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by janice1999 3y ago
The article that loads under it for me is about a Golden Gate Bridge jump survivor who immediately regretted their decision. > Hines climbed on to the Golden Gate Bridge after feeling 'the most horrid, emotional, turmoil' he&#x
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> You cannot be angry at them for giving you exactly what you want. What they want and were sold is a working fuse... which this is not. If I starting calling myself a medical doctor and advertising cheap surgery I would hope someone wou
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by janice1999 3y ago
Louis is great. I really appreciate his candor. I'm always amused at how petty trillion dollar companies can be. Amazon killed his 7yr old affiliate account days after his first video critical of them. [0] [0] https://www.yo
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> There is no chance of that toothpaste going back in the tube. I disagree - we've been here before. The same could be said of many technologies, like cheap music recording/manufacture. You can record an artist once and make re
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> From its establishment in 1966 to its demise in the early 1980s, the Guardian's Office (GO) of the Church of Scientology carried out numerous covert operations and programs against a range of perceived opponents of Scientology in
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Before that it was a mobile OS that failed to gain traction.
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I wonder how many generations before those CPUs get replaced by a Chinese native competitor. I'm guessing the Qualcomm infotaintment processors will be replaced soon.
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Being a military dictatorship for such a long time probably helps. Or being a "democracy" where the leader is the daughter of the former military dictator but is secretly controlled by a cult channeling her dead father while consp
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> The output is still there for anyone else to train on if they want. Legal arguments aside, the goldrush era of data scraping is over. Major sources of content like Reddit and Twitter have killed APIs, added defenses and updated EULAs t
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> For the patient, this condition first manifests as pops of light or dark spots, known as floaters, which dance across their vision like fireflies Flashing light/dark spots are a sign of retinal detachment. Floaters are something d
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Chinese Teslas might be higher quality since China has forced Tesla to do multiple recalls for door faults, suspension failures and accelerator problems, including for issues Tesla straight forwardly lied about to customers and regulators i
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The charge against them is very clear. The feature is changing the performance which enabled excess emissions. Whether is it software or hardware does not really matter. > Today, the Justice Department reached an initial agreement with
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> is there any reasonable way that could possibly be true? No. Automotive development is cost and time sensitive while also having a large regulatory compliance overhead. Every fraction of a cent matters. Every man hour spent on developm
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It's definitely not what it was intended for. I wonder how useful it is for drones considering its low datarate (5.5kb/s or lower).
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It also ignores the probability that Instagram is artificially promoting some topics and censoring others. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/meta-instagram-palestine-i... [1] https://www.bbc.co
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Chrome OS and Android are surveillance/data capture platforms designed to funnel data to an advertising giant, including being caught secretly sending location data against users wishes more than once.
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Last reply Oct 2021 unfortunately: https://nitter.net/webshitweekly/status/1450563491069247489
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> "obstacles to progress" like safety regulation and sustainability concerns. If we were a bit more cynical perhaps we would more accurately call those "obstacles to unconstrained profit and power".
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I disagree. As a developer I think breaking literally decades old workflows for users without notice or any level of concern is a bad thing. For a program with users so reliant on muscle memory, I think the impact is far worse.
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Good recommendations. I recently switched from osmand to Organic maps [0]. FairEmail is also great. (I bought the Pro version). [1]. I also recommend AntennaPod (Podcasts), andOTP (2FA), KOReader (e-book reader), BinaryEye (QR codes etc) an
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by janice1999 3y ago
My stack: LineageOS (or variant) + F-Droid (open source Email, Calendar, Notes, File-Sync, Cameras, E-Reader, VPN, adblocking software) + Firefox Mobile (Extensions, ad-blocking)
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> running CodeBooga 34b @ 4bit on my work laptop. How much RAM or VRAM does that require?
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Call me a bleeding heart but child labor is an 'actual' problem. You can keep destructing societal issues until you reinvent the universe from scratch. It may be difficult to solve global poverty but it's not a lot to ask ext
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They've even made the scanning tool free and runnable from a USB drive. Very much appreciated.
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This is absurd and absolutely detached from reality. Not one person on the island of Ireland is going to accept either a timezone border between Ireland and Northern Ireland or between Northern Ireland and Britain. Unsurprisingly not one ex