Leno1225

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by Leno1225 6mo ago
That’s not the social contract, that’s the dual contracts of residency (protection from fellow residents) and citizenship (protection from foreign elements). You have the opportunity of consent; on your majority you can leave the country fo
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by Leno1225 6mo ago
Pretty much all US news is the exact opposite of a broad and bare presentation of the facts. It’s a narrow set of facts presented through either a partisan lens or a purely business context, the difference is in what base facts are chosen t
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by Leno1225 7mo ago
“As long as the user understands basic safety instructions” Yes, the internet has basic safety instructions, too (and probably just as many bother to read them), number one or two is “almost nothing online is ever really private”. I learne
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by Leno1225 7mo ago
Classic example of “we figured out we could, didn’t consider if we should”
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by Leno1225 7mo ago
Yeah, or water towers. No need to play god here.
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by Leno1225 7mo ago
It’s a shit law, but it’s publisher- and distributor-targeted, so the overly-dramatic armchair-rebels in the forum can calm themselves; nobody’s coming after the person with a Linux machine bc it’s not compliant. Because it’s a state law, C
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by Leno1225 8mo ago
Microsoft gets largely pilloried on every UI rethink, Apple’s Liquid Glass just annoyed everyone I’ve heard comment on it, and, fwiw, YouTube Music asking if it feels outdated is an unnecessary annoyance.
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by Leno1225 8mo ago
England developed steam engines in an era where slaves were increasingly expensive and less socially acceptable than before and , contrarily, in an era where exploitation of the poor was still very normal and acceptable. Hephaestus/Vu
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by Leno1225 9mo ago
Right. I was also pleasantly surprised; it looks great, reads fluidly, and is clean on the page. It is somewhat artsy, to be sure, but nothing complaint-worthy in comparison to modern websites.
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by Leno1225 1y ago
Large Language Models are never gonna drive cars, they’re plausible text-generating machines, not general-purpose computer intelligences