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lambdaxyzw
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Comment #40579918
Me neither. I'm sending words of support, because I don't know why you're downvoted. I assume parent's post is sarcasm, but I'm not 100% sure - I know there are people who hold sim…
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Comment #40572104
What about resources needed to make the machine?
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Comment #40566458
netcat+mkfifo does the actual transfer with TCP - so there's no tunneling involved. This solution tunnels tcp through file abstraction, so it works significantly differently. As fo…
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Comment #40566086
Is there a reason why you don't? Is it just general bitterness and cynicism? As far as I know all major search engines respect rebots.txt, I don't see why LLM scrappers would be di…
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Comment #40566057
>How can corporations be stealing anything from an open source project? The code is published using some license that allows some use cases and prohibits other. For example GPL is …
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Comment #40556987
I like that it immediately assumed the US, even though nothing in your question suggested it. I love that all LLMs have a strong US centric bias. Btw I'm not personally a lawyer, b…
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Comment #40556309
Would it be better if he got 100% of votes for him? He was the only candidate, nothing most people working there could go.
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Comment #40556229
Well, maybe I'm biased - I've tested a 120Hz monitor recently and I legitimately didn't see a huge difference between 60Hz. Maybe in mouse trails when I was intentionally looking f…
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Comment #40555830
But there are safety concerns, and it's not possible to go 1000km/h on the highway. So there's not much point in having a 1000km/h car, because you will never use its full potentia…
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Comment #40554545
I didn't get the impression from the blog post that island evacuation happens every few weeks. In fact, "first" suggest something opposite of that is true. Can you explain why you …
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Comment #40553753
I appreciate the downvotes, but I'm honestly looking forward to hearing a better alternative (than helping Ukraine financially and with weapon shipments). I imagine people expressi…
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Comment #40553122
>The only way forward is to not participate and/or burn it all down and start from scratch. You can't honestly suggest that. From where? "village or small community" level?
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Comment #40552936
>If they would even be caught by this at all to start with. I doubt it. Teenagers sending each other naked pics, maybe (but after the law passes they will know they have no privacy…
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Comment #40552900
Right now they live off donations (including mine) and I won't donate if they commercialize. Also, there's no easy way to monetize on users without ads, and I'm pretty sure signal …
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Comment #40552806
I want the war in Ukraine to end, and. There are two options: to let Putin get what he want and risk my country being next, and to help Ukraine. Do you have other suggestions? Of c…
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Comment #40552583
>Outside of tyrannies it’s ok to ask questions. Ok, a specific example: by a weird twist of fate, my country outlawed abortion (in most cases). Currently it's easy for affected wom…
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Comment #40552558
I agree, and that's a major part of why I use Signal, but I just want to say that most of my friends (and even family) use Signal, so at this point it's also a network effect for m…
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Comment #40552531
Where are you living, if you don't mind sharing? I don't know about any place where expressing eurosceptic views would get you called "far right", let alone a Nazi. And I disagree.…
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Comment #40552491
I pay ~0.10€ for a text message - but I don't know anyone who uses text messages for communication so it's not a problem. I could buy a cheap plan for unlimited text messages, but …
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Comment #40547227
He didn't say it's good or even tolerable, just that it happened for at least 15 years already (and probably more).
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Comment #40546996
Strong disagree. >it's a poor use of my time. You state this as a fact, but it's it really true? Is "a years-deep backlog of papercut bugfixes" really that important? I don't think…
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Comment #40544121
Why can't it just get funding from the government?
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Comment #40541561
>Just let the kids play outside. I did, most of my young life, and I'm still myopic. This can't be so easy