toofy

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by toofy 4d ago
i hear you, however: > …but Stripe is a big backer for climate solutions… his post reads pretty clearly as funding “solutions” to adapt to coming climate change rather than “how do we mitigate climate change” this is why i’m skeptical of
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by toofy 5d ago
does hn quickly down rank other subjects? if i’m not mistaken they might with political subjects, if so, there’s already precedent and so the tech pieces are in place. i would be against entirely removing it, but limiting it to like 10-20%
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by toofy 7d ago
i hope blackmagic pays attention to what steam is doing with steamos. steam has put so much into making gaming on linux so good, one of the last pieces remaining for a ton of people to make the switch is editing. don’t get me wrong, i run d
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by toofy 9d ago
i honestly don’t believe i’m being jaded when i say this: there will be no consequences. in this current moment, companies can treat us however they like. again, i don’t think that’s hyperbolic or jaded, i think it’s much more based in re
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by toofy 9d ago
almost all new cars have cellular modems reporting all kinds of shit, something like over 90% of new cars. what makes you think tv companies aren’t? even the ones that aren’t yet, we’d be incredibly incredibly naive to think it’s not on
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by toofy 9d ago
after everything we’ve seen factually that companies do, why would this, of all things, seem far-fetched to you? i think it would be significantly more far-fetched that cable companies don’t sell them access. i would be shocked if they didn
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by toofy 9d ago
> which brands still respect user privacy? does anyone know of a reputable site which rates companies by things such as trustworthiness? are any companies at all trustworthy anymore? like literally any?
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by toofy 11d ago
i don’t mind this at all. tbh im fatigued of the general public being beta testers for companies.
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by toofy 13d ago
i’ve just looked, apparently it’s super easy and basically transparent to switch to bitwarden. it apparently imports the password vaults painlessly. i’ll check it out tonight and if it is that easy, it’ll be my new rec for people.
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by toofy 13d ago
thanks. i had no idea. apparently bitwarden can import data vaults super easily from 1passwd. guess i’ll be recommending clients to bitwarden from here.
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by toofy 15d ago
oh, if it seems like i don’t think we should have privacy, i apologize. that’s not at all what i meant. my point is, going after flock alone is not even close to enough. i’ve read articles that say flock logs dents/scratches/pai
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by toofy 15d ago
> Is there any music streaming service with fast native cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows, Android) clients? Because I'd switch. i use apple music. love it way more than spotify. i originally got it because their descriptions of
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by toofy 17d ago
i don’t think that will help anything. surely flock and similar companies use facial recognition features? particularly at every stores parking lot that has these in it? and i’d be more shocked if the same stores weren’t already sharing th
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by toofy 18d ago
> And I would bet that a quite few people from those bubbles would answer yes. while i don’t have a dog in this particular fight, you can find “quite a few people” who will answer yes to just about the craziest shit you can imagine. it’s
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by toofy 20d ago
this is only true if people know their voices matter. if their voices are overrun by the powerful, the pitchforks come back out.
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by toofy 21d ago
omg that game!!! i forgot about it. RIP Tim Curry. i went to the symphony last year to see the movie Clue. the symphony played the music while the movie played on the big screen above. i’d never seen the movie, he was as amazing as everythi
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by toofy 21d ago
while it may be tracked, it’s often intentionally obfuscated from the actual end customer.
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by toofy 21d ago
i suspect the concerns are, if your food is killing people or making them sick: 1) how big is the fallout, 2) how insulated from repercussions are you? if a small local farms food is making people sick, it will only be a few people and word
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by toofy 21d ago
i don’t think you read my comment. the situation you put forth and the situation in reality are two entirely different outcomes. removing a bunch of relevant context doesn’t magically make them the same thing.
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by toofy 21d ago
a few weeks ago i was visiting my parents and caught a little bit of a documentary they had on. it all became clear as day. apparently in the 70s used car salesmen would manipulate the odometers in cars they were selling to make the cars ap
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by toofy 21d ago
who is pretending this? the two scenarios below are not the same. surely you see this, right? scenario 1: some interesting chemicals exist in a warehouse in the middle of a cornfield in iowa. scenario 2: a person picks up some interesting c
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by toofy 21d ago
you might want to do that, but you underestimate how much some hobbyists/makers/hackers value being able to do things on their own tools in their own house. for me, it’s significantly more about the process than it is about penny
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by toofy 1mo ago
> … was just ignoring regulations that were built up over decades, only discovering the reasons for those regulations … yeah it’s unreal to me how many people who imagine themselves intelligent are just now discovering the equivalent to
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by toofy 1mo ago
this will mirror what happened in the past. if i’m not mistaken, in the past, people had limited time on “the mainframe”. so eventually they brought in what would be the equivalence of a local model… small computers that could do smaller ta
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by toofy 1mo ago
it entirely depends on the topic. an example is realizing the queries will end up with multiple back and forths. for a lot of things a phone call can solve something in minutes and it’s cleared from your brain queue. while some emails end u
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by toofy 1mo ago
> But if they keep the scans, or even the transcripts, that's probably an improvement on the status quo, to be honest. only if they share the scans/transcripts and don’t hide it away.
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by toofy 1mo ago
> But that doesn't mean I'm going to read AI slop about it. If you want to promote the arts, start by using your own words. which leads to the next piece of the puzzle, “we lost our quality writers and what we’re doing to get i
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by toofy 1mo ago
we desperately need a separation of corporations and state the same way we have a separation of church and state . we need a government that is antagonistic towards corporations that are abusing us. it’s wild how much influence they have
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by toofy 1mo ago
of course there are other factors at play here. has anyone tried to hide their motives? look, i use llms for some work and for some hobby projects, but lets not pretend like the companies behind the llm bubble would ever fight fair. that wo
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by toofy 2mo ago
if i’m understanding what you’re saying correctly, it sounds like you think parental involvement is a) lacking, and b) would be effective in its own. i’m not sure either of those holds true. it takes a village, even with fantastic family li

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