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by worik 6mo ago
> children at Tiananmen Square. The US is descending into totalitarianism, but it hasn't reached that level yet. Ask that question of the American Indians the USA genocided. I do not see why USAnians killing Iranians is better than
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by worik 6mo ago
> [AI customers] are using considerable time and resources to evaluate how expensive high-end models perform on certain tasks compared to cheaper alternatives. That! There are viable business models, at reasonable cost. But because there
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by worik 6mo ago
> The bigger agcorps have tones of integration. Yes, but how useful is the integration? The sprayers/spreaders can be connected cheap computer to achieve most of what you describe. I used to do literally that but in aircraft. Must
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by worik 6mo ago
The best defense policy for the USA, any country really, is to be a good neighbor, good "world citizen" and reliable friend One can dream
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by worik 6mo ago
> Microsoft Copilot fetched the page as plain Chrome 135 on Linux x86_64, with a full browser-style Accept header and the usual burst of CSS, Microsoft pushing up the Linux Desktop count. I doubt that is corporate policy!
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by worik 6mo ago
What is the counter factual to "virtue signaling"? I think you need to rethink what you expect!
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by worik 6mo ago
Be patient with Australians. They have have a terrible tradition of vicious racism. The indigenous people of Australia were only considered part of Australian society (e.g. counted in the census) in 1967. As a New Zealander visiting Austr
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by worik 6mo ago
States, generally, have to combat corruption. This is an example. The corrupting influence of "Big money" up against transparency Transparency helps, especially in Europe where civil society runs deep. My mind is blown by the USA
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by worik 6mo ago
Unsurprising Did Amazon think they were too big to convict? I wonder if they will meet the fate of Standard Oil, back in the day.
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Helpful translations from British English (2015)(independent.co.uk)
2 points by worik 6mo ago|1 comments
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by worik 6mo ago
I thought this would be helpful for those who are not used to the way people from the Mother Country speak. Being from a loyal colony myself, I want to be helpful for the USAinian rebels
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by worik 6mo ago
Bangladesh has done well, in difficult circumstances Market reforms helped. But those reforms could not have happened unless the state did sensible things Those same market reforms impoverished the entire middle class in New Zealand, where
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by worik 6mo ago
Feeding the world is a problem of economics and politics, not the ecological problems of growing food. There is huge capacity for food production in the world, and no reason anyone should go hungry Keeping people hungry is deliberate econo
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by worik 7mo ago
Yes, you are correct! Mark Zuckerberg is a liar
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by worik 7mo ago
Just replying to the headline: Well, duh! What do we expect? Reading the article, I still feel the same way.
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by worik 7mo ago
> Did anyone ever accuse Meta of being an open platform though? My memory says it was Meta who said that. Zuck himself....
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by worik 7mo ago
> This seems like a valid critique of the content of the article No it was not. The EFF clearly stated the main reason the left X/Twitter is that it no longer works for them as a way to reach out. To anybody. Nothing to do with the
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by worik 7mo ago
> The Shahed drone is a 'set it and forget it' device where you program a stationary target and launch it. It would not work well for moving targets, like ships. The Iranians are quite handy at modifying their drones....
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by worik 7mo ago
And it comes around again. Constant war is great (yea, nah) when you're winning. https://youtu.be/WOo13RnfaMc?si=zq58NDqm-9rdXHlL&t=17
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by worik 7mo ago
Interesting, but disingenuous The VP says: "but sometimes it's just check emails and verify your accounts. " From the Techcrunch article: “Microsoft never sent me any notification at all about this. I’ve looked in every
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by worik 7mo ago
Also: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-ca...
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WireGuard VPN developer's Microsoft account locked(twitter.com)
42 points by worik 7mo ago|10 comments
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by worik 7mo ago
If you would use Rust, you would know that problem is solved too. Rust solves a lot of problems, and introduces others The promiscuous package management, chiefly. Not unusual for building a imlle programme in Rust brings in 200+ crates, f
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by worik 7mo ago
tl;dr the non-profit had acted outside the regulations for non-profits, to the benefit of some members and due to over eager action not actual dishonesty. Audits caught up with them, they have to change their ways.
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by worik 7mo ago
No. They did the work. It is a corrupt practice, not theft
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by worik 7mo ago
> I ignore the law every day when I jaywalk Not illegal here, but I hope you not complain when caught and fined.
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by worik 7mo ago
> Working around arguably dumb regulations... ...is breaking the law
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by worik 7mo ago
Really? Can we no longer trust oneanother?
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by worik 7mo ago
It can work under the umbrella of some sort of coordinator That looks like what happened here.
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by worik 7mo ago
Both are shooting at civilians

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