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by rockskon 11mo ago
I recall it getting a BSOD fairly often.
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by rockskon 11mo ago
Oh wow, the Discworld MUD was my mainstay in my early teens.
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by rockskon 11mo ago
Remains to be seen if that's sustainable or a flash in the pan.
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by rockskon 11mo ago
AI is unreliable at detecting AI or else this would be a trivial problem to solve.
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by rockskon 11mo ago
Which story is this?
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by rockskon 1y ago
And?
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by rockskon 1y ago
??? People complaining about receiving bad code is, by definition, observation.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Gambling vs advertising gambling are two different things. Equating them as exactly the same doesn't serve your argument justice even if you do have a point with respect to the OP's "have their cake and eat it too" rheto
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by rockskon 1y ago
And yet it is routinely taken down, subject constant attacks worldwide who believe they need to prevent others from seeing a nipple on the Internet at all costs, adult toy vendors are routinely removed from vending platforms, age gating by
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by rockskon 1y ago
There's also the issue of gatekeepers squashing deviance. Payment processors killing payments to various legal adult websits. Information-discovery gatekeepers squashing discoverability of deviant material. Social media....has had a
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by rockskon 1y ago
A properly informed market is a more efficient market. The online ad market is extremely inefficient because it has no idea how much ad spend is even reaching people.
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by rockskon 1y ago
If it's on your website then they'd be taking up bandwidth you gotta pay for.
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by rockskon 1y ago
It does work. How do you think Signal desktop works?
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by rockskon 1y ago
It seems to be a distinction without meaning in this case.
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by rockskon 1y ago
? They can represent themselves as users just fine without extracting keys from the Secure Enclave. What are you talking about?
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by rockskon 1y ago
When you are some random person on social media, you aren't likely gonna be debating a policymaker or talking head. Not being allowed to express anger without risking legal penalties is cruel. I stand by that.
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by rockskon 1y ago
No, but denying people the ability to express part of the human condition under reasonable circumstances is cruel.
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by rockskon 1y ago
There's relentless distractions. Being relentlessly harrassed by so many things trying to steal your attention and time. The Internet truly was better when people had more control over their own experience in it. Now the modern equiva
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by rockskon 1y ago
Sounds like a recipe for the powerful dehumanizing people using polite words and those being dehumanized being handcuffed in the range of legal responses they can make in return.
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by rockskon 1y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. General purpose computing has been the backbone of the modern tech economy for decades and has changed our way of life. Efforts to restrict that such as no longer allowing people to install appl
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by rockskon 1y ago
This post was brought to you by your local troll.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Quite clearly accusing them of reducing public pressure against Apple putting itself in a position where it's doing exactly what it's doing right now.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Google frequently ignores entire words in a search query or gives thematically similar but utterly irrelevant results.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Those answers with the awful model they're using are frequently wrong and aggravating to have displace search results.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Yeah and almost all of the gain is surely from ChatGPT using Google to search to enrich ChatGPT results.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Google intentionally crippling search by routinely ignoring search terms or unnecessarily generalizing them is coming to bite them in the ass.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Hosting costs for self-hosting a popular git repo are prohibitive for many people.
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by rockskon 1y ago
Collecting hackable blackmail material on millions upon millions of adults is practical?
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by rockskon 1y ago
I don't quite understand your position. The intelligence community has shown time and again that they are happy to be innovative (and secretive) with interpretations of the law that enable them access to vast swaths of U.S. persons da
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by rockskon 1y ago
I was saying their domestic mass surveillance is not directly tied to them becoming a preeminent world power. That their rise could've just as well happened without it.

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