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by windowliker 6mo ago
Amazing. It's like a drop in replacement for our politicians.
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by windowliker 6mo ago
>Don't Let AI Write For You >Essay structured like LLM output Hmmm...
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by windowliker 7mo ago
If only we could plug our cats in and use them to type. Call it a purrallel port.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Who would be the Terry A. Davis of Israel-as-Ticketmaster?
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Another factor at work is the use of rolling updates to fix things that should better have been caught with rigorous testing before release. Before the days of 'always on' internet it was far too costly to fix something shipped on
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by windowliker 7mo ago
That's reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's vision of the future in Harrison Bergeron.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Arguments about erosion of privacy miss the point: that is exactly what they want.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
It's nice that a fictional character in a fictional scenario could come to such an understanding, but in real life there absolutely are consequences to failure, in a multitude of ways. If you mean it in the sense that 'ultimately,
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Groundhog day was perhaps the wrong phrase to use. In any case I don't believe people would spontaneously attempt meaningful self-improvement with any seriousness if there was no expected finality to our existence. Don't forget, B
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Oh great! A new way to keep the tax base growing!
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Even worse, imagine waking up in a world where 200 years have gone by and nothing has changed, everyone is still here that you knew in your 'first' life. All the self-serving bosses, all the mendacious politicians, all the mediocr
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Ironically, the UK already has ISP level implementations to filter adult/illegal content that seem to work in most cases as intended. The lobby for this legislation came from groups concerned about matters more prevalent on large socia
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Sadly what has actually happened is that many niche interest discussion forums have shut their doors due to fears of regulatory repercussion and fines.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
It already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
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by windowliker 7mo ago
No need to change anything, it already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
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by windowliker 7mo ago
>There was a guy in Greece who had found out that as long as he never graduated, he could live a basic life for free at university. I remember him. Sadly he got evicted in the end. F.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
4chan is already on most of the adult content filters used in the UK at ISP level (along with other such egregious offenders against childhood purity as archive.org) meaning that an explicit request to remove the filter is often required to
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by windowliker 7mo ago
In which case I'd love to know what it was doing sending that much data to Google IPs when I don't use Google services... I've read all the Mozilla help pages about what automatic connections Firefox makes and it wasn't
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by windowliker 7mo ago
>Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge actually implement this. [...] both will upload your browser history to the cloud. I'm fairly certain I've caught Firefox doing something similar (regularly sending multiple tens of MB to
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by windowliker 7mo ago
We had the tech we were always promised and then it got taken away, for... reasons.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Welcome to 2026 when the next door neighbour is an AI datacentre using up all your groundwater.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Funny to look back and recall how useful web search actually was at one point. Ahh the good old days.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
It reads like NPR sounds.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
DIN sync is not trigger based, it's a full clock protocol invented by Roland that has various different states. The fact is that not all DIN sync capable machines implement it the correct way, leading to slight differences in synchroni
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by windowliker 7mo ago
You're arguing for solipsism.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
Stop running away from the self you've never known.
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by windowliker 7mo ago
It's insulting to good, honest slop.
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by windowliker 8mo ago
What's there to discuss about this absolute shit show?
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by windowliker 8mo ago
So was I wrong?
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by windowliker 8mo ago
This is war... huh... wow!

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