throwaway7679

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by throwaway7679 12d ago
Finally, the racist and anti-africa map projection conspiracy of 1569 has come to an end. /s Absurdly, that was the actual motivation behind the resolution. How embarrassing for all involved. Choosing maps for political reasons is not
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by throwaway7679 16d ago
The evolution for Old School RuneScape was to just make cheating a built-in feature. It only takes a couple clicks every ten minutes to "play" the game.
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by throwaway7679 1mo ago
Such licenses are not actually used. Their existence is anti-nuclear performance art.
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by throwaway7679 2mo ago
They should stop pretending they aren't shills, and link directly to "nytimes.com/subscription".
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by throwaway7679 2mo ago
I see electron in the repo but there is no mention of it on the main page. Providing desktop builds is essential, as Discord communities based around desktop activities may have little interest otherwise. Fluxer is another discord clone tha
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by throwaway7679 2mo ago
Maybe you could do a post on... remote attestation. That is, the thing that people are actually talking about when they use that term: The means for companies and governments to usurp the ownership of consumer devices.
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by throwaway7679 6mo ago
Sibling comments are right. Refusing to hurt people is a crime against money.
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by throwaway7679 6mo ago
Grieving parents clamor for laws that will allow surveillance companies to surveil even harder, and for laws that force all people to be subject to their schemes. Apparently companies can just kill kids to turn parents into their biggest ad
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by throwaway7679 8mo ago
This construction of wind and solar has nothing to do with renewable, and everything to do with China's desire to get as much electricity generation as possible, which involves increasing nuclear, coal, hydro, and everything else.[1] [
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by throwaway7679 11mo ago
The ideal is the owner being able to use TPM/SecureBoot/etc to ensure that the device is in the configuration they want. That means resisting tampering, and making any successful tampering become obvious. The problem is third part
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by throwaway7679 11mo ago
Let's not hand-wave field of view. Glasses cannot display anything outside the bounds of their frames, and therefore cannot have a field of view as large as a headset. No amount of miniaturization will overcome that limitation. Contact
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by throwaway7679 11mo ago
There are several gaps in capability between headsets and glasses, which cannot be filled by any existing technology. For example, consider field of view, which is a critical measurement of these displays. Typical specs are 120 degrees for
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by throwaway7679 1y ago
Screwing customers with sabotaged crap is standard Nintendo behavior. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30773214 But I wonder if they have run afoul of the EU Radio Equipment Directive in this case, by refusing
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by throwaway7679 1y ago
To get AI to fix a specific issue, simply have a human fix it first. If that doesn't sound very useful, well...
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by throwaway7679 1y ago
> NEITHER DISCORD NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE APIs, API DATA, DOCUMENTATION, OR ANY DISCORD SERVICES. The existence of terms like this make any discussion of the other terms look pr
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by throwaway7679 1y ago
There are lots of details about the technology, license agreements, service history, comparable platforms, and whatnot, which all form reasonable support for botghost. None of that matters in the slightest. They're dealing with an indi
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by throwaway7679 1y ago
https://zalgo.org/ Zalgo and unzalgo text Configurable craziness level
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by throwaway7679 1y ago
> It needs to be screened by someone The people using this stuff want plausible deniability. If there's a problem with the slop, the computer did it, not me. Screening it is contrary to that, so they won't do it.
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
> Anyone can stop using gmail at any time True, and applies to many other things as well. Anyone claiming otherwise is shirking responsibility for their own actions. Every single sibling comment here suffers from this. Arguments in the f
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
Stealing from children is the MO of Epic Games
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
There are garbage bins in NYC. Here's one: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7238555,-73.9968645,3a,75y,5...
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
A shameless betrayal of user intent. This article calls it "a genius move". Repulsive.
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
It's doom, so hell for everyone
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
A trillion dollar company is screwing me again. Any tips on how I can keep supporting them?
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20040604194346/http://bash.org/?...
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
(2008)
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by throwaway7679 2y ago
Discussing the effectiveness of the technique requires believing that the system has a legitimate purpose and was made with genuine intent. Is it good to automatically record, transcribe, analyze, and censor all private conversations? Is th
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
> a 452-megawatt (MW) solar farm in West Texas [...] will generate enough electricity to power over 190,000 homes annually 452 MW nameplate * optimistic 0.3 capacity factor = 135.6 MW 8760 hours annually * 135.6 MW = 1187856 MWh 1187856
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
> There has been a significant decrease in desktops in the last decade. Indeed, but not because phones have gotten any closer to desktop work. What good is a phone, today, when using multiple monitors for 3d modelling, video editing, pro
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by throwaway7679 3y ago
Phones have highly integrated parts, lack of IO ports, toy operating systems, and other major trade-offs, for the sake of size and power usage, which would all be disadvantages or total non-starters in a desktop environment. This situation

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