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"At that age"

Buddy, how old do you think people are when they're supposed to start checking for prostate cancer?

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them...

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There's a word for that, it's called "casing."

Obviously not "hacking," unless they're locked up by a computer or some shit.

A hacker using software like that to test vulnerabilities seems similar to me in some ways.

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Right. Because it is always about money, and if their sales figures weren't going to go down, then it seems like they'd end up saving a ton of money by completely cutting out their entire advertising budget. No need to even design a logo.

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"Really guys, we just want to spend more money than we need to! This won't stop people from smoking, we just really want to spend more money to design logos, packaging, advertising, etc."

Come on, dude...

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Who is "us" here? Speak for yourself.

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Very Cronenberg

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Still happens.

Animal Well was coded by one guy, and it was ~35mb on release (I think it's above 100 at this point after a few updates, but still). The game is massive and pretty complex. And it's the size of an SNES ROM.

Dwarf Fortress has to be one of the most complex simulations ever created, developed by two brothers and given out for free for several decades. The game, prior to adding actual graphics, DF was ~100mb and the Steam version is still remarkably compact.

I am consistently amazed by people's ingenuity with this stuff.

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Oh yeah nothing bad could ever happen from effectively removing an entire section of the population from certain parts of the Internet completely.

I can't imagine that ever going badly.

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That's why you gotta laminate your seed phrase, at the very least. And put it somewhere where it will stay for a very long time and that you'll remember (maybe hidden in a certain book, or put a false bottom in a drawer, I dunno get creative). Doesn't matter what you have or don't have on a disk, the Bitcoin isn't on the disk, it was the words you should be protecting.

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I think the would becomes a lonely place if everyone started only talking with their AI friend. And you know that's what would happen. Humans would isolate from each other ever more.

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Linux is easier and more manageable than you think. Not to be the Lemmy stereotype...

I'm actually rather new to Linux, but my experience has been great and it feels amazing to be free of Microsoft bullshit (outside of my work laptop ugh)

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Is this a Black Mirror episode yet?

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How is foobar2000 not on Linux?

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Right but I think that was their point though no? That, for safety reasons, they didn't make it to orbit. Seems like a pretty cut and dry "no" they didn't make it to orbit just like that person said. And the reason was that they didn't know if it would make it. Which kind of supports their point.

I'm not going to claim to know enough either way (besides Elon Musk being an idiot), but they don't seem wrong there.

It seems like you guys are mad that it didn't make orbit and get defensive when people point it out.

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I can't say I know enough about the subject to agree or disagree in general, it seems pretty clear to me that these people are sore about the fact that the billion (trillion?) dollar corporation they pathetically stan for didn't make it to orbit.

Like I think it really gets to them.

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Lol what kind of comeback is that? We know he said that, dumbass, that was the entire point of their reference. Do you like... Not know who Stalin is?

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Huh that's interesting...

Maybe we can hear directly from them about their views on Stalin:

The Three Arrows were adopted as an official social democrat symbol by the SPD leadership and the Iron Front by June 1932. Iron Front members would carry the symbol on their arm bands. The slogan "neither Stalin's slaves nor Hitler's henchmen" was also used by the SPD in connection with the symbol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows#Weimar_Republic

So lol at you falling for some kind of bullshit agitprop just so you can attempt a clever comeback on Lemmy.

I'm using it as a general anti-fascist symbol, and I like the idea of vandalizing swastikas with it.

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Will every reader also know the finer nuances of the 3 downward arrows, one of them referring to Stalin’s authoritarianism?

Yeah it seemed like you were implying (or actually just saying) that one of the arrows refers to Stalin's authoritarianism. Which is a bad thing, right? Do we agree on that? And I have it as my profile pic... So I dunno how else I was supposed to take your comment?

And to be clear, again, it is not true that one of the arrows refers to Stalin in any way.

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Bruh, you brought Stalin up?

I'm so confused by what you're trying to say.

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When some "every sperm is sacred" loons in Alabama (probably calling themselves "the Sons of Oman" or some corny shit, decides to sue, l imagine it'll be treated the same way they have treated women's contraception and medical abortion.

Surely.

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You're getting downvotes because we all want it to succeed... It hasn't been great for me.

I do use Yandex sometimes, especially if I'm searching for a torrent or streaming show or something since they don't seem to care about filtering pirated stuff. But in general the results seem better than DDG.

Yes I know it's Russian or whatever. Oh well.

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Make sure you've got a spare DVD/Blu-Ray player somewhere that works without needing an internet connection.

Oh, you mean when the discs themselves no longer contain the data.... Yeah...

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I think the Common Core addressed this a bit.

Not sure if that stuff is still in the curriculum because a bunch of dumbass parents who will not hesitate to boast about "how bad they are at math" complained about not understanding their child's homework.

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Nah

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Wait, we were allowed to import these cars??

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Reader mode is a Firefox feature my dude.

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No one is being turned into a borg drone.

Yeah nobody is worried about this.

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Best we can do is a pizza party

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Yeah one of these days we'll crack the code and get it right. In the meantime, how many homeless people are there in the richest country in the history of the world?

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Basically, the "Seinfeld is not funny" trope (insert TVTropes link and disclaimer)

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Cool story. What a fresh take that nobody has seen before lol

And season 1 sucks

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Disney has their own version of Epic's "Volume" I believe, which is also very holodeck-esque

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I have never remembered this when it would actually be useful, and always end up accidentally doing it.

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Linux is not an option due legacy software compatibility - they do more than use a browser.

I think you'd be surprised. But obviously this isn't what you're looking for.

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I recently switched to Mullvad and have had no issues torrenting

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If I'm not mistaken, Kaiser Permanente is a co-op (or maybe just non-profit? I forget), which would explain why they treat their employees like human beings.

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Could be the beginning of a nationwide firewall type system like they have in China. I feel like most current methods of blocking an app could be pretty easily circumvented.

Beyond the government sniffing every packet and blocking TikTok-related ones, I'm not sure how else they could effectively block the app.

And that's a very bad path to start down.

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Unbelievable. I mean look at this...

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Err. Hmmm.

Edit: The joke in my comment no longer makes sense. Please disregard.

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Reddit was always better than Digg too. I prefer the smaller community.

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This is what people like Musk are concerned about when they claim to be "free speech absolutists". This is where their concern for that freedom begins and ends: their ability to use it to profit.

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my penis has gone up two sizes

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Are these alleged "sizes" universal? Or is it like shoes where a 12 in the US means 45.5 or some shit in EU?

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I still use my porn account, though it seems that I go to it less and less

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Yeah. I'm glad that people seem to have more interest in and understanding of rent seeking behaviors, but can we stop pretending this is new?

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Definitely not every...

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Sounds like a bubble that's perfect for the corporations to profit from before it pops and they skate away with their golden parachutes

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Not to mention that the lyrics he wrote for him are just awful. Horrifically awful. It's insulting to Tupac.

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The Snoop part is AI too. Dude isn't even dead!

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Don't know anything about the specific situation about GPUs, but I do know that I'm not allowed to purchase an affordable Chinese EV in the US...

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