rixthefox

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by rixthefox 2y ago
I can't help but think, was this part of Tesla's famed "death ray"?
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by rixthefox 2y ago
My only reason for not using SearXNG is it seems like the complete opposite of what you want for a search engine replacement. The one shining point of using Kagi, Google, Bing or DDG is that only ONE search engine is getting my search query
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by rixthefox 2y ago
Curious then to hear your thoughts then. If a person can't afford "vacation" what incentives do they have to take them then? Fundamentally you're saying that vacation days should be used like sick days. So in reality the
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by rixthefox 3y ago
I don't propose any alternatives to advertisements. The simple fact of the matter is that as long as people also need to pay for mobile data or are subject to data caps that advertisements are a giant waste of bandwidth and at their ve
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by rixthefox 3y ago
I’m more impressed that places are still trying to hold onto IP Reputation in the age of CGNAT where the age old assumption that 1 IP mapped to 1 customer’s house is completely shattered to 1 IP shared in a geographical region.
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Given that Canada Airlines killed their Chatbot because they were legally held accountable for the policy their chatbot had created in their case, I think many of these companies are thinking twice before allowing an LLM to respond to peopl
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Ubisoft Director of Subscriptions really opened the floodgates of bad behavior when they came out saying "Gamers need to get comfortable with not owning their games". I think these companies need to be reminded they do not own our
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by rixthefox 3y ago
On the latest iPhones, SOS mode is the emergency fallback to satellite service. It's really meant to be used in situations where you're well outside of any sort of service area but you have a clear, unobstructed view of the sky. Y
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by rixthefox 3y ago
* huge asterisk since I pay to use it and feel the need to disclose that upfront. Kagi is a very strong and viable candidate IMHO. The search is actually useful and I’ve noticed on a few occasions that my search was “too focused” and yielde
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Hiding the fact that they did it by intentionally giving false answers is in no way clever or even smart. You aren't following the rules just because you make it so you can't give the correct answer. You just convince me that your
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by rixthefox 3y ago
I think this is an S+ tier example of why you shouldn't pay for ChatGPT. I just tried for a few minutes to try and have it "help me remember song lyrics" and where it is somewhat correctly guessing the songs, it's dishea
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by rixthefox 3y ago
TY for making the extension. As someone who uses it daily, you are my saving grace and my go-to for telling when a website has enabled IPv6 or not, if it wasn't you making this post that's how I would have found out HN had enabled
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by rixthefox 3y ago
> don’t look at ads on social media If Google has its way, you won’t have a choice. How do you convince companies not to advertise on X or YouTube?
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by rixthefox 3y ago
This is the wrong assumption to make. I can tell you as someone with a powerful rig that is by no stretch a "slouch" sitting at 0% CPU and 0% GPU I have seen Youtube act like garbage for absolutely no reason. I've even had vi
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Here here I was just about to post the same thing! Boeing needs to be held responsible. Absolutely no way should the FAA grant Boeing an exemption for these planes under ANY circumstances. The planes have proven themselves to be dangerous a
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Besides stating the obvious, SMS already been replaced by other messaging protocols. So what exactly are we paying the carriers to do at this point besides being glorified ISPs of their own that just happen to hold frequency licenses for th
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Came to the same conclusion myself. The only “safe” email host is the one you run yourself or pay for with actual dollars, not data. The hard part is taking your second paragraph to action. Most people are not ready for that conversation be
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by rixthefox 3y ago
> most people realize that their Outlook/Hotmail email service is defective This is exactly what I've begun telling people and warning friends and family members about. I run my own email... well I run my own ISP at this point
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by rixthefox 3y ago
I disagree. I don't believe that would solve spam you would just force the spammers to use much more aggressive tactics. If you introduce a fee to email you're only hurting the people who actively communicate back and forth via em
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by rixthefox 3y ago
As a addendum to this. I think many of the J6 crowd thought the same thing when posts they made online were used in evidence against them. You may have nothing to hide, but like Snowden said: "Saying you have nothing to hide is like sa
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by rixthefox 3y ago
I expect people in 2023 to understand parental controls.
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by rixthefox 3y ago
The one question I want to ask these government officials is "Where are the parents?" If underage children are accessing explicit content, it is the parents, not the websites that are at fault. Why are you handing children devices
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by rixthefox 3y ago
The problem is these studios don't seem to get or understand that nobody likes the subscription model. Nobody likes to feel like they spend thousands of dollars a year to essentially own nothing. When you bought a DVD in the past it wa
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by rixthefox 3y ago
I disagree. Forging DNSSEC requires LE to strong arm the domain registrar to modify the DS keys per domain which would also require them pointing to an adversary DNS server to answer those requests with a valid signature. That action would
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Wayland never fails to impress me with how much stuff has still been left out (are screenshots still broken?) that it hardly shocks me to learn that it doesn't support screensavers. Progress over many years worth of time. This is why w
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by rixthefox 3y ago
> The moment the Cloudflare dictatorship becomes less benevolent…[] In my eyes they have already done that. ICYMI I highly suggest checking out their response and subsequent blog post around the Kiwifarms incident. That whole debacle was
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by rixthefox 3y ago
> You have no idea what you're talking about. I said it in force, you took it too literally. I don't care who they are or what their "achievements" are. If you care about improving security to the point that you will
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by rixthefox 3y ago
> from the folks who invented almost every major security mitigation in modern computers I wouldn't praise them that much. Linus himself called the code quality "questionable" at best and for people who care so much about
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by rixthefox 3y ago
Both groups of people who have no direct understanding of how any of this works. You can demand change all you want but it doesn't change how the real world works. These people need to come off their high horse and come join the rest o
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by rixthefox 3y ago
This was kind of my experience as well. I switched from my Pixel 4 to an iPhone 14 and as much as I was distraught to even have been considering an iPhone (for reference my last iDevice was the iPod Touch 4th Gen iOS 6.1.2) I felt like I co

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