upboundspiral

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by upboundspiral 5d ago
Intended only for the President means that only carefully crafted half truths to influence the desired result are present.
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by upboundspiral 6d ago
But by torrenting you are participating and engaging with that culture... I get it, the big brands etc aren't very palatable. And some things get lost with no way to purchase because the companies don't care. But for things that a
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by upboundspiral 9d ago
There are multiple recordings of LG executives saying "we own the glass (the TV)", referring to the "LG household", and how they can serve targeted ads by recognizing every device on the network. Just watch the video...
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by upboundspiral 11d ago
If America had not forced the gold standard we might have gotten an international currency as proposed by Keynes. The idea was soundly rejected because it would have led to rapid post war reconstruction with a loss of American power (they w
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by upboundspiral 12d ago
Attackers only need to win once, defenders need to win every time. The game is skewed in favor of the attackers, and AI only exarcebates this.
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by upboundspiral 12d ago
Going from separate ports to one port, when its easy to yank the headphone cord and ruin the usb-c so now you can't charge your phone is great. I've tried those dongles and they are all a huge hassle compared to just having a head
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by upboundspiral 12d ago
I agree with the sentiment but I would like to push back against this a little bit. I think that there is a common set of human needs / principles that we can all agree are good, such as the golden rule, etc, etc. But here's what
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by upboundspiral 12d ago
To clarify: The attorney general said they wouldn't be pressing charges, and said that private individuals would need to press charges themselves. Source: https://youtu.be/Wst4wPBH-Cg It seems that now some individuals
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by upboundspiral 17d ago
The paper X86 considered harmful was about how the BIOS / Intel management Engine (now also AMD PSP), are completely opaque. If the lowest layer is hidden, proprietary, there are infinite vectors for state actors to include their desir
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by upboundspiral 19d ago
Hybernate is basically cold booting. At least in my experience it's not comparable to suspend + resume in terms of speed.
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by upboundspiral 20d ago
The idea that trade decreases the risk of war is old. It dates back to pre-WW1. Think tanks around Europe were celebrating an "end to hostilities". And then WW1 happened. Trade does not prevent war. War is not always a rational co
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by upboundspiral 20d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-day_workweek "As of July 2022, more than 80 UK companies and organisations are recognised as having permanently implemented a four-day working week" "As 50% of workers
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by upboundspiral 21d ago
I agree that a sense of belonging is a foundational need for humans. I disagree that the fulfillment of this need must beget violence. If as a culture we de-emphasized dominion over others, de-emphasized reward and punishment, and instead e
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by upboundspiral 21d ago
the advantage of local infrastucture is that the local government can have input on the price of the good. If starlink does something you don't like good luck doing anything about it.
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by upboundspiral 22d ago
It's all marketing talk, sort of. Our transistors are about 30 nm give or take. But we've found new ways of aligning them so that if we had continued using old techniques, the density we get would be "2nm". https:/
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by upboundspiral 25d ago
This is trivial to solve. Launch two parallel cases. One against Meta top execs for criminal behavior, the other one as antitrust against Meta for abusing their market position. Two cases at once gives you negotiating power and clearly sign
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by upboundspiral 25d ago
Executives mostly get jailed when there is large media attention + the executive was foolish enough to leave evidence pointing straight at them. For every case where an executive is jailed, there are 100 other cases where they aren't.
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by upboundspiral 26d ago
The people that have money and time to put into SEO are the people with ads on their websites. I bet a large number of them run Google ads. As such, it is not in Google's best interests to cut them out of search, regardless of how low
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by upboundspiral 28d ago
Agree. It sometimes feels like it gets forgotten in the wayland vs xorg divide. One of the nice things about flatpak (another contentious topic), is that for GUI apps where it matters I can trivially set whether I want to prefer xwayland vs
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by upboundspiral 28d ago
For me zoom works out of the box on kde + wayland. But an app as popular as zoom working correctly for everyone is table stakes. The fact some people are encountering issues just means that something in the transition wasn't perfect. G
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by upboundspiral 29d ago
I think if you look at how AI is being used anywhere outside of computer science the quote makes a bit more sense. AI is being used to dehumanize people's jobs, provide bad customer service, a bunch of people are being fired for dubiou
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
crypto is a solution in search of a problem.
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
World reserve currency was solved by Keynes and Joan Robinson in the 1940s. What you do is have a currency no country controls that acts purely for exchanging one national currency for another. Give it to the united nations or something.
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
The Supreme court recently already ruled against warrantless mass surveillance along the lines you describe: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-applauds-important-... What we need now is laws that turn this rulin
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
The spirit of a hacker is not to ask whether it is hard, but whether it is valuable. I find protecting civil liberties valuable.
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
crypto is a solution in search of a problem.
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
Unless we get legislation passed that bans this use in public and private spaces prepare for this to be combined with Flock et al to track your movements inside your house (already is being tested by some internet providers), track the mome
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
If I allocated proportionally pieces of $5 to my favorite content producers a month they would get orders of magnitude more than what they get from me watching ads. I hate ads, I hate the experience of having something in between me and wha
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
With AI I am reconsidering my stance on micropayments. I recently loaded up a few dollars on Deepseek to try it out, and the value I got out of it far surpassed my balance lost (tens of cents). If this is a sustainable business model for De
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
It's incredible how modern news is straight propaganda these days. The article is criticizing Amodei but I take issue with the fact that they printed the story at all. Whether they say something that seems smart or stupid, newspapers k

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