freeflight

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by freeflight 3y ago
How so? Any competent intelligence service will not just depend on the goodwill of a corporation to secure access to assets and intelligence. If they cooperate that's good and convenient, but that does not mean the intelligence service
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by freeflight 3y ago
I consider that plausible with Google due to Google's funding history [0], but Apple is afaik way less "influenced" and the way this pwn was pulled off could also have been done by compromising Apple's hardware supply ch
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by freeflight 3y ago
The centralization of the web through a for profit oligopoly is not the same as having a central respiratory of data by a non-profit. One of those destroyed net neutrality and most online free speech, the other is a charity trying to be t
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by freeflight 3y ago
This ignores that such a breaking up of the US would very likely be based on similar dynamics as "balkanizations" that see smaller groups put their own identidy above that of the bigger group. Sentiments that will be reinforced du
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by freeflight 3y ago
There is a lot to worry about, the modern web has become incredible bad at retention but really good at memory-holing escpecially of old content. So much more would already be lost without the Wayback Machine. It's what happens when a
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by freeflight 3y ago
Funny how the "top" on that seems to be a rather subjective interpretation, could have sworn China was made out as top, and two centuries ago it was apparently the US; https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248
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by freeflight 3y ago
You can talk to people with smart earbuds, but you have no clue if those smart earbuds are recording what you say or not. The person wearing them could be on a call, and the caller on the other side would hear what you say. The person weari
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by freeflight 3y ago
For motorbikes there are already options to get a HUD in the helmet, i.e. a CrossHelmet or Argon Transform. This is not an endorsement of these products, I have no idea if they are actually any good.
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by freeflight 3y ago
There is a SFW filter? I just let it generate a random woman with no prompt, and it gave me a pretty good result, except there is a mask on the face and literally bloody nude boobs; https://generated.photos/human-generator&#
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by freeflight 3y ago
As far as I remember CSGO did way better than CS:Source, which never really caught on until the point where it became a bit of a "retro" curiosity.
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by freeflight 3y ago
I'd argue the original mod/1.6 had a much bigger impact on gaming than CSGO. The impact of Steam, as the first digital distribution platform for video games, is probably magnitudes bigger again. Valve was so far ahead of the com
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by freeflight 3y ago
Then go right ahead and do that, there will be a myriad of official government instutions, from all over the world, that would be very interested in your findings. Or MS could simply share the keys with those government institutions there h
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by freeflight 3y ago
That's the last ~10 years of web developement in a nutshell, instead we have darkpatterns as normalized "industry standard".
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by freeflight 3y ago
> I don't doubt that Windows collects and transmits telemetry data (hell, text editors do that nowadays), but if an analysis of that exists, it is not in this article. Such an analysis does not exist because that traffic is encryp
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by freeflight 3y ago
There is a pretty decent chance some VPN providers are actually intelligence service, or other bad actor, honey pots. It's part of VPN that most users these days don't even understand, as VPN providers are heavily advertised on
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by freeflight 3y ago
> Nope! That would require the server operator to participate Or it would require compromising the server [0] [0] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3137065/shadow-brokers-lea...
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by freeflight 3y ago
> I don't share this opinion personally, it would be only two times worse, it could be considered but at 50 to 100 times worse than non fossil tech, it's just not worth investing. This ain't about investments for the lon
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by freeflight 3y ago
Afaik on an international level there's been a somewhat universal consent that natural gas is the "transition fossil fuel of choice" [0], due to being the fossil fuel with the lowest emissions. It also has the added bonus tha
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by freeflight 3y ago
There were plenty of reactions, among them an attempt to get an international, and independent investigation going through the UN [0] [0] https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15243.doc.htm
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by freeflight 3y ago
ChatGPT currently has some issues [0] [0] https://status.openai.com/
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by freeflight 4y ago
If you actually care to inform, then you can add a source to give the information some third party background and more details. Expecting others to put in the work to authenticate your claims, by sending them on wild goose chases on Google
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by freeflight 4y ago
> A bad-faith request for a source is just an attempt to waste the other person’s time. Why not add a source to begin with, so others don't have to "waste" their time asking for one/looking one up? With anything tha
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by freeflight 4y ago
I see nothing wrong with an "obsession" with sources. The www was very much built on sharing http links as a form of citation, no reason not to make use of such an fundamental and established function. Imho the opposite has become
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by freeflight 4y ago
If Twitter is the frame of reference being used, then Reddit wins out by virtue of layout and content allowances. Trying to cram context and nuance, about topics that can be very big and complicated, into 280 character text bites is not the
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by freeflight 4y ago
> How often do you casually dispense medical advice to strangers? Semi-regularly, as I work in palliative healthcare. I'm just not sure why that would be relevant to "medical advice" like "If you experience too int
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by freeflight 4y ago
I wonder if these differences in effect might have to do with the emergence, and wider adoption, of abuse-deterrent formulations of drugs? Case in point; https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/vallons-abuse-resistant-...
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by freeflight 4y ago
> The brand one slow releases very evenly while the generic just slams me with the calm, focused joy followed by a significant emotional low for hours. Prolonged-release of an orally drug taken in pill form is a "special feature&q
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by freeflight 4y ago
> Perhaps they sampled in the wrong time frame. The full article might have more info, but the linked one doesn't. The data was collected over nearly 27 years, the link to the full open access paper is in the references; https:&#
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by freeflight 4y ago
Even more impressive is the fact how it can do all these things for around the same price as other smartphones, while being way more rugged. Definitely gonna keep those CAT phones in mind for the next time I need a new one.
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by freeflight 4y ago
Tho I do remember a whole lot of "We can reconfigure the tricoder to do the thing"

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