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3y ago
SteamOS is being optimised for the "casual" user. SteamDeck is the best handheld console at the moment.
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3y ago
Authoritarian hellholes don't have human rights and if they find out that you're using encryption - that's enough for them to arrest you.
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3y ago
AI can also be a single laptop owned by some random person. You only need a big pile of computers if you train a base model. Extensions need far less computing power.
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3y ago
What if some actor no longer wants a movie where they're portraying the main character to be distributed? Should they be allowed to do that? Should the studio be forced to stop its distribution or edit the actor out of the scenes that
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3y ago
Still not available in the EU. Probably because of privacy issues.
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3y ago
They prefer maintaining existing code until they get a project that's full of legacy stuff and nobody wants to replace it, because it works (most of the time at least).
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3y ago
Just because that kind of "work" is legal doesn't mean that it's accepted.
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3y ago
GPT-4 is still heavily censored and will simply refuse to talk about many "problematic" things. How is that better than a completely uncensored model?
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3y ago
Is there a valid reason to run from the cops?
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3y ago
Unregistered users can't view user profiles. That worked before. This means that apps like fritter don't work any more.
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3y ago
And yet - they include bands that cover pop songs.
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3y ago
They already have one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres_Negev_Nuclear_Res...
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3y ago
Unregistered users can't view user profiles any more. Tweet embedding works again. I would not call that "just fine".
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3y ago
Macron can't run for president again.
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3y ago
According to OceanGate - those passengers are part of the crew. They refer to passengers as "mission specialists".
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3y ago
Can't do that on iOS.
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3y ago
Also - "dumb automated moderation that matches keywords and ignores context" and "non-existent appeal process".
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3y ago
Using AI is probably the most inefficient way to obtain copyrighted content. It's much faster to simply find the original image or text and copy that instead.
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3y ago
They are protected by copyright, but anyone is free to learn from them.
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3y ago
It would be a gross GDPR violation in the EU.
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3y ago
A proper monetary policy would ensure price stability and predictable inflation. Bitcoin price has been all over the place, and its volatility makes it both a bad investment and a bad currency.
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3y ago
Central banks inflate their currencies on purpose to discourage hodling. Short term savings for emergencies are good. But by hodling fiat long term - you are just losing money. Cryptobros thought that they are smarter than central banks and
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3y ago
Crypto pushers pushed two contradictory messages: 1. hodl, don't sell, don't spend! 2. Try to replace fiat with crypto in your life! No wonder that its adoption for legal purposes didn't go anywhere.
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3y ago
Central banks are preparing to launch the digital euro and the digital dollar. Cryptos had their chance and they blew it.
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3y ago
My cc number is useless without access to my bank account. The hacker would also need to steal my phone and bypass the fingerprint scanner somehow to get in there.
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3y ago
Turning search history off doesn't mean that they stop recording in in their database. I have no way to verify that.
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3y ago
Google still returns better results in my language, unfortunately. This is why I still add !g to my queries from time to time.
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3y ago
A huge drawback of Kagi is that it requires an account and can associate your search history with it. Using other search engines while not logged in is more privacy friendly.
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3y ago
And now some musicians are whining and saying that we should stop using spotify, because it doesn't pay them as much as they want - that it is as bad as piracy. You can't win with those people.
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My ISP actually sent me an email that said that one of my devices have an open TCP 445 port and advised me to fix it. Apparently Windows opens it by default and it can be exploited by some malware. But I've never received a threatening
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