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by brendyn 6d ago
People aren't property. Hong Kong belongs to Hong Kong people. If you ask a typical Chinese people to explain why Hong Kong or Taiwan belong to China, they will never at any point consider the will of the born and raised there. They wi
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by brendyn 10d ago
Apologies for political commentary, but I just say this in drew defaults blog: “ Daniel Berntsson Known for: Mullvad VPN (co-founder, co-owner) Daniel is the co-founder of Mullvad VPN, alongside Fredrik Strömberg. In June 2026, Daniel donat
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by brendyn 10d ago
I'm confused. Shouldn't you conclude it's unethical /not/ to support safety research based off your own points. My understanding of "safety" is that it means formalising morality, ensuring AI doesn't
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by brendyn 13d ago
I was curious about this claim "... that any coverage of a woman’s appearance, even flattering coverage, diminishes voter perception of her competence. " So I skimmed the linked oxford academy article. I can't see where it su
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by brendyn 16d ago
Checkout the GNU name system https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html However, the problem is inherently "{unique, short, decentralized}, pick two". GNUnet allows everyone to freely build their associations of name
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by brendyn 23d ago
Stop doing it then. Often we see the logical conclusion to something, but then our brains just shrug it off and chooses ignorance. I think it is necessary at this point to find emotionally stimulating content such as videos of slaughterhous
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by brendyn 2mo ago
Maybe because it was mistaken. I just set my grapheneos to a 35 character password to test it and it didnt seem to have any issue.
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by brendyn 4mo ago
To any commenters, please link me to any great resources (documentaries/videos/books) that you feel best demonstrates the advanced intelligence and awareness of other species. I know people that think "fish only have 7 second
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by brendyn 6mo ago
Try going in to edit mode you'll freak out if you not prepared
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by brendyn 7mo ago
I was trying to upload a 300mb video via the local police's web interface, a very important matter. I had to set my phone screen to stay on for 30 minutes and then leave the web browser open without touching it. Disabling all power sav
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by brendyn 7mo ago
I use osmand for privacy but I think it just emphasises main roads. In Melbourne it always suggests turning off cemetery road west because it doesn't know it's congested and will get me stuck for 20 minutes. And there are some mis
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by brendyn 7mo ago
Same issue as Monds comments. When arch pushes an update the package database becomes inconsistent until cachyos syncs it, which can take 30 minutes. Cachy packages just increment a nonce on the package version numbers so when arch pushes u
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by brendyn 7mo ago
Separate grapheneos accounts for everything does that I believe
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by brendyn 7mo ago
I've never heard of this program but I heard the voice in my head pronounce it is p-yes immediately. Apparently I've internalised GNU English to totally native level.
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by brendyn 8mo ago
If LLMs weren't created by us but where something discovered in another species' behaviour it would be 100% labelled intelligence
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by brendyn 8mo ago
Are you able to share evidence for this?
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by brendyn 9mo ago
You can download the entirety of Wikipedia. YouTube is blocking YouTube downloaders. It's a crime against humanity that they lured people into to contribute videos to this platform. By losing money for years before being acquired, they
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by brendyn 9mo ago
I really hope this suceeds. I dream of a day where I can shop online and pay as conveniently as Chinese QR code based payment systems, but with full privacy. I've followed GNUnet for years, and what inspires me about it is that it is t
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by brendyn 9mo ago
Obviously yes to the first question. How could you possibly not have the right to operating your own heart. Naturally it would generally not be a good idea.
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by brendyn 9mo ago
Is it possible to get the authentication done without running their proprietary JavaScript login page?
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by brendyn 10mo ago
I think this normalises running untrustworthy, abusive proprietary software, because they can at least be somewhat contained. The only reason I have apps like Facebook on my android phone is that I have sufficient trust in GrapheneOSs permi
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by brendyn 10mo ago
I used to have a flexible silicon keyboard I could roll up and carry but some of the keys died
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by brendyn 10mo ago
Nothing. Look at the deathscape polluted smoggy skies in India as people walk around without masks coughing.
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by brendyn 10mo ago
To me, I find it a bit frustrating that Arch linux routinely has "manual intervention required" problems every single year where the intervention is just a single command that pacman could have just ran themselves if they so desir
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by brendyn 10mo ago
It's the same with Dying Light. They have a neglected Linux version and I downloaded 16GiB before i realised to switch to the Windows version and start again.
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by brendyn 10mo ago
Emacs already does that with TRAMP via SSH -- You just open a file like /ssh:user@server:/etc/hosts the main downside is if your connection is laggy Emacs will lock up momentarily. There is an ongoing effort to improve the mu
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by brendyn 10mo ago
Wine is the chemo to the cancer that is windows :) it's not a step forward that solves a fundamental problem, rather, a workaround for a problem we created
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by brendyn 11mo ago
Laws are enforced by violence. If you disobey, and refuse to pay fines eventually someone will break your door down and drag you out in handcuffs
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by brendyn 11mo ago
In practicing no because in the end it generally takes a human intelligence to fully understand the requirements of a particular program, sanity check everything, get the right dependency versions and fix build errors. For code library repo
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by brendyn 11mo ago
Now in grapheneosin the updates settings it allows you to apply Google's upstream security patches, but grapheneos is forbidden from releasing the source code for these until a certain time later. You can read more about it on their bl

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