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by midtake 8mo ago
You are probably at least 30 years old and you have forgotten how disruptive social media is for young people. We are not talking about a degradation of a high trust society here. With social media, we are talking about kids doing the bare
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by midtake 8mo ago
Terrestrial wireless internet solutions are stupid. With a satellite you can be anywhere with line of sight to the southern sky and receive signal. With some shitty tower you're still constrained to your location just as you would be w
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by midtake 8mo ago
What a load of crock! People have agency. Free will. So what if McDonalds puts out a cool new toy in their adult happy meal or some special sauce loaded with glutamates. Fuck em! Say that to them right now, in your head or out loud: fuck em
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by midtake 8mo ago
Jia Tan and his 40 sockpuppets are undoubtedly trying.
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by midtake 8mo ago
It uses Curve25519 for key exchange and ChaCha20-Poly1305 for symmetric encryption. There aren't many hardware primitives that would speed it up, although AVX2 and similar would help process ChaCha20.
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by midtake 8mo ago
Duolingo does this, but only for a few languages and it needs some improvement.
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by midtake 8mo ago
Yes. That is far more harmonious with nature than using machines of industry to enslave animal species and slaughter them on profit-driven schedules. Don't get me wrong, I eat meat, but I also understand that the grand majority of fell
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by midtake 8mo ago
Just use milk bro
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by midtake 8mo ago
Most middle managers will either not require this, or require it but find ways to themselves avoid being tagged as logging into their home wifi. The prevailing culture around middle-management is one of inefficiency and rule avoidance. Midd
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by midtake 8mo ago
Absolutely based. Middle managers just get in the way. Middle management is the quintessential bullshit job. The advent of AI should be making deeper cuts in management areas than in engineering.
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by midtake 8mo ago
36,500 seems awfully high. Did they just stand there? Those are numbers you'd see in a war, not a 2-day crackdown on protestors with small arms.
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by midtake 8mo ago
There are ways to use AirTags that are true stalking methods and these aren't currently mitigated by Apple. If anything this is a false sense of security. Nerfing their product seems more like corporate CYA than concern for public safe
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by midtake 9mo ago
What do you mean? This is very much true. We are economically compelled to buy food from supermarkets, for instance, because hunting and fishing have become regulated, niche activities. Compared to someone from the 1600s who could scoop a s
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by midtake 9mo ago
Why 6 day and not 8? - 8 is a lucky number and a power of 2 - 8 lets me refresh weekly and have a fixed day of the week to check whether there was some API 429 timeout - 6 is the value of every digit in the number of the beast - I just don&
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by midtake 9mo ago
I just canceled Plus.
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by midtake 10mo ago
Why shouldn't Apple be able to charge whatever the fuck they want on their own platform, while users of their platform can? Now Sweeney can sell vbux to kids and Apple has to just grin and bear it?
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by midtake 11mo ago
You use multiple keys, if you need a key usable across different systems then buy a yubikey.
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by midtake 11mo ago
Running Linux directly on ARM is the dream, but this looks slow. So for now I'm stuck with UTM VM's on the Mac.
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by midtake 11mo ago
What a trendy article, in tune with our recently linear-algebraic turn in how we see language thanks to LLM's. But I think this exposes an even greater problem, where words thought to be direct translations will always drift in vector
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by midtake 11mo ago
I'm tired of software getting out of its lane. For an OS, I just want it to run shit. For a browser, load web shit. Why does it need to do AI? Can Firefox do the bare minimum? It doesn't even have dark mode, which Chrome has had f
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by midtake 11mo ago
Worst of all is that it's polyester, basically a piece of plastic. I hope this product fails just because of that.
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by midtake 1y ago
Nice try. Maybe when Democrats decide to uphold their own values and defend the working class, people will come back in from the cold. Until then, burning it all down is perfectly understandable. Betrayal stings and vengeance sometimes take
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by midtake 1y ago
Jack Parsons was literally a genius though. Wernher von Braun's dad being Catholic is also not silly.
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by midtake 1y ago
I'm more interested in how Apple makes this determination than I am about the drama between this dev and his former employer.
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by midtake 1y ago
I assumed it was to update your sleep stats in health.
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by midtake 1y ago
Calling political newcomers populist is stupid. "Ah this challenger didn't come with the blessing of the DNC and other corporate sponsors, it must be a populist!" This article is talking about protectionism not populism. It i
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by midtake 1y ago
There are many public clouds and VPS providers out there. Who the fuck are these experts? The real issue is that business pricks will cut costs and single-homing in a single availability zone will be the only workable solution. On top of th
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by midtake 1y ago
Reddit is worthless now, and posting about your tech infrastructure on reddit is a security and opsec lapse. My workplace has reddit blocked at the edge. I would trust X more than reddit, and that is with X having active honeypot accounts (
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by midtake 1y ago
Most apps are nagware, that is not a Duolingo issue. The ads are for converting users to paid subscribers, not just "ads." I don't see your point at all.
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by midtake 1y ago
I hate this take. Duolingo users understand fully, once they clear their language's Section 3 or higher, that they have a long road ahead. The point of Duolingo is to be a hook into language learning, not a complete replacement. It sho

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