rnd0

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by rnd0 3d ago
As if AI scrapers haven't already!
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by rnd0 5d ago
So fucking what? Nothing wrong with that. Lighten up, francis.
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by rnd0 13d ago
Considering how quickly poultry and fish go bad, they weren't entirely wrong.
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by rnd0 23d ago
I had Tang every day with lunch when I was a kid. But it was the seventies so there's that ...
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by rnd0 23d ago
Unless you have a practical nuts-and-bolts solution for dealing with the money and connections of orgs such as the Heritage Foundation and the various Tech Oligarchs pushing fascism (e.g. Palintir) your 'resistance' will mean fuck
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by rnd0 23d ago
Ya know, this would probably be pointless but if I were a programmer (I'm not -and refuse to be a vibe coder) I'd probably just grab appropriate libraries and make my own replacements for this shit. GLTK+ (?) is an obvious choice
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by rnd0 23d ago
It's cute that you seem to think anyone will ever be held accountable ever again. Anyone who's studied history knows what direction this is going to go and the chances of their being a Nuremburg Trail II are very, very slim.
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by rnd0 28d ago
Great advice, until all of the alternatives are driven from the market ala youtube, ala' ebay, etc etc
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by rnd0 28d ago
We are well, well past the point where it's possible to avoid a police state.
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by rnd0 28d ago
>I need to say that corporate consolidation is never good for consumers. Truer words, never spoken. I'm not sure how exactly this will screw me over -but I do know that it will.
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by rnd0 1mo ago
Yes. No idea.
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by rnd0 1mo ago
Linus might want to look over Oracle's reasoning and reconsider the potential legal harm that can come to the Linux kernel from accepting AI code.
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by rnd0 2mo ago
NetBSD specifically prohibits AI contributions as far as I'm aware of -and thank god for it!
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by rnd0 2mo ago
I'm a simple user so libreoffice (Calcs, in this case) suits my needs -but I'm also not using it for work, either.
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by rnd0 2mo ago
This, right here, is the bottom line. Money gets what Money wants.
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by rnd0 2mo ago
That's apples and oranges; a better analogy would be if you post a video on youtube that you made yourself, with products you're allowed to use, but happen to overlook that copywritten music is on the radio in the background or on
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by rnd0 2mo ago
Alternate take; deliberately broken moderation systems and perverse incentives are the biggest source of social media manipulation. Fix social media, and leave the consumers alone. Also the firehose of spam will continue regardless of what
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by rnd0 2mo ago
Works a treat, I reckon -until the moment comes when you actually want to interact and/or post.
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by rnd0 2mo ago
With AI posts and karma farming -not to mention good old-fashioned astroturfing ...how reliable is that, really?
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by rnd0 2mo ago
>Back to old school forums It's the year of Our Lord 2026. Good luck discovering forums that you don't already know about!
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by rnd0 2mo ago
Honestly that seems kind of pointless and a waste of time. Might as well work it out by hand if you're going to go through all that effort
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by rnd0 2mo ago
I missed that, link please?
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by rnd0 2mo ago
Not a lawyer, but additionally there's also legal concern about the legality of the training source. How can you verify that the model you're using wasn't trained and therefore incorporates code that is not licensed for shari
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by rnd0 2mo ago
Of course they are -it goes without saying.
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by rnd0 2mo ago
Are you including aggressive economic attacks -such as weaponizing tariffs or are you only counting direct military acts? I'm pretty sure the U.S. has done both over the last couple of years -but I'd love to be proven wrong. :)
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by rnd0 2mo ago
Yes and no? I've had the same experience with asking about Tienanmen square -but then when asking a Deepseek v4 model (and confirmed by asking the chat on the deepseek site) about the "laying flat" movement it gave me a detai
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by rnd0 2mo ago
>But lately, because of AI, I've completely lost interest in this kind of stuff. I'm a few years older -and yes, I feel the same way. Not just in programming and geek stuff but in creativity too. It seems literally pointless, s
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by rnd0 2mo ago
I originally wasn't going to try it -but now I have to!
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by rnd0 5mo ago
Particularly since the first version of Windows shipped in what -1985? Contemporary with 4.2BSD? Did 4.2BSD even use /etc/hosts the same way or DNS?
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by rnd0 5mo ago
Elon bought Twitter to destroy it, this is simply the latest step in that process.

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