someNameIG

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by someNameIG 3mo ago
If the US gov does try to limit all frontier models from being used outside the US, I wonder how that would go with Google and Deepmind?
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by someNameIG 7mo ago
He was also a nazi. Not in the "everyone I don't like is a nazi", but he was a member of a group calling themselves national socialists.
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by someNameIG 8mo ago
That's great. The only reason I haven't got it on my M1 Air yet.
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by someNameIG 8mo ago
Deutsche Bank made a statement recently that Europe holds about double what the rest of the world does combined in US bonds and equity.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
They say it's first operational system in it's class, but it seems very similar to the Australian Apollo system, with Apollo being able to go up to 150kW https://eos-aus.com/defence/high-energy-laser-weapon&#x
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
I'm Australian and neither any Meta platform nor Reddit have asked to verify my ID, as I presume both just inferred that I was over 16 and that was adequate.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
> All the non-technical people I know loved it. It's pretty. It's neat. It looks cool. Apple is a consumer products company. My partner doesn't like it, and outside of excel she is not a technical person.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
> using a fork like Mullvad or Waterfox. Those are going to keep all these AI features out. So what do we privacy maximalists care? The forks give us exactly what we want. The thing is most of the forks are still using some/all of t
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
> Firefox was and still is mostly used by "power users" and we're pretty much the only ones left that intentionally install the browser. This really isn't the case. Firefox has almost 200 million users, yet sub 10% of
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
Not who you were asking but my reasons for thinking Brave is a joke. First they're a cypto/addtech company, which is a type of company I wouldn't trust to run my browser. And this has resulted in them doing things in the past
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
> Well, yes. If you build a userbase out of power users and folks who care about privacy and control... Is that their core user base, or just the vocal user base online? Only 5-10% of their user base have UBO installed (FF has almost 200
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
Just to test I just logged into myGov then through Firefox and it worked fine.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
And their engine is still around, how's the leader of the times web engine going?
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
They're the only modern usable browser engine not developed by a multi-trillion dollar corp. I'd say that's a pretty big achievement.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
> Want a fully functional ad blocker Is this even the case? UBO has ~10 million users going by the extension store, Firefox has over 150 million users. So less than 10% of Firefox installs also have UBO.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
What actual extra privacy does that add though? You still need to connect to them from your IP address, which can be traced back to you.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
OP is in Australia. Most stores that sell gift cards have loyalty cards that give points for gift card purchases. And a few times a year they give bonus points (e.g. 10x) on gift cards, that can result in an equivilent 10-15% saving. You ca
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
From what I remember from undergrad the reason they're not life is that they lack their own metabolism, they use the metabolism of host cells. And metabolism needs to be a constant thing, they don't have any when outside a cell.
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
As an Australian the only platforms I have that asked for an age check were Discord and Bluesky. Which is funny as neither came under this legislation, they're implementing this because they chose to. Nothing from Reddit or any of the
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
An an Australian, the social media ban legislation specifically requires than non-ID methods be available (it specifically says that also included digital ID).
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by someNameIG 9mo ago
If something like Orch OR is correct then maybe not.
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by someNameIG 10mo ago
Geiser works well for Racket also.
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by someNameIG 10mo ago
The selection of games for macOS is tiny compared to Windows, and even Linux now due to proton. For example Paradox games used to have decent support with macOS, but now Europa Universalis V is Windows only (but works with proton) so I can&
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by someNameIG 10mo ago
Samsungs newer Exynos are somewhat like this, their GPUs are based on AMDs RNA2.
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by someNameIG 10mo ago
The law speifically reuired non-ID methods > Specifies that no Australian will be compelled to use government identification (including Digital ID) to prove their age online, and platforms must offer reasonable alternatives to users, &gt
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by someNameIG 10mo ago
I think Digital Foundry has expects the performance to be bit below the base PS5 in most cases. It has a new generation of CPU/GPU than the PS5, but less cores/ CUs. VRAM is also only 8GB, PCs generally need more than that to matc
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by someNameIG 11mo ago
> Next let's ban kids from social media. We are here in Australia from the 10th December this year.
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by someNameIG 11mo ago
What's Apples profit margins on their hardware? Just from that they're already getting what all that is worth. The 30% app store cut is just rent seeking.
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by someNameIG 11mo ago
Say no one builds their own, and iPhones now only have first party apps. How many people are going to buy them now? How well did the Windows phone sell with no app support? How's the app support on the Apple Vision Pro? The idea that d
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by someNameIG 11mo ago
I've heard that too. And also Xbox had 2 different DirectX APIs, one more customised to the console, and one that's the standard Windows DirectX which is not as performant. From what I've heard most devs used the latter as it

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