pilgrimfff

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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
It’s too bad there’s no way to use hybrid approaches or use some kind of learning, but for machines! No heuristics to rank and prioritize content. We better tell every big tech company that what they’ve been doing forever is impossible to d
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
Gee, I wonder how Wikimedia could make this practice ethical? Maybe actually tell people it's going to those causes instead of Wikipedia? Naaaaaaaaah
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
I agree. We need more American (TM) companies with no competition. In every industry, there should be a Comcast sitting on top collecting rents.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
I'm 100% with you. We have to keep the money flowing away from taxpayers and towards corporate interests.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
> this has been done properly numerous times in the past I'm genuinely curious if you have any examples of this. I'm not aware of any modern product at scale that doesn't suffer from these same issues.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
Good. I'm so tired of all these folks saying that we haven't always been at war with Eurasia.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
> it is possible to operate a Google account completely without a phone number This is only true for a limited time. I've tried to use a couple Google accounts this way and inevitably I log in from a new IP and Google's 2FA sys
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
Buy a handful of alternative domains that redirect to your primary (you could stand up a minimal url shortener on each domain). Even if you get unblocked this time, it could easily happen again. Until there’s systematic reform to this nonse
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
I was expecting the number of search results here to be much higher - like who cares if Google only serves the first million results out of a billion? Very interesting to see that Google will only serve a few hundred links when they claim t
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
Absolutely. But not your right to ensure that nobody can hear.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
In this case, "the market" is essentially just Google - who incidentally created the market for SEO spam. I don't necessarily blame Google for the tight integration with Wikipedia. It's much easier to deal with one site
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
I saw a solid video a couple days ago called "Why I hate Wikipedia (and you should too!)" https://youtu.be/-vmSFO1Zfo8 I'd never given Wikipedia much thought, but it raised some very interesting points to th
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
I got an engineering manager who was a hardcore micromanager. He insisted on adding a lot of process, but refused to conform to any processes himself. He caused numerous false SEVs because he was picking around in ancient logs, assuming eve
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
> People keep asking about examples of work that exemplifies "potential harms [that] outweigh the benefit of publication." How about large scale human vivisection? People are asking for example of something this particular set
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
Apple's self repair program exists for one reason - to mitigate regulatory scrutiny. They have no incentive to make it effective.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
> iFixit praises the M1 MacBook Air service manuals by saying “they’re in-depth, mostly logical, and well worth an additional repairability point,” This is the service manual you're referencing. The one they're complaining abo
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
> Twitter IMHO is not as evil as for example Facebook Twitter is just worse at executing.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
Same. Don't love that kind of bait-and-switch UX.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
I don't use Manjaro anymore, but I really appreciated it as a user-friendly bridge I was able to use to cross the chasm from Ubuntu to Arch. The i3 community Manjaro made me love tiling window managers. And Manjaro Architect was like a
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
> Because of attitudes like this. I had no idea my attitude could magically make party elites care about this basic constitutional right! Thanks so so much for setting me straight. > Political nihilism never won any battles. Refusing
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
If any politician ran on bringing the 4th amendment back, they'd have my vote. But spying on the populace is bipartisan.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
Whatever Australia has against Google, there’s no question that Google completely lied about location tracking being buried in the “Web and App Activity” setting. Washington DC, Washington state, Indiana, and Texas are suing Google for the
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
This just doesn’t make sense from a financial standpoint. It seems doubtful the money recovered covers the cost of the audits.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
They’ve required a phone number every time I’ve tried to sign up. They don’t have it in the sign up flow - they wait until you try to sign in and won’t let you proceed without it.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
As soon as I saw the headline, figured it was Australia. It's a real stretch to call it a liberal democracy at this point.
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
That's a horrifying policy. Though advertisers don't need Sirius. USPS will sell your change of address data to any one who had your old address https://www.edq.com/glossary/ncoa/
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
If there are out-of-the-box options now, then yeah, it could be as you describe. If you're assuming everyone knows how to wire up motors to a microcontroller and get the software set up and calibrated, that's not accurate. If you
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
That's why I have to qualify it with ultimately Right now, the analog option is out of reach except to those with the right skills. But the hardware isn't that expensive even now, and will only get cheaper. All it takes is someo
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
No matter how low-level they get in the OS, this is ultimately a losing battle. Aimbots have gone analog (src: https://hackaday.com/2022/04/30/aimbot-does-it-in-hardware/ ) What can they do next? Demand w
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by pilgrimfff 4y ago
> Trading purity in exchange for practicality is usually a good call Definitely. I’ve seen this proven again and again.

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