nmeagent

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by nmeagent 2y ago
For now (see e.g. [1]), though companies with surveillance capitalist business models are not only abusive but often sneaky and may do things like include a surreptitious prepaid mobile connection to better thwart your wishes. You really c
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by nmeagent 2y ago
Yeah, but I bet they just pass any resulting weregild right back on to the customer...
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by nmeagent 2y ago
> the printing press just having been invented the prior century Just FYI, the printing press was invented in the mid-1400s.
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by nmeagent 2y ago
We have been very lucky[1]. Do you really want to push that luck? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls
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by nmeagent 2y ago
They'll write several angry comments to social media, then retire to the couch after a job well done.
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by nmeagent 2y ago
There are at least a couple of examples in the article that you refuse to read that describe hybrids from different families. Sorry, but your purported basic knowledge is wrong.
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by nmeagent 2y ago
> Trying to explain that different species can't procreate like that resulted in him pointing to the fact that other people believed it in the comments as proof. Those two species can't interbreed apparently, but considering th
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by nmeagent 2y ago
> Alcohol (the consumption form) serves only one purpose to get you buzzed. Since consumable alcohol has other legitimate uses besides getting a buzz on, I don't think this point stands. For example, it's used quite often in c
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by nmeagent 2y ago
"Officer, arrest this man! He had the gall to show up at my site and only consume some of the content I tried to shove into his face!"
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by nmeagent 2y ago
3. People who want you to respect their boundaries and are trying like hell to drag the Overton window back to an era when surveillance capitalism hadn't savaged privacy norms yet and developers didn't think they were entitled to
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by nmeagent 2y ago
Challenge: surreptitiously press your lock button five times while being accosted or outright assaulted by one or more police officers.
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by nmeagent 2y ago
It's pretty clear from the context what units you intended to use and I kind of hate to be 'that guy', but just FYI: mW -> milliwatt, MW -> megawatt.
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by nmeagent 2y ago
There had better be an option to disable any and all LLM tendrils in iOS or I'm going to probably end up throwing my iPhone into a lake. Call me a luddite or neo-amish or whatever, but IMO the entire feature set is cursed and I want n
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by nmeagent 2y ago
> Seems pretty inefficient to me Police surveillance should be inefficient. People do not exist to be arbitrarily inspected at scale; it should be an expensive, manual process and you should be forced to choose carefully whom you target
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by nmeagent 2y ago
That's all fine and good until the hardware, which you won't control, comes with its own prepaid cellular modem that connects at will and sends that juicy data back to the mothership. Follow the consequences of your OS being effe
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by nmeagent 2y ago
We'll have the option to turn it off until that option is removed for being a maintenance burden . See e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755593
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by nmeagent 2y ago
Yes, I am looking forward to more userChrome.css changes to un-streamline the damn URL bar back above the tabs once again, as well as to undo whatever other obnoxious UI changes they decide to inflict on us. It's become a regular ritu
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by nmeagent 2y ago
They might notice the bits of interstellar dust that at the upper size range hit at 0.99c with kinetic energy on the order of magnitude of tactical nuclear weapons yield. This also makes targeting interesting without thrusters and fuel to
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by nmeagent 2y ago
A silent, hostile civilization that applies the astronomical levels of energy to accelerate enough mass to cause an extinction level event at the target in any reasonable amount of time would very likely cease to be a silent civilization.
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by nmeagent 2y ago
> The magic was due to the friction involved. We might get some of that friction back if remote attestation succeeds in ruining the Internet for those of us who rely on free software. Connecting with any community will be trickier over
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by nmeagent 2y ago
> WebHardDriveMusic I can hear it now: millions of non-solid-state drives across the Internet playing the Imperial March in sync...
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by nmeagent 2y ago
> I think the snake oil claim is in regard to VPN companies marketing themselves as a security product Considering that confidentiality is a vital component of overall security, it's not necessarily unreasonable to describe a VPN as
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by nmeagent 3y ago
> Spotify seems very happy to just break everybody's playlists continuously. I remember this being particularly infuriating with movie soundtracks or other compilations, where individual tracks would often evaporate one day for bogu
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by nmeagent 3y ago
You're also free to find companies whose contracts don't have binding arbitration clauses. Good luck.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
"I want to hire you, Joe Banks. I want to hire you -- to jump into a volcano." Joe had just seen a Dr. Ellison. Coincidence? Yes, absolutely, of course it is.
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by nmeagent 3y ago
> this is still available 25 years later?! It's a bit worse than that -- they were introduced in 1988-89, so they're still available 35 years later. I remember them from grade school at the time and they were (tasty) garbage e
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Reddit Issues with Comment Scrolling(old.reddit.com)
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by nmeagent 3y ago
For me this is one of the most compelling reasons to own non-DRM'd physical media: its content is no longer subject to the whims of corporate bullshit after the point of sale. Replacing songs within albums with other versions is appal
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by nmeagent 3y ago
> There are still wars but not ones in which entire continents are destroyed and entire generations across dozens of countries are lost. Yet. Nuclear weapons are an existential threat and may yet destroy human civilization. We've
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by nmeagent 3y ago
Why not do both? I run a five-player in-person D&D 5e campaign with a VTT (Foundry) and it works out pretty well for us. We offload much of the bookkeeping, tokens, maps, etc. to the VTT and still keep the in-person RP experience.

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