giantfrog

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by giantfrog 2mo ago
Fair!
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by giantfrog 2mo ago
I have great memories of Snow Leopard. It even gave you back a few GB of storage (IIRC) at a time when every GB really counted.
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by giantfrog 2mo ago
The Fallout analogy is perfect. Limitation stimulates imagination. I think that’s part of why essentially limitless AI models produce things that are so devoid of it.
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by giantfrog 2mo ago
An airplane is not something I would personally want to beta test
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by giantfrog 3mo ago
Putting aside whether or not I agree with the policy or whether it’s at all reasonable, a policy of restricting access to information because there’s a fear it could be used to create a weapon of mass destruction seems entirely different th
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by giantfrog 3mo ago
The fact that your username is a racist meme seems relevant to this complaint and how legitimate it is.
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by giantfrog 3mo ago
But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. “Someone has filed an objection against something you wrote,” No one in their right mind is going to do anything other than ignore and/or delete an email this stupid.
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by giantfrog 4mo ago
I think there might be a difference between “I’m violating copyright law to enjoy a work of art” and “I’m violating copyright law on a global, species-wide scale to create a trillion dollar company and enrich myself.” Maybe you can argue th
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by giantfrog 4mo ago
If Google changes the internet so that no one visits websites anymore, no one is going to make or maintain websites. And at that point, A) What is left of the internet and B) What is left for Google to summarize via AI?
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by giantfrog 5mo ago
How the hell are most people supposed to balance the risk of not updating software against the risk of updating software?
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by giantfrog 7mo ago
Libertarian publication run by the wealthy suggests course of action that will disproportionately harm the poor, I’m shocked!
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by giantfrog 7mo ago
This system introduces a fun question: What’s more likely, that you suffer total spontaneous memory loss or your best friends betray you?
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by giantfrog 7mo ago
This is fanfic not science
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by giantfrog 8mo ago
RFK Jr: “Not so fast”
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by giantfrog 8mo ago
Because Firefox users have been clamoring for the ability to turn them off rather than the opposite.
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by giantfrog 9mo ago
Cool idea, bad AI slop execution
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by giantfrog 1y ago
Still seems far, far more likely that the average user will have their account stolen via password theft/reuse than the more complicated scheme the author is describing. Links instead of codes also fixes the issue.
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by giantfrog 1y ago
Big loss for the web.
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by giantfrog 1y ago
This will never, ever, ever stop happening until executives start going bankrupt and/or to jail for negligence. Even then it won’t stop, but it would at least decrease in frequency and severity.
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by giantfrog 1y ago
The author was not only a longtime CIA employee, but staff historian. Not the most trustworthy source here. https://nationalsecurity.gmu.edu/nicholas-dujmovic/
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by giantfrog 1y ago
If you'd told me several years ago I'd be paying $10/month for a search engine, I'd say that's crazy talk. But it genuinely is worth it.
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by giantfrog 1y ago
This is a really fun exercise; a rare example of something that's "data-centric" without being soulless. I think it's fascinating how it illustrates weirdness about how Americans think about and categorize "ethnic&q
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by giantfrog 1y ago
Which brands?
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by giantfrog 1y ago
I'd argue it's not extreme enough: Use an alphanumeric password or passphrase, as long as you can tolerate, instead of a PIN.
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by giantfrog 1y ago
Right, I'd recommend anyone worried about this to power off their laptop (assuming you've got full disk encryption turned on) and phone before going through security, customs, etc.
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by giantfrog 1y ago
Fun tip: If you have an iPhone, rapidly pressing the power button five times will force your phone to require a password before Face ID will work again. Turning your device off entirely will also necessitate password reentry.
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by giantfrog 1y ago
We’re really messing this place up huh
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by giantfrog 2y ago
This reads like a dispatch from an alien who’s spent the past year studying human beings.
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by giantfrog 2y ago
Looks like an efficient way to lose a lawsuit.
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by giantfrog 2y ago
Yeah this is the case—-sorry, should have clarified that

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