DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 18d ago
Curious, considering the European Parliament does not have subponea powers. Do you have a name, or a case?
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by DocTomoe 19d ago
> surely your MEP will be receptive to your grievances, yeah I've yet to find a country - anywhere in the world - where a member of parliament is receptive to anything that's not the party line to begin with without copious am
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by DocTomoe 1mo ago
The GDPR does not apply to private citizens.
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by DocTomoe 2mo ago
After decades of watching people use these three words, I've come to the conclusion that 'national security threat' is a right-wing dog-whistle for 'we have no actual proof, but we dislike it, so let's ban it'.
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by DocTomoe 2mo ago
Pictures on a menu implies that the menu rarely changes - menu creation is expensive and slow - and has standard offerings. This then means that food is likely to be less fresh, less seasonal, and more likely to be precooked in large batche
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by DocTomoe 2mo ago
Most people I encounter who complain about AI use it as a shorthand for 'anything I don't like or disagree with'. When asked why they think something was created using genAI, they cannot point out reasons.
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by DocTomoe 2mo ago
Good, so we can agree that the minor hassle for the minority to get a slightly slower immigration line at the airport does not outweigh privacy rights for the majority. BTW: Where, and when, those wars started is a splendid way for historia
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by DocTomoe 2mo ago
With the major distinction being that a lot of Europeans have absolutely no intention of ever visiting the United States, a country with a history of sometimes more, sometimes less hostility and aggressive intelligence agencies. If you want
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by DocTomoe 2mo ago
The UK is a silly place[1] and has been pretty Orwellian for a long time. It is not a sensible idea to extrapolate their approach to a post-eu situation in the current member states. As for burning down the house ... as it apparently seems
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by DocTomoe 2mo ago
Nothing is brought to the Commission that local governments do not secretly want, but publically rage against because the voters are against it. When Brussles then decides, 'there's nothing we can do, it's an EU thing' .
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Network effects are real. It is hard to convince people to move over to your platform if the selling argument is 'not quite there yet, but we got you covered on the minilib front, plus it's less usable because of our weird interpr
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
> BIFF WAS REAL. Of course BIFF [1] was real - and he kept respawning. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
A few thoughts. First, many people back then did not have permanently-online systems. You loaded the new stuff, went off-line, read, answer maybe, and uploaded your answers. That gave you some time for meaningful answers (and - if you went
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
The generation before that (yours truly) still remembers the usenet glory days, and the liberal use of the kill file [1]. [1] https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/K/kill-file.html
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Both of these are meant for operating a home/private network. .self seems to be geared towards a 'accessible from the everyday net' kind of approach.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Please leave states out of this. The State™ is not your friend, and we don't need a future, even more criminal government to have access to the shutdown button of even more of our identity. Note that I did not single out an individual
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Has Apple ever lowered the price of a product line? This is just the new normal.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
As a relatively enthusiastic OpenAI user ... what did you do to trigger a verification process?
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
None of Ferris' books is younger than 10 years. Used copies are plentiful, hardly a library who has not been touched. At some time, the market has been satisfied.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Well, you can just give me a list of the domains you operate, and I can put them in the network blacklist.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
It was on for me again, 6 hours later. Ah, another domain for the blacklist.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
> parents could be heard telling their kids 'don't stay up too late reading', as if it could be a problem. F Having lived on this planet for a while now, I am under the impression that anything non-adults do always is a pr
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Late December 2010 was the last release of a Harry Potter movie, cutting off the movie -> book pipeline.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
So ... kids did read more in a time the single most influential kids book series was popular as compared to today? Surprise. Kids did read more when stories were more about friendship, horses and/or adventure and sci-fi rather than pre
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
As a non-American, that mostly is a reaction to rabid US jingoism, as in the US claiming themselves as "Numba 1" in everything, when usually, they are in the 10s or 20s at best. And to many Americans this is even worse: If you are
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Some do, especially in Portugal and the Azores, for tea. And I grow my own peppers and chillies in cold Germany - why would we not be able to do so on an industrial scale? Or you buy your tea from other first-world countries, such as Japan.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
In the end, it is up to the consumer. Local variants exist. But supermarkets are convenient and cheap.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
The pattern is not broken, it works as designed. This is mostly a money-pump from government(s) to private interests, mostly sitting in large IT houses.
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by DocTomoe 3mo ago
Considering chimps and humans share - depending on source, 95-99% of DNA, I'd be much more willing to consider them closer to humans than animals. In fact, there are - biologist - voices who argue that they should be moved to the homo
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by DocTomoe 4mo ago
> And in the EU, I thought individuals couldn't bring cases to a judge, they have to complain to a regulatory body that can decide whether proceeding is warranted or not. EU regulations get made into member state laws, and these var

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