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by rectang 3d ago
Ohhh, has anybody used AI to generate delicious statistics about how many ads served by various ad networks will get you hacked / violate the ad networks own policies?
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by rectang 11d ago
Fully agree. Humans are social animals who behave differently in different contexts, and the corporate context statistically ensures that the humans inside of it behave in all sorts of lamentable ways.
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by rectang 12d ago
The potential damage is all to users bound by terms and conditions, who are unlikely to collect damages successfully from a vendor. Structurally, vendors don’t have to care. Therefore, vulnerabilities have little direct financial value to
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by rectang 14d ago
The concept of memories blending together resonates after watching a recent Kurzgezadt video entitled "How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?". It makes the point that the very act of recalling a memory changes it: https:&#x2
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by rectang 14d ago
> Let's hope the LLM model continues to be paying for credits LLM vendors make this hard because you can't trust them with your session data. Yesterday you were opted out of training, then suddenly today you're opted in.
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by rectang 14d ago
I pay for a subscription to Duck.ai mainly because I don't want to be constantly fighting my vendor to protect my privacy. Microsoft already did a rug pull on me and opted me in to training months after I signed up with Github Copilot.
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by rectang 16d ago
Money from confused seniors getting scammed is a critical revenue stream. Without scams, ads are far less viable.
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by rectang 17d ago
Forming every paragraph of dialog into perfect rectangles is way more extreme than just avoiding "widows". The usual term for this is "full justification" and typographically when it's done it's typically
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by rectang 17d ago
"No widows" on its own isn't enough to create a distinctive dialog cadence. "Widows" (alone at the top) and "orphans" (alone at the bottom) are single lines cut off from the rest of a paragraph by a column
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by rectang 24d ago
Why not start with a brownout? Make the data temporarily inaccessible, but don’t actually delete it immediately.
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Darth Vader defends Flock to San Diego: 'This is what the emperor needs'(thehill.com)
7 points by rectang 27d ago|0 comments
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by rectang 1mo ago
Completely wiping all computing devices in advance every time you pass through a border checkpoint seems like the only defense against the government getting all of your personal data. As we can see from the Tunic case, providing a "du
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Don't Wipe Your Phone at the Airport [video](youtube.com)
3 points by rectang 1mo ago|5 comments
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by rectang 2mo ago
It’s been a while, but I recall finding The Plague more compelling than The Stranger . While I agree with Camus’s philosophical points about the absurdity of existence and the indifference of the universe, within the scope of our tiny
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To understand the experience of life, don't look to the mind. Look to the body(theguardian.com)
3 points by rectang 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rectang 2mo ago
I’m as uninterested in debating someone who denies the existence of fossil fuel subsidies as I am in debating climate denialists. I recommend that interested parties perform a trivial web search.
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by rectang 2mo ago
Geoengineering proposals are often unserious because the point is to give the appearance of doing something while the root cause goes unaddressed. "No need to reconsider those fossil fuel subsidies because [fanciful geoengineering pr
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by rectang 2mo ago
Geoengineering proposals spring from the same impulse as climate denial — anything to avoid consequences for those contributing to the crisis.
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New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers(theguardian.com)
45 points by rectang 2mo ago|8 comments
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by rectang 2mo ago
When I was a child, I imagined that books and the ideas within them lasted forever. The shock is not in how quickly the written word dissipates, it's that it dissipates at all.
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by rectang 2mo ago
The current generation cannot bear the accumulated weight of all past generations. Loss and compression are inevitable. 99% of an individual's life experiences are lost when they pass. 99.99% of what's left moves from distinct me
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by rectang 2mo ago
Yes, writing by hand is an experience that offers unique benefits. The physical act helps to consolidate and integrate knowledge — improving recollection is one benefit, although I'd emphasize improving intuition as more valuable. The
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by rectang 2mo ago
"Write by hand and mark up your books" is excellent advice... that I no longer follow. Marking up books didn't come naturally to me, but I did it for a while. Paper books are just decaying bundles of plant fiber — and the ide
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by rectang 2mo ago
A while ago I participated in security design for an open source foundation. (Security is not a specialty of mine, but I aspire to be competent enough for my role as a developer working in web dev and open source.) We attempted to design
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by rectang 2mo ago
So I went down the rabbit hole of the meaning of "champ", thinking it might mean something esoteric in the context of "champing at the bit" like "speaking the first line of the skit". But no, "champ"
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by rectang 3mo ago
It's not the same, but I still remember the first time I was served genmai cha (roasted rice tea) at a sushi restaurant. I loved it and inquired, the server was kind enough to show me the actual tea bag — it was Yamamotoyama. Availab
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by rectang 3mo ago
lol wut “corporate”? I don’t get the rest of your post either.
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by rectang 3mo ago
While it will take a while to review the subtleties of this license, I appreciate that out of the gate they are marketing it as "Source Available" rather than picking a stupid fight by calling it "Open Source".
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by rectang 3mo ago
Voter suppression strategy depends on statistical degradation of enfranchisement. There is a small group for whom it is literally impossible to obtain supporting documentation — this is the group that you're focusing on, but to my mind
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by rectang 3mo ago
Should voter ID requirements (a la "SAVE America" act or similar) become law, constitutional prohibitions on poll taxes will lead towards every citizen getting an ID at no charge.

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