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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

  • Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data

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  • I'm sure that's the condition, to use your data (that they protect of course) to better improve the browser. And I'm sure they are in a country where they don't have to show logs (that I'm sure they don't keep, yet somehow use your data).

    They need to stick with just the browser, period. Stop trying to drift into other areas. Firefox has unfortunately gotten too heavy for what it should be, and adding even more features (good or bad) doesn't help the core performance.

    The other options out there have their pluses and minuses, but if Firefox keeps pushing people will live with the negatives of the browsers that seem to care about the browsing experience of their users.

  • xkcd #3221: Landscape Features

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  • Farming really destroyed some of the better areas of the continent.

  • Today's Game is Yesterday's Job

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  • Tapper on the C-64 was my first introduction to a game based on retail work. Basically an arcade paced bartending that got quickly out of hand. Fun, but also felt too real sometimes. A modern, more realistic game might be a bit too much.

  • Meta: Shit post on shitpost

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  • Mine is now "The Bix is Back".

  • Time to change the English language

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  • I think it was a good choice just by how it flows. But he admittedly said it was a mistake on his part that he had to go with after the fact, and used other variations (dwarrow and elfin) in a few places. Tolkien was a master at creative retconning, using the excuse that he wasn't creating all this, but acting as an investigator who was uncovering an existing mythology/history. And that's why it worked so well.

    I saw one comment before who even suggested that dwarf and elf had fallen out of use for a long time, and other similar constructed words had evolved over time and use from a "fs" to a "ves" because of the spoken version's sound. So Tolkien was just getting dwarf and elf caught up with the rest of the words.

  • Judge indicates he might shut down Trump’s $400m White House ballroom plan

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  • Given how Trump has changed his mind on this war stuff so many times lately, I misread the title as him shutting it down.

  • US drivers see gas prices jump to their highest level since 2023 as the Iran war drags on

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  • I remember a time before when we hit $5 a gallon and not in California. And $5 was worth a lot more then, so we haven't hit a high point at all. When it starts affecting crucial transportation, that's when we'll feel it. For now we just whine about it and still don't change our habits.

  • Trump’s DHS pick, Markwayne Mullin, never served in military but talks as if he did

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  • I don't think that's fair to pick out for an attack on his abilities or what he says. Lots of people wee scared that day, and should have been. If anything, use this as a point in time where he should have changed his political stance, realizing who the real enemy was.

  • MAGA overwhelmingly supports war in Iran with nearly 90% backing Trump’s attacks

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  • Do they support the consequences of those strikes? Oh, right, they have no clue what that even means or what they are. Just yay, we blew up someone else, look at us. Big bomb is like big truck, over-compensation.

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    I'm guessing 1970. What do you think?

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  • The problem is it could be any of these guesses, depending on the region of the US. Even the hair style could have persisted into late 70s.

  • Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design

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  • I try to avoid the overhyped and wrongly used term AI, so what's the proper term? Related to diffusion models? Something different?

  • Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate

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  • Assault now includes hurting their feelings.

  • I can't even with these people anymore

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  • "It would take three or more rockets!"

    "In stages?"

    "Yes!"

    "..."

  • Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design

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  • Not a fan of reimagined stuff of any sort, it usually doesn't hit well. But from a tech standpoint I can think of ways one could use the tech to improve game performance for new games. Usually making a game run faster or feel more realistic is all about fooling the player, not drawing what's not seeable, showing hints of things that aren't really there. Hell, that's been true for movies and even stage, right?

    So my thought on how this could work is to have the actual core models be lower polys, enough for details but not as high as the best we've seen done, and minimal texturing. Then the generator uses that as a base to form the image it puts over the top. Still don't see how that can be done that fast, but apparently we're there now.

  • Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design

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  • Unforunately the latest stuff I've seen is all about keeping character consistency, which is basically having a fixed frame of reference for every generation. What I don't get not knowing much about the details is how LLM generation is faster than actual 3D modeling with more details? Perhaps overall it is faster per frame to generate a 2D image vs. tracking all the polys.

    Not saying which is right to do, there's lots of baggage with discussing AI stuff, just wondering about the actual tech itself.

  • This happen to anyone else?

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  • That's what happened with ours. They were pushing to have longer and more complex passwords, which was great, since forever they had stuck with an eight character requirement (which I couldn't believe, that's breaking a few basic rules of security that I knew about, and this is a large corporation).

    So I figure okay, I'll make my next password something that's finally decent. Except when I go to use the older terminal based systems that are still crucial to operation, they won't take anything past eight characters... because that's what they were programmed for. Turns out IT had jumped on the better security bandwagon before they either had gotten to migrating things at the core level, or they didn't think that far until the tickets started hitting. Likely the latter.

    It all works now, but it was funny having to go back to a less secure password for a while because of a slight oversight or assumption on IT's part.

  • Hamster IT

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  • I will concede only in the fact that it made me look like a miracle worker to my parents when I "fixed" their mouse that had stopped working with my magic.

    On the other hand, the Christmas I gave them an LED mouse was peak level for all of us.

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    If Donald Trump Was Assassinated, Would Anyone Really Mind, Beyond The Principle of the Thing?

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  • They are the real problem, and unfortunately even Trump falls into the "devil you know" classification. It would be a gamble whether or not we get a worse situation with a more capable person who has the same power and motives. It's the time traveler's dilemma of getting rid of Hitler and finding out the future is now worse because of who took his place.

  • ‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

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  • Trump is a current threat to the world. He's also a warning to everyone, yours could go this route next. Don't let it.

  • Hamster IT

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  • Wired vs. wireless is whatever works for you, but no one misses balled mice. No one.

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