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by pierat 3y ago
One thing I will say, is that AI = means you don't understand how to quantify the problem AI is a great hack to quickly and unknowingly solve classification problems and other similar things. But you trade massive datasets for explaina
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by pierat 3y ago
Presumably as an April Fools' joke, LineageOS added an undismissable notification informing users that, "You might be a victim of software counterfeiting" Removing it requires updating to another build or rebooting into recov
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by pierat 3y ago
Maybe, reach out to the FTC over the fraud that's being perpetuated with this cloud-locked (other peoples' servers) *rental* being sold as a *sale* ? If these companies are selling defective goods and preventing individuals to fix
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by pierat 3y ago
So, why the hell aren't governments putting clawback clauses in these taxation contracts with companies? They claim the world, and provide a couch, they should have to pay for the contract. But nooooope. We small folk have to pay OUR t
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by pierat 3y ago
> Pretty sure you’re reading your own biases into this “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair > Where did anyone mention climate-destroying proof-
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by pierat 3y ago
That's a long diatribe for what can be reduced down to "another techbro excuse why climate-destroying pre-mined (for shareholders!) shitcoin is better". The only thing shitcoin made "better" was how to pay the ranso
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by pierat 3y ago
If you use the browser made by an adtech company, what are you expecting? Similar, but for convicted monopolist. And you have no choice if you're using Apple. The only 'not terrible' choice is Firefox. But again, Mozilla Org
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by pierat 3y ago
Counter: if you support Unicode, you also support homoglyph attacks. https://www.irongeek.com/homoglyph-attack-generator.php The real sad is that there's nearly no defense against this, other than scanning codepage of
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by pierat 3y ago
Well, I was being rather absolutist when I said to destroy pager infra. It should be messages like "Code red to room xyz with patientID #####" That would remove anything really actionable. Whereas I was seeing over FLEX: full name
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by pierat 3y ago
Depends. Does the EPA still add a few mpg for 'led headlights'? It's laughable if they still do, cause it's 100% bullshit.
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by pierat 3y ago
Speaking of that, hospitals still use tons of POCSAG (pagers) and splatter medical everything over those. Course it's illegal to listen due to a bullshit 1987 law... but trivial to do so with a RTL-SDR. One idea my nefarious side had w
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by pierat 3y ago
Lol, my "loyalty" is that I show up and expect agreed upon money and benefits. Real loyalty is saved for family and friends.
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by pierat 3y ago
I know this is India, but caste discrimination isn't limited to only there. Cisco has an ongoing case against California over caste discrimination. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/calif-scraps-cast.
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by pierat 3y ago
....If you can afford it. Which, you having lived in multiple countries, sounds like you can. If you cant afford it, you're fucked in hundreds of different ways, including basically signing for any care "i agree to pay whatever
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by pierat 3y ago
And regarding this "Premium Content", and not even seeing the title of said premium article... I present the Current Affairs article "The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free" https://www.currentaffairs.or
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by pierat 3y ago
"What are seasons?", says the human in a climate controlled box looking into a portal to a virtual environment that has no seasons.
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by pierat 3y ago
If you burn stuff, it liberates heat and pollutants. If you use an air conditioner, you pump the heat in your house outside, and you add extra heat outside while pumping it. Its that "extra bit" that multiplied by millions is what
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by pierat 3y ago
Boo fucking hoo. I will "8 and skate", be it a remote or in person job. They dont pay me for overtime, so I don't donate it to a for-profit enterprise.
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by pierat 3y ago
> I don't get why people block ads on YouTube, robbing individual creators. It's not like hulu or Amazon where you are just robbing megacorp and predatorial studios. Simply put, fuck advertisements. And especially fuck loud, ob
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by pierat 3y ago
Don't forget to have your pets spayed or neutered!
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by pierat 3y ago
Whats worse is those arent just aluminum cans.... Soda cans are aluminum cans with a LAYER OF PLASTIC inside. We literally can't get far enough away from plastic. That shit's everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by pierat 3y ago
Synposis: Shitty Silly-Con valley company is selling "teaching homeschoolers" under the guise of "microschooling" and "guides" instead of proper teachers. Reading in any of these scam companies, and you'll
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by pierat 3y ago
HAH that is one of the most ridiculous excuses... and is also directly refuted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ ^^ "Not Just Bikes"
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by pierat 3y ago
> Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. The
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by pierat 3y ago
So instead of reading commentary masquerading as "news", here's the actual group doing this: https://www.safestreetrebel.com/ https://sfba.social/@SafeStreetRebel (Note: news orgs don't
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by pierat 3y ago
And there's your problem right there. Intellectual property rights (copyright, trademark, patent) should NOT dilute or devalue or remove inherent ownership from property rights. And "license" presented after the purchase fact
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by pierat 3y ago
So, who's computer is it REALLY when you can't make settings/decisions about the computer you bought? When some other entity, manufacturer included, is making decisions you cant change or reverse, sounds like they retain real
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by pierat 3y ago
5000 years at 50y/human is only 100 lifetimes back. That really isn't that far.
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by pierat 3y ago
To be fair, our current capitalist country isn't really innovating much. Most of our products are getting worse due to de-featurization, engineering-obselescence, anti-repair, throw away culture, and the like. Like vehicles, the new fe
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by pierat 3y ago
"You keep mentioning XY problem, but you really meant the AB problem, and that answer is ......" That's it in a nutshell. And concur with this de-framing non-answer as one of the leading causes of bad StackOverflow solutions.

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