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They refused to entertain offers. 1T dollars seems mighty, but TikTok is a multi-year if not multi-decade data collection hub. That data is on the youth of America and their trajectories.

That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.

If your antenna is strong enough, you can pick up a lot of lower power devices from a long ways off.

I asked her if she spoke Russian or Ukrainian, being from Ukraine. She went off an a rant about how she’s not Russian, and got pissed off about everything from that point forward.

Bullet dodged.

These micro-examples are a reminder that corruption is a part of every human system, no matter how perfect the design.

There will always be concertgoers cutting the unwatched fence to sneak in for free.

The only plausible solution is elective transparency. Either your company and financial metadata are available for independent third party review, and records retained as defined, or else you’re not a company.

Don’t ascribe to it, get boycotted.

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Would not trust automatically downloading executables unless you have a sandbox.

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There are some people that make 99% of the world 1% worse for the profit. The author lets them off the hook because “they’re just trying to make money”. As if having an understandable motive would redeem the “SEOs”.

Newsflash, it doesn’t. These are organized crime groups as far as I’m concerned. The law just hasn’t or $won’t$ prosecute them for the selfish damage they’ve caused.

If I have a society of 100 people, 2 start a search engine for the others, 1 starts an anti-search engine whose stated goal is to mislead the other search engine users while stealing profit from the 2 innovators who bettered humanity.

I spare no positive feelings for these pond-scum criminals.

Most people here don’t understand what this is saying.

We’ve had “pure” human generated data, verifiably so since LLMs and ImageGen didn’t exist. Any bot generated data was easily filterable due to lack of sophistication.

ChatGPT and SD3 enter the chat, generate nearly indistinguishable data from humans, but with a few errors here and there. These errors while few, are spectacular and make no sense to the training data.

2 years later, the internet is saturated with generated content. The old datasets are like gold now, since non of the new data is verifiably human.

This matters when you’ve played with local machine learning and understand how these machines “think”. If you feed an AI generated set to an AI as training data, it learns the mistakes as well as the data. Every generation it’s like mutations form until eventually it just produces garbage.

Training models on generated sets slowly by surely fail without a human touch. Scale this concept to the net fractionally. When 50% of your dataset is machine generated, 50% of your new model trained on it will begin to deteriorate. Do this long enough and that 50% becomes 60 to 70 and beyond.

Human creativity and thought have yet to be replicated. These models have no human ability to be discerning or sleep to recover errors. They simple learn imperfectly and generate new less perfect data in a digestible form.

I can see it a little, but you’re overthinking it.

The director wanted his movie to be authentic, the city didn’t want to stir up the past. Director rightfully says ok, I have an alternative. City horrified of how it’s portrayed and folds.

The negative is that the swastika will fly for filming, obviously, promoting (very) indirectly.

That aspect doesn’t make this meme pro-nazi as I see it. The whole point is that a creative wanted something that the decision makers tried to block. The creative does what their name implies and finds a hack to get their vision closer to what ends up on film.

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The difficulty is getting closed source hardware manufacturers to adopt it.

I’m imagining etch-a-sketch plan routing.

The bottom line. We devised a system (note, it’s not some natural system, people made this) that allows a finite resource to be claimed indefinitely.

A developer comes and builds an apt complex, then collects rent on it FOREVER. The initial value they added to housing flexibility and additional housing expires, but the value they extract does not.

As available land disappears over time (which all finite resources do when being consumed), wealth inevitably coalesces to the owners. It seems fair at first, but it ignores what makes an economy work. It allows people to not work and extract value from others over time. It is not sustainable.

You can own an entire forest just so you can enjoy a stroll by yourself, while an entire group of people are left on the outside owning nothing. If you can’t use your land and block access, you’re hurting society more than helping.

It’s somewhat like an insidious monopoly growing slowly. Rent to own as an option is a much better system.

I used to use brave before they were soured. Ther BAT token disappearing from my account was another nail in the coffin.

Most chess advice. It teaches you to think in simple terms without actually thinking about a position. It’s good if you want to get passably good, but it’s a handicap once you improve.

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I still dance when I’m alone.

It’s not. These are opinions. Snap on the other hand… THAT is bad.

I’m building my way up to a helicopter.

I think you need to stop looking at yourself.

True, but having the lights dim as you start a plex movie can get you laid.

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It’s MIT license, so MS lite.

Lately, just about everything.

I just bought some leather conditioner. It’s oil like, but won’t hurt the faux leather (supposedly)

I think nuance goes out the door when tens of thousands of innocent civilians are butchered in the name of defense. Hamas is bad, that doesn’t excuse Israel’s actions.

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Just wait for VeganOS to drop.

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Not same domain ads.

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She’s not the worst role model we’ve ever seen, so at least the world isn’t completely mad. I think her music is mediocre, and don’t understand the fanfare, but to each their own.

192.169.x.x will always be easier than fe80:x:x::x:x

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Oh? Let me CEC on that..

I didn’t.

The problem with fedi is that you need some kind of lowest common denominator gatekeeper. So that a client can tell the server: I don’t want to see x,y,z and it works reliably.

In order to have that functionality, someone has to class that content first. You can’t trust the author implicitly, so you have to trust either the server or a moderation group.

How you define the mod group, be it random community member based on comment and post karma, or a trusted ring of insiders with votes, or some other method, data still needs a place to be stored.

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This is the end result of unchecked capitalism. The first tendency is for mass production as it concentrates labor wealth to an individual as incentive. The next stage is growth and monopolistic tendencies. As corruption sinks in we get collusion and anti-consumer practices like this.

In what universe does a person claim a territory the size of a city and everyone and their mother defends their right to restrict use of that land to people who have none. This is the same with any products produced from land materials (like cars). You essentially rent deteriorating objects (planned obsolescence) until you’re forced to rent the next model.

It’s wholly inefficient and generates so much waste that we’re now concerned about the air quality and sustainability of many natural resources. The laws are the problem, and those laws are written by lawyers who work for money. As a result, laws are pushed by the wealthy (politicians now included) to ensure that they never lose control. “Security (aka surveillance) and encryption laws are barrier #1 for organized change.

“You will own nothing and you will be happy.”

Just make the jump. I keep a cheap n100 box as a backup.

LXC with cloud-init and ansible on proxmox gives you docker features without the docker headache.

Don’t call him Bibi. He deserves no cute nicknames which downplay these atrocities.

If this man who only wants to help people with awesome competition while offering lower prices.. somehow is blocked from doing this.. it’s time for a rebellion against our overlords.

Good luck determining who is driving.

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Magnus Carlsen isn’t good at astrophysics. Just think about what that means for a little while.

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The xz backdoor hidden in precooked blobs would like a word with you.

Just pretend you own the metro but let everyone else use it out of the goodness of your heart.

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And maybe you’ve run the numbers to realize that those “terrors tunnels” would cost too much to be real. It’s a good excuse to ethnically cleanse a region you have no right to.

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How is he confusing the two? We selectively breed dogs for traits and do not allow their offspring to procreate. I’m sure there are puppy mills that kill the “undesirables” too. I don’t think OP is conflating anything.

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