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Deshittification as a Service: Reclaiming Privacy and Performance with OpenBSD(fabricati-diem.inform.social)
5 points by tempodox 5d ago|0 comments
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by tempodox 11d ago
> I still cannot believe a company like Microsoft can fall so low. They have always been so low. I cannot believe a software company can be so hilariously bad at their core business and yet rise so high.
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by tempodox 11d ago
> Instead they're trying to monopolize biology. That’s the recurring theme with these companies. They are not there to serve anybody else but only themselves. They let you use their infrastructure so they can collect all the knowl
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by tempodox 19d ago
This seems to be in the same spirit as Justine Tunney's SectorLISP. Very cool. https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/
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by tempodox 19d ago
> If Project Zenith is a "distraction-free Windows experience," does that imply that everyone else is using nerfed experiences with needless distractions? Yes.
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by tempodox 20d ago
And the irony is that we don’t even need APIs for social networks to drown in botspam.
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by tempodox 20d ago
OK, that makes sense.
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by tempodox 20d ago
> branding suicide. Or not. I mean, if you had no voice and nothing to say before, you can amplify that signal 10x now. Basically, you’re boosting your brand as a tasteless brainless schlub.
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by tempodox 20d ago
> Shortcut Shotcut.
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by tempodox 20d ago
Why, does Nvidia care what models run on their hardware? Are GPUs getting cheaper if they run open-weight models?
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by tempodox 20d ago
Cool. I never thought I’d see the day.
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by tempodox 26d ago
It's the lethal trifecta on steroids, sold to you as a feature. Together with your point about convenience, it's the lethal quadfecta, as we can take the prevalence of convenience as a given.
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by tempodox 1mo ago
The LLM providers will be delighted. Everyone and their grandmother donating their means of production to them so they can sell it back at a price must be a wet dream come true.
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by tempodox 1mo ago
Thank you for helping me keep my sanity.
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by tempodox 1mo ago
> Our system is predicated on an assumption of innocence. In theory. In practice, this is a hopelessly outdated supposition.
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by tempodox 1mo ago
> None of those words what you think they mean. And that alone is already a pretty scandalous problem. If the law is not stated in a way that ordinary people can understand, how the hell are they supposed to obey it? Those who cannot a
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by tempodox 2mo ago
I looked at the Latin. It would be nicer if they used the authors’ real names in the table of contents instead of the mangled and garbled leftovers. And spelling Iulius with a “J”, how dare they! But the actual texts themselves seem to b
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by tempodox 2mo ago
All language fascinates me, whether that be natural or formal.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
OK, I want it, but for Linux.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
I’m syncing on that but my time slice is closing for this clock cycle.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
Wouldn’t that potentially violate the Prime Directive? You could accidentally create AGI by exceeding the critical mass of slop.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
> though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware (space junk) is disposed of. My thoughts exactly.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
At least after hackers hack the radio station to play some nice music. Wouldn’t that be a cool idea? The hackable radio station where you get your songs played if you manage to hack it.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
It’s not the core infrastructure part that makes the internet worse.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
With bots that break through cloudflare captchas. As a human, I immediately close the browser tab when I see one. If you make your site inaccessible for humans, only the bots remain.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
It is well known that humans often fail at thinking. Using that as proof that machines can think only proofs that you’re human.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
> I don't think that's widely recognized yet. The recognition is represented by one word: Slop.
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by tempodox 2mo ago
This is another great enhancement that makes me look forward to C++26.
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by tempodox 3mo ago
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
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by tempodox 3mo ago
Given the long history of even the most egregious data breaches with millions of affected people never having the slightest consequences, what level of care are you expecting here?

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