tavavex

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by tavavex 5d ago
You're putting the cart in front of the horse. Their incentive and their job isn't about 'streamlining' anything, let alone in a good-faith way, and that just so happens to deliver some extra cash on the side in a pleasa
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by tavavex 6d ago
This comment thread shows that, if anything, the Americans want this. If they released exhaust fume inhalers, the majority of the US population would willingly buy one and take hit after hit to disprove the myth of weird, alien things like
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by tavavex 6d ago
You can't really do this with images either. The least AI-looking images in the post are ones that have the least amount of content, the fewest things to mess up. Once you introduce more detail, it starts converging on the same flaws y
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by tavavex 7d ago
Have you spoken to a young person recently? Like at all? Say what you want about thinking that an AI-gen poster actually signals high competency to you, but acting like there's not a huge swath of people that hates AI and trying to dis
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by tavavex 7d ago
Bikeshedding at an event is something like arguing about where to put the snack table. Raising awareness in the community about the event is vital, because this is what decides who will come. If you spend your time solving other problems an
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by tavavex 7d ago
The difference between them, as pointed out elsewhere in the comment thread, is authenticity. A basic, unassuming poster made by an amateur conveys a simple, grassroots event with no frills. A professional poster made a by a graphic designe
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by tavavex 7d ago
> Russia: stop pointing the gun at me Poor victim Russia. They were forced to start the war, really. Had they not embarked on their campaign of conquest and genocide, NATO would surely have invaded on the 25th of February and killed them
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by tavavex 8d ago
Great, now I just need to get back home to use my uncompromised accounts (which would have still been protected by my device as long as the thieves aren't NSO Group, but whatever). Gee, it seems my tickets back home were taken with my
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by tavavex 8d ago
What? Did you read the thread? I never said passkeys can only exist on phones. The whole conversation is about "how do I log on with passkeys if something happens to my trusted device?". The parent comments talked about just using
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by tavavex 8d ago
Doesn't being able to sync your passkeys by entering your conventional password somewhere eliminate the whole point of passkeys? It just shifts the point where you can enter the password to recover your data to a less convenient place.
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by tavavex 8d ago
What if you just can't have internet on your phone? Like if the computer is connected via Ethernet and there's no wifi network you can connect to? What if you're abroad and have no roaming? And the ultimate question about a p
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by tavavex 9d ago
Nature has existed at a relative equilibrium for billions of years. It changed, but there was never a single thing that could take over the entire system. It took humans a few hundred years under the current system to start a mass extinctio
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by tavavex 9d ago
The parent has to do with permission , not stealing. Imagine if your neighbors could have an exclusive license to buy the new obviously superior tractor which you will never be able to obtain no matter what you do, simply because you'
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by tavavex 9d ago
It does make sense. Customers have always judged businesses on factors besides their direct output. If the coffee shop's customer base has a significant amount of artists and artists do not like AI aesthetic or are upset by seeing AI o
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by tavavex 9d ago
This is ludicrous, I'm sorry. People are treating this minor social scuffle like they're going to burn the business down. No, they're not saying 'work with us or die' unless you read it in the most hostile way possi
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by tavavex 9d ago
A threat of what? Posting in local communities to talk about reasons to avoid a certain business is not an abusive or dangerous behavior, people do it all the time for all sorts of reasons, legitimate and not. Almost none of them have the c
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by tavavex 10d ago
Web apps can't fully replace native apps. This would be a bandaid fix, we need a fully open ecosystem for apps, like what is available on PCs. Native apps can run offline, they can be much more deeply integrated into the OS (you can&#x
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by tavavex 11d ago
No. The recent decades has shown that there are no laws for a sufficiently motivated entity or government. They're just words on paper, a promise. You can't expect them to keep that promise indefinitely, especially when those ince
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by tavavex 11d ago
> We've lived through much worse without any sort of technology beyond fire and a big stick. Lack of technology alone will not wipe out the entirety of humanity, I agree. But we're not talking about just a lack of something. We
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by tavavex 13d ago
+20% is a sizeable return, but I don't think anyone would look at me right if I made such an investment and then said "I earned $100 for every $1 invested". This is a mathematical statement with concrete numbers, you can&#x27
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by tavavex 13d ago
I think I agree with the parent more. For one, not all "smart" appliances are made equal. You can see the appeal of some of them if there was no customer abuse, like with smart TVs. But things like smart microwaves are a harder se
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by tavavex 16d ago
Look at it. This is the part where you repeat the same comment and substitute in modifying the software, opening the device and putting in listening hardware, putting a microphone under your skin, attaching a microcontroller to their outsid
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by tavavex 16d ago
But that's exactly why I said it's not possible. Some people may be able to forcefully change themselves into truly believing whatever is the most advantageous for them, but most aren't. Once the illusion is shattered, you us
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by tavavex 16d ago
I'm not sure an LLM will have a survival instinct in the way you say it. While they are trained on an imprint of humanity, they also lack the physiological motivation that humans have to remain alive, which is arguably a lot more poten
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by tavavex 16d ago
Most atheists can't 'just choose' to believe in a god. This is also why most religious converts come from other religions and not non-belief. If they thought about their opinion and made that decision consciously, the suspens
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by tavavex 17d ago
They could do anything if they wanted to, but there's no point in discussing it, because they won't. Self-enforcing moral standards interferes with the money thing, which is the only thing they will not sacrifice. The goal isn&#x2
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by tavavex 17d ago
Why would they do that? Venture capital isn't there to serve people like us or to protect any kind of common interest. There is only one thing they know - money.
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by tavavex 17d ago
Tracking vehicles lets you strongly infer who's driving them. Individual people have already gotten into trouble over their vehicles being spotted by Flock. If it could not be used to track people, the technology would be almost useles
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by tavavex 17d ago
No, it is an argument that the best way not to abuse something is to not have access to it. If you enshrine a ban of total surveillance on a deep and universal level in a country, it'll be a lot more difficult for a future bad actor st
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by tavavex 19d ago
This was true at some point in history, but not now. It's been 34 years since the last constitutional amendment in the US, 55 years since the last successful proposal. And arguably almost the last hundred or so years of their amendment

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