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by phatfish 3y ago
Essentially prank calling scammers gets old fast, and is just an avenue to make money from Youtube. Which means upping the ante to keep viewers, eventually videos reach a grey area where they get as mean as the scammers themselves. This aut
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by phatfish 3y ago
Obviously not every behaviour can be captured in one take exactly in the way that will make an interesting film documentary. This is not some revelation. As long as the edited footage represents something that could plausibly (though maybe
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by phatfish 3y ago
I ripped a lot of DVDs in the 2000s, even had a few pre-release. One of our group committed suicide, I forget how we found out, someone outside the group knew him IRL i think. There is an NFO with a tribute out there somewhere. Writing some
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by phatfish 3y ago
Feels like the best situation. Those who had their cash/investment misappropriated get it back, and someone who clearly should not have been in a position to have that much responsibility and power has been removed.
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by phatfish 3y ago
On a recent trip to Canada i was surprised how many torrent/download sites blocked in the UK were accessible on a residential ISP. I assumed the block list would be about the same.
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by phatfish 3y ago
Nintendo is one of the few places where you can see ideas being iterated and improved from game to game. The quality may go down now and then, but they learn from mistakes and try to make the next game better and unique. The Switch generati
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by phatfish 3y ago
That's what you get from an electoral system that reduces to a binary choice. Bad or worse, pick one.
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by phatfish 3y ago
5 perfect as well (95% total), what does this mean??
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by phatfish 3y ago
I listen to music a lot, but never got algorithmic recommendation systems. It just seems too soulless. Personally i still listen to the radio (streamed online obviously), in the UK NTS Radio (nts.live) and Rinse FM (rinse.fm) are good. Very
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by phatfish 3y ago
Does social media count? Apparently it's now where everyone gets their news. Which reminds me, didn't Musk hit up the Saudis or some other middle eastern sovereign wealth fund when he was forced to actually buy Twitter?
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by phatfish 3y ago
Guilt tripping it seems to work, this one was pretty funny "dead grandmas special love code". https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-s... I've only read that link, and not s
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by phatfish 3y ago
China is a democracy? That's news to me.
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by phatfish 3y ago
Probably that owner is a Billionaire online bully with a large following of acolytes ready to brigade anyone he feels like. And that Twitter/X has now been login-walled so anyone that wants more than an embedded Tweet link has to make
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by phatfish 3y ago
What the hell.
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by phatfish 3y ago
The house price to average income ratio has become much worse over time in most "developed" economies. There is a mountain of good enough cheap products now due to global supply chains, but you have to stuff them into a tiny flat&
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by phatfish 3y ago
Can they pump Crypto as high as a good proportion of the "western" population widdling their thumbs for 6 months or more during COVID? I say western because they were the people with the disposable income and living under governme
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by phatfish 3y ago
I read today that there are 7 billion square feet of unsold homes in China. Apparently no government can get housing right. The west has too little due to bad regulation & NIMBYs. China built too much (due to certain regulations being t
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by phatfish 3y ago
Interesting, i didn't realise the WiiU had such similar hardware to the Wii. I passed on the WiiU so never really paid much attention to it.
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by phatfish 3y ago
Ha, the DS Lite battery is incredible. I can forget about it for 5 years, and when i power it on out of curiosity it still has the same charge, how is this possible :p
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by phatfish 3y ago
The Wii extended the life of Gamecube games nicely, with a Wii component cable (which are still available cheaply) you get good quality output on modern TVs. It also has the Gamecube controller ports, so your original controllers work. The
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by phatfish 3y ago
This is a fun narrative that the US is just the same as the Russian or Chinese governments, i wonder who could benefit from pushing that... The fact Snowden is still alive pushing anti-US propaganda shows the difference, if the roles were r
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by phatfish 3y ago
I doubt Russia cared much about a cancelled US passport. If they felt he was not worth something to them they would have made sure he was out of Russia. Personally I don't think it was intentional on his part to get stuck in Russia, ju
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by phatfish 3y ago
Network designs i have seen often include this for much the same reason. A perimeter firewall is from one vendor and an internal firewall is from another. If there is a security issue with one device the other should not be effected in the
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by phatfish 3y ago
Nonsense, there is no way my company that is a simple mid size tech company could ever hope to fill most roles with personal connections. They try though, cash rewards for recommending someone that gets hired and passes probation. Even with
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by phatfish 3y ago
Indeed, a strange comment considering that Chinese property companies are the ones billions in debt and were using deposits buyers made on one property as leverage to build another somewhere else.
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by phatfish 3y ago
So what IS the threat from North Korea to Americans or anyone not sharing a border with them exactly? They won't launch nukes at anything outside their own borders unless Kim wants his country turned into a smoldering crater. The only
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by phatfish 3y ago
Situations change, I can see how in the 70s and 80s this may have been an argument to keep the cold war "cold". But as the Russians have shown, there is no longer any need to handle them with care. Their armed forces are diminishe
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by phatfish 3y ago
I'll be charitable by assuming that people here are getting defensive by their hero not living up to expectations. Snowden is (justifiably) angry about the US treatment of him and happily amplifies Russian propaganda as some sort of ba
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by phatfish 3y ago
I agree he repeats Russian propaganda and it's sad. It diminishes his previously clear and rational portrayal of what he knew of the NSA. It was clear that Russia lining their tanks up on the border and stress testing the Ukrainian res
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by phatfish 3y ago
They don't have enough data to brute force the problem with machine learning. The dataset available will never be large enough to allow ML autonomous cars to solve every situation a human driver can. Another AI breakthrough is needed.

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