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by k310 1y ago
If You Let Your Kid Use Sora, You're A Bad Parent --- AI Slop Will Raise Your Kids If You Don't https://www.theindex.media/p/if-you-let-your-kid-use-sora-yo... Saw this on HN. https://news.ycombina
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by k310 1y ago
Did you see the Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street"? Putin would be very happy with a US that is basically under armed mob rule. He doesn't need to invade, and only has had to buy a few influential pe
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by k310 1y ago
When HASN'T hiring been broken? I looked back and found that networking was my main source of interviews, and jobs, if you exclude a certain fruit company, in my career. Employers just found a new failure mode, and I see no improvement
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by k310 1y ago
Behind all the smoke and pyrotechnics: > Although many on the right, including Musk, have styled themselves as valiant defenders of free speech, their actions expose them as opposite: only willing to defend speech they find agreeable, wh
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by k310 1y ago
While extolling the virtues of Photoshop ... > I work for Adobe. These views are my own. I'd like to see the same virtues attributed, where appropriate, to FOSS, such as GIMP, no subscription needed. Or I'll do so in a reply, t
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by k310 1y ago
> an “open source knowledge repository” available to the public “with no limits on use.” If "use" includes write access, fasten seat belts.
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by k310 1y ago
> My list features only webrings that have active members and which are actively maintained by their admins. It looks like the criteria above implies https. AFAICT, browsers either block or put up scary warnings on http sites, effectivel
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by k310 1y ago
For real "journaling" it's pen and paper. One dated journal [0] and one "idea file" I post a lot and on both desktop and phone/ipad, so the "no thinking needed" route is Apple Notes, and I just spent
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by k310 1y ago
There has been a rodent infestation in California's Central Valley (and the foothills, don't ask me how I know). The South Bay is far from the Central Valley, though. Maybe it's more widespread than we thought. https:/
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by k310 1y ago
It goes very deep. Quite simply, the act of taking (money, land, benefits, lives) comes quickly, like the second law of thermodynamics on steroids. Advance planning, collusion, and deception ("You'll own the liberals if you cut ou
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by k310 1y ago
Readability is paramount. Websites and now user interfaces trash it. The ONLY reason my iPhone is usable is the fact that I am very nearsighted and just take my glasses off, and at my age, I will probably get 20/20 distant-only vision
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by k310 1y ago
Every Accusation is a Confession.
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by k310 1y ago
You'll be glad to know that a great deal of that money goes to Trump, and in particular his new ballroom. https://archive.ph/3hytw#selection-717.0-717.315 >The vast majority of YouTube’s settlement payment — $22 mil
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by k310 1y ago
https://archive.ph/3hytw#selection-717.0-717.315 >The vast majority of YouTube’s settlement payment — $22 million — will go to Mr. Trump, according to the filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Califo
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by k310 1y ago
https://archive.ph/3hytw#selection-717.0-717.315 >The vast majority of YouTube’s settlement payment — $22 million — will go to Mr. Trump, according to the filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Califo
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by k310 1y ago
Who else is old enough to remember the (deceased) party of laissez faire? Every assault seems curable by some "favor". Government by grift.
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by k310 1y ago
Advice at the end of the post. See if you can benefit from my crazy quilt career. When I was in my 20’s, I started out in grad school, but a physics course overwhelmed me. That so happened to be draft era, and my lucky number was 17, so I s
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by k310 1y ago
I am having trouble with archive sites today. Syndicated at MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-new-front-opens-betw...
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by k310 1y ago
> Craft the Perfect Next Line — Keep the Conversation Flowing.Whether it’s Tinder, Bumble, or Hinge — never run out of flirty, funny, or clever replies. But what if the other person is also using AI replies? A nice business model here? C
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by k310 1y ago
1. Tails [0] 2. Sneakernet. For friends who have only a USB slot. 3. Backing up encrypted password vaults. 4. Just plain sharing 50MB photos. See (2) [0] https://tails.net/
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by k310 1y ago
We don't know which other extremely powerful people would go down as well. But the sheer desperation and increasingly spectacular distractions indicate a massive power collapse. Vance and his crypto bros Thiel and Musk do not have the
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by k310 1y ago
What a change from the stories of rich folks snapping up bunkers for the zombie apocalypse! Survivors of nuclear annihilation will have all the data in the (former) world and "time enough at last" to use it. For what? I can't
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by k310 1y ago
Epstein.
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by k310 1y ago
That, I can't say. I was at the commisioning of the Coast Guard R&D Center in Groton, 50+ years ago, and it moved across the river to a big facility in New London. Here is the place to look for research. I did look up the R&D c
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by k310 1y ago
They serve a purpose, for all those dollars!! They did research when I served, a mere 50 years ago! These days, as part of DHS, not DOT, I can imagine that research is a dirty word compared to "projecting national interests" and t
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by k310 1y ago
NSF is. The Coast Guard has icebreakers and does research. I knew several buddies who did so, though the MST (Marine Science Technician) rating seems to focus more on security these days. The "old guard" My, how things change. A n
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by k310 1y ago
If there's no big problem (there isn't) then create one or goad one. Politics 101.
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by k310 1y ago
But they sank our ship!!! Wait, it was their ship. Sorry. Any pretense for offense. Next up, any nation that exports drugs. Or acetaminophen.
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by k310 1y ago
For me, without HN as an aggregator (now, a filter/curator) it is less than useless. Time to re-vision or reinvent or circumvent.
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by k310 1y ago
I believe it very likely that some extremely well known people are in there, and whom politicians are desperate to defend, if not themselves. The problem is that Epstein loved to hang around celebrities who presumably had no interest in his

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