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by mu53 2y ago
I think its all tech jobs at this point. People used to be a good sysadmin with just some bash, but now there are so many complex frameworks and best practices. The quality expected of apps over the last 20 years has skyrocketed, and the to
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by mu53 2y ago
I watched the arab spring from online, and I am certain that tech companies were actively involved in fomenting the various rebellions. Unfortunately, evidence has been lost to censorship overtime. The internet is much more malleable than p
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by mu53 2y ago
And they ended up with "put elmers glue on pizza" type incident. AI is messy
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by mu53 2y ago
OpenAI is the market leader by far with the most name recognition. Google was the last to market. Its initial release of Gemini was a total flop because of the meme "Use elmer's glue on pizza to keep the cheese on". It has fi
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by mu53 2y ago
its changed. Investigative journalism is done by non-profits specializing in it, who have various financial motives. The budgets at newspapers used to be much larger and fund more investigative journalism with a clearer motive.
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by mu53 2y ago
South Sudan 2015
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by mu53 2y ago
Isn't it a greater risk that creators lose their income and nobody is creating the content anymore? Take for instance what has happened with news because of the internet. Not exactly the same, but similar forces at work. It turned into
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by mu53 2y ago
Never criticize anything. Do your best to blend into walls. Let other speak up and support them. "48 laws of power" is a book that everyone should read to understand politics. Its all ego and narcissism.
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by mu53 2y ago
Facial recognition systems like this are used everywhere in china. Its common for gates in apartment buildings. Its just how things work there. It feel more malicious to pretend its not happening
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by mu53 2y ago
JS is eating the world. You can fight it like so many people before, but you will lose like everyone else
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by mu53 2y ago
You say criminals, but I think you meant intelligence agencies
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by mu53 2y ago
They need wins, and once the ball starts rolling, they can shift their focus. Government departments are restricted by budget. Going after 4 behemoths at the same time is not practical. If google gets restrictions, then it makes apple look
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by mu53 2y ago
Cookies are an antiquated technology. One of the first introduced while the web was still young in the 90s, and they have had a few iterations of bad ideas. They are the only place to store opaque tokens, so you gotta use them for auth.
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by mu53 2y ago
I think the real scheme behind these companies was to monopolize the restaurant industry the way that uber has monopolized the taxi industry. 7.3B makes sense if you hold 40% of the restaurant business across the US. Build out delivery netw
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by mu53 2y ago
It is still unlikely that this will go anywhere Birthrate issues in east asia come down to short term rewards vs long term rewards. Income/leisure/career vs national security/sustaining ethnic identity. This fixes nothing and
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by mu53 2y ago
SELinux is for distro and package maintainers to use. Not end users.
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by mu53 2y ago
hosts file is a really nice global block
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by mu53 2y ago
You can't just hand wave the entirety of the C/C++ ecosystem away. There is no second option for many applications or hardware
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by mu53 2y ago
Its amazing how far they have come, but it still lacks so much.
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by mu53 2y ago
I think the scenario that security through obscurity fails is when the end user is reliant on guarantees that don't exist. For example Intel's Management Engine, it was obscured very well. It wasn't found for years. Eventuall
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by mu53 2y ago
I find the simpler engines work better. I want the end of the line completed with focus on context from the working code base, and I don't want an entire 5 line function completed with incomplete requirements. It is really impressive w
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by mu53 2y ago
anti-trust gets a lot harder when ownership can't even be determined
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by mu53 2y ago
Java is big for banks, and `BigInteger` is common for monetary types.
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by mu53 2y ago
This is an obvious truth around immigration that makes me question the media's motivations. Asylum applications are often contingent upon finding and keeping employment. ICE immigration prisons sell prison labor sold to state governmen
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by mu53 2y ago
Most people are likely buying this for the regional tickets. Those trains sell seats, and do not have passengers standing for the 1-3 hour journey.
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by mu53 2y ago
I think its the firmware. Outside of the main drive, there are smaller chips that work with the OS to r/w the main drive. Each chip has firmware whose memory is usually r/w as well. Once you can manipulate the code on the firmware
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by mu53 2y ago
Its a cat and mouse game. Generally, these large companies use information asymmetry as a tool in the war
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by mu53 2y ago
You are being overly semantic. There is a monopoly and duopoly, and regardless of the number of companies involved, antitrust laws can be used to break up these businesses and prevent anti-competitive practices to encourage market growth. T
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by mu53 2y ago
fantasy land vs the real world. I am sure most business owners don't want to be casinos, but would rather be clubs. When the bills are due, they have to find a way to pay up.
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by mu53 2y ago
TBH, I have adjusted my programming recently to write more stuff myself instead of finding a library. Its not that bad. I think ChatGPT are really good at these at those types of questions since it can analyze multiple from github and give

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