nilespotter

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by nilespotter 2mo ago
Proposal D, currently enacted: Use LLMs but don't tell anyone
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by nilespotter 5mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SnAJOluk1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC64XJl2mXg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhTVHeQK10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRF80IWY
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by nilespotter 7mo ago
These models are weapons whether the frontier provider founders and their trite and lofty mission statements like it or not. Private individuals and private companies do not get to create a defensive weapon with unprecedented power in a new
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by nilespotter 7mo ago
Per the "About Me" picture, this particular technologist does not have any hair to tear out.
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by nilespotter 8mo ago
Why not just look at the code and see if it's good or not?
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by nilespotter 8mo ago
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by nilespotter 1y ago
It is.
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by nilespotter 1y ago
> Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist Why the fuck was "LAist" getting federal funding? Glad they're not anymore.
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by nilespotter 1y ago
> crow about parental autonomy and how they should be in complete control of their children's education and lives. Ah yes, those monsters
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by nilespotter 1y ago
> It’s an odd form of white supremacy that views whites as above having material interests of their own. This is also an interesting way to explain the self-immolating Whites, which nowadays is most of us. Any sort of White group identit
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by nilespotter 1y ago
Or they could just do it whenever they want to for whatever reason they want to. They are not responsible for the mental health of their users. Their users are responsible for that themselves.
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by nilespotter 2y ago
Same. I support everything that's going on at DOGE. There's a certain type around here that needs to get used to the fact that their political views do not enjoy industry wide hegemony.
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by nilespotter 2y ago
California does not have any Ivy League universities.
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by nilespotter 2y ago
It is.
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by nilespotter 2y ago
https://kagi.com/smallweb
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by nilespotter 3y ago
Good point, I guess they could also be Men In Black aliens too and I wouldn’t know that either.
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by nilespotter 3y ago
Didn’t detect my VPN. Hopefully this technology sees wide adoption!
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by nilespotter 3y ago
I use Librewolf and Orion on MacOS, Orion on iOS/iPadOS (which is Safari I suppose, but the shell is awesome)
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by nilespotter 3y ago
I _love_ Walter Kirn. > Weak-link computer chips in items that don’t require them also came in for abuse. Indeed. I cannot recommend his podcast with Matt Taibbi [1] or the print-only newspaper he edits-at-large [2] highly enough. The ma
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by nilespotter 3y ago
2600 is still in print
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by nilespotter 3y ago
Beeper would have interested me, maybe in 6 months if it had seemed like Apple was willing to live with it. I don't want to use iMessage though, I just want to use it more than SMS or RCS. I have gotten a few of my close contacts on Si
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by nilespotter 3y ago
This is what I do, new Pixel 7 + GrapheneOS. Works great, I highly recommend it.
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by nilespotter 3y ago
Ironically I go to gemini to get away from google.
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by nilespotter 3y ago
> virtually no way to deploy it in a business context. ...there is tailscale
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by nilespotter 3y ago
I can't imagine having any data in someone else's so-called "cloud" like this, let alone important data.
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by nilespotter 3y ago
I do not anticipate this will be a race to see who can produce the best OS for the consumer, or the most privacy conscious OS either.
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by nilespotter 3y ago
Addiction isn't a question of will. You're not weak for not being able to walk away, and you wouldn't be strong if you were able to.
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by nilespotter 3y ago
How much do I have to pay netgear to use it?
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by nilespotter 3y ago
Did that actually happen?
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by nilespotter 3y ago
Submitted by RGBCube an hour ago. Flagged by the inclusive community, I presume. Thought I'd let it have another shot.

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