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by smolder 2y ago
Zero percent. Companies don't have reasonable expectations, or any other human qualities. They are desperate, psychotic, money-seeking apparati.
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by smolder 2y ago
This is ridiculous. The "AI" frenzy has jumped the shark.
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by smolder 2y ago
This is a good reminder of how thankful we should be for the many contributors to Free software.
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by smolder 2y ago
> Wasteful, sure, but hardly that big a deal This attitude is why so much software is garbage, and why people with limited connections or hardware can't have a good time on the internet.
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by smolder 2y ago
They fixed it after the issue was present for MANY YEARS, exactly as stated.
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by smolder 2y ago
Firefox on Android is NOT amazing. For MANY YEARS the user agent included the exact model of your phone. They seem to be incompetent. (Edit: this is a bit harsh, and to clarify, directed at the company and not any specific people in their e
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by smolder 2y ago
Confidentiality is for the privileged. For normal people, it's not as if the math to do encryption yourself will be outlawed, but it's not practical to stay connected to the world at large and to maintain meaningful privacy. The k
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by smolder 2y ago
Invent a new language from scratch and teach it only to people you can trust fully, then start a society from scratch among those people.
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by smolder 2y ago
> I don’t know what ‘explicitly chosen not to use it’ means This is the giveaway that you aren't saying anything in good faith. > but I think you or I would probably consider such an action to be more deliberate than the average
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by smolder 2y ago
There's no justification here for turning the feature on for users who have already explicitly chosen not to use it, or for not presenting them with the choice.
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by smolder 2y ago
Look closely at a hexagonal lattice. There would be many small cuts as opposed to large straight lines.
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by smolder 2y ago
You could . Tighter cooling integration for denser ICs is an area of active research but is something that needs to be economical at scale to matter. If a rack full of flat chips does more work per dollar than a complicated-to-manufacture
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by smolder 2y ago
Breathable air, drinkable water, arable land -- something like that which is probably preceded by severe climate change and ecological collapse.
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by smolder 2y ago
I think we're vastly more likely to destroy ourselves with resource depletion as opposed to the paranoid "dark forest" outcome from three body problem. I wouldn't be surprised if we get to "oh, hey. What's up?&
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by smolder 2y ago
My mistake!
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by smolder 2y ago
It does have thrusters used for orbital correction about monthly, (and maybe dodging debris here and there,) but it's fair to say that system is not for taking trips or anything.
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by smolder 2y ago
Thanks for turning me on to this subject. It's interesting. I took a look at this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11453
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by smolder 2y ago
> deserts I like to use the mnemonic "One S for sand, two S's for tasty shit."
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by smolder 2y ago
I would prefer that we figure out how to make the massive vector blobs called AI work more efficiently, versus throwing tons of hardware at what we can barely understand in perpetuity. It doesn't sit right with me that putting lots of
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by smolder 2y ago
> “Around ten to twenty new Gram-negative antibiotics have been discovered in the last ten years”, he adds, but none has gained approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. They mention that novel antibiotics aren't very profi
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by smolder 2y ago
I think you nailed it. The voting population generally disapproves of 'car culture'. Foolish trends like removing catalytic converters and running super loud exhausts for single digit horsepower gains or hooning on public roads do
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by smolder 2y ago
What would you do? Install a favorable dictator? Thanks to warmongering there isn't much of a diplomatic route to peace where we still need it. Petty ulterior motives held by world 'leaders' have made it hard.
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by smolder 2y ago
Dissociation under massive stress IS normal, for a significant quantity of the non-monster people among us. I don't think framing it as "self control" was a good characterization by the grandparent, more like shock... a failu
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by smolder 2y ago
I wish people would stop using the term "enshittify" to mean other things than what Doctorow coined it to mean. This has nothing to do with "enshittification" and there were plenty of other words to pick from. I see the
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by smolder 2y ago
I think that's a little extreme and there is a 3rd option that would be adequate for most people: using software on a normal non-airgapped computer that simply doesn't exfiltrate your data. Most people do NOT need security from st
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by smolder 2y ago
Yeah, though it's plausible that database corruption could just mean "the deleted flag was accidentally unset."
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by smolder 2y ago
It's technically unchallenging, but is challenging to the goals of surveillance capitalism/states.
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by smolder 2y ago
If I recall correctly from messing around via dev tools, deleting contacts from my android phone just "soft deletes" them as well. It might not have been contacts but there was something in a database I did not expect to be there.
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by smolder 2y ago
Yeah, protocols are unkillable, but the interest in IRC was definitely hurt by Discord. Had they started putting ads in the client from the start, I doubt so many groups would have migrated to it.
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by smolder 2y ago
I wondered if there might be others but left it up to you to correct me. :)

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