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by torpid 2mo ago
Turo (then Relayrides) partned with GM to allow you to rent your own vehicle out while you were at work or anywhere, so it's not science fiction, it was done back in 2012 and the concept was the same, your vehicle will help pay for its
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by torpid 3mo ago
Wait until they figure out regular people can just use photoshop to hand make photorealistic depictions and regular CAD software to make gun parts. Better license computer use, too.
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by torpid 8mo ago
Long ago, Canonical did some shady stuff with the now-deprecated apt-key "net-update" signing validation for updating of GnuPG keys over the network, an exclusive Ubuntu "feature" Debian didn't even adopt that in th
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by torpid 8mo ago
If you cannot tolerate “Russian bots” or “Chinese bots,” then you do not truly stand for free speech. It really is that simple. Free speech, by definition, exists to protect speech that someone finds offensive or objectionable. If everyone
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by torpid 1y ago
If your country shuts off internet access they are probably going to jam bluetooth and wifi at any large demonstration, too.
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by torpid 1y ago
This isn't new at all - MajorBBS/Worldgroup had a module called Hoteleconference that did this, which if I remember correctly, you could do "world building" to design rooms, descriptions, actions, etc. much like a mud b
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by torpid 2y ago
That's not the point. The point is making Ukraine pay off the defense contractors rather than the American taxpayers. Trump made a campaign promise to end the war, and was overwhelmingly reelected on those promises, and has so far ke
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by torpid 2y ago
The Century of the Self documentary by Adam Curtis does an incredible job of covering that and is well-worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cent
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by torpid 2y ago
I wonder how many people went to icq.com and first provided their phone number thinking it was mandatory, then realized there was a "Login with password link", then went back, put in their ICQ UIN, and tried every last password th
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by torpid 3y ago
We have natural gas running into the building but not for the residents. All the first floor commercial tenants, and the hallways have the luxury of forced air. Just the apartment units that are cold. There's several apartments with
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by torpid 3y ago
This building opened 11 years ago and I've been a tenant since then. The HVAC is 2013. Each floor has ~20 apartments and each floor connects to a rooftop unit. The hallways are forced air and stay toasty, it's just the apartmen
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by torpid 3y ago
It's one step better than people turning their stoves on. And hilariously, if too many people artificially heat their apartments, it actually crashes the system somehow because if too many zones in the mini split have heat, it flips to
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by torpid 3y ago
I live in an old furniture factory converted into lofts. LEED certified of course, with mini splits instead of forced air in each unit. This is in the midwest. For the past 11 years, every season it's failed to maintain minimum tempe
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by torpid 3y ago
Precisely.
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by torpid 3y ago
I was replying to yours and took issue with what seemed to be a dismissal of allegations based on where or how these allegations are communicated. My understanding of these specific first amendment violations is in part based on the revela
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by torpid 3y ago
A person who is more concerned about the source or origin of potential evidence rather than weighing the merits on the content itself isn't engaging in a good faith discussion.
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by torpid 3y ago
Genetic fallacies don't help yours.
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by torpid 3y ago
SCOTUS has already ruled that for first amendment purposes, if the government hires a contractor to censor, it is still censoring and violating the first amendment. The FBI does not enforce supreme laws to which they are subject to, they ha
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by torpid 3y ago
They've been shown to follow the law in jurisdictions where it's lawful for the government to censor citizens' speech. What you're missing is it's ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL to do such a thing in the US by the U
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by torpid 3y ago
The people hacking this and those behind the reddit blackout are not interested in preventing censorship or government collusion for these activities.. in fact, I would argue thats likely the MOTIVE, because its no longer free and anonymous
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by torpid 3y ago
I did watch it. Mehdi Hassan found two errors in the entire body of work: One acronym (Taibbi wrote CIS when it was supposed to be CISA), and one date that he got wrong. Then he hammered Taibbi for an hour on those two errors, as if he wer
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by torpid 3y ago
Two minor and inconsequential errors that he owned up to even before the segment aired. This is a particularly stupid gotcha given that CIS was the government contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown req
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by torpid 4y ago
So I have to beg? A programmer so busy coding a high-demand bleeding edge IRC client all the kids are using that needs to resort to manual e-mail to distribute licenses to the people he owes it to, every one he has (or should have) the e-m
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by torpid 4y ago
The original license terms never specified an end and the need of an "extension" or renewal when I bought this software in 97. Like any other software company that have done similar things with free / lifetime software, he co
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by torpid 4y ago
What's wrong with asking first and letting the web operator opt in? The gist of your argument is if I go up and try to pick your pocket but say my intentions are only to help you from real pickpockets, there's nothing but your per
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by torpid 4y ago
Jiggling door handles without consent is a defacto criminal act. It's no different if I tried to pick your wallet as you walked down the street and said, "better me than a criminal..." then flashed my badge. CISA will jiggle
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by torpid 4y ago
Why is asking for permission first bad? The CISA does this very thing, but businesses have to explicitly ask first and consent unlike the UK. That's the difference between a nanny state policy and one that respects choice and the pro
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by torpid 4y ago
Sure, if you value authoritarianism and an intrusive nanny state. The government jiggling the door handles of everyone's house to see if it's unlocked crosses a huge line.
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by torpid 4y ago
This is what getting clean from from heroin does to someone who got famous for writing angry, dark music.
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by torpid 4y ago
I had a kickass wardriving rig back in the day. A dedicated netbook with kismet, gpsd, and a kismet script i hacked together before they had a plugin framework that would alert me on certain ssid probes, which would reliably tell me of th

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