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by yubblegum 10d ago
I'm reading Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones' Babylon - The Biography of a Metropolis which just recently came out, and that's how I ended up hearing about Yale's culinary adventures. The book, btw, is kind of breezy in style and
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by yubblegum 10d ago
https://spia.princeton.edu/news/taliban-legal-system-and-202... That’s not how things work. There is one set of rules for us and another set of rules for the oligarchy and their corporate vehicles. It’s just like the T
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by yubblegum 11d ago
I was looking at the picture in Reuters of Putin meeting Jared Kushner and my thoughts were that our government is no longer a government of the people for the people but oligarchs for their creepy spawn. Also this Red-Blue nonsense is wear
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by yubblegum 13d ago
Cradle of civilization is not an odd culture. Babylon, meaning Gate of God, is one of the more profoundly influential urban civilizational clusters in human history.
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Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)(babylonian-collection.yale.edu)
172 points by yubblegum 13d ago|142 comments
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by yubblegum 13d ago
We're this conversation so Firefox is not up to task. And Chromium is connected in some way with the poster child for ad tech and surveillance capitalism. So the point stands: OSS community has shown itself capable of tackling some of
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by yubblegum 14d ago
Look, Windows (apparently) displays ads to some users. So even for OSes, if they can get away with it, they will shove ads in our face. Linux is a highly complex piece of software. It is OSS. And it does not shove ads in face of its users.
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by yubblegum 15d ago
Does your hypothetical kernel make it easy or difficult for you to install add-ons that block ads? Does the organization that build it have a conflict of interest regarding advertisting/surveillance interests such as Google/Meta&#
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by yubblegum 15d ago
What exactly is the problem? I understand a browser is a complex program but is the claim it is impossible to build a browser without continual dependence on advertising toxic dollars?
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by yubblegum 15d ago
Hey, thanks for this recommendation! Just watched it and enjoyed it. Very interesting and unexpectedly spiritual. (This must be the one and only Herzog film I've managned to watch to the end.)
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by yubblegum 17d ago
Thanks for this. I just rechecked the OP and did not find these links in the article. It is imo socially irresponsible to continue to use twitter/x or any other such tracked wall-garden as a primary source of information.
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by yubblegum 19d ago
Wondering if someone can bring a class action lawsuit against tracer.ai and/or their clients.
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by yubblegum 19d ago
Fair enough but we're not discussing all under the heaven here. The phenomena we are discussing is, to date, mostly defined and categorized based on subjective (self) reports. Given that, until we actually do experiments where we analy
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Interview- Hobbit Designer Veronika Megler on Storytelling by Luke C. Jackson(ourdigitalheritage.org)
1 points by yubblegum 19d ago|0 comments
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by yubblegum 20d ago
He started by saying he initially couldn't even achieve phantasia (at school) but now can and that validates his experience which is he has made strides on mental imagery department. Why is the notion that some cognitive ability need
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by yubblegum 20d ago
Disagree. Concepually is lifting according to its weight class here. It is entirely irrelevant whether all or most implementations compile. The germinal fact is that a "naive" interpreter implementation of LISP does not in anyway
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by yubblegum 20d ago
You are ignoring his "conceptually" bit and that is a reference to R.E.P.Loop which is what interpreters do: they read, they evaluate, they output, and loop.
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by yubblegum 21d ago
> It's just that we will drop bombs on anyone who tries. I don't recall us bombing Pakistan, India, Israel, China, or North Korea. > Nuclear nonproliferation relies on active enforcement. The comedy hour at HN has arrived.
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by yubblegum 21d ago
Most middle powers have robust censorship regimes. As for America being a unique "hostile" phenomena in geopolitics, I believe you are either purveyour or a victim of propaganda. > its tech sector has caused much harm at a glob
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by yubblegum 21d ago
The imdb move was truly stupid of Amazon, imo. I use to go there all the time for movie info but now its wikipedia and other alternatives and don't even bother with imdb.
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by yubblegum 22d ago
That actually leaked tracking back to twitter which is really the entire point of something like nitter. xcancel.com was always my last choice after nitter.net and nitter.poast.org. nitter.net was the only one without callbacks for scripts
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by yubblegum 22d ago
An object sans semantics would be fine.
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by yubblegum 22d ago
Is there such a thing as a "point" in the universe?
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by yubblegum 22d ago
It's a feature not a bug ..
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by yubblegum 22d ago
Nitter permitted perusing of twitter (x-cremente) without being tracked by whoever has the keys to the backdoors to twitter. This is why nitter is being killed - it destroys the surveillance capability provided by twitter/x/musk t
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by yubblegum 22d ago
> What is the main use case for X these days? twitter/x remains the domain of intelligence agencies worldwide. It is a semi-open (the world first virtual leader, the ayatollah affirms he exists from there ..) psychological operation
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by yubblegum 1mo ago
If a different model is using encyrpted blocks of another model, then by definition it is no longer a session scoped bit of information. Since you can give it to any other session and another model, clearly it doesn't even have to be t
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by yubblegum 1mo ago
Sure, but if each session has a unique key then these need to be managed and stored and unauthorized access to these leaves tracks. So all that had to be 'compromised' is a single universally applicable key. Again, the question st
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by yubblegum 1mo ago
Seriously, what does it take to encrypt per session? There are many ways to make it scalable and efficient so I am wondering if this is left like this to allow interested 3rd parties ahem unobtrusively peek what people are doing with the AI
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by yubblegum 1mo ago
> It is the over-reaction That is in fact a matter that is subject to serious debate. Pretext.

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