kefka_p

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by kefka_p 3y ago
Seems like many are just feigning lack of awareness, imo. Casual observation shows a pattern of looking the other way when bad things are happening to people they don’t like.
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by kefka_p 3y ago
Car rental agencies and airlines come to mind as well. I was almost unable to purchase a ticket for my better half after we got married as we were slow to process paperwork for name changes on our credit cards. We were able to clear the mat
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by kefka_p 4y ago
Trash mods really do hurt that place. I reported a physical assault, some punk kid with an airsoft taking potshots at pedestrians, to my local sub to warn others. Turned out the guy had been at it for weeks all over town. Three months later
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by kefka_p 4y ago
Not just silos, going through the Dakotas and Missouri put it fairly close to Ellsworth and Whiteman, as well.
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by kefka_p 4y ago
That was a poor edit on my part. My apologies. What I meant to say was the assertion that occasionally recommending YoungTurks somehow mitigates the right-leaning bias of the site, as suggested with the statement “then it's not really
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I don’t need to reword the findings to make them support my assertion. Again those findings: “We also find that, *on average*, the YouTube recommendation algorithm pulls users slightly to the right of the political spectrum”. The whole “on
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by kefka_p 4y ago
“Pulls users slightly to the right” So the indoctrination isn’t obvious? So it’s subtle? That makes it more pernicious, in my eyes. I never said anything about a vast majority. To indoctrinate doesn’t mean convert an entire population, or e
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I was raised on tech. A third generation computer user, started writing software at seven under my father’s guidance. A Luddite I am not, but this doesn’t bode well for our future. YouTube is basically an indoctrination engine for white nat
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by kefka_p 4y ago
The number of man hours that would be necessary to plausibly fake even a short film in Photoshop, if I had to guess. It strikes me as analogous to owning sidearms versus BMGs and rocket launchers. One of these tools makes doing bad things f
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by kefka_p 4y ago
Whoa, whoa, I never claimed the technology was the “debil”. I merely asked for examples of viable, moral, unique uses of this tech.
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I’ve only had time for a cursory glance at this writing, but let me thank you for sounding the horn on the on Web 3.0. It was bad enough adding Ajax calls to websites and calling it Web 2.0. At least that had something to do with http, ECMA
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by kefka_p 4y ago
#2 sounds really interesting! I’m not sure of the psychological ramifications, but I can’t imagine they’d be different than any other sort of prosthesis save for an inability to actually touch it. I could see it being used in AR to conceal
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by kefka_p 4y ago
That is pretty neat, any sort of art does add cultural and social utility to a degree. Thanks for the heads up, because just about every mention I’ve seen published on the topic is more or less a horror story. I wasn’t being facetious in my
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by kefka_p 4y ago
First let me thank you for a thoughtful riposte! I do appreciate that. My question was an honest one and I imagine, not the easiest to conceive an answer to. I genuinely appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts. With that said
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by kefka_p 4y ago
Can anybody demonstrate a legitimate use of deepfake software? Has it ever been used to facilitate a socially positive or desirable outcome? While I recognize my experiences are far from definitive, I hazard most would be hard pressed to na
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I recently realized you can bypass cookie auth requests by toggling reader. Led me to wonder what the EU plans on doing to enforce compliance if JavaScript isn’t enabled, for example. Kind of makes the legal obligations of sites more or le
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I’m rarely impressed anymore for whatever reasons, but even in the midst of a miserable bout of viral induced malady, I have to stand in awe of this. I can’t even fathom the skill required to move a piece of equipment that large in a straig
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by kefka_p 4y ago
The microkernel would like a word with you, good sir. As would the Unix toolchain, the Google suite, iWork, and Microsoft Office. If it was modular, you wouldn’t need separate apps per se. On the other side of the multiple app token, Micros
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by kefka_p 4y ago
Streaming functionality isn’t chat, though. AMD gives you the option to not install streaming functionality when you install their drivers and I’m pretty sure they target gamers too. It reminds me of the age of Windows bloatware. Trying to
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I must be having a hard time waking up today, or something, because I can’t wrap my brain around why a chat app would need 3D acceleration. The first chat sites on the web e.g. Bianca’s, Poolside, and Talker were built using more primitive
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by kefka_p 4y ago
A four year accredited program ensures students take four years worth of course credits. If programs reduced requirements merely for knowledge rather than demonstration of an ability to act on that knowledge, it would likely reduce the valu
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by kefka_p 4y ago
Fault tolerance was how Next branded it, IIRC. If an instance of a long running process doesn’t communicate with an external monitor, then it’s assumed to have hung or crashed at which point it is restarted by the external tool. Or at least
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I wrote a few CGI applications for Schotton’s MacHTTP and the WebStar server on MacOS 7. Back before the days of OpenTransport! Yes, I’m old.
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by kefka_p 4y ago
You didn’t have to hard-code database credentials into your app, though. That’s a design flaw, not a requirement of CGI. Who passes non-sanitized or otherwise untrusted input to executables, any more than is necessary? Why do you (seem to)
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by kefka_p 4y ago
I don’t know anything about an AppStore alternative but I do seem to recall a presentation or two mentioning using Dashboard widgets as a route for development.
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by kefka_p 9y ago
Addressable, at cost. VR requires pretty high-end hardware in most cases. Telerobotics doesn't sound inexpensive, either. Surely solutions can be found to various problems, but that doesn't unto itself make something a sound decis
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by kefka_p 9y ago
Insofar as telecommuting for education, I'd wager connectivity leaves something to be desired in some rural areas. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for distance education. That said, some skills are best taught in a hands-on fashi
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by kefka_p 9y ago
> That's what I did when I supported myself at a minimum wage canvassing job that really sucked. Good on you, mate. I've had similar experiences myself. > Why are they only worth helping if they live in cities? Whoa, whoa, w
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by kefka_p 9y ago
As somebody who has been on both relatively low and high ends of the earning spectrum, I'd say that the vague promise of a better job is far better than some of the alternatives. Very little is stopping these people who live minutes aw
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by kefka_p 10y ago
Surely the military tilts right; I've seen numbers from 60/40 to 70/30, but there are quite a few staunch liberals in their ranks. It may seem naive, but I'd offer that these people are sworn to uphold the constitution.

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