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Xi pushes 'Greater BRICS' economic ties to give bloc larger global role(reuters.com)
6 points by _djo_ 3d ago|1 comments
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Automattic confirms Mullenweg back as CEO after attempted ouster by board(techcrunch.com)
17 points by _djo_ 4d ago|0 comments
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The gpg.fail aftermath: On responsible disclosure, GPG, & the state of security [video](media.ccc.de)
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by _djo_ 6d ago
It's optimised for distance to and from the depot and in-city store locations. Presumably it charges at the depot while loading. Trucks have a lot more space for batteries, so with EV trucks it's all about balancing range and weig
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Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent(engadget.com)
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by _djo_ 9d ago
Fair call on the funding, I know the US was paying for the French military's involvement for years. Still, by active support I meant troops on the ground, which happened significantly later. Who resumed the fighting does matter, as e
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by _djo_ 9d ago
These, again, are export control restrictions at the point of sale and transfer, and the US follows them too. It's not the same thing as what we're discussing regarding the US's changing requirements regarding systems that em
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by _djo_ 10d ago
The US only became actively involved in supporting South Vietnam a decade after it had achieved independence from France in 1955, after the negotiated division into North and South Vietnam in Geneva, and after the last French forces left in
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by _djo_ 10d ago
It doesn't matter how much you go on about 'NATO propaganda', the simple truth is that Russia invaded Ukraine, illegally and without reasonable cause, and did so for its own interests. What's more, Ukraine was nowhere ne
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by _djo_ 10d ago
Can you name any examples? European countries and the EU as a whole don't have an equivalent of the US's ITAR 'See-Through' rule, which lets the US control the usage of a system that has any US components. I'm not a
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by _djo_ 14d ago
Leave them be, they retired at the top of their game and they’re enjoying life doing something different. If they rejoin and tour again it’ll be because they feel the desire to, not because of ‘fan’ campaigns like this. Also the whole thing
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Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations(washingtonpost.com)
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by _djo_ 18d ago
No, Hubble didn't reuse any components from spy satellites. However, the chosen mirror diameter was decided by the size of the mirrors being produced for the Keyhole programme, as it meant NASA would be able to reuse Perkin-Elmer'
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by _djo_ 22d ago
It used to. The deeply ideological current administration has decreed that it may no longer do so, and must instead pretend that climate change doesn't exist. [0][1] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025
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by _djo_ 28d ago
Correct. It's also often forgotten how much the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) had done to make government more streamlined and efficient between 1993 and 1998. That took care of pretty much all the low-hanging f
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by _djo_ 28d ago
The Democrats have, in the past forty years, been the only party to have consistently been able to reduce the deficit, even creating a surplus by the end of Clinton's presidency. They've also been the only party to have successful
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway(shkspr.mobi)
454 points by _djo_ 29d ago|422 comments
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Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods See Them in Action(macrumors.com)
4 points by _djo_ 29d ago|1 comments
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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets(theguardian.com)
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by _djo_ 29d ago
You’re supposed to believe it’s factual because you have investigative reporting by multiple newspapers with good track records, on the record statements by bookstore owners, and evidence presented in court cases like the one regarding Anth
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by _djo_ 29d ago
Those poor AI companies, they’re the real victims here! /s There are several things to criticise here, including the US’s terrible copyright laws and the publishers involved in that case who care more about in-print than out-of-print b
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by _djo_ 29d ago
Of course they’re not more profitable, they’re negative externalities that aren’t being priced into a finite commodity. That’s the whole point: Companies are doing this because it’s easier and cheaper for them, and those doing it now are fi
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
X and Threads do this too. I wish they all wouldn't, messing with screenshots should only ever be done when preventing them as a security measure.
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
Plus, the physical copy of the book has additional value in terms of forensic verifiability. You can prove the originality of the text and the absence of alterations, and can easily track changes between editions. Digital copies can be alte
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
We really need to be thinking about the long-term implications of what Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are doing here. Because it's not just one company doing this, it's dozens if not hundreds of them, all with huge budgets
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
I'm not failing to understand that, I just don't think it's an insurmountable barrier. You could overcome it through various means, including helping to set up a clearinghouse for bulk rights, implementing a data clean room a
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
Have you seen AI companies making any effort, with their newfound immense power to get the attention of lawmakers, to lobby for amendments to copyright law to make this exercise a less destructive exercise? Because none are.
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
That copyright law is a mess doesn't mean that companies that buy up rare books, destroy them, and keep the contents locked up are beyond criticism for their actions. They don't have to scan and destroy these books, it's an e
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
Then find a way to make them digitally available, verbatim, like Google Books attempted to do. I'm sure with the power that AI companies have they can have legislation amended to make it happen. You're defending the indefensible h
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by _djo_ 1mo ago
Making the contents of the books available verbatim afterward would be a less bad option, yes. That's not happening though.

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