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by phatfish 8mo ago
Humm yeah, like a government digital ID of some sort. Except people go mental about that, so sending scanned copies of my personal ID documents to every bank/solicitor/estate agent/mortgage broker/random internet service
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by phatfish 8mo ago
There must be a template going round for these "Epstein scammed us we knew nothing" attempts at deflecting. Doesn't surprise me at all the Noam Chomsky was on team Epstein.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Quality is better than quantity.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Revanced YouTube app, turn off all the crap. Sometimes I open the official YouTube app to check my subscriptions and wonder how anyone uses it. If Google wasn't so ghastly and YouTube Premium had all the features of Revanced I would ha
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Now do systemd.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Truth hurts?
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by phatfish 8mo ago
I think it could be a good thing. The politics sucking the air out of projects and the entitled attitude from people that want something for free NOW was getting tiresome. Raising barriers against AI slop will also create a good reason to i
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by phatfish 8mo ago
This captures succinctly the one of the key issues with (current) AI actually solving real problems outside of small "sandboxes" where it has all the information. When an AI can email/message all the key people that have the
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by phatfish 9mo ago
We can certainly do with less plastic junk and fast fashion. But on the high end it hard to argue that cheaper Chinese products are ever a bad thing. If corporations in western (aligned) countries stopped feeding sovereign wealth funds and
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Of course there are good modern games, but I agree there was something special about the first 3D generation of hardware (hardware cheap enough to be in home consoles at least) and the games it enabled. Only VR has come close recently, but
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Erm, isn't the last bit a key part of Tim Cooks job (getting people to buy new apple stuff even if they don't really need it)?
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by phatfish 9mo ago
The dysfunction on the corporate side just gets swept under the rug, only in extreme cases does it get brought to the attention of the public. Governments have to operate in a more open manner (at least those with a reasonable amount of dem
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by phatfish 9mo ago
This appears to be the only comment worth reading. Thanks.
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Having watched these people when I do my own shopping, it made me realise, if i ever needed get someone to shop for me, it wouldn't be on a busy weekend.
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Just ask Google Gemini to create an About Us page for the site and you can look at that instead. I'm sure it will meet your diversity requirements.
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Ukraine is "the whole of the west", interesting? Even the Russian propaganda can't magic up a serious intervention on Ukraine's behalf by western countries. Europeans have been scared to do anything significant, and Trum
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by phatfish 9mo ago
The barrier to entry for grifting has been lowered, and for existing grifters they can put together some intricate slop. Of course Google doesn't care, they get to show ads against AI slop the same as normal human generated slop. A fun
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by phatfish 9mo ago
I'll insist the surgeon follows ChatGPTs plan for my operation next time I'm in theatre. By the end of the year AI will be actually doing the surgery, when you look at the recent advancements in robotic hands, right bros?
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Yup, I called out Israel/Palestine. I don't agree with how speech is suppressed on this issue, it has been that way for a long time though.
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Yup, I called out Israel/Palestine.
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by phatfish 9mo ago
You are over thinking. This is to enforce age restrictions online which parents are overwhelmingly in favour of. Make the friction high enough for evading age restrictions and it will stop most kids. Not all but most. Same as most shops sto
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Most users here are American, have you seen what is happening in America? The funny (sad) thing is all the hot takes about the UK or Europe being a "police state" because porn is being blocked for kids, or persistent abuse on soci
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Ah, this is handy, as Europe (even more than the UK somehow) seems to love engaging in customer service via WhatsApp. On the continent I end up having to use it to manage bookings for Hotels and restaurants. I removed my profile picture bec
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by phatfish 9mo ago
My countdown to donating to Wikipedia when a random MAGA nerd makes some baseless claims is getting close. When Elon had his little rant a couple of years ago it got triggered as well.
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by phatfish 9mo ago
How much space does a kid staring at an iPad all day really need?
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by phatfish 9mo ago
Google is complicit in this sort of content by hosting it no questions asked. They will happily see society tear itself apart if they are getting some as revenue. Same as the other social media companies. And yes I know the argument about Y
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by phatfish 9mo ago
This happens a million times all over the country by YouTube and social media addicted morons. Who go on to complain about how "nothing ever gets done in this country" and they want the "good old days" back. Except in th
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by phatfish 9mo ago
I'm glad the resident HN tech bros are also Arctic mining experts. Surely they wouldn't complain about non-experts writing clickbaity articles while making claims with no evidence themselves.
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by phatfish 9mo ago
What on earth is going on?
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by phatfish 9mo ago
I think he plays a good role as a lightning rod for all the MAGA morons to attack, rather than going after contributors. It's better that Musk has a tantrum at Jimmy rather than doxing some poor editor on X. Sad that he has to play tha

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