pluralmonad

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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Responded to sibling comment.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
I picked up the practice from a couple of conference talks I saw years ago. I used to spray a triple threat product sold by Arbco, but found these guys much cheaper so sprayed them this year (results pending). https://www.natures
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
I've spread beneficial nematodes several times before and the following 2-3 years I get notably fewer tick bites. They are a bit of a pain to spread over any significant area.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
The entire point is that being "informed" is of negative value. Trying to find a different avenue through which to be informed defeats the purpose. Ask your friends and family how they are doing and you will be much better informe
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Great news, but these are still entirely unlit.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
But what about entering one anonymously?
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Not being lighted is what has kept me from trying it. If they do add lighting I hope it is a front light and not a back light. Hard to beat a front lit e-ink display for reading. Bonus points for warmth settings.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Since violence is never the answer, do you think any institutions or organizations whose primary arm is violence should be disbanded in favor of non-violent alternatives?
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Is this stance gate keeping users? Isn't a pkg manager installation also a one liner? This seems more like gate keeping lazy distributors.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Is deleting a letter after an LLM generated the article an insurmountable task? These quaint signals only screen out the lowest of effort slop writers. Better than absolutely nothing, but barely. It does remind me of the time a chef told me
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
And one you don't fully own/control. Fully owned devices will be unsupported, obviously.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
So mostly it is restricting natural property rights.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
It's not whataboutism. It's poking at the idea that "regulation" doesn't enshrine and enable harms. But by all means, inject lawyers into all aspects of human life. That will surely improve things.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Time to wrap us in a towel and put us in the oven!
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Why fuss over "unregulated" chemists when the vast majority of harms come directly from officially licensed and regulated industry? I don't think cannabis dealers have ever poisoned entire towns or ecosystems. The facade of r
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Maybe we should begin asking, "whose children, specifically?"
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Of course not. There is paperwork and letterhead involved so it is legitimate.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
I don't think self publishing is dead. But it probably is an end to grabbing new books from unfamiliar names. So self publishing will be harder, since it will take grinding to build human rep, but certainly not dead.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Thriftbooks is a decent source. Used hardcovers abound.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Parenting your child is not a political ideology. What a world we live in.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
It is not necessary to dump our kids into institutions to be raised by their peers. It is necessary that you don't make decisions for other peoples kids.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
You are advocating parenting kids. So many others seem to want "policy" to raise peoples kids for them. That is a fools errand. And personally, I could not care less what some bureaucrat thinks is alright for my children or any ot
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Why call out FUD when you only have more/different uncertainty to offer?
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
The real solution is blocking all ad tech. I'll show anyone who asks me how to set up an ad blocker in a decent browser.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
It was mostly an absurdist comment. I can squint and see this sort of thing coming though.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Is it time to run every document we download through a sandboxed local LLM to clean it up on the fly? How long then before the ad tech companies start prompt injecting?
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
To keep with the current parlance, "safe adblocker" would seem to fit better. Safe for whom, I think we all already know.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
The actual URL was the least sketchy part of that story.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Elixir has forever ruined me for other languages. Every new PL I dip my toe into gets measured against it. Jose and the core team seem to always land on the right decisions, or at least very good ones.
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by pluralmonad 4mo ago
Thanks for this call out. I have not checked on Pine devices much since a disappointing early Pinebook.

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