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by swed420 2mo ago
The level of mental gymnastics in this thread denying the extent to which companies like Google (and their puppets like Mozilla) control the internet is too damn high. Fortunately if projects like Ladybird gain enough momentum, websites mig
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Your reply makes no sense. To the original point, if they had user-oriented policies, they'd have ad-blocking baked in by now. But they don't, and likely never will.
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> Firefox is also the only browser that vets uBlock's code on every update to make sure the developer hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension. They could save themselves the trouble if Firefox simply baked in its
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> The real question: is this behavior any worse than the "super serious" parties? Exactly. In a corrupt political system that each voter has little or no faith in, how do they signal this to others so that everyone knows they&#
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LinkedIn just destroyed their search engine and now it's worthless(old.reddit.com)
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Nowhere does that say same, like you're trying to force. It makes sense you'd resist and twist what I'm saying, because it means people like you are literally part of the problem. Since you edited your post, I'll respond
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Way to address actual criticisms. Also, it's a strawman of your creation to say both parties are the same. They're two different facades for the same underlying monetary interests. Sorry you're so easily fooled by that, but i
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Is that why Dems elevated Trump originally from meme-tier gameshow host to serious contender with their pied piper "strategy"? The best they could do is be mad at wikileaks for making them look bad. Or why they forced a widely unp
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> The standards for the Democrats are impossible perfection How do you figure? The previous Dem president literally promised, "nothing will fundamentally change" and that's exactly what happened. We have a faux democracy &
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The entire back-to-normal narrative was and still is a total mindfuck: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... The threat from COVID (and more importantly, long COVID) never went away, but they
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> Nowadays I need to keep my own copies... https://github.com/asciimoo/hister > Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find inf
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by swed420 2mo ago
If by chance the supply is a transformer and its secondary has a center tap, you could use a center-tapped full wave rectifier (two diodes) which will yield a reduced voltage compared to a traditional full wave bridge across the entire seco
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> Then they can be okay with the majority saying you know what, we're sick of you, you can either stop having your toys or you will be segregated from us and live under your own surveillance. "Being okay with something" is
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Alternatively, if you're attractive (or any other useful trait), use it for public good.
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> Take what's currently happening to Flock cameras as an object lesson. People are so fed up with Flock that they're cutting their cameras down en masse, sometimes wiping them clean from entire jurisdictions. It seems inevitabl
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by swed420 3mo ago
> Recently cut out cannabis I've found if I cease cannabis use by 5pm each day that it doesn't impact my sleep (or ability to dream and remember them). I also need to be done exercising (strength or cardio) by late morning to n
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by swed420 3mo ago
> The solution is non profits or open protocols. This is a decent brain storming along those lines for social media in particular, but it could also apply more broadly, like you say: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days
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Relevant: In Praise of Idleness https://ia801002.us.archive.org/27/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.4...
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> LLMs by definition do not have the full training dataset available, though. That makes it even worse, then. This proves the original point. > The idea that people or corporations should hold onto books forever because of a cultural
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by swed420 3mo ago
Not in a traditional sense, but obviously on the surface, they're using the info to regurgitate in some fashion and serve back. The point is that even under the best intentions, hallucinations occur. Then there's the fact that mos
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> are being digitised so they can be found in electronic searches What guarantee do we have that the book contents will be served unfiltered and unaltered?
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> why dilute it with this kind of bullshit: > > It is equivalent to book burning in the past. A form of thought control That's only bullshit if you trust AI companies to serve the book contents without alteration.
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by swed420 3mo ago
> Stop sharing your opinions. You will literally be extinct soon. Your existence doesn't matter. What an insane take. You have no idea what that person's contributions are to this world, or how long those contributions will be
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Euro countries with >2 parties have the similar capture problems.
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> The Americans have what’s basically a cultural trait at this point of deflecting ownership of their government’s actions with “not my president so not my failure” abdication of responsibility. That's merely a symptom of the underl
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Like everything else, it's only a matter of time before capital gets its way. Democracy is illusory in case you haven't noticed.
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If they wanted to do that, they'd pick stronger arguments for starters. But either way, social media updoots and shares aren't going to change anything with capital's plans, so it'd be weird for a foreign power to think
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Social media fosters that kind of behavior. Plus, people usually don't look into issues before deciding which "side" to be on, and more importantly don't examine if the sides are a manufactured false dichotomy, as they o
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I've long suspected that monied interests are seeding social media with weak arguments about water as a distraction, and people mindlessly re-share that as part of their identity. Then the other half can come along and "correct&qu
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> Grocery prices at Aldi, Walmart, Costco are amazingly low, especially when accounting for the freshness, quality, and variety of foods today vs. 30 years ago. Many prices at those places have doubled in the last ten years or less.

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