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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  all it takes is some freaky shit sometimes. People forget that a lot happens in the world that deviates from their baseline and that it isn’t always paranormal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I had a locker next to the school’s music room in the farthest corner once. Fun year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Comparing learning methods and then associating their benefits with the technology feels… fallacious.

  For this reason I actually recommend a cheap Android tablet for digital note taking since it is well worth the price. I used to carry paper with me, but having the ability to quickly review notes across several classes (lectures and books) is a game changer. Need to know what was discussed last week? What you took on a topic? It’s very cumbersome with paper.

  I feel like ‘technology’ is different when you actually own the tech you’re given. When you can do things with it. Not when it’s a digital casino in your pocket controlled by big corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re competing for government contracts and tax payer money, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes this year is going to be really good and productive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could spray while wiping, but really the point is just that this Spaniard boss is being a micro-managing asshole who dissects every process for not being exactly how they do it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acciracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do they portray Canadians like Pokemon characters

• What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad people are now speaking about alternatives. The collective ignorance was so unbearable before now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would rather my tax dollars go to you than the fragmented bomb shells in a Palestinian city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression that Google just didn’t delete data — ever. Like, it’s way more valuable compared to the cost of the disk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  which opinions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  holy fucking shit… every day I get older the more I agree with Stallman on everything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since there’s 78 pages, I’m guessing at least 1 ambiguity per page? Anyways, it’s dreadfully big.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to leave a comment, but it doesn’t seem to be showing up there.

  I’ll just leave it here:

  too tired to look into this, one suggestion though - since the hangup seems to be comparing an L and a 1, maybe you need to get into per-pixel measurements. This might be necessary if the effectiveness of ML or OCR models isn’t at least 99.5% for a document containing thousands of ambiguous L’s. Any inaccuracies from an ML or OCR model will leave you guessing 2^N candidates which becomes infeasible quickly. Maybe reverse engineering the font rendering by creating an exact replica of the source image? I trust some talented hacker will nail this in no time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so we just posting naked people without the nsfw tag?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my direct boss has showed me what access he has to wireless client information, which includes client position. At first I thought this was really weird, even though I was paranoid enough to know that an SSID can track you in the general vicinity through roaming. But exact location is just so weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely unwise to buy anything non-Nintendo on the Nintendo Store as if the Switch’s entire purpose wasn’t to just get people to buy a $500 appliance to play a Nintendo game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you learn to just enjoy the current season. It’s only around once a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s hurting profits!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Siri for:

  • getting the time
  • setting an alarm
  • reading a notification
  • telling someone I’ll be late
  • skipping a song

  None of those need AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like mentioning sometimes that there’s a small delay when you click the Start button, because it’s a React component. My coworker told me he cannot unsee it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tyranny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t that person have been fired ages ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What about ddr4 mini pc’s with i5-8500t’s? Couldn’t possibly be a worse bang for buck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Have a Very Loving Relationship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering if this post was headed in the direction that a user program typically does nothing most of the time, since it does its work and then is paused by kernel or it voluntarily gives execution away to wait for a trap or interrupt. Or it could be waiting for disk access which is like a millennia in terms of CPU time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 532 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your upload bandwidth?

  I wisssh I could do this but I have 10Mbps up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes a “choice” or just yet another default that I have to disable (or forget to) when creating a new fucking profile

• since we're cornposting, here's a picture of my roasted corn tealemmy.zip ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  rofl, I hate billionaires but this would be peak trolling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a reminder for me to get a kettle