AlBugdy

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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
Read a few of your posts. Just wanted to comment on how I like your to-the-point succinct style and how you care about privacy. :) As a suggestion, I saw you have RSS: https://honeypot.net/feed.xml I didn't see it ment
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I'm afraid that could lead to political instability. Maybe not, but I imagine if 59% of people vote "X" but 60% were needed, people could revolt or at least drastic and unpredictable changes in voting in the next elections co
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I think direct democracy is bad for a couple of reasons (some are probably rephrased versions of another reason): * not everyone can be an expert on everything; * people can't know what they're not sufficiently knowledgeable about
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
Might be unrelated to the specific GUI discussion but I absolutely hate how there is no threaded discussion on Bluesky or Mastodon (or Twitter which they desperately try to mimic for some reason). You have to use "@username" which
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
> My nutritionist tells me that recovering this quickly would have probably been just about impossible for a vegetarian or vegan, without having an iron infusion done. "probably been just about impossible" doesn't mean &qu
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
So you put up a fight because people put something on their own land that doesn't look pretty without a HOA agreement in place? Or am I missing something? If I were living there and wanted to do an upgrade like solar panels but then so
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
We the citizens, specifically the tech-inclined people who would be able to set up wallets for the different vendors. I have bought fast food from a small non-chain store with Bitcoin once, for what it's worth.
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
Can anyone provide historical data for "job busts" or other types of declines in tech employment, massive layoffs or hire freezes? I seem to read about something like this every few years. Would like some data to see if this trend
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
> This is a perfect illustration of what cracks me up about the hyperbolic reactions to Mythos. Yes, increased automation of cutting-edge vulnerability discovery will shake things up a bit. No, it's nowhere near the top of what shou
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
2/2 > You see, the art should make people stop and think. You stopped and thought about the rocks. I'd guess... I cannot know obviously, but still I'd dare to guess, that you missed the opportunity to reflect on your feeli
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I got a "That comment was too long" for the first time so I'll split it in 2. 1/2 First I'd like to say I enjoy communicating with you even if it seems like I'd disagreeing or being obtuse or combative. It&#x27
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
Sure, if the chili peppers or the beans are not packaged, you could buy as little as you want. Sometimes you might get funny looks, sometimes they'll give you the bean for free as it's not worth the hassle to sell an individual be
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I remember a story about someone my parents told me. They really liked a certain musician (forgot which one, I was told the story like 30 years ago), then my parents mentioned that the musician was gay and then the friend stopped listening
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
Tangential, but the nicotine is not as bad as people think.
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I found https://sonification.design/ where there are floods and evictions and other things unrelated to sound being sonified. So sonification isn't a new idea. Maybe sonifications of trains is, though, as I didn't
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
> if you want to learn how tricky the question is, you should probably ask some trained person about it, like a philosopher of art. They can talk about it for dozens of hours without stopping to breathe. This is tangential to the discuss
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
Maybe I wasn't clear with my definition of "random" for this purpose. > The underlying driver… the trains locations are on a schedule. > There are variations as trains run fast or slow or not at all. Even those events a
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I get that. I just haven't really been exposed to AI music unless I wanted to be exposed to it, so it doesn't annoy me. I've read about how Spotify and similar services are full of AI music and how it's hard to sift thro
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I can understand how generic AI slop or even random notes can be better than shitty pop music. If you don't expect it to rival your favorite artists, you won't be disappointed. If you've led to believe you'll listen to a
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I get than seeing someone is different than it being explained to you, but not by much. "Picture 4 big stones with a metal mesh covering parts of them so... blah blah.". I can picture it if you explain it in detail. You can even m
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
I've had a hard time appreciating art so far, especially the ones that focus primarily on the concept, like this one. I get that it's novel and interesting, but I can't see myself spending more than a few minutes on it. There
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
Unlike other commenters than seem to place more importance on concept, expectations and whether anyone can make it, yours is the only comment that says AI music is recognizable as uninspired, derivative slop. I imagine for some genres it wo
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
So it has to do with our expectations (what we're promised) and with the fact anyone can make it? I get both points but neither seems to be about the music itself.
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
It's interesting that a lot people like this but dislike AI-generated music. The music itself here is completely random to us, yet I can't see how AI-generated music can be worse than random. The idea is novel/fun/cool,
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
What's so special about these designs that makes it copyrightable? The keyboards in the image look very much like any other keyboard I've seen.
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
> Apple doesn't allow a persistent connection except through their own notification framework. How can iOS not allow persistent connections at all? How would a long download work or a call in the background work at all? > Regardl
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
So Signal is sending the notifications through Apple's ecosystem somehow, presumably to save battery life by not having a persistent connection to Signal's servers? That's what I think happens on Android, too. When I had Line
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
iOS is a walled garden and it will be as strong an argument as ever, regardless of how long iOS has been a walled garden for. Also, don't you see how having to buy your privacy for 15£, even for 0.01£ is ridiculous? And to your last po
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
What do people expect when handing over their computing to a for-profit company? You can use various services where you knowingly hand over some of your data or offload a computational load, but with Apple it's like you're handing
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by AlBugdy 5mo ago
> How many false positives did you go through to do that? You guys never say. You also never do live demos of your AI because you know it's going to hallucinate and make your company a laughing stock. The false positive rate might b

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