bslanej

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by bslanej 1y ago
The same result for the average poor sap, the only difference is who’s pocketing that price increase.
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by bslanej 1y ago
I don’t even consider cyberattack a possibility since I assume all systems involved are completely airgapped. This was obviously something done from the inside.
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by bslanej 1y ago
> opened the schools to help communities of color Farewell, racist schools. You won’t be missed.
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by bslanej 1y ago
That’s a really long stretch there.
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by bslanej 1y ago
What does open source have to do with this?
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by bslanej 1y ago
There will always be places devoid of normies, thankfully. They exist in every platform, new and old. Knowledge of dog whistles will be necessary though…
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by bslanej 1y ago
I’m too lazy to look it up but there was some string you could send over IRC that would make some routers drop the connection immediately - if you pasted that string in a big channel you would see dozens of people immediately disconnect.
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by bslanej 1y ago
That’s hyperbolic. An LLM gets you like… 90% of the way there. That’s much better than the previous baseline of 0%
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by bslanej 1y ago
Have you tried using code generated by an LLM? It rarely runs at all until you fix it yourself. It reminds me of how ezines would publish source codes to run exploits with slight errors so script kiddies couldn’t run them if they didn’t kno
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by bslanej 1y ago
How do you “accidentally post a photo”?
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by bslanej 1y ago
>it's like saying "hey I got free lemonade here, but you can't have it unless I decide I like you first." Which is completely reasonable, you may need a different analogy.
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by bslanej 1y ago
More like they love their content so much that they think those who want to read it would endure that penance. If you are seeing ads it’s probably because you inadvertently disabled your ad blocker or it’s not properly configured.
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by bslanej 1y ago
You have to reverse engineer the protocol encryption, which is illegal in some places. Also, lots of copyrighted material such as NPC names and quest text must be stored in the server and transmitted from the server to the client, which is
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by bslanej 1y ago
First, to download the world of Warcraft client, you need to log into the battlenet client, which requires an account. Second, the world of Warcraft client is completely useless without a server to connect to. Alternative world of Warcraft
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by bslanej 1y ago
I think maybe later means no. But it’s worded to assure the user that the choice is reversible.
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by bslanej 1y ago
Because our metabolisation mechanisms are extremely complex and many things, like genetics, decide how we metabolise food; we are not petrol engines.
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by bslanej 1y ago
I agree, but I don’t see how facebook getting punished gets us any closer to a good situation.
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by bslanej 1y ago
Both parents working makes child rearing extremely hard but there are some obvious taboos around this discussion.
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by bslanej 1y ago
Your comment mentions that your nephew swaps between games every 5 minutes but it doesn’t say why that is bad. Or maybe I don’t see how the argument follows.
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by bslanej 1y ago
Piracy is very good and morally right except when it’s someone I don’t like doing it.
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by bslanej 1y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15793579/ https://lipidworld.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12944...
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by bslanej 1y ago
Screens were much narrower then so constraining the width of text was not necessary.
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by bslanej 1y ago
> or a president nobody in Europe voted for. Are you talking about the European Commission, which we didn’t vote for?
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by bslanej 1y ago
> He and his cohort had to decide which health-insurance plan to choose, how much of his salary to devote to saving for retirement and other financial details. “Every one of us went out into the hallway and called our parents,” he admits
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by bslanej 1y ago
> I feel like GrapheneOS shot itself in the foot, being exclusive to Pixel phones. Pixel phones were great, in the past, but now they're mediocre Interesting that someone would say this. I’ve had several Nexus and Pixel phones in th