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by riffraff 1y ago
Reminder that there's also a film/dramatization/documentary of the events from the cuckoo's egg, with Cliff playing himself. "The KGB, the Computer, and Me". It can be found online, and it's worth a watch
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by riffraff 1y ago
Copyright violation on t-shirts seems to be the norm, it's not just Amazon. Basically every t-shirt seller out there will allow user-submitted design that infringe on someone's IP. I'm not complaining, cause I love my Mario&#
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by riffraff 1y ago
Sorry for the tangent, but now I'm curious: can you get a paper cut from toilet paper? It doesn't seem to have the same kind of edges.
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LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends(libredirect.github.io)
424 points by riffraff 1y ago|102 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
Knowing "where you are" is irrelevant. Iraq was invaded under the pretense of having weapons of mass destruction, so the rational thing to do is having them anyway, cause the US can bomb you anytime if you don't. Meanwhile, N
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by riffraff 1y ago
What else are you going to do? Iran has been sanctioned by the US for decades. Can you really sell "we'll be bombing civilians for years"?
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by riffraff 1y ago
Countries stopped doing declarations of war decades ago, cause you know, war is not something _we_ do, it's something bad people do. _We_ do special operations, interventions, liberations, preventive strikes, weapon destructions.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Can you think of a regime that was bombed by foreigners and quickly fell? I cannot. Ground occupation, yes. But afaict bombing just reinforces the regime.
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Accounts peddling child abuse content flood X hashtags as Thorn cuts ties(nbcnews.com)
7 points by riffraff 1y ago|3 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
that's why I put "simple" in quotes. Obviously it's not trivial, since they already flew a few spaceships and rockets, but it could be an edge case not considered until now which can still be fixed, rather than a "w
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by riffraff 1y ago
I don't think GP objects to the literalness, as much as to the "I am known for always being right and I acknowledge it", which comes off as.. not humble.
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by riffraff 1y ago
I think you're extrapolating too much. This could be a "simple" production error (think "cracked pipe") which can be fixed with more effective monitoring of the construction, and not a major design flaw. It might be
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by riffraff 1y ago
livestreaming with the ongoing firefighting stil live https://www.youtube.com/live/WKwWclAKYa0?feature=shared
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by riffraff 1y ago
Are you really advocating for 1984's thoughtpolice? If someone has "bad" ideas and they keep them to themselves by having private social media accounts, it's crazy to think it's a risk to society. Countries already
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by riffraff 1y ago
Obviously my first thought as well. For the uninitiated, dwarf bread[0] is Discworld's version of elf bread from lord of the rings. It never goes stale, as it's already concrete-like when it's fresh. It's also the source
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by riffraff 1y ago
I am 100% behind the idea of "scriptable components" vs block-based programming for beginners. I'm on mobile now but I'll try this on desktop ASAP. But I think one thing missing on the analysis is: people want ease of sh
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by riffraff 1y ago
But nature doesn't care about usefulness, that's a human concept. The planet will always be fine, it's humankind which is screwing itself.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Well, they do say it's taking longer for the tracked males to find mates, so that is encouraging. Although it also says the range has expanded so who knows.
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by riffraff 1y ago
actually I may have mis-remembered this, sorry. Possibly I was thinking of population change peaking, but I can't say for sure. https://population.un.org/wpp/graphs?loc=903&type=Probabilis...
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by riffraff 1y ago
Are you sure? I'm Italian and we had Star Trek (all the films, all the shows, many of the books), and apparently the Star Trek Italian Club[0] was funded in 1982. I think Spock and Kirk were quite familiar to most people, and for sure
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by riffraff 1y ago
that's because you're not a monkey
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by riffraff 1y ago
Africa's fertility rate is dropping fast : 40 years it was above 6, 20 years ago it was above 5, and it dropped by 0.6 in the last ten years. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/afr/afr.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Seaspiracy (like Cowspiracy by the same author) is pretty full of factual errors on misrepresentations. While the core ideas may be right, it's basically a propaganda piece.
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by riffraff 1y ago
what, how is it allowed in marine protected areas? I mean, what are they protected from if not BT? I think the EU planned to ban bottom trawling completely by 2030 and that got nowhere, but it still upholds a ban on bottom trawling in marin
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by riffraff 1y ago
It is well reported that meta (and open ai and basically everyone) trained on contained obtained via piracy (LibGen).
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by riffraff 1y ago
The argument is meta used the book so the LLM can be considered a derivative work in some sense. Repeat for every copyrighted work and you end up with publishers reasonably arguing meta would not be able to produce their LLM without copyrig
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Switch2 fastest selling, ex-marketing leads say this is abetting price hike(gamesradar.com)
1 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
well, they are the first time they're seen on this world so I think it's fine.
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by riffraff 1y ago
> This method would have been quicker and cheaper than drying grapes for weeks. do the economics make sense? Honey is quite cheap in today's world but I'm not sure this was always true.
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OxCaml is Jane Street's branch of OCaml(bsky.app)
1 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments

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