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When you buy something you should be able to pass it on or sell it to someone else. This "the software not sold, only licensed" BS should be illegal. Either you rent with a monthly fee, or you buy it and own it. Owning something means you can sell it to someone else.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

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2048

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

OpenTTD

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They had so many great innovations over the years, the problem is they kill them off because they somehow can't figure out how to monetize stuff that people want. It's like if they can't get the money from a third party, they're out of ideas. I would have paid a monthly fee for Google Reader (not much, mind you, but I bet $1/month would have been enough to keep it running). I am now paying for Kagi because I prefer to be the customer and not the product.

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This is the only way I ever publicly share any information about my travels. Don't want to advertise that there's nobody home.

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Am I the only one who doesn't think vacation equals travel? It just means you don't have to go to work.

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25 days off per year is minimum by law in my country. I have 36. Would never be able to afford traveling for 36 days (plus weekends) every year though.

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I think a fourth tenet may be that the people who have tenants are the scum of the earth.

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Fisker found out Brownless got the car from an outside source

That typo is hilarious

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Watching from Europe I have no idea what the problem is. The US spies on our data, the CCP spies on our data. I can see why the US government might worry that they can't access the data (except TikTok runs its servers on Oracle databases in the US just to satisfy them). But I don't understand why the citizens of the US would support tightening the monopoly to just Facebook and Google.

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Yeah well, it's not like it's beneath the US government to do the same thing. Remember Cambridge analytica, or the Snowden leaks? My point being, as far as I'm concerned as a citizen, banning TikTok just transfers power to a more concentrated group of actors. That makes the problem worse.

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The US would break them (and has always broken them) even if China wasn't around.

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PRISM

Bullrun

List of government mass surveillance projects

List of FBI controversies

List of CIA controversies

Human rights violations by the CIA

The CLOUD Act

This started long before the 2016 election and is deeply ingrained into the way the United States government operates. I'm definitely not saying China is innocent, but a lot of the US government's fears are rooted in projection. "We do it, so we must assume they do it too".

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Yes but Facebook / Instagram / Twitter also do this and it has caused huge societal problems in the US, arguably much worse than TikTok.

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There's also a terrifying short story by Stephen King on the subject.

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I mean canonical also tries to monetize its users. The problem is more shareholders who want profit than the software being proprietary.

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And I don't see why Arch is relevant to the discussion. My point is that software being non-proprietary is not a guarantee for preventing fuckery like Microsoft's. Profit-maximizing companies will maximize their profits, proprietary software or not. Canonical, which sells a non-proprietary Linux distribution, is an example of this.

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What would people use this for? Do those structures fill a biological/functional purpose? Surely making a sphere with arbitrary sequences won't do much good.

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Says a company that makes an ad blocker

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I would be surprised if they didn't. They must see where the tide is turning.

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This saying needs to die. It doesn't matter what you love doing. Being compelled to do it at the behest of some other master to earn a place to sleep and food to eat, is work. Dependency on money corrupts the freedom that is inherent in the concept of doing what you love.

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Well, not necessarily although I guess it's true for a lot of people. I work as a programmer, but I coincidentally took a vacation day today to relax with my hobby: programming. The difference is that with my hobby project, nobody asks me what it's good for or how it will earn money. I just work on the stuff that's recreational for me, without having to satisfy anyone else.

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Without a context of where this is or the temperature units used, the image is meaningless.

Where I live the forecast for tomorrow is between 0 and 7 degrees. Is that hot or cold?

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When you're playing an MMORPG you're not using the web, but you're using the Internet. The Internet is like the postal service relaying stuff, but the stuff can be of different kinds.

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But but... branding!

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Classic mistake. You weren't rich enough.

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If you are the best, then you are probably also good. Unless the best is still really bad.

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That's a classic question with a touch of irony, isn't it? The phrase "What's so civil about war anyway?" is often used to point out the oxymoron in the term "civil war." The term "civil" implies politeness and order, which is in stark contrast to the chaos and destruction characteristic of war. This line, made famous by the Guns N' Roses song "Civil War," captures the absurdity and tragedy of war, especially when it occurs within the same country among its citizens. It's a rhetorical question that highlights the inherent contradiction in waging war in the name of civility or resolving internal disputes. So, in essence, there's nothing "civil" about war—it's a critique wrapped in a bit of wordplay.

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

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The people who can decide whether to throw you off the plane are telling you that you have to put it in airplane mode. Seems fucked up that they would be basing that on a myth, but regardless, I want to stay on the plane.

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If they can boot it and do power states properly. Here's hoping...

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Didn't leak into this particular comic strip though

Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)

Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...

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I can't understand how investors would fall for this. For the sake of humanity and my own mental health I hope they don't. But I have a suspicion they will, and it goes to shows how fucked up the world is.

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I sure as hell hope that my deleted posts aren't part of that data.

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A couple of years ago I was going to remove a mole on the back of my head, so I told a co-worker I had an appointment for cosmetic surgery. "Oh, are you going to fix your nose?" he asked me.

I still think about that sometimes.

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Since their brand is on it, yeah. I would expect that if the company wants my business, they wouldn't put their name on shit quality products. Especially if it can lead to their would-be customers losing data. It kind of baffles me that they think this is a good way to impress me.

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Every time a court finds that the USPTO has issued an invalid patent, they should be given a sizable fine. The patent system won't work as long as the USPTO has an incentive to turn a blind eye to shit patents.

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Even better. Or maybe both.

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What the POPCNT instruction is used for

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What poorly thought out language. First they call FCC "tough", then they go on to imply that it's surprising that this wasn't a requirement before. IMO "tough" would be something that exceeds ordinary expectations.

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The thing we should do is hold car manufacturers accountable for neglecting security in cars.

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That's not really true. I recently migrated from Notion to Obsidian. It wasn't 100% painless but good enough.

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The thing I'm really aching for in news media is journalism that rises above merely reporting events. "A guy got murdered yesterday" is not useful information for me. It's barely even a data point, because I can't read about ten such events and extrapolate anything meaningful from it. Other things like population size, number of stopped crime, completeness of data etc affect any conclusion that could be drawn from it

In fact I shouldn't try to extrapolate from it, because I'm paying the journalist to talk to the right experts and hopefully also do research on their own, to figure out trends and cause-effect relationships. That's meaningful journalism that helps me make decisions such as how to vote.

Media today has so much noise and so little signal. I don't need a daily newspaper filled to the brim with events. I need perhaps a weekly magazine that I can read on a Sunday morning in half an hour, which teaches me something about what's going on in the world without bias, and brings up the data as evidence. I wouldn't mind paying for it and I'd take it on paper, though e-ink would be better. I'd trust it a lot more if ads were not mentioned anywhere in its business model.

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I don't believe that. You can't tell me there's no difference in the amount of bias between Fox News and AP. Sure, we can't reach some kind of theoretical 0.0 bias - even particle physics research is biased by assumptions. But at least it makes an honest attempt. Although the conclusions an article arrives at may be influenced by the author's opinions, a journalist who is honestly trying to avoid bias would provide the reasoning, data and sources behind those opinions instead of simply stating them as fact. That gives me as a reader a chance to evaluate their merits.

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I thought the point of the TPM was that the keys would be kept internally to the TPM at all times and that any data lanes would only be used for transferring payload. Why are they sending keys between the TPM and the CPU?

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I guess they mean use the password as part of the encryption key, or encrypt the key with the password. Bitlocker doesn't use the user's password in that way, which is why it can boot an encrypted system without user interaction. That part always seemed very sketchy to me.

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Thanks, that sounds really useful. I'm guessing it won't work unless you're local admin though.

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Which kind of makes it useless in many corporate environments where it's most needed, since the users won't be able to set their own password.

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I'm talking about letting the user change their own password. I'm honestly not sure how that would be technically accomplished in this situation without having to contact IT each time. It seems like something Microsoft should provide a no-frills GUI for that doesn't require elevation.

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Those long rambling intros have started to happen on TikTok more and more

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