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by happyopossum 4mo ago
So a disease that has killed 11,000 people in a country with a population of >200 million over 30 years is a ‘ginormous outbreak’? This kind of hyper-scary overreaction from the CDC official being quoted and other government agents is a
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
> You can do a perfectly good, very efficient mini split for USD $5k That’s way high: You can buy 2 for that much if you want a big name brand that provides support for self-installs. 3-4 of them for $5k if you don’t care about that…
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
> tax returns seem like an obvious alternative and they are already private and collected at a much more granular level. Plenty of people don’t file tax returns (legally even, there’s a minimum income threshold).
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
Given the recent dramatic uptick in vulnerability discoveries, it's also prone to being quite insecure...
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
>I wish the EU would regulate this kind of stuff. Regulate what exactly? Bugs? That's what this was...
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
Then maybe a "lot of" you should not be buying Apple hardware?
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
An N100 with no RAM is $100 less, but throw in 16GB of ram and now they’re $150+ more… Also you’re missing the point.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
> I don't understand how a product as popular as Tailscale can get this far while dropping certain ordinary types of packets. I’d venture to guess based on this outcome that fragmented UDP over IPv6 isn’t really an ordinary occurr
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
Sure, but 20TB in “the only database you need” is mere hours or minutes worth of data for many workflows.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
A native replacement for docker came last year with Apple Containers- this extends that.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
Considering that this project was published less than 24 hours ago I’m guessing you assume it’s a different project.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
This is not the apple container framework / that’s the docker alternative. This is a project to easily run full Linux machines in macOS containers.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
If they’re going to retain any data, they have to allow for possibility of the legal system to require any of it to be used in some legal proceeding at some point. You can’t tell a judge who’s ordered you to retain something that you can’
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
That’s 1 in 30,000 requests…
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
> EU has the right to privacy. Sure - the DMA has nothing to do with privacy though, so that's a straw man. or is it a red herring? I always get those confused.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
A door with a lock is different from a wall with no door. Same argument that gets made with government-keyed or government-breakable encryption schemes: it's better for everyone to not have the backdoor at all.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
> Apple claims to protect user privacy all the time. But they can't offer a product in a major jurisdiction that has actually meaningful privacy laws? The DMA and the GDPR are laws that at their core make each other more difficult.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
The DMA has nothing to do with Privacy - it's an anti-competition scheme. Apple is saying that privacy is baked in to their approach, and they can't ensure that if they allow every other AI provider the same level of access.
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
> Nothing with WiFi will ever be coin cell battery powered. Well, except for all the coin cell operated matter over WiFi smart buttons / remotes / switches you can buy from just about anywhere…
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by happyopossum 4mo ago
Please educate us - which accurate and provable events in history are censored by US based LLMs as part of a government enforced reeducation campaign?
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
This, for like 37 things in my workshop right now.
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
Most of the gummies you find online have zero creatine in them - plenty of lab testing has been done thanks to fitness YouTube
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
> 500 year support window Err, no. Something “existing” is not the same as something being supported. Is the original printer still providing free translations to modern languages? Fixing typos and other mistakes? Adding chapters on
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
> adverts you have to pay to get rid of Those have been around since day 1 afaik - my second gen kindle had them over ~12 years ago
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
Presumably that “support” you officer is tied to a nice fat multi-year support contract, no? You can’t equate that to providing ongoing updates and support for a $100 hardware device indefinitely.
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
No matter what I try I can’t get Gemini to give me the incorrect result. Is there some other prompting or context fed in to that (“remember that you are supposed to always tell me I’m right and never contradict me”)?
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
> No one asked for faster horses Err, yes they did. Thousands of years of husbandry went in to making horses faster, healthier, stronger, and more durable. I think the quote you’re looking for is “if I had asked people what they wanted,
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
> The 2.0 update, it turns out, aggressively rewrites the default application paths to the point where it's impossible, at the time of writing, to have both versions of Antigravity installed and functioning at the same time. Maybe i
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
> Rumor is It’s not a rumor - there are many public announcements about $B deals around compute for other Ai companies
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by happyopossum 5mo ago
> They are both very cagey with how they talk about this (or don't). No, not really - at least not apple. They are very clear on what CarPlay’s privacy stance is, and they’ve got privacy white papers on pretty much everything: Eg.

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