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by sham1 3d ago
We also need to get a shower curtain salesman into a leadership position to buy some moon rocks.
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by sham1 3d ago
The difference with the book example is that having to hand over a list of books is tangible whereas technological profiling is extremely subtle and abstract in comparison. As IT professionals it's of course easy to see the ways that t
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by sham1 10d ago
Surely tabs are only ambiguous if one considers the point of indentation to be to align things visually in relation to each other, as opposed to just being, y'know, indented. Besides, I'm sure many people would look at your Scheme
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by sham1 10d ago
Then again, it's not like even before the plagiarising slop machines you couldn't just get around licenses if you were dedicated enough to evil and was comfortable lying about the provenance of the code you're using. Sure, it
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by sham1 2mo ago
How would this have worked in practice though? How could things like trade standards been harmonised or a common currency adopted without the trade union being able to do legislation? And once you get there, you're no longer a trade un
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by sham1 3mo ago
It absolutely works with hardware. And it's not that difficult to add channels for extra software like a tainted Linux kernel. And in return one gets a saner programming language than the Nix language.
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by sham1 3mo ago
The slippery slope of being held liable for an AI overview leading to neo-Hitler is certainly a take, and a ridiculous one at that. It's one thing for an LLM to get things wrong. This case is not that though. And if big tech can't
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by sham1 3mo ago
And the solution to this is to go through the German political system. The courts can't just decide to not follow the law just because it's a bit silly, and for as long as the laws are the way they are, this unfortunate loophole f
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by sham1 3mo ago
There is a disclaimer, yes, but you have to admit that it's pretty shit, innit? I mean for one, it's about the size of a human hair, and at least when I tried it, the disclaimer came up only when I clicked the "Show More&quot
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by sham1 3mo ago
If our standard for laws would be that "well no reasonable person would do this/believe this" then nothing would be illegal, there'd be no need to label any product as potentiality harmful, etc. Do you really want to go
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by sham1 3mo ago
Georgism? In the big 2026? Now that's a blast from the past! Now, land value taxes obviously have their place in the gamut of different taxes to levy, so I don't wish to badmouth them too much. But as a consumption tax, VAT also d
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by sham1 3mo ago
Ideally the workers. But failing that, legislation would probably be a good thing to at least try to reduce e-waste from closed, discarded devices. Like, if a device line is at its end of line from the company, then they might as well make
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by sham1 4mo ago
> Yes, it matters. Does it actually matter? And if so, why? > You can try to distract and do as much mental gymnastics as you want but everyone rational can clearly see that one thing is doing politics for software (free drivers, open
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by sham1 4mo ago
This implies that the difference actually matters. In both cases there is a political goal behind the actions. Yes, printer driver software itself is very different from sexual and gender orientation, but wanting for the printer drivers to
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by sham1 4mo ago
The Free Software community has always been political. Where have you been? Introducing a non-binary mascot for KDE is no more or less political than for example Richard Stallman demanding that printer drivers should be free, back in the 1
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by sham1 4mo ago
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by sham1 4mo ago
It seems that Yarvin didn't realise -- accidentally or more probably intentionally -- that the society in Soylent Green was not supposed to be taken as a model to emulate. It's not supposed to be a documentary! To even joke about
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by sham1 4mo ago
Racism. They seem to be irritated about the existence of migrants and member countries not being allowed to tread on their human rights.
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by sham1 4mo ago
I'd say that the onus falls on the engineer insofar as they need to ask the questions of "why are we making the new better tool", "according to what criteria is it better", and "do we need the better tool"
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by sham1 4mo ago
And pray tell, what does the American or the Chinese worker in this case get out of their higher productivity and competitiveness? Because it really seems that it's not quality of life, that's for certain. More money and material
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by sham1 4mo ago
Maybe we need a cultural shift then, because if one needs to use a platform like X, nowadays owned and operated by fascists, then there's something deeply wrong with the tech world. It'd probably take a lot of effort to do so, but
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by sham1 4mo ago
To be fair to us, the Euro is also a world reserve currency, alongside of course the US Dollar, the British Pound, the Japanese Yen, and the Chinese Renminbi. And the Euro is in fact the second largest in terms of external reserves, being o
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by sham1 4mo ago
Yes, actually! Well, it does require you to install an extension[0], but it can be done. [0]: < https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play >
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by sham1 5mo ago
While this is very pithy, we need to acknowledge and remember that there's a gulf of difference between normal terminal interfaces and command line interfaces, and whatever the chatbots are doing. Yes, both have a prompt where you type
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by sham1 5mo ago
Well good thing is that they didn't. The only thing you need is to provide a USB-C port for charging. Nothing stops a manufacturer adding additional ports for charging, data sharing etc. So Apple could give people the ability to use th
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by sham1 5mo ago
Well hatered for USB-C for charging connectors seems to be strong in this thread alongside the dislike for being able to have changeable batteries. Hell, this thread even has a person whose argument against USB-C is that mandating it will m
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by sham1 5mo ago
> Not even that . > > Consumers still need to buy replacement cables, because they break. > > And the USB-C cable end connector is a fragile piece of shit designed by committee and forced upon everyone buy another committee,
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by sham1 6mo ago
Well I don't know about you, but I at least think that it's good that the "hive mind" questions people who don't hate neo-nazis. Because that tends to be a warning sign when it comes to many other nasty opinions one
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by sham1 6mo ago
Doesn't this idea presume that the hate that Elon gets isn't totally justified?
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by sham1 6mo ago
And pray tell, who comes up with common law? And who enforces the judgment of the court? And what gives the court the authority to judge on the matter of glass shards in your tomato paste? Fun fact about the common law in fact is that it ca

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