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by tumult 14d ago
Mail in ballots don’t get rid of secrecy, unless the system has been tampered with, which you could also do with illegal cameras at in-person voting etc. Anonymous envelope-within-envelope is a pretty standard way to keep secrecy, and many
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by tumult 2mo ago
Not in my experience. I see it almost every time I end up in a reddit thread from search results. I've recently started demoting it in Kagi. It's just not as good as it used to be. Newer threads tend to be full of junk and bots.
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by tumult 3mo ago
No, that’s describing permanent DST, which was tried and failed, not lack of DST. Most people in the world live without DST and it’s fine. (The article also mentions this.)
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by tumult 3mo ago
> This increase in capital requirements stamps out the visa mills. No, it doesn't. The rich people abusing the system just deposit more money and get their checkmark. Small businesses cannot raise and float this kind of cash quickly
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by tumult 3mo ago
No, that's not required for this visa. The capital requirement is the major change. Also, foreign restaurant owners are already fluent in Japanese, because they deal with Japanese customers every day. The language requirement change is
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by tumult 3mo ago
So sad to see the comments here from people who don't know any better cheering this on. They don't know what is actually happening. The rules change was applied retroactively to people who already had renewals filed (which you hav
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by tumult 3mo ago
You have to do it ahead of time. The airline won't let you board at your departure city without it.
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by tumult 3mo ago
> Would this be a national border? I haven't traveled internationally for a while, but this would be quite troubling. Yes. > Is there no option to pay without an app? No option. > Surely the government also allows you to just
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by tumult 3mo ago
More and more things require having a smartphone. Scan this QR code to install the app to cross the border. Install the app to use the street parking in this city. Install the app to board the bus. Install the app to get your filing status
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by tumult 4mo ago
I agree with you that the PHP forum software is not fast at all. But, try hundreds of requests per second, including requests that require text searches. Also, uh, how does speeding it up that help with the AI spam? (Sorry, I should have em
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by tumult 4mo ago
Not true at all. Even small, insular, just-a-few-hundred users PHPBB-style forums have to run Cloudflare or Anubis to try to stem DDoS-style scraping, and have a constant patrol of moderators to stop AI spam posts.
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by tumult 4mo ago
They did once try forcing macOS 12 users to update to macOS 14, without asking for permission, and overriding any security prompts: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/02/12/can-you-avoid-a-forced-u... This happene
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by tumult 4mo ago
I can't take anything seriously that talks about AI while also inserting needless AI generated images every few paragraphs.
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by tumult 5mo ago
This is an AI generated article, with AI generated images, claiming that AI isn't a resource problem.
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by tumult 5mo ago
Probably not, and I've never used any of those, and never will. X used to, and then stopped, so I left. Not interested in using a service that asks you to put your effort into it and then tries to turn its control against you. Especial
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by tumult 5mo ago
Banned third party clients and interoperability. Use their software to access your data on their servers, on their terms, or get shut down. Hard to think of anything more anti-internet freedom. I left when they did that, years ago. They wou
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by tumult 6mo ago
No evidence was ever presented and nobody ever found anything, as far as I can tell?
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by tumult 7mo ago
I disagree. 120hz makes typing, mousing, etc. noticeably more responsive. I never stop noticing it. I never liked having to use 60hz all the time once LCDs were replacing CRTs. The original iMac didn't even let you choose 60hz to run t
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by tumult 8mo ago
Oracle lost Google v. Oracle.
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by tumult 9mo ago
That's from Arnold Henry Savage Landor and I suspect it was fabricated or exaggerated, like many Victorian era British tales of savages abroad.
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by tumult 10mo ago
No. There is a lot more than that. The AI stuff appears in places in the UI where other things used to, like in right-click menus and when you are entering text into fields. And it's not opt-in. It's on by default. Unless you are
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by tumult 10mo ago
Disabling malware via hash or signature doesn't require the Notarization step at all. Server can tell clients to not run anything with hash xxyyzz and delete it. I mean, just think about it. If disabling stuff required the Notarization
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by tumult 10mo ago
Nope. Notarization is not code signing. It’s an extra step, after code signing, where you upload your software to Apple’s servers and wait for their system to approve it. It’s more onerous than code signing alone and, with hindsight, doesn’
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by tumult 1y ago
The indoor level of radon isn't going to be lower than outdoors. Indoors is either the same or higher than outdoors. Your level of exposure to radon will not go up by going outside. That's your background exposure level, and is al
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by tumult 1y ago
> Quick appeal grant of course, because it was more about sending a message and making people who want to talk about that kind of software think twice before the next video. That was talking about a previous video, not the one that is
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by tumult 1y ago
The pre-compressed and compressed versions were loudness matched to be the same overall loudness, according to the description. My guess is that they set the compressor to actually make the waveform spikier, without fully understanding what
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by tumult 1y ago
Lookhead limiting is more commonly used to sound louder, not compression. Compression is usually done for flavor. It’s not that great at making things louder, because traditional compression actually exaggerated the spikes in amplitude at t
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by tumult 1y ago
It’s possible their compression settings were actually exaggerating the peaks instead of compressing them, and then they did nothing to control those peaks afterwards. This is a really common thing that can happen with a superficial use of
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by tumult 2y ago
68% is horrible
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by tumult 2y ago
I am a resident of Japan. This is extremely bad advice. Do not follow this advice. To csomar: you are willingly spreading harmful advice. Stop it. Stop making people reply to clean up your mess.

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