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by latexr 4mo ago
> They're gonna make it like iOS precisely because of rulings like this. And then what? It’s not like iOS is exempt from the rules. See all the trouble they’re having with the DMA.
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Humanity has lived for thousands of years without cloud and AI services. We can definitely live without those. In fact, considering the damage that is being done to the environment (and thus ourselves) in name of those services, we’d very l
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> The market rewards being right in a way that no argument ever will. But it doesn’t. We don’t live in a meritocracy. You could have the best product in its category while selling very little, while your competitor which is a multination
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The reversal of the Flynn effect is more likely explained by other factors such as the explosion of social media, endless addictive entertainment, and all the attention manipulation that comes with it. Conception didn’t change that much at
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by latexr 4mo ago
> soup opera Slight note, it’s soap opera. They got that name because the original sponsors were soap manufacturers.
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I agree with the second part, but I’m not convinced cloning those people would lead to other copies of them (not that I’m advocating for it, either). Your environment/upbringing/opportunities shape a lot of who you become. Musk fa
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What? IVF doesn’t mean that the human is gestated in a glass tube like some 80s sci-fi, the pregnancy and birth still have to occur, carried out by a human.
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> A choice to make visual entertainment and beauty a priority over pure function. Except that (in my view, which is shared by many others though of course not universal) Liquid Glass is ugly as sin. Even if it worked properly I’d still r
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Cepis Warns EU Against "Backdoor" Chat Monitoring in Child Protection Debate(cepis.org)
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It’s important to understand this is not just a rando on the internet. This is a former Member of the European Parliament who has been criticising and sharing developments on Chat Control for years. The post isn’t made in a vacuum, but made
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> I suppose this is the nature of online forums - that those who disagree will take the time to reply but those who agree rarely do. Why would those who agree “take the time to reply”? To say what? “This”? “Agreed”? “This guy knows it”?
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That feels backwards. > it's usually better off in the long run to shove the new process down group B's throat. > (…) the "Group B" employee (…) is more conscientious and reliable than anyone else we've ever h
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Even assuming that was genuinely how luck works, the conclusion does not follow from the premise because it’s obvious not everyone “starts with” the same amount of luck to spend.
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This feels so wrong. If it were paid I’d call it shamelessly exploitative. A “soulmate” is not an imaginary person that you find physically attractive, it’s supposed to be someone real that you share a deep connection with. https:/&#x
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EU countries move to revive temporary message-scanning regime(euronews.com)
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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned from Site for 'Canvassing'(404media.co)
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Oh, sure sure, I am in agreement with you. In no way do I believe this to be the exclusive responsibility of the receiving side. I’m usually competent at detecting this and don’t see why you’d interpret the previous comment as being patroni
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> you just seem to have a very terse way of writing that kind of caught me off guard. Fair. > That initial question felt a bit leading How would you have phrased it? I’m genuinely asking. > and there’s a bit of a hostile tone comin
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> Wouldn’t you say that’s way better than the status quo with windows/macOS? I would say it’s irrelevant to the conversation. I wasn’t throwing shade or criticising your approach, I was making an honest question to understand your a
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> I’m here to remind the thousands of readers that they are not alone. You made an account to “remind people” they have support in… Doing the easy thing… Which is doing nothing? I fail to see who needs that. > The vast majority (99%?)
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I sure hope they speak all of them before they die. Bit hard to understand a corpse.
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> who really enjoys being at an airport? Not every airport is a huge commercial building with hundreds of people (also, you wouldn’t visit one of those to parachute jump). Some are akin to cozy shacks without a lot of traffic where you’r
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by latexr 4mo ago
> I have real control over now and can audit. > Keep in mind I am not a coder/engineer How do you control and audit something you don’t understand? What specific steps are you taking?
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> I prefer easy. Clearly you don’t feel that strongly about it. You know what would’ve been easier than making an account just to post that comment? Not doing that. Have you also stopped working, paying your bills, showering, eating, int
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When I looked at the title I was certain this was going to be satire. But then I read it and it looks to be serious. This is just a spam ad for a ridiculous proposition. There’s a reason LinkedIn posts are relentlessly mocked, and you’re no
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Apple Raises Refurbished Mac and iPad Prices After New Product Hikes(macrumors.com)
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https://archive.ph/20260625131128/https://www.theatlantic.co...
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The thought experiment falls apart immediately by the mere fact that—even given all the other fantastical abilities such as perfect memory and impossible lifespan—you can still only answer one question at a time. As has been repeated ad nau
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> Seeing this, can we really say that AI is always bad? Is anyone arguing “AI is always bad”? I think the argument is clearly “the negatives outweigh the positives”.
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> So when AI enters writing, a deeper question appears: does an article written with AI still belong to me? I find that to be an uninteresting, shallow question. Yes, it “belongs” to you in the sense you are technically allowed to do wit

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