milicent_bystandr
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- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 day ago:
Unless you’re moving across partitions it will change the filesystem metadata to move the path, but not actually do anything to the data. Sorry, you failed, it’s jail for you.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 day ago:
Right. Where’s the punishment for Meta who admitted to pirating books?
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 4 days ago:
Last time this was posted, the some answers said it’s actually likely a nest (funnel web spider or something?) and the “dead spider” shed skin.
So the metaphor for capitalism is… The Rich carry on eating the produce of the Poor, while the socialists look on and think the system is dying? Haha! Checkmate Poors!
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
Aw, cheer up; someone will apply you in thirty to forty years.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Cabbages are actually tree trunks
Raspberries are actually tubers
Wheat is actually a berry
And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings
Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.
- Comment on Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D Computer 1 week ago:
That’s very cool, but does anyone else think the title image is AI generated? Neither image nor caption seem to sit right, nor fit together.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 2 weeks ago:
Because that stranger on the street is a real person and you want them to have a good day too.
You don’t need to stress over if you came across as rude, but being polite is something I, at least, would like to try if I can.
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.5: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports TIFF, ICO, basic auth (featured on Tailscale, LINUX Unplugged, Selfh.st) 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!
Does this really need docker, if it’s all in-browser? Ultimately, is it just served as files from your self-hosted server and the client browser does the magic?
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
Yep. It’s on the TODO list…
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
You can do that? On ordinary, non-rooted Android?
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
I use Nebula. It’s lightweight, well-engineered and fully under your control. But you do need a computer with a fixed IP and accessible port. (E.g. a cheap VPS)
You can also use “managed nebula” if you want to enjoy the same risk of the control point of your network depending on a new business ;-)
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
Tailscale is great. The principle concern to me is that your super easy mesh network depends on Tailscale so if they want it they have control, and if they change their pricing or options you depend on them, and though they can’t see the data you send they can see the topology of your network and where all your computers/devices are.
I use Nebula, which is more work to set up and doesn’t have some of the features, not But if you slap the ‘lighthouse’ (administrating node) on a cheap VPS it works great. And it has some advantages. But Nebula also troubles me: though it’s fully open source and fully in your control, the documentation isn’t great. Instead, you can now get “managed nebula”, which puts you in the same problem as Tailscale: the company sees and controls your network topology. I fear the company (Defined Networking) is trying to push things that way. Even their android app you can’t fully configure unless you use their ‘managed’ service.
For now, Nebula is great, and my preferred mesh network (I looked into all the main ones). And for Tailscale you can run the administration server yourself with Headscale and be fully in your control.
Actually I wish Tailscale the best as a profitable business. They’ve created a fantastic service and system. But for me, I’d rather my network be in my own hands and for my own eyes. And, as is OP’s main point, once they have enough dependent users, the service might turn much worse.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s because both work on Android by being a VPN, and the system can’t handle doing two vpns simultaneously
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 2 weeks ago:
Lol
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 2 weeks ago:
It’s tricky. Part of the problem, I think, is if you do have corruption and carelessness in something like the FDA, there’s no amount of careful reporting that can fix it - it becomes propaganda.
It’s necessary to address the problems, though I still agree with being careful about what information is broadcast and how - but it’s necessary to keep information open and challenge things otherwise you end up worse down the line. A measles epidemic is bad. But imagine if you suppressed thalidomide results and other failures, allowing things to get worse and worse in the name of not damaging people’s trust, then eventually (after years of covered-up harm) it all comes out and people abandon scientific medicine altogether!
You don’t have to imagine… I’m sure a large component of both vaccine skepticism and Trump’s presidency have come because of suppressed and partially-suppressed wrongdoing by all the people we think the country should trust. Eventually people break and look for something else.
So, I agree with you, but in my opinion we do need to work more, not less, at transparency and truth even when it’s problematic.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 3 weeks ago:
No, you can often see what’s going on and adjust your speed a little to let merging work well, without causing risk to other traffic.
Well, I can at least.
You can also move in one lane if it’s empty to let merging cars enter the outside lane easily.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
England too, and I think many cultures world over, actually.
But in the UK we had a scandal some years ago because retailers sold ‘beef’ that was actually part horse. So it was misleading customers into eating a meat they’d find objectionable.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
jagged_circle likes his meat live
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
Food regulations are (mostly) about restricting food producers in ways that I already want/approve. Food safety, so I know there isn’t mercury in my baby’s formula.
It’s necessary especially because companies want their profits, more than they want to produce good food.
“Government dictating what I can eat” is restricting me about my own body, in ways perhaps I disagree with.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
You make a fair point. Perhaps it’s just the cultures I’ve lived in, though, but my impression is that the vast majority of people value some amount of what might be considered small talk. So for those of us who don’t take to it naturally (and I am also one who’s had to learn small talk… I’m okay at it in many situations now but not all) it’s probably worth having a feel for it for the sake of friendly relationships with many people around us.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, sorry to hear that. It’s a tough barrier to break, when a partnership is like that. I wish you the best in the future.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
Hi honey, how’s the weath–
“Go Away! I’m Not In A Kissing Mood!”
- Comment on Living a lie 3 weeks ago:
YOU WILL BE CUTE OR YOU WILL BE DUMPED
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
Am I indeed? But at least, if I can observe a difference between hands off the steering wheel and hands on, with the car swerving accordingly, then something seems to be going on. Perhaps the adult is moving the toddlers hands too; or perhaps the toddler truly has agency.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
Understandable. And relatable.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
Too bad. I chose for free will to exist, and I’m happy with my decision.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
Too bad you don’t have the free will to change that ;-)
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
Because they’re wonderful! And because you love someone.
Yeah, they can also go horribly wrong. I think that’s true of just about everything good - the more good it is, the worse it hurts when it goes wrong. But get it right, and it’s amazing.
