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by laurent92 5y ago
It’s astonishing to me that one can claim that any Linux-on-PC is beautiful, polished and easy to use. I have bought a Dell XPS for an employee, which is supposed to be the best mass-market laptop before System76s which are way more expensi
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Another huge problem is that companies are handling out IPv6 by bulks of /128 subnets per machine, and many experts encourage “one IP per service on the machine”, adding “it’s good for security since it’s harder to scan all ports of al
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by laurent92 5y ago
I didn’t want to dive into how the Congress invasion could be an artifact of enemies successfully mounting us against each other.
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I think Pakistan and ultimately Russia funds them? I’m not well-versed, it’s only my understanding.
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There aren’t many ways to cope with this realization. The tipping point was Colin Powell’s “definitive proof” at the UN Counsel that Irak had WMD. As long as such criminals are free, we are not. Citizen may even too aware of this, as half m
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by laurent92 5y ago
Who cares, the NCMEC database is certainly full of unreviewed material, given even their employees can’t automatically have access to it. For any dystopian state, the goal is to have as many false positives as possible in the NCMEC database
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But if they find a few which have a high correlation, they will eagerly upload them to Apple’s police service and have them viewed by the entire floor. Also, the matches are supposedly only to actual babyporn pictures. We have 0% way to ver
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by laurent92 5y ago
On my startup’s wall, I have the top cringy slogans of my customers. In the middle sits: “We advance humanity.” I guess the message is, don’t take yourself too seriously, most of where companies succeed is happenstance. It still takes a mom
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“Ritual statistical magic” is even more genius: Future civilizations will look down on us for believing that statistics were part of science, not not seeing the hand of the cleric in making them up, just like we look down on middle ages for
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by laurent92 5y ago
> it is possible that had no-one cried about this change, The “UK porn filter” has already been extended to all sorts of “« extremism online »” (to no effect in the capital of knife attacks, it seems — as usual invasive police rights do
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by laurent92 5y ago
Should we consider the phone: - as part of the home? - as part of the human body? In either cases we’re allowed to do crime at home as long as no-one knows it.
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That’s true, the brain uses a VM to run maths or science, only the best scientists succeed at understanding some of the concepts natively. Same for music: A student runs the music sheet in a VM, and progressively JIT makes the movements nat
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Apart from acting as a honeypot for dumb people who want to buy drugs on thedarkweb.online?
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Some trolls also do this for political reasons. https://antifa.com used to redirect to Biden’s website, as if he owned Antifa, but this is a troll. https://vamostovictory.com redirects to a website of Trump flailing
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by laurent92 5y ago
I think it’s a good one. The joke is complete because everyone is there too: thomasfromaccounting@yomamashouse.com, etc.
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by laurent92 5y ago
In my company (a famous company which builds trucks) they introduced those bullshit happiness surveys during Covid. So we coordinated so that the average of our marks were 1, 3, 4, 10, 5, 5, 10, 4, 3, 1, which is a Batman graph. Fortunately
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by laurent92 5y ago
All watchers of Clara Morgan were watching what is legally categorized as “child porn” (=“any depiction of an individual under 18). And since “depiction” includes drawing, any consumer of Hentai (s. manga) is hosting what passes legally a
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by laurent92 5y ago
Backup is a good point: - Apple: “Backup your phone to iCloud, it will be safe there.” - 5 minutes later: “We’ve wiped your account because of a photos of (porn actor here) which is not CP but technically minor at the time she filmed.” -
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And controlled burns, like the Aboriginals did in Australia until they were forbidden 10 years ago.
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by laurent92 5y ago
I think there are two categories: Counter arguments and sarcasm. - It’s easy to filter counter-argument using vocabulary. - And I think it would be possible to filter sarcasm by cutting off the little insidious nuances, because that’s the o
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by laurent92 5y ago
> I know of several individuals who were able to complete their Master’s thesis utilizing… Doesn’t it stay published forever? Might be a shame for the someone during their career. On the other hand, even a chapter of Mein Kampf was accep
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The good thing about data-driven management is, they have the figures! Meanwhile in the growth-hacking section, they’ll raise an project proving that they could get 40% more users if they had a single specific button, if only these were not
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Ah, vapordecisionware. But that might be confused with regular management.
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by laurent92 5y ago
The Wap, or even the Blackberry, didn’t have an impact on society. It just enabled a few more usecases for the owner but not for the group - like carrying your work with you. The iPhone 2007, and moreso in 2010, was an entire leap forward:
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The previous Kondratiev cycles were: - Steam engine (1825) - Electrical engineering and chemistry (1913) - Automobile (1950) - Computers… and even that could be split between the database era (1980), the web era (2000), and the AI era (2030
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I’m more impressed that the first smartphone is only 14 years old and it has changed so much to our lives: - First, it developed the usage of superficial socialization (lifestyle show-off, body photos, up to lewd behaviors or prostitution,
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The supposed advantage of commercial archiving is duration, where as self-hosted tends to depend on the author; But we could create solutions where, if works are being used by clients (hospitals, research), the client would be in charge of
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Funny. The way I imagine NSA’s and FBI’s secret cooperation with Google is exactly this: Provide a search API that gives access to anything.
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Counterpoint: Global warming can make most of Russian inhabitable, enable farming on vast regions, and the Northern Route of merchandise through the poles can make them a central actor in international commerce. Meanwhile “every country has
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Peace is the success of war. Failure of war is anarchism and more war.

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