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sobchak

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  • How do I torrent safely in the US if I can't afford a VPN?

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  • Tribler or i2p.

    Edit: there are also non-bittorrent p2p networks out there like Retroshare, but I haven't used them, so don't know how useful they are.

  • The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size.

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  • Is it just the HTML that should be under 14kb? I think script, CSS, and image (except embedded SVGs) are separate requests? So these should individually be under 14kb to get the benefit?

  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • I believe these cars drive on the same roads all day, whereas people are likely to be driving in and out of areas these systems are not familiar with. I suppose a good comparison would be of a taxi driver that only operates in the same area as the driverless cars, if that exists.

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • His company bought puts. They are less risky, because you don't need to maintain margin. What you pay to buy them is all you can lose.

  • Americans ‘dumbfounded by cruelty’ of Trump officials slashing Snap benefits | US politics | The Guardian

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  • These respondents were self-selected Guardian readers. Doubt many voted for Trump.

  • YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.

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  • I used to use these, but I think they contributed to my charging port failing, so I just try to use wireless for everything. I've read of other people that had the same issue. I think the cause was electrical arcs when attaching and detaching. Or maybe ferreous shavings getting in the pins. Whatever it was, it damaged in the charging circuit.

  • Meta: Pirated Adult Film Downloads Were For “Personal Use,” Not AI Training

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  • Probably shouldn't be, but probably wouldn't stop your ISP from taking action. I remember this attempt at a "movement" a decade or so ago; never caught on: openwireless.org.

  • I'll never understand it

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  • Hmm, I've never seen performing oral sex as being submissive, necessarily. It can be a quite active act; aggressive even.

  • ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent

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  • The judiciary "interprets" the constitution. Trump filled the judiciary with loyalist or otherwise ideologically aligned judges during this term and his previous. The supreme court ruled last year that the president has immunity, and the president has the ability to pardon people, so it seems the administration is pretty much "above the law." Even when the courts do push back, they're acting like they're powerless, and the admin's tactics seems to be just ignoring, stalling, or taking the "ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball" approach to working around the courts. Yes, the constitution has been severely weakened, and will probably continue to weaken.

  • Steve Huffman is now a billionaire after a profitable quarter for reddit

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  • You can create communities on an existing instance just by clicking "Create Community" in the top menu; no need to host anything yourself. At least you can on the instance I use; not sure about lemmy.world.

  • Capitalism Ain't The Problem

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  • In my mind, the problem is hierarchy, whether it be in corporations or government. It must be limited as much as possible in any system. Capitalism is inherently hierarchical though. The billionaires have so much money now, they can bribe every powerful politician that's not exceptionally principled, and control how people see the world through media. Even that Teamsters leader is acting like he's getting some sort of kickback now; supporting the GOP.

  • Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

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  • Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?

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  • I think to reduce friction for gaining new users.

  • My collection is growing

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  • I've always seen them curved like this:

    But I suppose they could be straight; here's one that looks like it just uses a chisel (doubt it would work as well though):

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • Yeah, if I was a demon, I'd probably invest in surveillance, private prison companies, and whatever companies supply law enforcement equipment.

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  • It's mostly just that men with outgoing personalities are going to be attracting more attention and talking to more people. And that narcissists, manipulators, impulsive people, domineering people, people with no shame, etc are going to be more outgoing. Not that all outgoing people have these issues, many outgoing people are fine people.

  • How often do you update software on your servers?

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  • Ain't broke and I can't be bothered to update. Not accessible publicly either. It also runs some software with very specific and brittle dependencies and I don't care to risk breaking it. If distro is EOL (probably is) then it'd be a pretty time consuming getting everything set up again.

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • That would be nice. I don't know how to do that other than programming it yourself with something like langgraph.

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • Yeah, IDK. I'm still in gold and dunno what to switch to. Gold will likely fall with stocks if we go into a recession, which I think we will (on the other hand if they print tons of money, which is likely, that's positive for gold). I don't see anything I'm comfortable with switching to yet.