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by sildur 6y ago
That’s playing Google’s game. Where today you “simply” have to do X, which tomorrow will be X plus Y but not Z, and so on. What about Google don’t stealing content by default unless I add a meta tag named yes-google-steal-my-content?
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by sildur 6y ago
This is not an isolated incident, it happens every day. The justice system is more worried about putting someone behind bars, no matter if it is guilty or not. That makes death sentences even worse.
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by sildur 6y ago
These are solar powered.
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by sildur 6y ago
Call me skeptic, but I’m not really sure that pyramid would be able to stand in place 4500 years. Same shape, way less durability.
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by sildur 6y ago
If I were a browser engine I would download all the assets, all the images, whether the user hovered or focused or interacted in any way or not.
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by sildur 6y ago
Hey, this is not a contest about who had the crappiest life, and if it was, I can assure you that there are things in life that suck more than navigating the world in a wheelchair, and I’m not asking people to stop complaining about that ju
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by sildur 6y ago
Wheelchair users are also pretty unusual and we don’t go removing ramps from everywhere. I’m growing pretty tired of the “your use case is unusual, so fuck you” argument.
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by sildur 6y ago
I agree with your last sentence, but a lot of people already have a life and they’re still addicted. The life, of course, is affected. But the addiction is strong.
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by sildur 6y ago
No. The technology is not there anymore. Unless you consider “minor and unimportant” the network news (it’s barren today), ftp servers (they are unsupported by web browsers), gopher (unsupported too), or the muds (barren too).
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by sildur 6y ago
Because they care about filling their pockets and mostly nothing else, that’s the reason.
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by sildur 6y ago
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
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by sildur 6y ago
It’s been ages since I used GMail web interface. It feels slow and cluttered. I prefer a local email client.
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by sildur 6y ago
Barbecues are carcinogenic too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/barbecue_cooking_risks
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by sildur 6y ago
I took that as a big warning message, and started to reduce my US exposure as much as I can. I was already going self hosted so it’s easier for me. The only new requirement is avoiding American companies as much as possible.
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by sildur 6y ago
Ah, the Guantanamo tourist pack.
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by sildur 6y ago
An unbearable week.
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by sildur 6y ago
Yeah, I was dismissing the analogy with antibiotics because usually it takes quite some time between creating the antibiotic and germs being resistant. But with deepfakes the arms race is almost instantaneous. The moment something appears t
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by sildur 6y ago
The difference is that all the bacteria can become resistant to the antibiotic soon after it is created.
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by sildur 6y ago
At a company I worked for in the past, we simply threw them into the bug pit and reaped the ones who survived.
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by sildur 6y ago
> It makes me so angry. Firefox was the chosen one. It slew the evil giant IE. Then Mr.moneybags Chrome came around and scared Mozilla so shitless they completely forgot why people chose them over IE in the first place. Their solution to
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by sildur 6y ago
> as we already have during this pandemic in the case of facemasks, first advising that they were useless and maybe even dangerous (which may or may not have been a “noble lie” to preserve mask stocks for healthcare workers) That “noble
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by sildur 6y ago
I think you also have to signal iMessages when it got it right by sending the message. I tried a lot of times teaching it how to write Hong Kong and when it got it right, I sent the message. From that point onwards it always writes Hong Kon
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by sildur 6y ago
No, it’s not much easier. You simply got used to it and forgot the time it took you to learn it.
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by sildur 6y ago
I use buster. It fetchs the audio captcha and sends it back to google for speech recognition: https://github.com/dessant/buster
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by sildur 6y ago
It’s cute to define emacs as bloat in the age of electron and chrome.
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by sildur 6y ago
It’s cultural colonialism, the way they force their problems over the rest of the world.
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by sildur 6y ago
There was a time before copyright existed, and we got pretty nice books from it. And now that I’m thinking on it, considering how the internet of today looks, with people creating content to earn money versus the internet of 20 years ago, w
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by sildur 6y ago
Right. Then I’m glad I never stopped pirating content.
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by sildur 6y ago
Ah, yes. The old “if you don’t think like me you are wrong.” We are also used to that condescending attitude. Very American. But, as surprising as may be, there are other cultures in this world. In mine, master is a word associated to teac
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by sildur 6y ago
Americans have issues. A lot of issues to be honest. Add to the mix their fervor about what they think is right with their utter disregard about what the rest of the world has to say about it, and you will get an interesting recipe for neo

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