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This is really important. Loss of all freedom by a thousand cuts. A great reason to avoid tech giants (yeah, just try to do so). Once again, Wilhoit's Law: [0] Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There mu
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First post, links to right here. Definition of Recursion: See Recursion.
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Liberty As Resistance. Forgive me for extensive quoting (and skipping to the end) but it rings a bell. > In closing, here’s a thought to consider. It’s something I’ve learned during my adult life. There are those who want to take from y
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I guess that explains the quality of the latest offerings. My spotlight index disappeared, people report time machine broken ... the list goes on. And leader Cook is locked onto a certain political figure who can best be described as Mis-An
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Even the mild-mannered Chuck Schumer said: "Does Donald Trump need a copy of the Constitution? What he is saying is outlandishly illegal." Yes, it's totally unconstitutional. OTOH, his friends in the judiciary have systematic
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It's doable. California Governor signs key artificial intelligence transparency bill into law [0] Quote: What AB 853 does Last year, SB 942 was enacted to ensure provenance information will be embedded into AI-generated content that wi
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I'd vote for Firefox blocking all AI-generated content. IMO, hard to do, though that would streamline browsing and up the quality of it. Cheers.
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Will someone teach AI about paragraph breaks? I am SURE that every LLM has digested "Elements of Style" by now. [0][1] (PDFs) [0] https://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/...
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I can see how the USB lock would stop Cellebrite, and perhaps that's all that CART had available, but I didn't see the other features as meaningful to a device with physical access. Those features are definitely useful for interne
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About Lockdown Mode [0] > Lockdown Mode helps protect devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks. > What is Lockdown Mode? > Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very f
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Sentence Splitter. https://sentencesplitter.com/ I looked for a paragraph splitter, but it's harder to find and some writing is just impossible. I was briefly a manager/director and I asked my people to communicat
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Bill Gates issues FURIOUS response to Epstein files claim he slept with Russian 'girls' and caught STD... and suggests late pedophile was desperate to be his friend [0] > In a rare statement that clearly conveys the depths of h
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This gives a timeline. https://archive.is/20260130162836/https://www.nytimes.com/li...
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When I was the I.T. guy, my users would ask me to "fix the internet", so I checked everything on our end, up to the ISP, and if that was OK, just waited it out. Two things accounted for all the outages we experienced. Routers and
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This begs the question "Why go to college at all?" Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code [0] Sign up for a "Prompt Engineering" curriculum for much less. [1] [0] https://news.
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> ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually > so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight The microwave th
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The law is asymmetrical. The ruling power decides whom it applies to and whom it doesn't. Wilhoit's law: [0] > Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: > There must be in-groups whom the law protects but doe
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> The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board (SASB), which sets the Clock, called for urgent action to limit nuclear arsenals, create international guidelines on the use of AI, and form multilateral agreements to
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Finite and Infinite Games, by James Carse [0][1] First Chapter: There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of c
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When has he ever told the truth? His statements are 100% projection.
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That's impressive and good luck. So sorry your dad is no longer with us. I had an Altair and disk drives which I loaned to a friend for safe keeping, no doubt in a landfill long ago. But I still have the IMSAI, less disk drives, and bo
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My brother, the least techie person on earth, got tired of Windows updates trashing his drivers, which required reinstallation every time. He settled on a Dell desktop with Ubuntu, supported, (available online only) and after some questions
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A web search turned up incidents of dildo protests at UTexas and in Oregon. Not Minnesota. [0] Could this actually be fiction? One report I found was quite the opposite: ICE Goons Tear Down Pro-Immigration Banner and Leave Sex Toy on Displa
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Henry Hill: As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybo
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What about Henry Hill? (Goodfellas) Probably applies to “made men” And that’s no guarantee. Look at Billy Batts.
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More than one ever wanted to know. Wikipedia reviews a book. "IBM and the Holocaust" [0] It's just a book review, but it explains what went down for those who don't know. In a word: reprehensible. Those Hollerith cards w
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Wouldn't a CEO be the easiest person to replace with AI? And think of the immense savings! No need to reward failure. Reprogram. When I was a techie who shifted over to sales engineer, I read a ton of "MBA" books. There'
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Not that I know the details, but wasn't it easier to join the Mafia? Just the names and addresses of your folks in the old country (as "collateral") The analogy is kind of striking, when you think about it.
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Same story at rsn. https://www.rsn.org/001/how-iran-crushed-a-citizen-uprising-... See also. Iran's uprising has been crushed. What comes next? https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/01/19&#x2F

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