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by petre 2y ago
> It seems fairly clear to me that a lot of people are much more concerned about finding someone to blame for the last pandemic than about preparing for or preventing the next pandemic. That's why avian flu was allowed ro spread to
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by petre 2y ago
Like what, Russian and NK ransomware? Of course the perpetrators need to we physically in those countries, which is unattractive. Everywhere else the'll get caught.
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by petre 2y ago
That's why I never use biometric autentication. After seing movies where the bad guys took the guy's eye to do a retina scan, you can imagine.
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by petre 2y ago
Gerat. Larry gets cash thrown at his AI surveillance dystopia.
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by petre 2y ago
> For that matter, what are China's interests regarding Russia/US? "If these two get into a fight, we can move on with our Taiwan agenda." That's why Trump is pushing the EU to properly finance their defense, so
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by petre 2y ago
Yeah, he's gonna save it by forcing them to sell it to X, Meta or to Truth Social.
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by petre 2y ago
The "ties" are bots boosting up Georgescu on Kensington Communications' campaign (by adding comments to the videos and reposting it). The PR's company management were dumb enough to do a teaser campaign. Russia used this
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by petre 2y ago
That's the campaign that was hijacked by Russia. The PR company tried (and failed) to use a teasing campaign to promote another candidate without naming him. The Russian bots were commenting with the far-right ultranationalist's c
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by petre 2y ago
Precisely how Russia tainted the Romanian presidential elections using Tiktok dormant accounts to hijack another PR campaign. I'm with the SCotUS on this.
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by petre 2y ago
Why would the military navy or coast guard risk their lives to save some tourists from a sinking boat, when they could professionally watch from a distance through binoculars? /s Maybe because it's part of their job drscription?
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by petre 2y ago
True that. My wife watched a few Chinese dramas, but they're quite boring compared to k-dramas or japanese shows. I find them annoying and full of propaganda. Only the historical ones are borderline interesting. Also the CCP crackdown
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by petre 2y ago
Largely yes, although VW AG has problems of its own with the VW with falling profits. Their cheaper brands and also Cupra are doing okay. Toyota along with the other Japanese brands, BMW and Volvo are last years' winners. I think peopl
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by petre 2y ago
The A4 is priced on parity with model 3, the Q5 on parity with model Y, so I guess that might be a hint. Why buy a dirty diesel when you can buy a Tesla for tfe same amount?
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by petre 2y ago
Perhaps you could simplify the terrain data at lower zoom? That's what we've done with route style geocorridor POIs to avoid thousands of points. https://postgis.net/docs/ST_Simplify.html
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by petre 2y ago
> you'll be able to generate custom porn of whatever you want on your own device using diffusion video models I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that, since you did not complete the age verification process.
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by petre 2y ago
Baby boomers grew up with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, yet they're far from a gang of drug addicted rapists playing loud music .
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by petre 2y ago
Why do you think Meta bought VR tech and took it further? To pour ads directly into our brains. It's just that scuba sized VR tech it didn't catch on, so instead they invested in Luxottica now to make AR fashion items with the sam
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by petre 2y ago
I wonder how they get away from becoming prostitution as a service apps.
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by petre 2y ago
It could be run by the government, since they're the ones who need to worry about demographic decline.
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by petre 2y ago
Not really, the real "anglophones" are against everybody else, specifically Eastern Europe. So they got out of the EU thinking that would solve their problem.
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by petre 2y ago
"People from the future. They took our jobs." -- South Park
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by petre 2y ago
The Amish don't cause any problems. More specifically, they don't drive vehicles into crowds at Christmas fairs. They integrate very well with the rest in fact, engaging in commerce while preserving their culture. Canada got their
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by petre 2y ago
They want buffer states with puppet leaders such as Lukashanko, as Russia and East Ukraine is all flat and supposedly easy to invade. Basically the expansion of NATO and the EU screwed up the Kremlin's plans to weaken Russia's Wes
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by petre 2y ago
> The problem with EU/NATO is Western countries have little to zero regard to the wellbeing of the Global South, and only pillage and drain resources. Russia does exactly the same, look at what Wagner and its continuators are doing
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by petre 2y ago
If I did not have to work I'd probably get a dog and start a kayak and paddle board rental center near some scenic lake, along with a small fishing tackle shop. Screw Elon, robots, DOGE, AI, Mars and other stupid tech bro ideas. In fac
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by petre 2y ago
They were hammering our closed ticketing system for some reason. I blocked an entire C block and an individual IP. If needed I will not hesitate banning all their ranges, which means we won't get any mail from Azure, M$ office 365, sin
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by petre 2y ago
> Dart as an alternative thought, it’s a totally different language Yes it's not Ruby but it has good design, optional type annotations.
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by petre 2y ago
You rate limit them and then block the abusers. Nginx allows rate limiting. You can then block them using fail2ban for an hour if they're rate limited 3 times. If they get blocked 5 times you can block them forever using the recidive j
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by petre 2y ago
> people there will demand that their govt stops supporting crimes and absuse so that they can be allowed back into the internet Sure. It doesn't work that way, not in Russia or China. First they have to revert back to 1999 when Put
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by petre 2y ago
Does it have a Racket kernel yet? I love using Racket for notebooks in Jupyter, but the UI is just too slow.

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