TaLiTr

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by TaLiTr 6d ago
> So I'd say that you shouldn't say that if you're relying on your own feelings and impressions to judge facts not in evidence, because your instincts may be wrong. That's exactly my point. That teacher didn't ha
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by TaLiTr 6d ago
> “You should have failed this class. I’m going to make accommodations so that no student can pass next semester the same way you did.” > This is what my Ancient History II professor told me when my group and I got our final group pro
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by TaLiTr 6d ago
Is this arguing in favour of Spotify? > buy 13 songs a month, every month, for a year, and see how big your library is. Sure. And when I had Spotify I added about that to my liked songs every month. > There is a compounding effect Tha
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by TaLiTr 8d ago
I'd say it's similar but not the same. One thing I can see from a quick skim is that cloud in a bottle can be set up on local infrastructure, this requires a cloud hosted VPS.
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by TaLiTr 8d ago
> One needs to make their server machine accessible to everyone No not really, what gave you that idea? > which isn't generally possible due to how networks work Complete nonsense. Lots of people do it, many more have the capabil
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by TaLiTr 8d ago
> Seriously, take a look at the setup instructions and tell me with a straight face that a 4 year old could set this up. It's also not accessible to people in comas, what's your point? The instructions are "import the file
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by TaLiTr 8d ago
In what way are those remotely similar? Veganism is incompatible with bacon. You can self-host, and also pay for cloud services when they are better than what you can self-host. If anything it's like suggesting making food instead of g
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by TaLiTr 15d ago
> It's sad, infuriating, discouraging. A deluge of slop drowning the last embers of authentic human creativity. Eh. You're waxing poetic about some sort of 'authentic' human craft, but I'm not convinced that&#x27
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by TaLiTr 16d ago
Back in my day, villages weren't even in the game. My highschool classmates and I still found something compelling about it.
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by TaLiTr 16d ago
> Few people enjoy it. I am the majority opinion here. The majority of people do not play videogames. The majority of those do not play any roguelikes. Citing the majority is completely useless. Furthermore I'm not convinced you ca
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by TaLiTr 16d ago
> A perfect game isn't a game that casts a wide net, a perfect game is a game that satisfies its target audience. Maybe, but that's completely tangential to what the GP said. And aside from that those games with a wide net do h
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by TaLiTr 19d ago
For anyone confused about timelines, they started releasing un-obfuscated builds in 2025. In 2019 they started releasing Obfuscation mappings. Before that it was all Minecraft wizards with excellent tooling.
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by TaLiTr 19d ago
I didn't assume a paper menu, I'd love it if there was though. Those at least can be scanned, pinned to the fridge, etc. But in my experience they mostly have a board over the counter that I'm forced to stand there and take
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by TaLiTr 21d ago
> it outperforms GLM-5.2 across benchmarks and real-world workloads at one-tenth the price, while approaching Claude Opus 4.8 on coding and agentic benchmarks. From a biased source, but would be big if true. I've had great results
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by TaLiTr 21d ago
> We could all get together and inundate you with DMCA takedown for our Intellectual Property The same morally repugnant scummyness X is currently engaging in? > It's not your content, and you're cheating us all! You haven&#
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by TaLiTr 21d ago
Nobody should have those rights. Copyright has been a disaster for the human race.
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by TaLiTr 21d ago
I'm copying your comment for my wall of false equivalences.
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by TaLiTr 21d ago
> Don’t go there. Plenty of other restaurants to choose from. They just lost a customer due to their hostility. This is a wild take to me. Around here pretty much nobody posts their menu online on any website, the technical literacy is
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by TaLiTr 22d ago
> I really wish client side end to end encryption would become more widespread in the developer community. I think asking every self-hosted app to implement their own encryption is a massive waste of resources. If you need the data encry
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by TaLiTr 26d ago
> Eh, if your take of this had any bearing to reality than I don't think most of the books written by Isaac Asimov would have gotten very far, but instead they've defined robot science fiction for decades. I'm talking abou
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by TaLiTr 26d ago
> Soon a robot can commit a murder but nothing will be done because of your line of reasoning. That's rather hyperbolic. Are you seriously suggesting in that situation the robot should be accused of murder? The robot's operator
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by TaLiTr 26d ago
As of right now, on Firefox for Android, I am prompted to log in.
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by TaLiTr 26d ago
> Then the AI companies can simply download a copy of Anna's Archive. And so can everyone else. That's the ideal outcome. Only Anti-AI types are against this, they probably don't even care about the books, it's just a
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by TaLiTr 26d ago
Unlike archive.org which is a real business, Anna's Archive is basically piracy. You could try to sue them but you'd have to find them first. This IMO makes them more resilient against that sort of thing, and also means they can a
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by TaLiTr 26d ago
Massively missing the point. Having paper books isn't the point. Preserving copies of books is the point, so history isn't lost. Often those books only exist as paper copies due to their age. I don't really care what happen
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by TaLiTr 28d ago
At work we bought a used tablet off eBay to replace a customer device where they really wanted an identical (obsolete) model. OMG the amount of extra crap that Verizon branded tablet had pre-installed was agonizing. All system apps so you c
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by TaLiTr 28d ago
> I think he’s a net positive to the world. As a person he's either a poser or a neo-nazi. As a government agent he's responsible for many deaths and as of yet untold harm. Tesla was one of the earliest EV manufacturers, but t
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by TaLiTr 29d ago
What a strange and pretentious comment. They're not mutually exclusive, two things can be had at the same time.
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by TaLiTr 29d ago
To "engage with your point": > hire a ghost writer. Writers are affordable and plentiful. > use your position as a presumably well remunerated tech person to hire a writer to cater to it. Ah yes "fuck you, pay me."
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by TaLiTr 1mo ago
> surely stuffing a low-mid-tier game full of microtransactions works much better than selling a really good game. Do they? That doesn't seem like a guarantee. Battlefront 2 was the most high profile game in recent memory I can thin

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