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by rolandog 4mo ago
This right here. People simp for LLM companies as if their experience of using the out-of-pocket top-of-the-line "team of PhD's" paid models will be what is deployed when trying to contact your bank, insurance, etc. No,...
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by rolandog 4mo ago
Ah, so the directors and managers that shipped unfinished games in the gaming industry found jobs in the HVAC industry?
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by rolandog 5mo ago
(sprinkle a bunch of IIRC's) You're glossing over the fact that they have continued to sell the items in spite of a cease and desist from the brick owners which makes them totally culpable of selling other people's property,
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by rolandog 5mo ago
We shouldn't wait for them to get their act together, as it's in the best interest of a cartel to not have competitors, compatibility, and transparency. It should be required after a certain amount of time that schematics and code
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by rolandog 5mo ago
In a weird reversal to Conway's law, the organizational structure of the US government has started to resemble the software it uses [0]. [0]: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big..
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by rolandog 5mo ago
I think both ideas should be the norm: privacy by architecture and sovereignty and/or decentralization where it makes sense.
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by rolandog 5mo ago
Also, in some cases, you may automatically lose your original nationality if you seek an additional one (Spain comes to mind; though in their case you'd need to manually request not to lose your nationality to keep it within a certain
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by rolandog 5mo ago
I think the reading has been on the wall for some time for products that are not subscriber-funded due to enshittification. We should vote with our money and switch to better products that are customer-oriented and not advertiser-oriented.
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by rolandog 5mo ago
That's just a security/protection racket with extra steps: "Someone is paying us to hurt your business/site; pay us money to defend your site against our attacks" .
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by rolandog 5mo ago
I think you may have missed the forest for the trees; the concern is about the slippery slope that may lead to a for-profit company (also the risk in case it's non-profit; see OpenAI shenanigans) controlling what content you can read,
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by rolandog 5mo ago
My wife and I each have to use it as we're both following an online master's at the same university... it's definitely gone downhill (compared to the days where I originally used it ~20 yrs ago in college; tracker-riddled, sl
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by rolandog 6mo ago
Huh, a legal bullet of sorts? Go to prison, bam!
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by rolandog 6mo ago
> [...] no one has managed to factor a larger number than 21. Small correction: no one has PUBLICLY managed to factor a larger number than 21. There could be advances (foreign and domestic) that just don't get published because th
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by rolandog 6mo ago
I think lobby for saner defaults (tip of the hat to Steve Gibson's term "the tyranny of the default"), configuring one's GPG config to mark certain cyphers as insecure (to prevent downgrade attacks)... and have one'
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by rolandog 6mo ago
Yeah, though I would argue that we as a society would be way better off if the same scrutiny that was applied a few years ago due to the "woke panic" were applied to modern day content about pro- you-name-it propaganda (military,
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by rolandog 6mo ago
A suspiciously highly upvoted psyop disguised as lengthy diatribe authoritatively waxing poetic in a tone that conflates the thing that has been linked with everything that is wrong with humanity but that can be boiled down to empty platitu
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by rolandog 6mo ago
> Though it could be argued that water consumption of these centers might be the reason for it. Indeed! And we also shouldn't forget the CO2 and NOx emissions from gas-powered turbines (on some)... Also IIRC 9+°C warming in the sur
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by rolandog 6mo ago
Had a similar process when helping my parents settle in after relocating to Spain recently. I ended up having to ask an acquaintance to put down their phone so I could get some verification codes or information about an appointment in orde
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by rolandog 6mo ago
Not to mention atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 170,000+ deaths.
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by rolandog 6mo ago
"Legislation will continue until morale improves." The regulations sometimes feel like additional burden of the user, but not for the manufacturers (aside for the attestation logic); consider: > (MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY requires
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by rolandog 6mo ago
Agreed. However, I often wonder if people like that are deliberately (or inadvertently) being a psyop seeking to burn out people ala how "Jia Tan" tried to become maintainer of xz [0]. [0] https://youtu.be/aoag03m
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by rolandog 7mo ago
And we need groups of locales for teams that are split across multiple locations; e.g.: new_date = add_workdays( workdays=1.5, start=datetime.now(), regions=["es", "mx", "nl", "us"],
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by rolandog 7mo ago
Gah, just posted a sibling comment echoing the same thought. Do you think there's a revolving door between the Sci-Fi Writers Guild and the "Let's build billionaires a Torment Nexus" think tank?
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by rolandog 7mo ago
This is all giving me Altered Carbon vibes.
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by rolandog 7mo ago
> 4. But if demand goes down, we'll have much more supply than demand, leading to a cutthroat price competition, which could prevent the factory costs from ever being recouped. Why not normalize that, if things don't work out,
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by rolandog 7mo ago
Yeah, totally agree. I believe that the axing of several anti-monopoly enforcement departments and regulations in the largest market in the world (the US) is effectively a very big wink wink, nudge nudge to market participants; Trump basic
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by rolandog 7mo ago
> At least they are now noticing that there are risks in hosting the US military too. Exactly. It's like having a douchebag "friend" over that then goes ahead to sleep with some neighbor's wife. Suddenly, your car i
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by rolandog 7mo ago
"On our own terms", as long as it's approved by Google,.. for now. Surely we bear no resemblance to frogs in warming water, and we do not find ourselves praying that the deal is not further altered.
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by rolandog 7mo ago
Yes, there's lots of blame to pass around; but the system does reward corporate psychopaths which leaves US citizens having to choose — as South Park aptly put it — between a douche and a turd sandwich.
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by rolandog 7mo ago
In theory, governments are made up of citizens. In practice, once the citizens are corrupted into corporate shills, they become politicians. They have traded their humanity for business class seats and dining at restaurants that cater to

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