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by pibaker 8mo ago
In practice this sounds exactly like when organizations go "we are located on the traditional land of X people" and then do absolutely nothing about, say, the X people who are still around and living in poverty. It feels like some
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by pibaker 8mo ago
If by "tear things apart" you mean "people quickly finding out the flaws of the system" then yeah, I support people tearing it apart. Adversarial testing like this is how we find out if something actually works against b
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I think the premise of this tool is flawed. Bad faith actors are not people who write poorly or aggressively because they don't know how to express their beliefs like a polite, college educated white collar professional. They are peopl
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I find Zitron's writing bad and his character questionable but exaggerated accusations like this is why no one takes sexual assault accusations from progressives seriously any more. You guys spent a decade crying wolf about how everyth
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by pibaker 8mo ago
The medieval populace wouldn't blame food shortage on Joe Biden for sure. They would just blame the Jews instead. Or maybe they would take it as divine punishment. Who knows.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Even site administrators didn't need SSH in 2006. "Panels" were already a thing back then. The author has a rather distorted view of how things actually were in 2006.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
> That's the depressing part in modern (western) society Do you think the average medieval farmer was questioning how everything around him worked while he worked day and night trying not to starve? Do you think today the average Ja
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by pibaker 8mo ago
The problem with every service targeting "safety conscious" people is that by virtue of using that service you mark yourself as someone with something to hide and draws attention. The lack of signal is a signal in itself. It'
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I feel this reflects a deeper problem with letting AI do any kind of decision making. They have no real world experience. They feel no real world consequences. They have no real stake in any decision they make. Human societies get to contro
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by pibaker 8mo ago
It's like how people misunderstand trust. "I trust open source software because I can review the code." No you don't. If you need to review the code then you are already not trusting it. Same deal with "honor"
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I find it amusing that you are denigrating people as "conspiratorial" in year 2026 when the we are all finding out about how there really was a global elite child rape cabal operating in plain sight :) Leave that self comforting l
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I really hope they do not put the brand name on any actual products they produce. I do not want to be caught at the airport with a container in my suitcase proudly labeled Magical Mushroom (TM).
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by pibaker 8mo ago
It makes you want to ask what percentage of 21st century disorders can be blamed on people smoking less.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
One thing they always teach you in Crime University is "don't break two laws at the same time." If you have contrabands in your car, don't speed or run red lights, because it brings attention and attentions means jail. I
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I hope they have fiber or, failing that, miralax.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I have to say that nothing (besides an AI generated header image) screams "I am going to say something boring and unremarkable" more than sticking an unsplash stock image completely unrelated to the article content on the top of t
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by pibaker 8mo ago
An unfortunate lesson I learned from years of internet flaming is to not dwell too much on negative attention, it only fuels it. Unfortunately, it looks like for those who grew up in the more professional, sanitized, moderated (to the point
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by pibaker 8mo ago
There is a class of YouTube "content creators" who like to point out "cringe" individuals on the internet online for others to laugh at. They will often add a disclaimer to their videos saying "hey please don't
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Shits like this is what makes me wary about Chinese made video games proliferating in the west. You never know if your kid's genshing impact or black myth wukong is listening to you and siphoning all data on your local network to China
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by pibaker 8mo ago
A majority of humans will eventually contract the herpes virus sooner or later and they will stay infected until they die. Does this make herpes normal? Maybe. Does this make herpes something we should stop worrying about? Probably not.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Laws as such favor big tech more than others, despite their proponent often selling them as "anti big tech." Big tech has more resource to comply with the said regulations than, say, some teenager with a Minecraft server in his ba
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Are you a Russian bot seeking to destroy free speech, one of the foundations of Western democracy and civilization? How are we supposed to know? Show us your passport and one piece of recent utility bill to prove your hard earned right to p
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by pibaker 8mo ago
> And then when Jane down the street starts talking about the need to kill "insert group here" well you know who they are and you can go down and have a talking to them or tell their employer, or whatever. This works the other
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by pibaker 8mo ago
The downside is he will likely receive a lot of death threats. Probably in his literal, physical mailbox. Having seen what a self righteous online mob can do in the name of justice over literally nothing, I fully defend his decision to stay
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Go look at the people behind this "tech oversight" website and behold their long history of partisan campaign work. https://techoversight.org/our-team/ > Sacha is a veteran of political campaigns all over
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by pibaker 8mo ago
If you want to complain about the state of modern web, you can just do it. You don't need to spin up a story about how the old internet was faster than it actually was. This is the same pattern you see in politics when people on all si
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Why would you make an exception for download speed? It was the reason why the internet was slow back then. This is like saying Victorian Britain wasn't polluted, except for all the coal burning.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
San Francisco also has a climate you won't freeze to death in February, a government that won't bulldoze your tent, charities that give you free stuff. For better or worse. In this man's case, it is probably also the only pla
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I feel I need to clarify my earlier comment. I was asking how can a user tell, in general, what is the legitimate website of a software, not just how to know what 7zip.com is malicious. Are the search removals and phishing warnings reactive
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by pibaker 8mo ago
How can the average 7zip user know which one it is? Search results can be gamed by SEO, there were also cases of malware developers buying ads so links to the malware download show up above legitimate ones. Wikipedia works only for projects

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