propaganja

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by propaganja 2mo ago
They could do that according to an unspecified "commercial company" , as reported in an article titled, "Lawmakers want US Commerce Department to probe Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus".
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by propaganja 2mo ago
Wait... I have a OnePlus Pad 3. What nagging about OS updates?
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by propaganja 3mo ago
I understand where you're coming from, but strongly disagree with your conclusions. A patient with severe Alzheimer's effectively has nothing to lose, and the same goes for the patient's loved ones. Moreover, I'd argue t
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by propaganja 8mo ago
They're not trying to use the data to act efficiently (or in the public good for that matter), and they sure as fuck don't want you to see it. They're trying to make sure that they have dirt on anyone who becomes their enemy
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by propaganja 9mo ago
Deciding what we want as a society is fine. Vehemently disagreeing over what and how things should be regulated is fine too. In general, trying to do anything in good faith is more or less fine. What is not fine is proposing to make regulat
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by propaganja 10mo ago
If I knew absolutely nothing about TPM other than the circumstances in which it was made (who, what, why, when) I would have predicted from that alone that it wouldn't benefit consumers, wouldn't be secure, and that it was motivat
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by propaganja 10mo ago
A tall order, and that's if you can even find it.
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by propaganja 1y ago
I don't disagree. But to be clear, I wasn't surprised that I missed it on HN, but that I missed it period. There was a time not so long ago when such a thing would be inconceivable.
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by propaganja 1y ago
Indeed, it would be a hard sell to suggest otherwise. But for me not to have heard of it at all, period, in four years? I was surprised. But not that surprised, which is even more telling.
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by propaganja 1y ago
Insane that this is from 2021 and I've only found out about it now. The Internet is slowly but inexorably getting locked down, and the bitter reality is, there's nothing we can do to stop it.
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by propaganja 2y ago
What the actual fuck? People think the earth is flat—does Generative AI threaten our core understanding of astrophysics?
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by propaganja 3y ago
I need to know the outcome of this argument, and also the mistaken party's ultimate response to said outcome—whether he concedes gracefully, quietly ghosts away, commences all-out holy war perhaps—that I may quietly judge his character
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by propaganja 3y ago
The rabbit hole goes much deeper than that, and more believable by the day.