luke727

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by luke727 19d ago
>Microsoft even addressed the criticism that Windows was largely not possible to use from keyboard, and massively improved it starting with Win10. And then shit the bed completely with Windows 11. The (lack of) keyboard navigation is by
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by luke727 3mo ago
> Is anyone else as stunned as I am by how many posters on tech websites have suddenly gone full anti-free-internet and embracing the police state? I suspect it's because people of our generation (I'm assuming) grew up with sim
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by luke727 4mo ago
> Anyone in tech and tech-adjacent industries knows the difference and that we shouldn't be calling LLMs AI. Are we reading the same Hacker News comments sections?
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by luke727 4mo ago
I think that's a silly argument, but even if we accept it at face value 1) VPN usage is difficult to detect and 2) bad actors are still going to use VPNs. This line of thinking removes privacy from good actors while doing nothing to a
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by luke727 4mo ago
The majority of comments seem to think this is not a big deal. Not surprising from this crowd, but disconcerting nonetheless.
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by luke727 4mo ago
Where does this line of thinking end? What couldn't be construed as part of the software?
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by luke727 5mo ago
"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
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by luke727 5mo ago
It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.
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by luke727 5mo ago
Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.
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by luke727 5mo ago
> “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer who argued the Connecticut families’ case in court. The d
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by luke727 5mo ago
Maybe it's just me but I don't see much humor in this. His brand and assets may have been liquidated, but he's still doing his show and it remains popular. The only people who really won in this saga are, as usual, the lawye
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by luke727 7mo ago
You should look into what's actually happening in other countries before blaming it on "the U.S. nanny state". The rest of the Anglosphere makes the United States look like a Libertarian utopia. I live in the United Kingdom,
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by luke727 7mo ago
No. There are significant numbers of real people who genuinely support this type of thing. Dismissing it as "bots" or a "false narrative" leads to complacency that allows this stuff to pass unchallenged.
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by luke727 7mo ago
Name: PETER BRIGHT Register Number: 76309-054 Age: 45 Race: White Sex: Male Release Date: 08/11/2028 Located At: FCI Elkton
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by luke727 7mo ago
The problem is that this is too tedious for most people. There's a reason centralization is popular.
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by luke727 7mo ago
I meant that it's not a solution for users looking to avoid similar intrusions. When alternative platforms get big enough they'll be faced with the same legislative burdens. Of course there are decentralized options, but one of th
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by luke727 7mo ago
The frustration aimed at Discord et al is largely misplaced. I'm sure these companies don't mind gathering extra data about their users, but the primary impetus for age verification is government legislation. Moving to alternative
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by luke727 8mo ago
Neither does the average politician, so where exactly is the impetus for changing the law going to come from?
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by luke727 8mo ago
I'm not sure there'd be much of a difference because the British people are broadly speaking a rather paternalistic society.
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by luke727 8mo ago
While I agree with this in spirit, here in the UK both major parties along with the public at large generally support these types of laws.
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by luke727 9mo ago
> The idea that AI is anything less than paradigm shifting, or even revolutionary is weird to me. Actual AI? Sure. The LLM slop we currently refer to as AI? lol, lmao even
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by luke727 10mo ago
> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.
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by luke727 10mo ago
Unfortunately they went along with it initially but at least they came to their senses in the end: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/216586
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by luke727 1y ago
The justification is money. Microsoft doesn't make any money off of offline accounts.
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by luke727 1y ago
I think it's rather that OSA actually visibly affects people in their day-to-day lives whereas other laws don't. I constantly hit age verification pages on Reddit and Twitter and I don't use either for porn. I'm fundamen
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by luke727 1y ago
That's a fair point, but you have to take into consideration the relevant laws and countries. You also need to take into consideration what it means to "operate" in a country.
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by luke727 1y ago
Signing an online petition isn't better than doing nothing and is arguably worse.
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by luke727 1y ago
I don't think pathologizing an entire nation is a statement of objective fact. Regardless, upon reflection I feel my initial comment was unduly harsh. I think it would be more accurate to say that British society as a whole is very muc
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by luke727 1y ago
The makeup of a court is temporary. Maybe your court is "safe" today; that won't necessarily still be the case tomorrow.
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by luke727 1y ago
Well, I offered my observations and a few people agreed with me to varying degrees. You asserted I'm wrong, ignorant, and stupid. Perhaps that is true; it is not, however, an argument.

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