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by init2null 3y ago
The big instances don't care about the blocklist fascists. Mastodon.art consumes far more air than their users and those of their allies should receive. That being said, there are truly horrible servers that get almost universally bann
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by init2null 3y ago
That is an impressively terrible relationship technique, but I suppose the repulsion strategy works when someone's goal is to con only the most vulnerable of victims.
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by init2null 3y ago
I stick to men, and I find this truly absurd. Rough play can be fun, and it's a legitimate kink for both parties. It isn't violence unless the recipient isn't choosing to participate, but I suppose the French Porn Police migh
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by init2null 3y ago
The intent is more about avoiding legal and political risk. Even a grocery chain's LLM recipe generator gets bad press. I guess they need to warn you that drinking bleach is bad. I normally test LLMs by providing a list of bizarre &quo
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by init2null 3y ago
That is a cynical take, but there's plenty of truth there. Intelligence agencies in general are the purest distillation of the worldview that the ends justify the means.
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by init2null 3y ago
As we should. Canada is a trusted ally. India should know to expect healthy-ish democracies to share intel. India and Turkey are both great nations with so much potential, but they are stuck with toxic, dangerous leaders holding them back.
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by init2null 3y ago
To be fair, someone making $25,000 a year will have almost as much trouble paying out of pocket for an MRI as someone making $15,000. But the former won't qualify for Medicaid and the heavily-discounted health insurance won't do m
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by init2null 3y ago
People make "frivolous" visits because they are legally required to stabilize patients. This is what passes for a social safety net in the US, and we have failed in developing anything better for those not covered by Medicaid. Peo
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by init2null 3y ago
Kagi is an underrated superpower. It just works. I tried Google again recently, and I was astonished how mediocre the results were. If that's the gold standard for no-cost searching, the internet is in serious trouble.
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by init2null 3y ago
Apollo and RIF made modern advertising-infused Reddit usable for the blind, for mods, and for power users. Instead of at least working with popular apps by offering fair fees and reasonable deadlines, Reddit just killed them. I've seen
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by init2null 3y ago
Everyone seems to ignore that Threads may be interested in the rest of Fediverse: Wordpress and (if it ever integrates) Tumblr. It also secures them easy access to any other potential developments, such as Lemmy. While Fediverse integration
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by init2null 3y ago
It's snappy and stable now. 3.6 works great on my M1 Max. Both Eevee and Cycles have some nice accelerated performance. The render performance isn't Nvidia good, but I'm sure enjoying the superior stability and lack of VRAM l
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by init2null 3y ago
I've already seen that several times with image generation. Most recently was an article commenting on how the American smile was polluting generated photos. People can't decide what they want. Do they want licensed, curated comme
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by init2null 3y ago
I can't bring myself to fully believe that you're being sarcastic. It's just too real.
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by init2null 4y ago
They are sub-par if they aren't embracing the ecosystem. You can't use most of the features, and the lack of multipoint Bluetooth becomes painfully apparent. Also, you tend to get broader codec support with Android-targeted headph
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by init2null 4y ago
I too am astonished over some people's vitriol on the subject. I saw someone post over the weekend that said that they'll refuse to use #nobot since it's opt-out, and they'll instead just file GPDR requests against the c
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by init2null 4y ago
Apple ARM is heavily customized beyond the original design. Secure Enclave alone rules out third-party ARM, but there's also custom neural-network, video encoding, and Metal acceleration that just isn't found on any other chip. We
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by init2null 4y ago
Rural Eastern Washington has rotting 1Mbps DSL, line-of-sight towers on a few mountains (good luck seeing them), and overloaded 4G internet. And there are thousands and thousands of people here! Fiber-everywhere futurists are seeming more d
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by init2null 4y ago
To be fair, Russia and China have always been able to do anything that they want. If they can't find a law that fits, they'll create a conviction for another another. In practical terms, that probably didn't cost their citize
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by init2null 4y ago
I think the competition is Microsoft and Google (not so much Lenovo, Asus, Dell, Acer, Samsung...) and Apple does well against both if privacy is a major consideration. Microsoft's direction over 10 and 11 have been unsettling.
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by init2null 4y ago
I do so love the wild ideas of tech market theorists. People really believe that they're going to put smart glasses on everyone's faces? That they can fit in all-day batteries? How exactly do we type into this head-mounted beast?
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by init2null 4y ago
That's a reasonable position to have, but if that's going to be policy, it should be enforced in a nonpartisan way. One way to do that is to make voting by mail easier: presenting ID to register and then mail the ballot in with a
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by init2null 4y ago
Amazon is influential enough in home automation that it won't happen. Alexa is the most likely home assistant to respond in American homes. Apple is a long ways behind, but they have enough stubbornness and power to keep their influenc
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by init2null 4y ago
Upscaling with a neural network resizer such as Topaz Gigapixel Ai dramatically improves the usability of the art. On1 also has a resizer that might be a good less-expensive choice.
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by init2null 4y ago
Docusign has terrible outsourced tech support and dreadful account management. I'm wondering what all these people are actually doing. There are decent alternatives for the majority of uses, and they cost so much less.
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by init2null 4y ago
many people, if not most, use one of the many forks with the watermarking and the aggressive nsfw filter removed from the code. Graphics card RAM and speed is precious.
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by init2null 4y ago
As does Google Photo Gallery. Don't install that one if you want to keep even a modicum of privacy.
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by init2null 4y ago
That's true with iCloud Backup specifically, not iCloud. But unsecured notes and photos don't fall under the encryption umbrella, so syncing those means you lose privacy. Even syncing messages is safe, since messages are shared wi
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by init2null 4y ago
Microsoft's backward compatibility was always impressive until Windows 10 (ignoring the death of 16-bit on 64-bit Windows). S Mode and the store are great examples of how Microsoft has lost interest in supporting third-party binaries.
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by init2null 4y ago
Google is an open and shut case since they hold massive control over the web due to the complete dominance of their engine. WebKit is literally the only true market competition. Gecko is precious to me, but it won't save the open web.

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