nyolfen

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by nyolfen 2mo ago
at least two of its funders were usaid-backed (internews, access now), wonder if that has anything to do with it
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by nyolfen 5mo ago
i didn't have much trouble services: jellyfin: build: dockerfile: jellyfin.Dockerfile container_name: jellyfin group_add: - 44 - 993 environment: - TZ=
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by nyolfen 9mo ago
great thinking, that must be why the ccp doesn't care about this policy
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by nyolfen 1y ago
the uk flew a refueling sortie out of qatar for the israelis supporting this strike. i will let you draw your own conclusions about who knew what
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by nyolfen 1y ago
if somebody defects against society very seriously, damaging others, i have no problem with stripping them of legal rights. this is in fact exactly the principle underlying imprisonment. constitutional rights are granted by men, not god, in
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by nyolfen 1y ago
> One of the strangest fixations of AWFL metaphysics is on a substance called 'trauma' that they believe is 'stored in the body' in small saclike organs where it constantly threatens to be 'triggered' and er
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by nyolfen 1y ago
tech wages have stagnated since ~2010 despite being one of approximately three productive growth industries. ever wonder why? > Well it's because by this logic we should just stop Americans from studying for computing jobs as well,
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by nyolfen 1y ago
> No Silicon Valley company that I know of pays H-1B and citizens different wages on that basis. larger pool means lower wages. this is so fundamental and obvious that it feels like i'm being gaslit when i see shit like this.
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by nyolfen 1y ago
he described an employee
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by nyolfen 2y ago
the problem is that this data exists somewhere where i have no control over it and was collected without my consent, in clear violation of my constitutional rights. perhaps you have perfect trust in the current and future good faith of the
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by nyolfen 2y ago
yes, i absolutely believe we are less than two years from what you describe (aside from physically manipulating an instrument -- but robotics seems to be quickly picking up pace too). what you are imagining is only a difference in speed, no
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by nyolfen 2y ago
> LLMs are so, so far from being able to the thinking that goes in a real-time musical improvisation context it's laughable. have you actually tried any of the commercial AI music generation tools from the last year, eg suno? not an
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by nyolfen 2y ago
no offense man but this is totally inexcusable and there is zero chance i am ever touching anything made by y'all, ever
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by nyolfen 2y ago
> The built-in TOTP in Bitwarden password manager is only available to premium Bitwarden subscribers, requires you to have a Bitwarden account, and stores your TOTP codes in Bitwarden's servers. if you selfhost (eg with vaultwarden)
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by nyolfen 2y ago
"schools have incentive to fill desks. schools have incentive to not educate. students go to school and become worse because they're in a bad place"
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by nyolfen 2y ago
there is no such thing as rehabilitative justice, which is just secularized christian theology of redemption; there is only keeping dangerous or destructive people away from the rest of us. if they manage to reform themselves all the bette
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by nyolfen 2y ago
> In the US police and prisons are directly derived from slave patrols. This is history and factual. and human rights are derived from feudal rights. okay, and? is this just supposed to make you feel bad with scary words? > Recidivism
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by nyolfen 2y ago
that labor is not compelled and is in fact a privilege; they are given absurdly low wages, but the jobs are still desirable vs sitting in a cell. misbehavior results in privilege revocation.
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by nyolfen 2y ago
it would be more like blocking students from nigeria from applying during a period of historical tension between the US and Nigerian governments. there are a huge number of chinese individuals in other countries that did not face any filter
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by nyolfen 2y ago
beautiful! i made a much crappier version of the same kind of thing a year or two ago with a manually converted libgen db from annas-archive's index, but the best i could come up with was webtorrenting a sqlite db of hashes and importi
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by nyolfen 2y ago
i don't have one because it makes no sense! but frankly if it were me at that age i probably would have been showing it to my friends because it looked like a bomb
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by nyolfen 2y ago
this story never made sense to me. he disassembled a digital clock then put the pieces in a pencil case? he didn't fabricate it or design any of the electronic components; what was he supposed to be demonstrating, that you can put a di
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by nyolfen 2y ago
if we're talking about relative human-experienced performance, the slowest computers i ever owned were in the early-mid 00s. they sped up as multicore and ssd's entered the picture and plateaued about ten years ago ime.
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by nyolfen 2y ago
it is a novel reflective lcd display they developed for their devices; i haven't seen it in person yet but it is an epaper solution like e-ink, though does not have some of the advantages e-ink does, like sustaining an image without
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by nyolfen 2y ago
Check out daylight: https://daylightcomputer.com/ they've only launched recently (mine arrives monday) but it uses a novel display tech which purports to be e-ink-like with 60fps. i'm very excited because the main
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by nyolfen 2y ago
> You could already just buy any other currency for that and you’d still be better off. Crypto, being a ponzi scheme, has price fluctuations that make it undesirable as a store of wealth. this is in fact the majority use-case when i refe
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by nyolfen 2y ago
accountable in the sense that it approves appointees and receives reports, not in the sense that congress or voters have any say in monetary policy decisions. this is literally the point of the fed, to put it outside of electoral politics s
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by nyolfen 2y ago
i'm sure that is deep solace when you lose half of your savings to inflation. btw not sure which central banks you're thinking of, but this checks and balances stuff does not apply to the fed at least; it is explicitly defined as
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by nyolfen 2y ago
it gives ordinary people the ability to discipline their central bank and preserve their own personal holdings. there are other uses but this is the one i care about. > I’d bet less than 0.1% of good and services are actually bought with
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by nyolfen 2y ago
monetary policy is what central banks do

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