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by digiown 7mo ago
I agree with controls on addictive/exploitative platforms like Facebook or Instagram. These can be feasibly controlled at the source. In principle I agree with keeping some content away from children, but I don't think any of the
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by digiown 7mo ago
That seems to require having control of the discord, and can't be done by individual users. A hostile moderator can also kick/ban you which stops from deleting things.
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by digiown 7mo ago
I don't mean that type of archive, but rather "just in case" data like "last month's scrape of this website" after we scraped it 5 more times this month or higher resolution versions of book scans. You might w
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by digiown 7mo ago
Obvious note but if you run this on anything other than your own computer it nullifies E2EE.
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by digiown 7mo ago
Buried here is the fact that Gajim seems to have had big updates lately. I might just switch back to XMPP from Matrix, as all the matrix clients on Linux suck frankly. Conversations on Android is significantly better than any Matrix client
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by digiown 7mo ago
Semi-ephemeral is the wrong way to view Discord et al. It's only that way if you actively remove your messages after a while, but they have made it as difficult as possible. Though the fact that it's hard to archive too, perhaps m
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by digiown 7mo ago
I don't think the HDDs are being used for any intensive loads. They have too much latency for most of that. It's probably just archival storage for their scraped content and generated slop.
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by digiown 7mo ago
> don't see much possibility of actual widespread bans Why do you think there would be regulation to honor the "underage signal", but not explicitly ban social media sites for "unverified" users? > seems point
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by digiown 7mo ago
Many laptops from last few years have soldered memory. Your previous laptop's SSD can also be reused, since those don't die that quickly compared to the laptop.
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by digiown 7mo ago
Bingo. A number of corporate interests don't want to let you own your personal computers for different reasons. Google/Apple wants you to get locked down devices, and cloud/AI providers want you to use their services from a w
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by digiown 7mo ago
I think banning facebook/instagram/etc is one of the special cases where it makes more sense to be enforced by the site, because people use these out of mainly peer pressure and network effect. If a majority is kept off, the rest
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by digiown 7mo ago
Individual used pieces of clothes are not nearly the same as unsold or returned (~new) available in bulk quantities.
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by digiown 7mo ago
If you have enough cores, av1an can do it pretty quickly by splitting the video into chunks.
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by digiown 7mo ago
I really suggest not using GPU encodes for this purpose unless it's mostly worthless archival content. You can save way more space using AV1 on CPU via things like av1an. If you really like H265 using it on CPU also gets much better qu
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by digiown 7mo ago
Meanwhile, over the border in France, software patents aren't a thing. That's why VLC gets to ignore it, by the way.
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by digiown 7mo ago
I'm not sure what I feel about depriving teens of general purpose computing devices, either, which is the logical consequence of both the pseudo-ZKP scheme and parent's "underage signal". I believe most of us here learne
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by digiown 7mo ago
You can make it zero too if going by this argument. Count up the individual points at which crimes were committed. The area adds up to zero since the number of crimes is finite.
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by digiown 7mo ago
I wonder if there would be standing to sue, since public schools are an agent of the government and sending your kids to school is mandatory. Lawsuits are the usual way these types of shenanigans get sorted. Can the government really force
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by digiown 7mo ago
A ZKP will work as a base, but the proof mechanism will have to be combined with anti-user measures like device attestation to prevent things like me offering an API to continually sign requests for strangers. You can rate-limit it, or you
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by digiown 7mo ago
I don't think it would be reliable enough. Small odds in favor of you and large variations (due to small market cap) require you to invest only small amounts based on the Kelly criterion, and I feel like the resources needed to carry o
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by digiown 7mo ago
Brand value particularly for commodity products is usually just a form of information asymmetry between consumers and suppliers, and creates economic inefficiency since it diverts expenditure from other products that can materially improve
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by digiown 7mo ago
Then that's not a donation, just some shenanigans to bypass the law, which regulators presumably understands could happen.
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by digiown 7mo ago
Brand-name clothes is not really a commodity, and there is nothing efficient about destroying inventory (at scale, destroying small returns might be efficient). The brand name is a psychological trick that transforms commodity items into pr
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by digiown 7mo ago
As the recipient of that donation, why would I actually destroy it when I can sell it?
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by digiown 7mo ago
Revanced is only distributed as patches, probably to avoid being susceptible to the claims against the original Vanced. Worth noting that ReVanced has a lot more patches than just YouTube.
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by digiown 7mo ago
For some reason I always preferred having tabs on desktop, so I can having stuff paused to be watched later.
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by digiown 7mo ago
I don't think prediction markets work well for that. It is a market and you can't really prevent anyone else from benefitting from the same victims, which dilutes your earnings.
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by digiown 7mo ago
That's good, but everyone has only a limited amount of social capital to refuse popular things. School teachers, which are essentially agents of the government, often make your children watch Youtube videos, for example.
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by digiown 7mo ago
We can start by forcing sites to treat crawlers equally. Google's main moat is less physical infrastructure or the algorithms, and more that sites allow only Google to scrape and index them. They can charge money for access or disallow
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by digiown 7mo ago
Interesting theory. I'm inclined to disagree, however. Prediction markets essentially allows people to trade information for money, even the types historically more difficult to trade. There aren't enough people betting on things

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