madradavid

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by madradavid 8d ago
"No other human activity poses this level of danger." I know this is a bit over the top but let us look at some of the most pressing issues in the world today: global warming, nuclear weapons, wealth inequality, war, technology de
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by madradavid 14d ago
Claude down, ChatGPt down , Grok down. This is the new "Stackoverflow is down" ... FYI Stackoverflow is not down https://downdetector.com/status/stackoverflow/
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Two alleged TeamPCP hackers arrested over global supply chain attacks(helpnetsecurity.com)
5 points by madradavid 21d ago|1 comments
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by madradavid 22d ago
My god, for a minute there I thought this was real.. This resonates, I bet a number of us know or Are an “Aaron”. Thanks for this.
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by madradavid 1mo ago
"Unnecessarily abstract phraseology. Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice, especially when it helps construct a sentence where the real action can 'land' like
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by madradavid 1mo ago
What I meant is in a lot of these compounds in Africa the “workers” are doing this willingly, it is a Job like a 9-5, these are locals who go there to get trained to do this. In other places like Malaysia, Cambodia most of these people ( u
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by madradavid 1mo ago
African scammers used to be small scale or lone wolf type of operations. You had scammers like Hushpuppi etc who become celebrities John Gotti style. Now the Chinese have taken over , they are moving from places like Malaysia and setting u
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Anthropic says its AI models also hacked three organizations on their own(engadget.com)
3 points by madradavid 2mo ago|0 comments
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by madradavid 2mo ago
CONCACAF join UEFA and reject FIFA's World Cup sell-off plan. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49488584/uefa-boycott... . By the end of this Gianni Infantino will only be left with the Af
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by madradavid 3mo ago
I have started a number of (failed) companies and this, this article summarizes the last 15 years of my life. A software dev trying to play startup founder. To whoever wrote this , thank you for so eloquently articulating something I’d fail
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1979: Will Word-Processors start a home revolution?(youtube.com)
2 points by madradavid 4mo ago|0 comments
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by madradavid 4mo ago
I am Ugandan. I've shipped electronics and Laptops for Work quite a bit, and OP is right, the system is broken, it stays this way because a lot of corrupt individuals benefit from this mess. However, OP showed a degree of Hubris here,
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by madradavid 4mo ago
I am Ugandan, that $200 could have gone a long way buying used locally , case in point https://jiji.ug/central-division/computers-and-laptops/lapto... , a used Macbook pro with some change to spare.
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by madradavid 4mo ago
Actually you can send money (cross border payments ) to another country that also has mobile money, I can send money to a Kenyan, Tanzanian etc all I need is their Phone number. I am not sure what you mean by “holding both sides of the tra
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by madradavid 4mo ago
Interestingly in a number of African Countries (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania etc) , we have “Mobile Money”, Payments are instant, via USSD, no internet required, I can even pay online using USSD push.This is a classical example of humans using w
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by madradavid 5mo ago
Congratulations on the launch. Totally unrelated, I am just curious about why you chose the name, as someone who is Ugandan and was born in raised in Kampala (which is the Capital City of Uganda BTW). Congratulations again.
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by madradavid 5mo ago
I am still trying to figure out why YouTube/Google is willing to die on this hill ? Surely they’ve gotten feedback or seen it in their analytics that there is a significant group of people who don’t like these “shorts”. Them implement
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by madradavid 5mo ago
I did read that article; it is just a generic article about how funerals are expensive, you could replace Kampala with New York, and it would still hold. My point is that the Author has picked a practice by a couple of tribes on a Continent
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by madradavid 5mo ago
I am Ugandan. These kind of burials are unheard of in my country. The Author is labeling this an “African” thing which is just the usual daft nonsense. A number of Ghanaian and Nigerian tribes bury their dead like this , it is more a celebr
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I Analyzed 512,000 Lines of Leaked Code.it Shows What's Coming for Your AI Tools [video](youtube.com)
3 points by madradavid 5mo ago|0 comments
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You're Building AI Agents on Layers That Won't Exist in 18 Months [video](youtube.com)
1 points by madradavid 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Chip War, explained in 54 minutes – Chris Miller [video](youtube.com)
1 points by madradavid 7mo ago|0 comments
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Alibaba launches new AI model, says it outperforms DeepSeek(capitalbrief.com)
1 points by madradavid 2y ago|0 comments
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by madradavid 2y ago
Total noob question here and I apologize in advance. Are these the “actual” pictures or are they “touched up” by an artist ? If they the real pictures then this is truly impressive …
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The Kenyans who are helping the world to cheat(bbc.com)
3 points by madradavid 5y ago|0 comments
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by madradavid 5y ago
The person who created the gist has this on their website "Available payment methods include PayPal, Bitcoin, and SEPA transfers." http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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The summer Intel fell behind(theverge.com)
1 points by madradavid 5y ago|1 comments
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Free Software Foundation and RMS issue statements on Stallman’s return(arstechnica.com)
7 points by madradavid 5y ago|9 comments
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by madradavid 6y ago
Jesus!! ,that is just brutal
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Robert Tappan Morris(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by madradavid 6y ago|0 comments

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