trompetenaccoun

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by trompetenaccoun 19d ago
>It's a nuanced right Well, having lived there I'd describe it thus: You might get shouted at for taking a harmless picture at a conference; They brag about their great "data protection" laws, and the same same day yo
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by trompetenaccoun 20d ago
>I was absolutely shocked by major news sites making very important edits to an article without any sort of editorial notice They didn't use to, this has become a thing over the past few years as MSM outlets have completely given up
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by trompetenaccoun 25d ago
This has finally been fixed in the latest Ubuntu version (26), it now force closes the culprit.
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by trompetenaccoun 29d ago
Those users indeed don't matter. The problem is the cool kids are on Twitter & co as well these days. Because that's where they have the most reach. Almost everyone on social media cares about reach, there isn't much of a
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by trompetenaccoun 29d ago
The point is some people who want to run Linux mostly do not want MacOS. You suggest to "just run MacOS" (the thing they want to avoid) and virtualize Linux. That defeats the entire purpose, then you could just as well skip the VM
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by trompetenaccoun 29d ago
I got my first ever Mac relatively recently and I'm shocked by how annoying MacOS is. Maybe the mistake was expecting a proper operating system that puts the user in charge and not something more similar to iOS. Also Mac forums are ful
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
We'd find problems with many if not most published studies if we scutinized them the same way. People like him get discovered because they step out of their academic bubble into the light of the world stage. And mind you this is psycho
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
Or democraticallly rejects them, but trough unbelievable trickery they still become law. See Chat Control, which never had majority support in parliament. Democracy with Brussels characteristics.
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
Fortunes were made long before venture capitalists and governments got involved in (crypto)currencies. Even larger fortunes were prevented by legislation crafted by the banking cartel over many decades, pushed through with the help of their
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2026_Nepal_floods#Request... Just another day on Wikipedia.
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
There are definitely countries that have very good warning systems. Japan comes to mind. As for Nepal I wouldn't expect it though, and even in China devastating flood events happen regularly in more populated areas than the Himalayas,
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
>simulated worst-case outburst events from these lakes both in the Tibetan town of Nyalam and downstream at the border with Nepal For context that's not where the flood happened, there's a massive mountain range in between thos
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
The X account of the person running this has been suspended. https://x.com/PeterAndersonE
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
True, that's definitely an issue. As far as I can tell X/Twitter has less political censorship these days (as Musk promised), but they fired most of the human censors and largely replaced them with an automated system that makes a
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
There is a strong demand for censorship coming from not just governments and corporations but most regular people. It's not only big tech. In the old days, most of the world wasn't online. The average internet user was a male West
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
>It gets little press because it's an ethnic cleansing slow-burn. Is it not rather down to identity? If the victims had paler skin and a different religion, we'd never stop hearing about it. But unfortunately for Papuans their
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
Disagree with the second point. For one, there are many parts of the world where bandwidth still is an issue, either due to lack of infrastructure or because common people in those places can't afford better connections. This isn'
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
There are some other advantages, such as jxl being able to progressively load in web broswers, while avif can't for some reason. However avif compression seems to be better at low qualities, which might be relevant for some web applica
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
This is more of a question of personal philosophy/mindset, not logic. When you set yourself (or someone else) up for failure you've already failed and at that point there's nothing one can do. If you don't believe you ca
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
The latest version of Ubuntu works great. They've come such a long way, it actually feels comfortable recommending Linux to beginners now. Here's to hoping they don't turn into Microsoft one day.
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
"Most people fail, so better don't even try." Is this genuinely the advice you'd give to someone who's less experienced in life? No wonder society is the way it is, most people have extremely low ambitions and then
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
First Instagram and Facebook, then Reddit, now Twitter. This is the new normal, paywalls and walled gardens everywhere. Not to get started on quickly increasing nation-state censorship and trail blazers such as China with the entirety of t
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
What kind of users though? OnlyFans models, porn addicts, LLMs and child groomers... maybe. I could be ignorant because I'm not the target user for their brave new vision but no one I know uses reddit anymore. And with the locking of o
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
>up to 1.2x faster multithreaded performance as compared to M5 Massive. I feared it would only be up to 1x the speed of an M5 /s
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by trompetenaccoun 1mo ago
I'm not a fan myself but needing to only memorize one set of commands and keyboard shortcuts is plus for sure. It's one of the biggest annoyances when switching between operating systems.
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by trompetenaccoun 2mo ago
It's such a strange issue which existed in Windows for ages, even though on the surface it seems like it would be easy to fix.
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by trompetenaccoun 2mo ago
Do you mean malicious actors could have an incentive to manipulate prediction markets, same as they do with stocks, commodities, etc? By committing a felony crime, in this case.
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by trompetenaccoun 2mo ago
Is there concrete evidece that those are xAI's default prompts anyway? They seem plausible enough but how would company outsiders know?
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by trompetenaccoun 2mo ago
From a moral PoV pirating old movies isn't a big issue, especially in cases where the original makers are already dead. At that point you're only feeding Hollywood bosses, shareholders and decendants. Same as torrenting music from
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by trompetenaccoun 4mo ago
The idea that someone would go on a multi hour car trip based on an AI-generated route without manually checking where they're actually going is quite funny to me. Some older HN members will remember when the first stories a la 't

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