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by kuschku 1y ago
You can still do surveillance in the same way that east germany used to. Get a warrant, put hidden microphones and cameras into their light switches and ceiling lights. Turn one of their members into a double agent and get them to spy for y
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by kuschku 1y ago
> he was still able to walk and talk normally until emergency services arrived. While I know that's not what you meant, it sounds like he was fine until emergency services decided to teach him a lesson ;)
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by kuschku 1y ago
So I'm assuming this is a tongue-in-cheek comment, and you actually disagree. I'd love to hear why, though.
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by kuschku 1y ago
> This sounds like a contrarian troll question. See the sibling comment regarding my motivations for this question > It's one of the reasons so many of us are obsessed with tools. That's answering another question I never re
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by kuschku 1y ago
> Are you really asking in good faith? I am — I grew up being bullied, and my therapists taught me that I shouldn't even let humans affect me in this way and instead should let it slide and learn to ignore it, or even channel my emo
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by kuschku 1y ago
> If my potato peeler told me "Why bother? Order pizza instead." I'd be obese. But why do you let yourself be influenced so much by others, or in this case, random filler words from mindless machines? You should listen to
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by kuschku 1y ago
But why does this affect your own attitude? Do the suggestions given by your phone's keyboard whenever you type something affect your attitude in the same way? If not, why is ChatGPT then affecting your attitude?
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by kuschku 1y ago
> Correctness is secondary, user satisfaction is primary. And that's where everything is going wrong. We should use technology to further the enlightenment, bring us closer to the truth, even if it is an inconvenient one.
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by kuschku 1y ago
How would a "conversation" with an LLM influence what you decide to do, what you decide to code? It's not like the attitude of your potato peeler is influencing how you cook dinner, so why is this tool so different for you?
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by kuschku 1y ago
Google has to approve the publisher (so Google can ban any developer, also no more apps from countries the US sanctions, e.g. Iran or Venezuela) and only one person can publish the same namespace (so no more fdroid).
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by kuschku 1y ago
> This has changed since May 2025. Talk about inaccuracies ;) It has? I've never paid a subscription charge, and I've never been above that amount.
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by kuschku 1y ago
I'm not sure which bank you're using, but even Sparkasse and Commerzbank have long supported free SEPA ICT (and it's becoming mandatory at the end of the year).
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by kuschku 1y ago
As a reluctant Commerzbank customer, there's some inaccuracies. The amount was 100k€ re: negative interest, and the subscription charge only applies if you're not moving a certain amount of money each month (which is very low, eve
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by kuschku 1y ago
ideal is being shut down, and merged with German GiroGo/PayDirekt and Danish Dankort into Wero, which is what this entire subthread is about.
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by kuschku 1y ago
> Now in 2025 Giro is dead as banks like DKB don't even hand out those cards by default. Mastercard has started to punish banks that support Girocard by default, demanding that banks drop support. This is not an issue with Giro or G
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by kuschku 1y ago
SEPA Instant Credit Transfer allows instant sepa transfers, and soon all transactions will be required to be ict if possible. Banks have APIs you can integrate with, which e.g. KDE's money app used to support in the past. The actual un
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by kuschku 1y ago
That's not even true for physical products. I can give away stuff anonymously at hackspaces, or in many other settings. Identification is only required if I want to sell stuff, at large scale. Google's plan would also utterly de
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by kuschku 1y ago
> Even licenses like the AGPL don't really solve the problem here, which is that there is a coalition of businesses including, say, Google and banks, that via their provision of essential services hold worrisome sway over the pract
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by kuschku 1y ago
There's always been both sides. One creating a foundation of absolutely stable, reliable code, methodically learning from every mistake. This code lives for many decades to come. The other building throwaway projects as fast as possibl
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by kuschku 1y ago
That's why it's recommended to combine a half dose of ibuprofen and a half dose of paracetamol at the same time. (Plus some vitamin C) Together they have higher pain killung effects than each alone, and the side effects are reduce
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by kuschku 1y ago
Tbh, I'm still hoping we can get rid of these ridiculous webusb/bluetooth/etc specs and redirect the funding to libxslt instead.
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by kuschku 1y ago
The userland software, sure. But all kernel modules and drivers need to obey my freedoms for me to be able to ever trust the system again. I'd end up in court if I gave a random game developer root permissions on the same system that I
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by kuschku 1y ago
Re: ads, because that's the only use case where unique views is actually relevant.
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by kuschku 1y ago
So here's what you'd do if you wanted to have actual metrics. 1. Analyze which groups of users you've got, and how large they are 2. For each recorded metric, categorize it into the appropriate group 3. Weight each set of met
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by kuschku 1y ago
The core freedoms are about allowing anyone to run, inspect, understand and modify software. Even if the game itself doesn't grant me that freedom, my OS and drivers should not prevent me from attaching a debugger to the game without i
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by kuschku 1y ago
I'm arguing that such decisions shouldn't be taken based on flawed metrics, and here you demand I produce my own flawed metrics to "prove" my point. This isn't really leading anywhere.
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by kuschku 1y ago
Have you considered that the only users who access XML files might be a) at work (where you won't get telemetry) or b) techies, who also disable metrics? You can't just use the metrics of "what do people who don't know h
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by kuschku 1y ago
By that same argument, we could deprecate PDF support, as almost every PDF content on the web has an equivalent and emphasized HTML version. Or we could deprecate support for .txt and .xml in the browser itself, for the same reasons. We obv
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by kuschku 1y ago
That's why anticheats demand they are loaded first, and then intercept the loading of later drivers. Which obviously causes all kinds of issues, and violates both freedoms 0 and 1 https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fre
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by kuschku 1y ago
How is it a fair response? Isn't it desirable to have a format that can be used by machines and humans at the same time? XSLT accomplishes what json-ld and semantic html never managed.

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