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by pferde 4d ago
After you create an OSM account, there is also https://maproulette.org , which has tons of little tasks to fix, grouped into challenges, and many of them can be done using just the aerial photos, from the comfort of your seat. Th
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by pferde 6d ago
We're still deep in the research and exploration phase, who knows what will huge oodles of compute be useful for in the end? Maybe it will end up being used by the owning corporation or local nation state, against similar amount of com
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by pferde 7d ago
Yes, last night we all voted and decided to move to its successor RSB instead.
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by pferde 7d ago
What if he trusts the wrong experts? And who decides which expert is right and which is wrong?
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by pferde 7d ago
I guess it depends on what community/bubble are you in. Many fediverse users I know have always been, and will always be tooting.
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by pferde 7d ago
Pedophile?
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by pferde 7d ago
Wasn't it basically the X11 window system logo?
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by pferde 8d ago
No, I think most of the recent huge datacenter buildups are for US AI efforts only in the AI arms race, not to be rented out.
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by pferde 9d ago
Thank god.
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by pferde 9d ago
But it's mostly like all the dialects, with some extra stuff on top that the dialects tend to drop. I'd say if you just want to quickly be able to speak with people around you, learn the local dialect, but if you want to really le
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by pferde 9d ago
And those jurisdictions need to have people not susceptible to bribery or extortion by the corporations making those data collection devices. That's a big ask.
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by pferde 9d ago
... product you ownꭞ ꭞ Terms and conditions apply
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by pferde 12d ago
Lack of MTE is not the only huge reason why the GrapheneOS team refuses most devices. Most vendors' lack of timely bugfixes for device-specific drivers and firmware, and no commitment to keep providing bugfixes for a number of years is
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by pferde 15d ago
Oh not at all, the AI hate is actually 24x7, and deservedly so.
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by pferde 15d ago
I found that creating and adding to my own decks is the best way to learn. It's also a lot of fun creating the cards/notes structure, with some cards being created conditionally upon state of certain fields in the note, etc. It&#x
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by pferde 16d ago
Some trackers solve this by having certain torrents not count towards your download, only towards upload. Usually older torrents, or those in need of being seeded. This, coupled with other rules, such as that you need to seed a torrent at l
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by pferde 20d ago
I vaguely remember it being on several floppies, actually, maybe 4.
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by pferde 21d ago
I agree, but apparently that's still too difficult for the mainstream user.
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by pferde 21d ago
Google is in strong enough position against the music industry that they could just tell them off, because where else is the music industry going to go?
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by pferde 22d ago
If there's a big centralized service that a lot of people use, there will always be the temptation to abuse it to influence those people.
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by pferde 22d ago
Browsers used to have a little RSS button either next to the address bar, or somewhere in the bottom status bar. But a propaganda corporation has been leading the charge in browser "development" for past few decades, and those do
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by pferde 22d ago
Judging by the amount of work that's being done on youtube that does nothing but make things harder for third party tools, without bringing any benefit to anything or anyone else, that might not be far from the truth. :)
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by pferde 22d ago
I knew it, Dolly Parton was the only thing keeping Wikipedia going! :(
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by pferde 28d ago
Are you sure, I got one and I'm in Central Europe.
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by pferde 1mo ago
I don't want to reason with my hardware, I want my hardware to do what I tell it to do.
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by pferde 1mo ago
My point was that in big corporations, things are stacked against people wanting to act morally.
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by pferde 1mo ago
can be the backstop. The word "can" is doing some extremely heavy lifting here, against corporate practices which dilute and spread guilt and responsibility for immoral decisions so thin, nobody in the decision chain even realiz
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by pferde 1mo ago
AI will mutate the knowledge and eventually produce some mangled version of it, mixed in with ramblings from a random reddit post and half a paragraph from a copyrighted book that its fascist creators stole.
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by pferde 1mo ago
Maybe I'm just making silly misspellings like this on purpose, to prevent someone from fingerprinting me based on my writing style. :-)
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by pferde 1mo ago
Your thinking too narrowly about the reward. Sometimes, it's just about the getting the knowledge out there that's motivating the creator, not anything tangible for themselves.

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