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fruitworks

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    Comment #47406529

    https://pine64.com/product/pinebuds-pro-open-firmware-capabl...

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    Comment #47316997

    this is the question of the hour. Imagine using this LLM proxy to license-strip major parts of leaked Windows source code to produce code for WINE. On top of all of this, there are…

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    Comment #47273158

    Why are all of these attempts at controlling the web coinciding at the same time now? I don't think it is a coincidence that this is happening at the same time that the younger gen…

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    Comment #47190502

    I'm not sure it would progress faster for this project

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    Comment #47182401

    compared to what other projects?

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    Comment #47182377

    Because these are the major types of problems that pmOS solves?

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    Comment #47182240

    I don't think you understand what the job entails, if you think these are the best tools

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    Comment #47176676

    just tell em to wear their disintegration-proof vest

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    Comment #47162566

    that doesnt seem like super great returns

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    Comment #47122266

    I mean it's easy to get away with. Murder, presumably, is not

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    Comment #47122238

    the autoscroll is killing me. I can't really read the "what happened" blurb at the end. I guess my phone is too narrow

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    Comment #47117458

    I can do it pretty easily. The restriction in both cases is so easily overcome it is ridiculous to build your buisness model around it and disrespectful to the customer's intellect…

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    Comment #47116607

    You can run an entire apartment block off of a single sim card/phone line. The (technical) problem is that you are purchasing an insufficient amount of bandwidth. It goes without s…

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    Comment #47082322

    I imagine you could have some contract that interacts with ecash, based on revelation of a blind signature. Similar to a HTLC. I have actually written up some ideas for a system ba…

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    Comment #47082294

    The difference is that in micropayments the debt is practicially nothing, a fraction of a cent. So there's basicially no risk. Pre-pay, post-pay, doesn't really matter. With minipa…

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    Comment #47082201

    The throughput is arbitrarialy limited by bitcoin's current block size, which hasn't been increased since satoshi's era. Most cryptocurrencies have an adaptive block-size mechanism…

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    Comment #47082145

    have you heard the good news about our lord and savior chaumian cash?

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    Comment #47082116

    Or you could cut out the middleman and use a micropayment system like GNU Taler to pay the websites directly. That way you dont have to hope and pray that the middleman doesn't dec…

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    Comment #47078480

    the dataset is poisoned with a definition you disagree with

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    Comment #46968877

    there are multiple credit card companies, but only 3 big payment systems: Europay, Mastercard, Visa. that is the protocol: a triopoly that controls everything and then a handful of…

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    Comment #46954099

    the middlemen aren't intercompatible. it's like saying anyone can make paypal. If you try to start your own paypal, no vendors will sign up because you have no clients. No clients …

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    Comment #46954021

    I have it on good authority that they really truly delete it this time, super duper pinky promise

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    Comment #46930305

    I just use Mauth, its on fdroid. Pretty much everything is that common OTP standard. Same with OTPclient on gnu/linux My only bad experience is duo mobile, but I expect it is equal…

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    Comment #46929652

    Because LLMs are deterministic, they could provide the model files, prompt, and seed used.