Curtailing that freedom should be a measure of last resort. This just feels like it turns into a cudgel against whatever groups you hate. Bad police unions? Boo! Let's ban them! Bad teacher unions? Free association is protected by
953.
by gruez 6mo ago
Sure, that makes the case for reform stronger for police unions, but why should bad union behavior (ie. protecting criminal or incompetent members) be tolerated at all?
954.
by gruez 6mo ago
That's seemingly contradicted, or at least cast in doubt by your own article: >The Buffalo police union, the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association, was angered by the suspensions of the two officers, and it retaliated on June 5 by w
955.
by gruez 6mo ago
>Recently a Massachusetts trooper who engaged in railroading a fabricated suspect was exposed for sending extreme racist, sexist, antisemitic texts to fellow troopers. But the names of those troopers and their own behavior remains opaque
956.
by gruez 6mo ago
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5724#section-2
957.
by gruez 6mo ago
>* If you use SSH to copy a secret such as an API key to the server, then the attacker still knows the API key. That's much harder to pull off though, because you need to replicate the environment close enough so that the victim doe
958.
by gruez 6mo ago
I was about to downvote this for being obviously false, but after some research this does appear to be true, because ssh uses some channel binding mechanism to prevent your public key authentication from being replayed/reused by the &q
959.
by gruez 6mo ago
Point is, nobody is going to be like "wow, chrome is eating up 4GB of my disk space? I totally trust it now!"
960.
by gruez 6mo ago
>You pay 4GB for the illusion of privacy. How's this conspiracy supposed to work? A technical audience who cares about privacy aren't going to be placated by 4GB sitting on their disk. They're going to want some sort of an

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