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Factory raises $200M at $5B valuation(factory.com)
1 points by kstrauser 1d ago|1 comments
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by kstrauser 3d ago
OK, big surveillance fans: please explain why this is OK because "it's not the government", and this keeps us safe, and we don't have any expectation of privacy. It's inevitable that someone is going to claim it&#
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by kstrauser 3d ago
How’s that GCC backend coming along? I could look it up, but I bet others would like to hear about it too.
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by kstrauser 3d ago
So their tracking is OK because it's immobile. That's an interesting and novel defense of a surveillance state which I hadn't heard before.
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by kstrauser 3d ago
In my opinion, yes, that makes you a radical. I don’t want an armed organization with a trillion dollar budget stalking me. That’s the common stance in America. We even put it in our constitution.
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by kstrauser 3d ago
What broke and affected you?
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by kstrauser 3d ago
That’s literally exactly what Flock does. I can’t find sympathy for the company on this.
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by kstrauser 4d ago
And the sign along the highway says my speed might be monitored by airplane, but I don’t want to live where that means a surveillance drone is flying along side me at all times. Consenting to let a taxi record me in case it comes up later t
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by kstrauser 4d ago
Those are bad examples of things where a computer should make a judgement call. > Going to shoot up a place? Take your guns on a waymo. It won't complain. I take my kid to go skeet shooting. You’d call the police on us for having
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by kstrauser 4d ago
Yes. Well, not exactly wave guns around, but say and do stupid stuff? Not in a taxi around a human driver, no. And not in a subway car with people other than me and my friends, no. But your question had an “or” in it. If we had nerf guns an
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by kstrauser 5d ago
I remember this, and my stubborn side rejoiced in the hack.
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by kstrauser 6d ago
This right there. No, you're right, it's not a panacea. However, it absolutely fixed the period back problems I've dealt with most of my adult life. Now if I do something to tweak my lower back, I can't wait to get to a
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by kstrauser 6d ago
Ugh. Yeah, I'd have that back at the store an hour later. I did not agree to this before handing over my money, therefore the sale was fraudulent.
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by kstrauser 6d ago
Good grief. "Bet I don't!"
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by kstrauser 6d ago
And in any circumstances, the ludicrous notion of adding a contract after a purchase is made is unconscionable. You buy a car. You pay cash. It’s yours. Afterward, the seller says “oh, and you have to agree to these terms before you’re al
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by kstrauser 6d ago
This vulnerability, which doesn’t affect my installation, would take approximately 5 minutes to patch if it did. With that exception, my server will have had approximately 99.999% uptime over the last several years. It would take a boatload
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by kstrauser 8d ago
Wait until you find out about smoke detectors. Or microwave ovens. Or light bulbs. Or anything with nonzero temperature.
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by kstrauser 9d ago
That’s the most insecure thing I’ve heard in a while. What other things randomly flashing across your screen disturb you? Do you imagine your coworkers keeping count of which ads are displayed in your browsers? Do you imagine that they don’
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by kstrauser 10d ago
> incredible development of the aesthetics of simplicity and emptiness compared to the ostentatious and sometimes baroque western aesthetics We're just going to pretend that Japanese web design is identical to the rest of the world&
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by kstrauser 10d ago
For the love of goodness, if I'm having a heart attack or something, please do not waste 5 to 7 seconds total of my life to screw around with footgear instead of just coming inside and getting me. I promise I'd vastly rather have
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by kstrauser 10d ago
Where I grew up (suburbs in the Midwest in the US) no one took their shoes off, ever, until it was bedtime. I cannot remember a single time taking my shoes of at a friend's house, or when visiting somewhere with my parents, or going of
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by kstrauser 10d ago
Forklift. Lots of people like QSpace, but I’ve bumped into weird privacy issues with it every time I considered trying it. Life’s too short to worry that my file manager is spying on me.
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by kstrauser 10d ago
Gotta agree. Turning tracking cookies off? Sure! Turning session cookies off and then complaining that the server doesn’t remember you? Uhhh… And while I’m sympathetic to the idea of not wanting to run JS, to a first approximation modern br
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by kstrauser 10d ago
As government representatives, they’re limited to the behavior that the Constitution grants to the government. Here’s an explainer to said Constitution you may find useful: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan&#x2F
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by kstrauser 10d ago
The US Constitution, by itself, grants US citizens everything as a right, then enumerates the exceptions to those all-encompassing rights carved out as necessary for the operation of a government. The correct question is: Where does the U
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by kstrauser 11d ago
That's true, but hear me out. I wear reasonably priced, "nice" watch — a Seiko 5 GMT. Quartz watches tell time better. I wear this one because I think it's a good looking watch and like the way it looks and feels on me.
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by kstrauser 11d ago
It’s not only that. Lab diamonds are superior in every way I’ve heard of. The emotional appeal of their provenance is the sole remaining reason I’ve heard people claim that slave diamonds are superior. I contend that they’re worse there, to
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by kstrauser 11d ago
I love a good cheeseburger. I’ve enjoyed ones from Michelin restaurants and from local holes in the wall; I’m not choosy. To me, the taste and texture of a cheeseburger is one of the best testing things on the planet. I do not eat cheesebur
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by kstrauser 11d ago
Given the infamous conditions of diamond mining, to me that reads like “won’t someone think of the jobless slaves?” Someone no longer being forced to slave away in the mines is not exactly a great loss to workers rights. “De Beers: Because
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by kstrauser 11d ago
I personally find lab grown much more beautiful, in that they’re an amazing accomplishment of mankind’s science and technology. So a tree got squeezed underground until it turned into a crystal? Cool, I guess, but big deal. Humans learned e

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