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I would consider myself a Stallmanite, I guess. I use a fully 100% Libre software stack/OS/Firmware where possible - but Libre JS was just a little too unusable too me. When you ar…

Complete aside, check out that Sharp A521! Nowadays that is verging on cyberdeck territory.

In a previous job, I did the math for shipping goods from Melbourne to Perth here in Australia via freight train. It worked out to be 1 litre of fuel per ton moved 500km. In imperi…

Franklin would also be puzzled that there would be many people that are nutrient deficient despite calorie abundance.

There are a few acquaintance over the years that have been involved in various sectors of social media and various 3 letter government agencies. The one thing they have always said…

Yep, did the same thing with "Smoked Salmon". I went a step further and decided on this without speaking it about 2 months in advance so that I can get a clear baseline on ads I wa…

This is one of those things that I agree with the ideas behind it. Free Libre software and all of that BUT in trying to deal with this via a web addon considering the scale of, the…

I wonder if they would have gone down the path of many bands in the late 60s and have those long spoken word poetry stretches. That said, thanks to things like that I do love how o…

I ask myself the same thing almost everyday and then that one really cool thing comes along. Yep pretty much mental gambling in the same way other social media is. I got rid of all…

That is the big question with LLM's. How can we tell what is being fed in is original content or just the output fed back in like a recursive fractal?

When you see numbers it does make you wonder if the premise the Subprime Attention Crisis (Tim Hwang) is much more realistic than we think. But when you think about the amount of i…

Yeah, some poor phrasing on my behalf. I do hope that those working in these companies actually building the tools do care. But unfortunately, it seems that corruption is an emerge…

If there is any dishonesty, I would wager it is a case of it can double the battery life in low power scenarios. Can go twice as long when doing word processing for instance. Can p…

I think it was Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly podcast who said that all these companies don't really care about privacy. Apple takes billions of dollar a year to direct data towar…

* rolls up newspaper * * bops on nose * No! Bad dad joke! Don't do that!

This is why there are SO many translations of the Tao Te Ching. Some are very mechanical, others miss the point entirely. And then there are those one where it is almost like Poetr…

Not surprised at all. Even if it did not start with this intention, one has to suspect that with enough time it will become compromised. About the only way to even vaguely keep you…

1 maybe 2KB of storage for the IP addresses of an individual for a year. Of course they are doing it even if accidentally.

> Privacy does not protect you from the state. Privacy is good enough to protect you from the public. While I get what you are saying, that is a little too black and white for the …

Pretty much. While it is mandated here, there is nothing stopping others form doing the same. On my end it is just a manner of optics. The money being put aside, I never see week t…

This is one of those areas the Australian government has done ok in. Mandatory superannuation retirement funds. 11% (?) of all pay goes into this fund to be invested. Thus you can …

I managed to escape, but like a cult it also meant leaving behind a lot of folks that wouldn't come with me.

The age old question, "Who will watch the watchmen?"

I really appreciate works like Death of Stalin that are more than happy to move things around in the name of entertainment. It isn't a documentary so it has the freedom to get crea…

When I see things like this I am always amazed at how we manage to squander our potential. When I see the best in people and then see the silly loops and squiggles we get ourselves…