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by thx-2718 3y ago
What would you say it's militarized? I mean, the command structure of Star Fleet mirrors the military, but as far I know the the mirror universe is the 'militarized' society.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I wonder if one day we'll be able to predictably "catch" them. Feels like to me that they could be a source of a good bit of momentum.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
We live in a relatively free society thanks to our government and democracy. > In the end it comes back down to the government’s power. Right so it's important to keep government transparent and promote civil participation so that g
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I've observed the same. However I've also found, at least older engineers, often to be oddly conservative despite a huge overlap with being Star Trek fans. Makes no sense. Maybe it's like the brain gets really efficient at s
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> stop buying and using crap that surveils you. What if there aren't any options? Most stores are moving over to self-check outs with facial recognition... More and more things are requiring smart phones. Job applications. Timeshee
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Possible mitigation avenue: https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/ocean-alkalinity/
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Right so you're agreeing that the Government (U.S.) doesn't exactly have an easy path. Hence why I am more concerned about Corporate surveillance than I am over Government influencing our lives.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I am not talking about which has more inherent 'power'. I am talking about who is incentivized to employ intrusive surveillance to influence our lives. Which are corporations. For example look at this "free" 55" TV:
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I'm less worried about government surveillance than I am of corporate surveillance. They're the one's actively interested in influencing our lives to give them more money.
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China spied on Hong Kong activists using TikTok, lawsuit claims(aljazeera.com)
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by thx-2718 3y ago
What about public grants and partnerships with Universities as well? I really think having open source software that is deployed and actively used by the University can give students real experience in improving and fixing software. Surely
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I am sorry but you're missing the point here. I'm not arguing over better hardware (performance) or price. I am arguing over hack-ability; that's it. I hope you can understand that.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
If you like the hardware or software that you use then I am happy for you. "This is not a rasppi, different design goals/constraints." That we can agree on. Apple is a business with specific goals and so far as a business in
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Not to mention I can't find anything on them having ECC capabilities but I could be wrong.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"But even this way, apple devices have by far the longest lifetimes, macs, iphones will have 2-3 owners easily - so is it really fair to call them out, or is it just baseless emotional reaction?" Why reply that criticism of Apple
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Classic car owners modernise with electric conversions(aljazeera.com)
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Why the Stock Market Is Wrong to Think Everything Will Be Fine(bloomberg.com)
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Hand-written Windows API prototypes: fast, flexible, and tedious(nullprogram.com)
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by thx-2718 3y ago
No offense but that's not even contextually the same thing so I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
First, personally I don't care what hardware or software people use, if they are happy with the tools that they using then that's good. That said, Apple has been very hostile to hackers over the years imo. Hardware being hard to r
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by thx-2718 3y ago
This is what they have support for at the moment: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support#m2-d... Maybe not quite possible to do today but if Asahi keeps up the pace they've made so far I
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Fortunately paper filing is still free and doesn't require trusting a third party servers with your tax and personal identity information.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
You have to look but there are options out there. https://puri.sm/ I trust Apple to behave like a for-profit business. I've seen Apple make changes when it's benefited them (because their image matters to their cu
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by thx-2718 3y ago
You can not in good faith argue that executives along the way didn't turn a blind eye to these issues when they saw the price tag for those contracts. edit: Here's more to back my point: https://9to5mac.com/2023&#x
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by thx-2718 3y ago
There's other reasons not to like Apple hardware. For one the difficulty they engineer into their devices when it comes to repairing and servicing them. Then there's the use of child and/or slave labor. (if a child or a slave
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Apple reveals Vision Pro, a AR/VR headset unlike any other(arstechnica.com)
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by thx-2718 3y ago
It's a computer. I'm sure the other features are available in other packages in one form or another. That said, for business-to-business I bet these are great machines.
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OpenAI boss ‘heartened’ by talks with world leaders over will to contain AI risk(apnews.com)
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Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label as it fights disinformation(apnews.com)
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YouTube now allows videos that falsely claim Trump won 2020 election(arstechnica.com)
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