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by thoroughburro 1y ago
If it does in the future, do we just hope it won’t be retroactive? Is this water boiling yet?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Yes. I gave up and consider myself a homemaker.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> People are so headline fixated that they only ever see the claim denials and think that's all that ever happens. I’ve experienced plenty of my own claim denials. In fact, I had to stop treatment of my chronic condition due to the
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> instead of blaming rich parents -- maybe lack of integrity and willingness to be a fraud People with integrity don’t get rich. Rich people have no integrity to teach to their children. Same problem.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> yeah, more of the stuff you list would happen. And, the tradeoff is worth it. Next to you and your family, then, since you’re happy trading with their risks.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> It has never been ok to say, "[this kind of person] is not allowed to look at my page nor, "you can only look at my page with [this web browser or other tool]". What? Sure it has. “This page best viewed in Internet Explo
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
It could be, but having worked on big mobile apps before, I find that very generous interpretation to be much less likely than my interpretation.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
I do not accept the assertion that the content I host is anything other than my own to serve to whom I wish. Get your hands off my belongings, freeloader. Or, shorter: I hold you in as much contempt as you hold me. > If guys like this ha
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> EU needs money; EU fines US tech companies. No surprise there. And it’s just a coincidence that they chose a company engaged in wrongdoing which breaks their laws, huh? Please, with this cynical edgelord shit.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
My bank app asks me to review it every time, and only when, I deposit money. It’s so transparent in its attempted manipulation: you just got some money and are likely to be in a better mood than other times you’re using the app! Literally e
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
I would like to restrict you, yes you personally, from transacting with criminals… because that makes them more powerful and me less safe. I’m sorry that your fellow humans don’t want you shitting up the place, but don’t blame the bog stand
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> We can go on a general strike until copyright is restored and the "AI" companies go bankrupt. Journalists can write sharper and sharper articles. You can refuse to use "AI". This sounds like naive wishful thinking.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> how come in age of instant information flow people cannot gather together under one idea Because instant misinformation is even faster and satisfies their biases.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
We should be so lucky. They are leeches.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
What did you try before giving up? All the anecdotes I see tend to be “my drive didn’t mount, and I tried nothing before giving up because everyone knows BTRFS sux lol”. My professional experience meanwhile is that I’ve never once been able
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Don’t smear all of us with the bad behavior one.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Do your really want to slip from being difficult to work with to being a liar? Be careful.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
This sort of misrepresentation of your public behavior will only trash your reputation further. I encourage anyone who reads this to actually look up the mailing list threads. It’s very illuminating.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
The answer is literally always “It will allow me to pay my bills. This won’t be a giddy, young-love crush of a hobby for me. Hire me and I’ll just do good work, not cheerlead.” The question is a synecdoche for “How awesome do you think we
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> almost nothing man-made is more than a couple hundred years old Visit more archaeological sites in your country. If it’s the USA, maybe cliff dwellings would interest? https://www.nps.gov/meve/learn/historycul
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
What were the chips for, then? How did you determine a result to the session?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
This logic applies equally to non-government investment.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> I think most people would draw a distinction between the two, and would at least agree the latter is more acceptable than the former. No. I should be able to control which automated retrieval tools can scrape my site, regardless of who
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Do you usually learn about the circumstances of legal cases by reading the arguments of only one side?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
No. Check Mozilla’s own numbers if you don’t believe tracking stats. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
You’re the one who didn’t follow the money: they’ve made more from Google as their market share has decreased. Neat incentive, huh?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
To give folks more of a toehold: LM Studio is a cross platform interface that makes it relatively easy to play with local models. https://lmstudio.ai
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Also my social circle.

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