xurias

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by xurias 1y ago
> keeping in mind the First Amendment? The first amendment doesn't apply to companies. Shutting down TikTok doesn't prevent you from exercising free speech. That's not how it works. Like, I'm not going to bother with
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by xurias 1y ago
The ship has sailed on us being able to deal with influences like modern social media on an individual level. Modern social media like TikTok, Twitter and even YouTube Shorts are fundamentally designed to take advantage of what our brains e
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by xurias 1y ago
The ship has sailed on hoping for individual solutions. Probably sailed long before we as a species could be considered homo sapiens. I'm not sure why there's this weird reluctance to make systemic changes and improvements, and in
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by xurias 1y ago
Who do you think voted for Trump? You point out that it's perfectly possible to live a "simple" rural life. I see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain and the reason why they vote the way the
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by xurias 2y ago
How about Reuters and some others? https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-... https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/tesla-to-re... https://ca.f
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by xurias 7y ago
If you're allowing a single data point to have that much power over what or how you think, you've already lost. Especially if you decide to ignore context like "I just lost water by running and I haven't had anything to
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by xurias 7y ago
It's not unsubstantive or flamebait. It's fact. Chinese companies have been throwing a lot of money at Western companies for years, which gives the CCP a crazy amount of influence over wide swaths of the economy. But yeah, let&#x2
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by xurias 7y ago
Serious question. If I want to build a game that looks like this today, what are my options? Anybody know?
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by xurias 7y ago
This is like...two decades too late. China has their fingers in everything now.
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by xurias 7y ago
I mean, until somebody does something about it, there's value in repeating it over and over. Maybe at some point it'll sink in how criminal these companies are.
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by xurias 7y ago
Can you explain the Microsoft bit? There's an ocean of difference between Microsoft and Apple. You can pretty much pick any MS API from the past 20 years and it'll still work on Windows 10.
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by xurias 7y ago
I mean, the problem isn't the university or the students or the people on the board. It's how the CCP uses its relationships to push its agenda and (incompatible-with-ours) values in an oppressive way on non-Chinese entities. This
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by xurias 7y ago
I find Schmachtenburger hard to listen to. He rejects all media outright because it's all not true or propaganda. Might as well go live in a cave. If you listen to news, whether it's a podcast, a news channel, an article, or whate
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by xurias 7y ago
RSS is really common terminology for the topic (memory allocation). You couldn't Google for 'RSS memory'? I don't agree that every article should cater to a layperson who has zero domain knowledge.
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by xurias 7y ago
We have to be prepared to sacrifice if we're to effect change in the world.
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by xurias 7y ago
Well, we figured if we're so powerless, we might as well punish the US for their misdeeds in other ways. You're welcome.
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by xurias 7y ago
I don't see how it's discouraging. I find it far more discouraging and depressing when people say the 10000 hours is a myth and deliberate practice is a waste of time. What exactly am I supposed to do then if practice doesn't
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by xurias 7y ago
I think it's concerning that everybody seems to think it's okay for companies to clamp down on political discourse. Where do people think we're supposed to talk about this shit? Who's supposed to champion these causes if
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by xurias 7y ago
It actually doesn't provide a prompt. It silently denies access (I think maybe it shows a notification in the bottom right?) and that's that. You have to navigate to the protection settings window in order to whitelist a program.
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by xurias 7y ago
It's their ransomware protection. The last time I tried it months ago, it was really aggressive to the point that it made it uncomfortable to work with my computer. Maybe that's necessary to keep people safe, but I had to disabl
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by xurias 7y ago
Awesome, thanks.
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by xurias 7y ago
Unfortunate that the contact us page doesn't work. I'm interested, but I wanted to ask if a FF extension is planned, since that's my primary browser.
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by xurias 7y ago
Why even bother with an authenticator if they're not going to recognize it for something like this? Why should I have to send them an ID? I tried deleting my account multiple times and it still hasn't worked.
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by xurias 7y ago
The only feasible way to avoid sharing data with Google is using a custom ROM like LineageOS, a Google framework replacement like microG, and XPrivacyLua (module for XPosed). Ideally you'd avoid using any Google services at all, but at
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by xurias 7y ago
I'm not so sure. If it's something that impairs you, I think it's negative.
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by xurias 7y ago
I don't think there is a substantial difference. I had an account (which I've since deleted) with thousands of karma points. I was becoming obsessed with the validation of getting upvotes. And I'm somebody who never cared abo
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by xurias 7y ago
Is this publicly available? I've been looking for something like this.
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by xurias 7y ago
I did something else to structure how I could interact with Facebook. I unfollowed all my friends. Joined only Facebook groups that had some value to me on a weekly basis (primarily organizing meeting new people in my local area). I'd
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by xurias 7y ago
Future devices can be fixed at the factory. That still leaves tens of millions of vulnerable devices which are, as repeated before, unpatchable.
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by xurias 7y ago
Might as well throw it into the sun if you have that much trash. Maybe they got around to building space elevators.

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