mingus88

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by mingus88 7mo ago
Have you had much luck with that in real life? Even before LLMs we had a misinformation problem, and people just believe what they want to believe. “Well, it’s exactly the kind of thing they would do” when you point out that, in fact, it di
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by mingus88 7mo ago
Amazon US has list price for QC Ultra 2 at $449 and selling for 5% off at $425 https://a.co/d/0jlMl9RC I see the QC Ultra (first edition) for $299 USD
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by mingus88 7mo ago
Sony HH-1000XM6 are $500 Bose QC Ultra are $450 That is the market for premium BT headphones. There are way more expensive headphones out there. But yeah it is notable that the Neo is cutting the legs out of the lower end laptop market to t
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by mingus88 7mo ago
“Chargeback policy” is such an odd way of looking at this. A chargeback is a mechanism to remedy exactly this situation. The user was charged for a service they never received. They didn't even want the service. It’s not like they kept
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by mingus88 7mo ago
I love that app. They have Dolby atmos mixes which seem like overkill but I was completely floored putting on a double bass work and being completely immersed in the center of the sound. Obviously great for large ensembles but surprisingly
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by mingus88 7mo ago
There is a straight line from Eisenhower’s farewell speech about the perils of the military industrial complex to where we are right now. Read that speech. Read “War is a racket” by Smedly Butler. Do you think it’s a good thing that Palanti
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by mingus88 7mo ago
Are you truly locked in? I still have a kindle 4 from 2011 that works fine. If you have a lot of Amazon only ebooks, there’s nothing stopping you from keeping an old device for those. I switched to a Kobo and have zero regrets. It has overd
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by mingus88 7mo ago
Bookshop.org will also pair with local book stores and share some profits. Win-win It’s ironic that in the 90s, we were warning about large retailers like Barnes and Noble pushing out smaller shops. Now we’re nostalgic for that experience a
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by mingus88 7mo ago
I think the answer is to retreat to networks where there is no profit motive The internet was a utopia back when corporations weren’t even aware that they could register a domain name Social media and consolidation of all traffic into a few
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by mingus88 7mo ago
It is fraud. However, one thing has become crystal clear lately is that laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and able to enforce them. And further, scamming people in the context of sex has always been easy bec
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by mingus88 7mo ago
Also phones are network devices on a carrier network. A long time ago, people didn’t even own their own phones. Their landlines were property of the phone company. Apple achieved what was nearly impossible by getting iPhone capabilities on
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by mingus88 7mo ago
So…if Reddit doesn’t own the content, it belongs to the user who posted it, then doesn’t this only harm Serpai’s case further? I have posted to Reddit and I do not authorize any AI company to use my posts as training data.
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by mingus88 7mo ago
A lot of people are paying a big price to distract us from the Epstein files
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by mingus88 7mo ago
You’d probably feel differently if you paid $44 Billion for the platform Can you even imagine?
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by mingus88 7mo ago
Isn’t it amazing how the conspiracy of “elites running a pedophile ring and controlling the world” was all the rage not that long ago? Yet now that we have actual documents that say exactly that, somehow it becomes stupid to talk about it,
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by mingus88 7mo ago
Convince me that the solution is not to remove money from the process entirely. I’m just spitballing here but why don’t we have a system where every candidate gets the same allocation of money for ads and it is outlawed to use your own for
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Trump appears to be for lease.
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by mingus88 8mo ago
I don’t think you need deep analysis to be skeptical that this next big thing won’t ultimately be enshittified like every other big thing that was once free, powered by VC cash. What makes this different for me is that I can’t run Uber on m
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Their statement called out automatic weapons targeting and domestic surveillance as two lines they would not cross
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by mingus88 8mo ago
He is also clearly in the throes of dementia, as his father was. It’s a common symptom of dementia patients to become rude and violent as their facilities slip away If only we had a constitutional process for removing presidents from office
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Benito Mussolini: 'Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.' That is the reason why they would cry if the other party broke the rules to this degree. The other party is m
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by mingus88 8mo ago
This is so short sighted. We are so early into this AI revolution, and this administration is obviously in a tailspin, with the only folk left in charge being the least capable ones we have seen in a decade Imagine what the conversation wou
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Yeah ask this guy how he’d feel if a different party were in power and doing this.
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by mingus88 8mo ago
I always buy local if I have a choice anymore. * I’m not making a trip downtown for just one item. I’m picking it up on my way somewhere else, usually one of a few errands. That delivery driver might be making rounds too but randomly and li
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by mingus88 8mo ago
I’m a skeptic. It’s only been a handful of years since Anom was backdoored by the Feds. The surveillance data provided by cell phones is simply too good to let someone work around it https://www.vice.com/en/article&#x2F
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Yeah, I’m old enough to remember buying boxed software. It was a veritable product in every sense. Your o365 example just shows that even with stodgy old office suite software, we pay rent to be the product. Copilot has to be added everywhe
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Its not a black and white situation for me Security software? Hosting my data? Sure, I understand there are ongoing costs to provide the service. One-time licenses tells me the maintainers will not be incentivized to keep my lights on forev
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Sharing comp details is the first step to employees working together to organize for a fair wage And obviously the C-suite will do everything in their power to make sure we never take a step down that road
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by mingus88 8mo ago
> I enjoy solo board gaming—largely because I haven’t fully converted my family yet—but nothing compares to a game night. I’m just going to get this off my chest here because I think a lot of “board game people” might not really understa
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by mingus88 8mo ago
Spot on. I wish this site was never associated with the term hacker because under the thin veneer of people doing cool things with tech, there is today nothing more authoritarian, narrow minded, overconfident and establishment than SV tech

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