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by shit_game 5mo ago
As much as I and (probably) most other consumers agree with you, I don't think the car insurance industry does. Very similarly to how governments being buyers of data from adtech companies makes it an impossibility for governments to e
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by shit_game 6mo ago
At this point, I think I would prefer to carry a dumb flip phone for SMS and phone calls, and a smartphone-shaped generic touchscreen linux computer for everything else. It's becoming disturbingly impossible to find the former, and pra
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by shit_game 6mo ago
The APIs in question are client-side iOS and Android APIs. Most of these apps are just WebViews wrapped in spyware, which is the point. It doesn't matter that most of the content is static or already uses browser-native APIs for functi
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by shit_game 6mo ago
I love seeing art like this. Using things that are forgotten, obscure, unused, insignificant, or otherwise inconsequential is an ethos unto its own. Obsolete technologies are becoming exponentially rare; I unfortunately passed up an aucti
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by shit_game 6mo ago
> Can someone tell me whether I am being a fool by actually being a bit relieved it's going this way? You're being a fool by actually being a bit relieved it's going this way. These bills are meant to nudge the overton win
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by shit_game 6mo ago
"Now" is when this level and depth of mass identification and surveilance has become technologically feasible, financially valuable, and politically possible. The political planets have aligned in many nations for private industry
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by shit_game 7mo ago
This sounds like a platform that has no appeal to the average person, and an incredible appeal to people wishing to launder money or use money to run an influence campaign. Deliberately determining popularity proportionally to the amount of
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by shit_game 7mo ago
This issue (human attestation) is the product of these AI companies. They are poisoning the well, only to sell the cure. This may not have initially been the plan of many of these companies, but it is the eventual end goal of all of them.
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by shit_game 7mo ago
>It used to feel fun but now it's miserable. It's not their job to entertain you.
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by shit_game 7mo ago
The issue with creating some hidden maturity heuristic for accounts is that it will be gamed just the same as any other, except that using age alone is the simplest heuristic to game. You can simply do nothing for incrimental periods of tim
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by shit_game 7mo ago
> Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't need their analytics and wasn't really planning on having any content on the domain, so I thought, why bother? Big, big mistake. I'm not particularly fa
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by shit_game 7mo ago
Similarly to pixel sorting, effects like these fall under New Aesthetic[0], which primarily communicates "digitalness" in some avstract sense. It's cool, but definitely not Glitch. Emulation of some intuitive perception of &q
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by shit_game 7mo ago
Lots of the AIisms with letters remind me of tom7's SIGBOVIC video Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk
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by shit_game 7mo ago
Honestly; I don't know. I don't think there really is a viable solution that preserves consumer computation. Most of the young people I know don't really know or care about computers. Actually, most people at large that I kno
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by shit_game 7mo ago
This is the result of the long-planned desire for consumer computing to be subscription computing. Ultimately, there is only so much that can be done in software to "encourage" (read: coerce) vendor-locked, always-online, account-
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by shit_game 8mo ago
Complex manufacturing of improvised firearms has been practically made obsolete by the commodification of both steel tubing and cartridges. "Pipe guns" are incredibly easy to make, and require little more than a pipe, a cap, and
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by shit_game 8mo ago
They certainly didn't have mills as we know them in the 1700s, but lathes, drills, and subtractive manufacturing had been in practice for millenia. You could say they were "machined by hand". Most early firearms (barring larg
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by shit_game 8mo ago
>I can't help but feel this is just Google trying to pull the ladder up behind then and make it more difficult for other companies to collect training data. I can very easily see this as being Google's reasoning for these actio
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by shit_game 8mo ago
What is the endgame here? Obviously "heightened security" in some kind of sense, but to what end and what mechanisms? What is the scope of the work? Is this work meant to secure forges and upstream development processes via more r
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by shit_game 9mo ago
I'd imagine that infrastructure costs are rather significant for Tailwind, and that there are non-neglibible organizational costs as well.
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by shit_game 9mo ago
pets.com also failed to make it through the "carcinization" of online retail, but wasnt nearly as notable a failure because it was attempting to start an online retail business from the ground up, versus Sears' failure to ado
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by shit_game 9mo ago
It's so tiring how everything around us is being engineered to make us miserable for the sake of profit. That in itself creates misery, almost seemingly for the sake of misery. A just world would punish this behavior.
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by shit_game 10mo ago
I agree with the author in that there are such things as "fuck off" contact pages; I deal with them often looking for hardware and software and professional services. The gating of contact behind a sales department is one method
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by shit_game 10mo ago
Very cool project. I love the detail the poster went into in their linked video post about working with the sensor and their implementation. > Optical computer mice work by detecting movement with a photoelectric cell (or sensor) and a l
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by shit_game 10mo ago
I'd posit a potential reason that these fields are currently hiring is a combination of that it destroys your body without recourse and many of these positions require certifications that take a long time to achieve (either through app
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by shit_game 10mo ago
absolutely unhinged llm bot
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by shit_game 10mo ago
>This is a change in behavior. >I am not sure what the solution is but the situation is getting worse and quickly. The solution is legislation and enforcement. Driving at night now makes me afraid for my safety because I'm litera
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by shit_game 11mo ago
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying; ICE is an already-established organization meant for enforcing immigration law, but it's entirely possible that ICE is being/will be used as a secret police force to attack or dis
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by shit_game 11mo ago
Your comment is not considering the possibility of ICE being used as a secret police force under the guise of enforcing immigration. There are strong indicators of this being the case.
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by shit_game 11mo ago
So the fear is a new Chrome, but "agentic"? It's not an irrational fear, but the frightening bit depends on whether or not this actually takes off. I very much doubt it ever will. The browser ecosystem, despite being in despe

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