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majorchord

335karma·307submissions·May 8, 2024
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Same, this whole thread is like the twilight zone for me... I can't tell if I'm losing my mind or all the people with this way of thinking are just being completely unreasonable but I'v…
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> I don't grasp how anyone uses Chrome as their daily driver willingly The overwhelmingly vast majority of the world population uses Google Chrome with no adblocker, on Windows, and have no de…
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What other software have you stopped using because they added an optional feature you didn't use?
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By this logic, Linux does not support Wi-Fi, because all the driver modules are "dynamically loaded at run-time."
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I'm surprised you were using a proprietary browser in the first place
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> Musk wrote, “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!” I'm certainly not defending the man, but that comment to me is definitely not plainly seen as "advocati…
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> It only hallucinates if you use it wrong Sorry but this is demonstrably false. For starters, see the "R's in strawberry" meme.
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> no one is seriously calling for the elimination of automobiles. I think it is because they see cars as much more necessary than guns. IMO The reality is that both could benefit from more regulati…
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vibe-coded, and the github repo does not even contain the sources, just a single 'server.js' that is only for the documentation
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I'll be that guy I guess then... they stated on their page that credit cards are 0.8mm while the muxcard is 1mm and yet they still claim it is "literally the size of a credit card"... n…
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I misread it as OBFS the proxy protocol
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CF uses more than just WebGL to fingerprint users... LibreWolf isn't helping you as much as you think it is. https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/ …
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Because they put up with it.
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https://roundproxies.com/blog/how-to-bypass-anti-bots/
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The last time I tried freenet, I was immediately turned off by the amount of cheese pizza that was readily available. Tor has a similar problem but thankfully it's a bit harder to accidentally se…
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Yet Japan, a country the West fetishizes regularly, routinely jails people for 20 days with no contact or even any charges at all, often ruining their lives, while desperately trying to force a confes…
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If we're going to gatekeep "self-powered" this hard, might as well clarify that energy cannot be created.
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SCOTUS has already ruled that tracking people's movement over time without a warrant is a Fourth Amendment violation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States…
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I thought ONNX models were only for text-to-speech? How does one tell them apart if I find some files online?
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Phoronix is so much worse... but in general I think it's mostly a problem with older tech "experts". They have developed a jaded, egotistical world view where only their own opinions ca…
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> there have been many of them already source: trust me bro
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But how is that not relying on a single encryption system?
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> I don’t have emails, saved passwords, banking info or that kind of sensitive info on my computers Then where do you have it? Notes on a post-it? Or is this a very specific definition of "c…
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what about systems with multiple users?
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They don't know why because there isn't a good reason to distrust them.
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If math is STO then I would argue passwords are also STO. It's only secure until someone figures it out.
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"Who's going to stop <any OS or app> from inserting a backdoor at some random point in the future? They are not to be trusted at all." https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
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source: trust me bro
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They don't know, they're just parroting what other people have shouted without evidence.
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