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basilikum

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    Comment #49220406

    They don't just give different implementations of the same categorical output, but categorically different output. LLMs do not write like humans.

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    Comment #49215608

    1. It makes the web more annoying and time wasting. 2. I'm a real user and I have to enable JavaScript and run arbitrary programs from untrusted websites to access them. One browse…

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    Comment #49212296

    It doesn't detect "real browsers". It simply adds some friction and is niche enough that AI scrapers have not bothered to bypass it yet.

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    Comment #49209873

    Calculating is not math. Calculators make mathematicians better mathematicians by allowing them to spend their time on actual mathematics. Writing is thinking. LLM writing makes au…

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    Comment #49209805

    An antithesis is a completely valid stylistic device. It's just very easy to overuse or to use as a cliché when you're not using language as a tool for a specific purpose, but just…

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    Comment #49209365

    > we wouldn't be fascist, we'd simply need totalitarian control over every facet of business, labor, capital, leisure, transport and production. Even ignoring all the rest, that is…

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    Comment #49191225

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with using AI as a grammar checker and as a help for finding formulations. But I would very much recommend to you to only use it as an aid and to …

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    Comment #49184549

    this looks like it could be an interesting read that i would be bothered to read if a human bothered to write it.

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    Comment #49138761

    I really need to finish the blog post for my emoji domain. What are mods gonna do when the emoji is literally in the domain?

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    Comment #49138667

    RSS is a free way to reach almost no one.

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    Comment #49079132

    Mirai took out the internet in large parts of the US. The situation hasn't exactly improved since then.

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    Comment #49074624

    That's not how VeraCrypt hidden volumes work. > If you're hiding something in "empty space" it won't behave like empty space when you try to fill it. Yes, it will. It will overwrit…

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    Comment #49042381

    Maybe because the start menu equivalent and the task bar are their own modules. They just come precondition, but you can use lots of alternatives. But I'm just guessing.

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    Comment #49042349

    Not exactly the same, but Microsoft shipped the "Backup" or some similar name software that is actually just a OneDrive client in a Windows 10 LTSC update. LTSC is specifically for…

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    Comment #49041711

    > No singular country can put information in that wouldn't be picked up straight away by other countries. There are 70 countries signed up to it. Once that is in place it's just a …

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    Comment #49018861

    > The hash database is regulated and used worldwide. To get the hashes of what you mention into the database requires numerous people signing off on it. So, it's correct. What you'…

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    Comment #49010246

    I find you're perspective quite baffling. It is interesting in that you like the standardization and lack of certain web design crimes and I should not be overly negative to the OP…

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    Comment #49008136

    > It completely fails if, for example, an author spends 4 years unpaid writing their latest book, and after the first copy is sold anybody is free to duplicate the words from that …

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    Comment #49006588

    > If anything these films are a great example of why copyright terms should be long, because those films are still culturally relevant today, 60-80 years after they're made, and th…

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    Comment #49006228

    > For instance, if copyright was just 20 years after something was created, a painting might have been created 20 years ago but never made public until later in their life, and so …

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    Comment #49004965

    What you are describing is indiscriminate mass surveillance. There is absolutely nothing stopping Apple or whoever maintains that listof hashes from putting things other than child…

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    Comment #49000366

    To clarify, I am aware you are objectively describing the legal situation. I am not making a legal, but an ethical argument. We seem to be agreeing. There is even a Wikipedia artic…