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by zugi 10mo ago
I disconnected my Roomba from the network right after programming its schedule. It still works great, following the same schedule for 7 years. I recently bought a cheap Chinese roomba clone. It comes with a remote control so you don't
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by zugi 10mo ago
Violent video gaming is especially good if it keeps them off social media. We know that's bad for them.
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by zugi 10mo ago
It's almost impossible to navigate parking garages if two such trucks park opposite each other. Or if one parks on an end that people need to navigate around. People spend insane amounts of money buying these monstrosities too. It seem
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by zugi 11mo ago
> Who cares, insurance probably covers some or all of it Exactly, this is why vision "insurance" is basically a scam, supported only by US tax laws that enable employers to offer vision "insurance" tax-free, while peo
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by zugi 11mo ago
> Microsoft killed the email account of an ICC prosecutor, at the request of Trump These are legally-binding sanctions, issued under the same authority as those levied against Putin and Russia for the invasion of Ukraine: * ICC: https:&
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by zugi 11mo ago
My company avoids most of the "cloud" hype. We've found it more cost effective to self-host our internal services, plus it gives us more control over our configurations and data. We don't need 24/7 guaranteed up-tim
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by zugi 1y ago
> Most locks are only good if the attacker doesn't have any tools. The Louvre security staff similarly just learned this lesson.
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by zugi 1y ago
Absolutely agree, constant surveillance is something we have too much of already. My thought when posting was, if the schools already have surveillance cameras that human security guards are watching, adding an AI to alert them to items of
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by zugi 1y ago
Exactly. In a saner world, we could use fallible AI to call attention to possible concerns that a human could then analyze and make an appropriate judgment call on. But alas, we don't live in that world. We live in a world where there
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by zugi 1y ago
> Could this just be a pressure tactic on SpaceX? Yes! I'm disappointed I had to scroll down so far to see this. The CNN headline isn't even accurate. The actual NASA statement is: > "I’m going to open up the contract.
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by zugi 1y ago
There seem to be massive differences between the two. Per the article, the Swiss system: > People can use it to identify themselves to authorities and businesses... Use of the e-ID is voluntary Whereas in the UK, Starmer proudly procla
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by zugi 1y ago
This is the quote that bugged me the most too, as it's an obvious attempt at pure emotional manipulation. Working from home as a federal employee was always a limited time privilege, not some sort of fundamental right. And it sounds li
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by zugi 1y ago
The Senate still requires 60 votes to close debate and pass legislation, with rare weird exceptions like reconciliation. The 1990s had more bipartisanship, so Clinton skillfully got enough Republicans to support some of his moves. Whereas t
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by zugi 1y ago
Indeed the article is less an article and more a random collection of gripes and quotes. The third paragraph betrays that they're not really doing any analysis... > The government would likely end 2025 with about 300,000 fewer emplo
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by zugi 1y ago
Volume.
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by zugi 1y ago
Agreed, he could be fired and even sued by his former employer for damages. But calling using your cell phone to video record a security monitor "computer fraud" and "trespass" is clearly ridiculous.
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by zugi 1y ago
I recall attending a talk by Richard Stallman where he critiqued the use of the word "piracy" for file sharing. "Pirates" attack and destroy ships, kill innocents, and generally rape and plunder. How does that word fit w
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by zugi 1y ago
Exactly. Which nicely confirms all this by saying: Latest news 2025-08-14 New website, putty.software We have a new domain name for the PuTTY website! ...
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by zugi 1y ago
Exactly. We all love a fun epistemological debate about truth and objectivity. But the whole field of journalism, first in academia and then in practice, used such philosophical questions to then intentionally abandoned the goals of objecti
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by zugi 1y ago
It's really not all that surprising that space is treated like the oceans. There certainly are rules and norms of behavior, but you don't need to ask for permission to enter it.
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by zugi 1y ago
"Monopoly" used to mean a single company controlling a market. Now folks are now hollering "monopoly" about five different companies competing and collectively capturing 90% of a market? Plus the market is artificially d
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We're Leaving Delaware, and We Think You Should Consider Leaving Too(a16z.com)
3 points by zugi 1y ago|3 comments
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by zugi 1y ago
Did the rise of fire, the wheel, the printing press, manufacturing, and microprocessors also give rise to futures without economic rights? I can download a dozen LLMs today and run them on my own machine. AI may well do the opposite, and de
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by zugi 1y ago
Asian countries and cultures generally have stronger and more rigid notions of family than western nations. Newly married couples in Japan are officially members of one family or the other - not both - and being a member of the family inclu
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by zugi 1y ago
I just about lost it at the "may be very subtle" around 3:35...
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by zugi 1y ago
Misleading voters is what democracy is all about! But more seriously, society has dealt with misinformation and disinformation for millenia and collectively decided that freedom of speech and the press were key factors in keeping democracy,
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by zugi 1y ago
> The public might well question why so much time is spent on this, while burglaries routinely go unsolved. I'd offer yet another explanation: laziness. For burglaries, you have to get out of your chair, go out into the community, i
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by zugi 1y ago
That seems about right. Hacker News was once a more reasonable alternative to reddit, but these days sometimes it's reasonable, and sometimes it displays the same hive-mind reactions, depending on the thread. The app is absolutely gami
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by zugi 1y ago
> However, they’ve consolidated themselves as quasi-monopolies I don't understand the recent trend of mentioning a field being a "monopoly" while then discussing Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, and Mastodon all in that very sa
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by zugi 1y ago
Thanks, I LOLed!

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