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by paulmd 3y ago
Google voice allows sms even on ios, so it’s not as simple as that. Why is what beeper is providing around sms different from google voice? Both cloud hosted etc - this is fine. Also, google voice still doesnt have rcs by the way, and it’s
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by paulmd 3y ago
Even here there are some thoughts you are not allowed to voice. And I’m not just talking about violence/etc but calling out ideas too vigorously etc will get you censored here too. “Flamewar style” is the trope used to justify it. and
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by paulmd 3y ago
Be sure to turn on showdead, it absolutely should be enabled with the amount of suppression and brigading and rules-lawyering that takes place
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by paulmd 3y ago
> I’m disagreeing with the premise that making conscious choices about what I purchase can be reduced to “voting with my wallet”, or that we can conclude it “doesn’t help much” based only on a limited outlook on what helps i.e. there are
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by paulmd 3y ago
If google was running a smtp server for google customers use, and you figured out how to spoof like you were a google relay so they’d carry messages for clients who were not customers, and then you tried to open up a service reselling this
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by paulmd 3y ago
You paid for a device. iMessage itself is free. Apple doesn’t require you buy the device from them, they don’t gate secondhand sales off the network etc.
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by paulmd 3y ago
that’s the cool part about being the hegemon: you get to wear uniforms while doing your atrocities, and you have tanks and planes and ambassadors wielding real power at the UN to prevent consequences. Just like the US killing hundreds of th
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by paulmd 3y ago
Thankfully this is the kind of thing where apples tolerance and forebearance will cease and the lawyers will come out. There really is clear cause for CFAA charges already, but the optics of doing this are not good against a small indie dev
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by paulmd 3y ago
There’s no problem with getting the data on a mac. You just can’t spoof devices onto the service to do it.
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by paulmd 3y ago
Yep. Apple doesn’t care if you dig through the on device message buffer. They just don’t want people spoofing non apple devices onto the service.
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by paulmd 3y ago
Bluesky considers lack of activitypub a feature. They don’t want push-content, they want local organic communities.
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by paulmd 3y ago
whether or not it's terrorism, at an absolute minimum it's fraud
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by paulmd 3y ago
the best part is that I, as a google voice user, still don't have RCS support even though it's a google product. google implemented the exact minimum they'd need to give them a foot to cry on in the courts, and no further. a
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by paulmd 3y ago
> How is your tinkering enhanced by Apple making it difficult to communicate outside of their kingdom? OP didn't say they tinkered on their phone - actually the total opposite. Read it again. "I do more than enough tinkering
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by paulmd 3y ago
it gets even more paradoxical when you consider total healthcare spending, and how the US system tends to weight this far more towards end-of-life care than other systems. in many cases, when looking at total life spending, things that kill
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by paulmd 3y ago
it gets even better when you consider that pharmacists are allowed to refuse to fill prescriptions here for "moral reasons", or in fact any other reason. C2 scripts are an absolute joy to fill here (/s) because you're c
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by paulmd 3y ago
> pre-2008 their resources were spent on their fab, post-2008 they simply had no resources this underplays the AMD board refusing a merger with NVIDIA (because jensen wanted to be CEO of the resulting company and hector ruiz didn't
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by paulmd 3y ago
believe it or not they did predict it 10 years out, NVIDIA bet the farm on AI/ML after seeing AlexNet . This has been covered in other articles too. And sure, AlexNet was good but remember this is the maxwell days, tensor cores aren&
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by paulmd 3y ago
> So yes, this is a HIPAA violation when it is being used by the police. I work in this space with HIPAA data. It is not, because HIPAA includes an "official/governmental purposes" exemption. See exemption (5) https:&#x2
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by paulmd 3y ago
The US isn’t the only place people eat like shit, though. The french and Aussies and English and Germans and Italians all have some unhealthy food habits, or excessive butter/cheese, or elevated alcohol consumption levels, etc. You can
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by paulmd 3y ago
> In the end I think including the high level compilers and APIs in the proprietary driver stack responsibility is unsustainable. Microsoft seems to have a better model, or there could be even a standard JIT code consumed by drivers that
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by paulmd 3y ago
just to emphasize: it is crazy to me that at this moment of frenzy over AI/ML, that AMD is not making better use of their iGPUs. The Vega iGPU is really powerful compared to its contemporaries, it's not WMMA or DP4a capable (iirc
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by paulmd 3y ago
even better, APUs. how about those vega APUs in everyone's AMD laptops and desktops? oh, right, those are EOL'd, security updates only/separate driver package with a quarterly release cycle, even though they're still on
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by paulmd 3y ago
I think this is indeed more of a 2009-2014 thing, and even then it was more "we give you a dozen K40s for your cluster" than "we give you, an individual researcher, a GPU". The stories I've heard of individual rese
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by paulmd 3y ago
AMD's products have generally failed to catch traction because their implementations are halfassed and buggy and incomplete (despite promising more features, these are often paper features or resume-driven development from now-departed
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by paulmd 3y ago
the problem with opencl was that AMD's runtime was so buggy and incomplete that developers usually had to build a whole separate pathway just for AMD. And if you're doing that, you're not portable anyway, so why bother forci
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by paulmd 3y ago
CFAA would be unenforceable if it required unauthorized users to have agreed to the terms of service of the systems they were abusing. You’re not supposed to be there and that’s sufficient.
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by paulmd 3y ago
What are you trying to ask here? You seem to have identified the key points of the argument successfully so I am just not sure what the point of making it was besides saying you disagree? Can you outline your reasons for framing this statem
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by paulmd 3y ago
Yeah, it’s kinda like healthcare, just put out the hat when you get sick and all your friends and family kick in, right? There are actually a lot of people who think that’s a viable solution. But wait, it’s not a viable solution for everyon
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by paulmd 3y ago
It’s quite often illegal to go off-grid and the power companies will also create financial disincentives (formalized via regulatory powers) for backfeeding the grid when they don’t want it to happen. They have made sure it’s a heads they wi

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