dmantis

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by dmantis 5d ago
There is no way of redistributing those resources but violence if there is no economy. Say, you have 98 people who have literally nothing and no established way to obtain basic needs, and 2 people who has something based on whatever. Say, t
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by dmantis 5d ago
Why does that matter? b2b sector doesn't make any sense if there is no "clients" at some end point. There is no money in the end of the chain if everybody is jobless. And if 99% of the population don't have magic numbers
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by dmantis 5d ago
You are right, my answer was meant for parent's "“AI agent, here’s our assets, make money”" and "If every year 50% of the job disappears, how long until there is no human-ai team, just ai.". I mean it in a broader s
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by dmantis 5d ago
We use money to exchange resources (actual or promised) in form of credit to each other. If most of the population doesn't participate in the exchange, money is worthless. You can make numbers, but those are meaningless without the und
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by dmantis 6d ago
If there is no jobs, there is no modern economy in today's sense and "money" costs nothing. That will trigger very interesting consequences.
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by dmantis 10d ago
What's wrong with having more sovereignty over your data and infrastructure? You don't need to stop working on the mentioned issues together but cutting foreign spies the access to your citizens data and reducing their leverage. T
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by dmantis 16d ago
Sometimes you just can't. For example, the banking app I have refuses to be installed from the Play Store on GrapheneOS due to "not-certified" device, but works perfectly fine when installed by Aurora. The check seems to be p
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by dmantis 21d ago
Sure. However I have a strange feeling when I read all AI praises and how productive everyone is while seeing more and more broken things everywhere. Sometimes from the same very productive people. Otherwise we might have said that maybe br
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by dmantis 21d ago
Well, who knows, but in brave it looks alright, and ff for me has extremely narrow text with disproportionately huge images. I see a few upvotes so I assume at least some other users have the same.
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by dmantis 21d ago
> Single developer projects can build to the caliber and consistency of large development teams. Yet the simple blog website static page saying that looks very weird and broken on the desktop firefox. How large should be a development te
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by dmantis 24d ago
Article literally says it adds a guid, not a binary field indicating that the image is ai generated.
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by dmantis 27d ago
It became much easier to make open source too. The current biggest problem is reputation and QA. Ie I see hundreds of same kind of apps when I search for open source stuff on F-Droid, but I can't really say whether it was properly audi
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by dmantis 28d ago
LinkedIn users made slop long before LLMs, what would be left if the platform removes such a content?
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by dmantis 1mo ago
I have a good experience with Huawei Band. Huawei doesn't even require to pair the watch with an official app! So I never connected it to the Internet or installed their app, paired directly with gadgetbridge from the first day.
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by dmantis 1mo ago
I haven't encountered such a thing on private trackers for a very long time. Like, for years. They usually have a very decent moderation and if they say that an entry has some particular resolution/subs/audio then it has it.
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by dmantis 2mo ago
On the other hand, privacy becomes a luxury. People love signaling their status and standing out from the crowd. Entire car and clothing brands exist solely because of that. And if enough people stand out, it doesn't matter anymore.
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by dmantis 2mo ago
True. Though I have mixed feelings buying new pixel from Google after all these actions.
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by dmantis 2mo ago
The API behaves this way: > To request a user's age range and sharing status, you call the Play Age Signals API (beta) from your app at runtime. The default age ranges the API returns are 0-12, 13-15, 16-17, and 18+, but you can rec
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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year(android-developers.googleblog.com)
423 points by dmantis 2mo ago|525 comments
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by dmantis 2mo ago
Apparently, looking at Iraq and Vietnam, US citizens only believe in "personal freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the value of human life" when it comes to US citizens, not to humans in general. Even on HN, I saw
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by dmantis 2mo ago
The point is not what they believe, but how to avoid both breaking the law and not giving up your data, isn't it? As long as that's legal, what they believe doesn't matter. You are not legally obliged to keep your data on you
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by dmantis 3mo ago
Well, adware and spyware just became a normal thing that people surrendered to and don't call a malware anymore due to heavy lobbying. Google adds cloud AI spyware to the new android versions, feeds private email contents to it; meta t
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by dmantis 3mo ago
Such a convenient time frame with all think-of-the-children bs wave to point fingers at the one of the best VPN services our there with spotless reputation and raise a hysteria with duplicated stream of posts, isn't it? Surely just a c
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by dmantis 3mo ago
> Or does this -just happen to be- the kind of shady data gathering that they're warning against? How? There are no forms on the website. Wouldn't it actually be logical for a person advocating for privacy not disclosing his id
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by dmantis 3mo ago
World is not black and white. Most people would probably prefer to live in a world with low-power petty-crime rings and ability to be free and safe apart from having their wallet stolen once in a while rather than with e.g. Russian-like sta
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by dmantis 3mo ago
The first law about building technical and legal infrastructure to enable website blocking in Russia in 2012 was passed under the name of children protection. Everything else is an addition. People from duma (the russian parlament) also pub
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by dmantis 3mo ago
>signed/sealed OS image This way we will just have unremovable age verification, spyware, online accounts to use the os, name another bs from other vendors. What's the point of Linux then? The moment big corps and the state can
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by dmantis 3mo ago
That only works for the infrastructure of one entity. It doesn't establish direct connection to my friend's device by a key pair if he is outside of the particular organisation tailscale VPN. p2p apps need direct connections.
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by dmantis 3mo ago
Isn't that a good thing in a way? If everyone has the weapon and defense at the same time, we will fix security holes and live safer lifes instead of having some three letter agencies and military backdoors in everything. Pandora box i
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by dmantis 3mo ago
That's called NSA.

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