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by wateralien 5d ago
"We Weave Fabric by Hand" - Weaver, England, 1812
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by wateralien 10d ago
There is evidence that systems reduce crime, yes. A system is probably the only thing which has ever meaningfully reduced crime. A law. A strategy. A process. I think you're meaning digital systems though. I'd say digital systems
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by wateralien 10d ago
Oh no, my Haribos aren't full of artificial colours.
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by wateralien 12d ago
Really great work.
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by wateralien 15d ago
Making any external thing one's identity is a recipe for disaster when it goes away.
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by wateralien 19d ago
> I miss is the copy/paste from iphone to the computer sync Such a key feature and probably the one thing that keeps me locked into the Apple ecosystem
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by wateralien 20d ago
I hope sarcasm is working well for you. To clarify: it would be abused without systems, therefore add court warrants to access any personal information. Criminals are already abusing society by knowing that most of their crime will never be
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by wateralien 21d ago
Yes that should all require a court warrant based on probable cause.
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by wateralien 21d ago
If abuse can’t be eliminated then it’s about what ratio of abuse to crime reduction is tolerable I guess. If we find 100 taken children while a dirty cop stalks his ex - is that tolerable? I’d say yes. If it became more abused I guess that’
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by wateralien 21d ago
> make sure they're used legally and bad apples don't ruin a good thing The unedited comment shows he used it correctly using “and” to mean “so that”.
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by wateralien 21d ago
Video is useful in keeping people safe. Including from the cops. It’s about remaking the system to require court permission every time they access it, process and transparency.
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by wateralien 21d ago
Surely access to footage can be gated behind some sort of expedited digital court warrant? I always think of that scene in Minority Report where 3 judges are conferenced in live when a “vision” arrived. Because if used properly and lawfully
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by wateralien 21d ago
This is mostly the UN’s own fault. Nation governments refrain from getting “hardcore” on this because the better options are expensive and they don’t want to be undercut by another country. The UN is supposed to somehow use its deep dipl
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by wateralien 21d ago
Our environment will collapse and the fat cats will still deny it and convince most of us that it was our fault and that nothing could be done and that we should just buy their anti-environment-collapse products to protect ourselves.
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by wateralien 24d ago
This is a great question
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by wateralien 24d ago
Greetings, fellow old people.
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by wateralien 24d ago
I had a ZX Spectrum and learned Basic and played a ton of pirated games on that. My school had Commodore 64s - but I didn't use them much. They didn't really know how to teach for them and there was no hacking around allowed.
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by wateralien 1mo ago
Emdash detected
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by wateralien 1mo ago
Before AI you'd be saying it's a great website for a free and open source app.
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by wateralien 1mo ago
The main thing that makes GitHub the default is that almost every other service considers it the default. Launching a better product won't change that.
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by wateralien 1mo ago
Yeah same, Claude drives my (manually) signed-in sessions.
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by wateralien 1mo ago
Each row is a resource (cage?), start peg = check-in, end peg = check-out. Peg color = month change. String (elastic band?) booking entry. String color combo maybe indicates booking status. Overlaps are immediately obvious. Hyper-centralise
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Physical Database(reddit.com)
3 points by wateralien 1mo ago|1 comments
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by wateralien 1mo ago
Unfortunate name for the project.
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by wateralien 2mo ago
Just checked. Looking good!
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by wateralien 2mo ago
100%. Uncanny valley but for food. Or anything else.
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by wateralien 2mo ago
I agree. The human experience is the only thing that matters. If AI tries to replace or supersede that, then it's bad AI.
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by wateralien 2mo ago
Human slop is a much better kind. There were still humans involved.
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by wateralien 2mo ago
> You're setting yourself up for a lonely life. What a ridiculous conclusion jump. It's the complete opposite of that. I prefer human things, human interaction, with human beings involved, which in some way reflect the human ex
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by wateralien 2mo ago
AI-generated images discourage me from interacting with any entity AT ALL. Bar / restaurant posters, events, shops, anything. Because it makes the brand appear lazy. And in a weird way "anti-human". I don't have a better

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