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Seems like many are just feigning lack of awareness, imo. Casual observation shows a pattern of looking the other way when bad things are happening to people they don’t like.

Car rental agencies and airlines come to mind as well. I was almost unable to purchase a ticket for my better half after we got married as we were slow to process paperwork for nam…

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Trash mods really do hurt that place. I reported a physical assault, some punk kid with an airsoft taking potshots at pedestrians, to my local sub to warn others. Turned out the gu…

Not just silos, going through the Dakotas and Missouri put it fairly close to Ellsworth and Whiteman, as well.

That was a poor edit on my part. My apologies. What I meant to say was the assertion that occasionally recommending YoungTurks somehow mitigates the right-leaning bias of the site,…

I don’t need to reword the findings to make them support my assertion. Again those findings: “We also find that, *on average*, the YouTube recommendation algorithm pulls users slig…

“Pulls users slightly to the right” So the indoctrination isn’t obvious? So it’s subtle? That makes it more pernicious, in my eyes. I never said anything about a vast majority. To …

I was raised on tech. A third generation computer user, started writing software at seven under my father’s guidance. A Luddite I am not, but this doesn’t bode well for our future.…

The number of man hours that would be necessary to plausibly fake even a short film in Photoshop, if I had to guess. It strikes me as analogous to owning sidearms versus BMGs and r…

Whoa, whoa, I never claimed the technology was the “debil”. I merely asked for examples of viable, moral, unique uses of this tech.

I’ve only had time for a cursory glance at this writing, but let me thank you for sounding the horn on the on Web 3.0. It was bad enough adding Ajax calls to websites and calling i…

#2 sounds really interesting! I’m not sure of the psychological ramifications, but I can’t imagine they’d be different than any other sort of prosthesis save for an inability to ac…

That is pretty neat, any sort of art does add cultural and social utility to a degree. Thanks for the heads up, because just about every mention I’ve seen published on the topic is…

First let me thank you for a thoughtful riposte! I do appreciate that. My question was an honest one and I imagine, not the easiest to conceive an answer to. I genuinely appreciate…

Can anybody demonstrate a legitimate use of deepfake software? Has it ever been used to facilitate a socially positive or desirable outcome? While I recognize my experiences are fa…

I recently realized you can bypass cookie auth requests by toggling reader. Led me to wonder what the EU plans on doing to enforce compliance if JavaScript isn’t enabled, for examp…

I’m rarely impressed anymore for whatever reasons, but even in the midst of a miserable bout of viral induced malady, I have to stand in awe of this. I can’t even fathom the skill …

The microkernel would like a word with you, good sir. As would the Unix toolchain, the Google suite, iWork, and Microsoft Office. If it was modular, you wouldn’t need separate apps…

Streaming functionality isn’t chat, though. AMD gives you the option to not install streaming functionality when you install their drivers and I’m pretty sure they target gamers to…

I must be having a hard time waking up today, or something, because I can’t wrap my brain around why a chat app would need 3D acceleration. The first chat sites on the web e.g. Bia…

A four year accredited program ensures students take four years worth of course credits. If programs reduced requirements merely for knowledge rather than demonstration of an abili…

Fault tolerance was how Next branded it, IIRC. If an instance of a long running process doesn’t communicate with an external monitor, then it’s assumed to have hung or crashed at w…

I wrote a few CGI applications for Schotton’s MacHTTP and the WebStar server on MacOS 7. Back before the days of OpenTransport! Yes, I’m old.