pcthrowaway

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by pcthrowaway 4mo ago
> It's also technically incoherent: the exact same kind of "surveillance" is already applied by every single phone, because that's how the Photos app (or whatever it's called on Android) searches for cat pictures
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by pcthrowaway 4mo ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but lots of 20th-century novels featured programmers. Snow Crash being the first to come to my mind.
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
I'm at the point where I only install extensions from source (via the dev settings) due to rampant abuse of the extension marketplace to track users, exfiltrate data, inject ads, participate in proxy networks, and so on. Even non-malic
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
Looks very cool. It's free but is it closed source?
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
Megacorps being dishonest and human-hostile under capitalism is hardly a theory.
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
I'm curious, what companies are sponsoring this Hackathon (if any)? It'd be good to know if there are any tech companies that legitimately stand for good in the world in 2026.
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
> with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths" So... it's not saying 500K deaths are from prescription drugs, it's saying 500K deaths are from opioids (some of which were prescription)
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
Marx's concept of alienation isn't really about being removed from the product one toils on by abstraction, it was about being removed from the result of one's labour because the end to which that labour is performed is enric
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
Take a look at https://reddit.com/r/n24 if you're interested in more "typical" experiences from people like this (I am one). It tends to take a significant toll on one's mental (and physical) health
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
Or laid of NSA, laid off Mossad, or many other possibilities. Or not laid off at all, but otherwise disgruntled security researcher who prompted AI to concoct some personal details that seem to be in line with someone inexplicably dropping
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
> and the intent has to be the eradication of the targeted ethnic, national, racial, or religious group Your use of the word "eradication" suggests total annihilation, but genocide refers to the destruction of such a targeted g
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
> As a result they have the most advanced intelligence apparatus in the world, far beyond US intelligence for example I think if you're going to concoct some kind of per-capita metric of intelligence capabilities, you're like
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
> What needs to be the norm is more self-hosting your own data I assumed self-hosted AI would fall under local AI for the purposes of this article. Does the author really need to spell it out?
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by pcthrowaway 5mo ago
I don't even care about movie theaters, I just miss drive-ins. The last drive-in within 450 km of me closed during covid
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
Sure that is perhaps a good way to inquire about the appropriate channels to disclose a security vulnerability, but email is not a secure communication method for sending the details about a security vulnerability
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
> Laser is far cheaper and quicker, but not everyone can get it since it needs specific hair and skin colour combinations Laser is also often (usually?) not permanent (I am the right combination of fair-skinned and dark-haired). And hell
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
The most unrealistic thing is that the cat doesn't chase the mice around.
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
Then it's a streetcar
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
The workaround for this was to assign all the buttons to the same key before chasing the rat (I had this exact problem with zsnes, though my first few playthroughs were on the original cartridge)
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
This may work to check capitalism locally, but will have little impact on global imperialism, which is yet another issue of drastic inequality
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
The fact that there's no "happiness landmark" for contributing to society or the lives of others (besides friends and family) makes me sad. No one is answering with things like "I nursed a bird back to health" or &q
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by pcthrowaway 6mo ago
This seems to involve there being an agreement in place, but not necessarily in effect or even followed, so the possibility of it having already been violated seems to be irrelevant
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
Interesting... I would have thought Octopi have more total neurons than dogs, given their problem-solving capabilities. Now I wonder if the decentralized organization / hub and spoke model octopi alone exhibit offers some advantage whe
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
Does this remove all branch-related information or am I missing something?
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
Building part of a killing machine isn't really something you can defend, even if you weren't working on the part of the machine that does the killing.
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
Sounds like there's a good chance your company is one of the few I'd want to work for then. I don't think I'd meet your standards though, having worked in decentralized finance in the past
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
I don't trust E2EE in a Meta product anyway. I assume if they offer it, it's to limit their own liability, while still probably having the ability to gain visibility into one's messages should they feel they need to. I don&#x
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
I realize there are generational differences but I still default to the assumption that calling people whenever (outside of 10PM-7AM for non-emergencies) is fine, unless someone specifically tells me otherwise
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
It does now by default, since v2.12 (released 2017). Prior to that you had to set the log.decorate config. Good times.
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
There are videos of Palestinians being shot in the head, yes (NSFL links below) Here's a video from last year of an elderly man carrying a white flag being shot in the head: https://www.wgbh.org/tv-shows/newshour&#

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