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  • what I think of the apps

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  • You could've made this 'meme' with, literally, any service or product, couldn't you?

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • Wasn't the python convention to use spaces (4 iirc)? Which is just plain wrong imho.

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    The tyranny of choice

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  • I understand the joke, mate. My comment was about the l word, see my answer to the other commenter (so I don't have to repeat myself or pollute the thread copy-pasting it).

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  • I mean the word 'libertarian' doesn't mean what op, or (most) Americans, think it means.

    Not an exhaustive list, but someone's NOT a libertarian if they're a bigot, they 'back the blue', defend or support not only billionaires but any other kind of exploiter (this would include 'employers', landlords, investors... and anyone profiting from other people's labor), enlist voluntarily into the armed forces...

    The link is the site of an actually libertarian workers union.

    Bit tired of fascists appropriating it, even if they smoke weed.

  • New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed

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  • So if someone tells grok it's April 30th 1945... would it self destruct?

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  • You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  • Reddit files lawsuit against Australia after site is banned for anyone under 16

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  • Yeah it's almost like they don't care for children at all and the point is the invasion of privacy, control, and oppression...

  • EU to relent on combustion engines ban after auto industry pressure

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  • No, we didn't... our propaganda is top-notch, tho.

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Yup, that's what I meant. Thanks!

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • There exist an archaic law like that, but it doesn't include all booties, only 'Royal Fish', and imho it would be a stretch to consider bananas as whales or sturgeons.

    This case would be under maritime law. Iirc the cargo still belongs to the shipping company if it fell, but would be a 'finders keepers' if they threw it overboard. But I'm not a lawyer (sea lawyer?), I think this is for recoveries at sea, when it's already on shore local laws might apply instead, idk...

  • xkcd #3179: Fishing

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  • Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.

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  • Consolidating resources to be used for mutual benefit is what government is for

    Is it? Since when?

    I would rephrase it as 'consolidating resources, taken from the poor people's labor, to be used for the benefit of the state and the powerful is what government is for'.

  • It's always about dat math

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  • I don't know what's up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.

    About the fees, there's none if you order directly from the restaurant, and the apps/services that apply them (usually just one) take it out above a certain threshold, or looking into your email spam for of their 'discount offers', but the prices of the food are higher anyway (which I find more dishonest than simply charging a delivery fee).

    Also, I only tip if it's rainy or super-hot (the weather, not the food or the delivery person), because Europe.

  • Motorola ignores EU regulation on security updates for smartphones. Will this end well?

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  • That iPhone 8 (plus) was like 750. So like a hundred a year. I literally am the person than spends less on phones out of my entire social circle.

    Edit: also I've had three android (not so) cheap phones—one handed down to me, previous to the iPhone 4, that I had for a few months. And my current and former work phones, provided by my company—and hated (still hating the current one) the hell out of them, utter trash full of ads and uninstallable spyware.

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  • I ain't no apple fan, but my old iPhone 8—which is now my sister's work phone since one year ago—just received a security patch a couple months ago, eight years after it was bought. And yes I went with an iPhone 16, because only two phones in 14-15 years (iPhone 4, 8, and now 16) is something no other brand can currently compete with. Unpopular here, I know, but I don't care about a jack port (my android work phone has one and its only function is to build up pocket dust), or sideloading (I don't even 'sideload' much in my laptops, almost everything comes from the official repositories).

    I really hope the phone landscape changes and, in six years or so, I can buy a proper FOSS phone, but I'm not holding my breath.

  • Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?

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  • We probably kill insects just by walking, but it's not reasonable to never move again to avoid that.

    There's this Hindu sect whose adherents wear veils, sweep the floor before them, and/or tread very slowly and carefully to avoid injuring, killing or eating any small insects. As you said, it's about doing as much as you can, but if it were a competition they'd win for sure.

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  • Who would build those robots? With which materials? No one is going into the mines or into a soul crushing factory production line if their needs are already met. If this survey were made to retail workers, for example, I bet it would be much closer to 100%. We aren't getting ubi ever, not in our current society, because it literally would collapse in a few days without miserable, desperate fuckers that can't afford quitting slowly killing ourselves to make the rich richer.

  • Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo

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  • First, I cannot grow trees in my small rented flat. And felling trees and turning them into paper is quite a hard work, it's only cheap at an industrial scale and it kinda fucks up the environment a bit. Paper used to be an expensive commodity (people would wrote letters like this).

    The properties that make gold expensive are its limited supply, as you pointed, and the fact that it doesn't degrades with time, which make it a great material to use to 'store value'. It has some other interesting physical properties that make it useful, but those aren't the main reasons of its price.

  • Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo

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  • Paper has many uses as well.