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blind3rdeye

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  • Penn. woman who accused stranger of rape and kidnapping sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison: ‘She targeted an innocent man’

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  • In this context, 'non-violent' has a technical meaning. So we don't need to play word games with it. As for putting people behind bars without no evidence, that's not a thing that happens in rape or kidnapping cases. And in this case, the false accuser in the one going to prison.

  • Thunderbird Launches Open Source Services to Rival Gmail and Office365

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  • Mozilla's recent blog posts explicitly highlight that they are investing in ads for short-term revenue growth. So when they go on to remove the ToS statement about not selling user data, that suggests to me that their strategy is in fact to collect and sell user data.

    Perhaps they aren't doing that yet, but signs are pointing in that direction. So that does make me reluctant to share any data with them.

  • jared

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  • Ads make everything worse. Block them without hesitation or remorse.

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  • and yet somehow google made it worse. Not only are there more ads than ever before, but now it's also a panopticon.

  • How to love

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  • Repeat yourself? Why?

    I’m confused.

  • Cory Booker crosses 17-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics - Final time - 25 hours, 6 minutes

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  • It really is pretty weird. ... and interesting. I don't necessarily think the existence of filibusters is a bad thing, but it definitely a very weird thing.

  • GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed

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  • Are you suggesting that this particular type of CP should be acceptable? (And suddenly "but I used AI" becomes a popular defence.)

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  • I've been using OsmAnd for years, and offline maps has always been one of their main things.

  • Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

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  • Something bizarre is happening to media organizations that use 'clicks' as a core metric.

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  • As someone who has taught many children how to use excel, the new AI features make using it easier but teaching and learning harder. A lot of stuff now happens automagically, and that makes it harder to see the reasons and structures and language of how it is meant to work. So doing basic stuff is now trivially easy, but learning to become competent enough to do more creative and advanced stuff is more difficult.

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    FL wants more child labor

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  • Another way to remember it is that the 'g' in "reign" stands for GNU.

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    Some people might think that's a stupid memory trick, but I think it rules.

  • DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

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  • I don't think it is reasonable to expect every individual to become a privacy / legal expert. I think people should have reasonable protections and assurances given to them without needing to study the details of everything they do on a case-by-case basis.

    We have laws about what food can and cannot be sold - so that individuals don't have to personally test and monitor every product for safety. Privacy & data could be done like that too.

  • Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10

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  • Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check out Rnote sometime soon.

    (As I said, I do like the writing & drawing features of xournal++; and so I've been doing a bit of basic file / folder organising with that already; but it certainly isn't as easily browseable as OneNote.)

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

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  • Part of my point is that a lot of everyday rules do break down at large scale. Like, 'drink water' is good advice - but a person can still die from drinking too much water. And having a few people go for a walk through a forest is nice, but having a million people go for a walk through a forest is bad. And using a couple of quotes from different sources to write an article for a website is good; but using thousands of quotes in an automated method doesn't really feel like the same thing any more.

    That's what I'm saying. A person can't physically read billions of books, or do the statistical work to put them together to create a new piece of work from them. And since a person cannot do that, no law or existing rule currently takes that possibility into account. So I don't think we can really say that a person is 'allowed to' do that. Rather, it's just an undefined area. A person simply cannot physically do it, and so the rules don't have to consider it. On the other hand, computer systems can now do it. And so rather than pointing to old laws, we have to decide as a society whether we think that's something we are ok with.

    I don't know what the 'best' answer is, but I do think we should at least stop to think about it carefully; because there are some clear downsides that need to be considered - and probably a lot of effects that aren't as obvious which should also be considered!

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

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  • Do you know someone who's read a billion books and can write a new (trashy) book in 5 mins?

  • Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10

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  • I'm very interested in OneNote alternatives. I've been using OneNote for longer than I've disliked Microsoft... and I still think it's a good app. Pretty much the only thing I don't like about OneNote is the increasingly close integration with Windows accounts. I'd rather my notes were not scanned and uploaded and processed by a US mega-corp...

    Anyway, people keep suggesting stuff like Joplin. But that isn't even vaguely close to OneNote in terms of stylus and inking. For me, inking is the main core feature. And so in terms of alternatives, xournal++ is a closer fit. (xournal++ has essentially no organisational structure for notes; but it is really great for inking.)

    What I'd really like is basically the organisational structure of Joplin (or whatever other alternative) + the inking power of xournal++. And ideally being able to import my vast amounts of handwritten OneNote work! -- But that last bit is probably too much to ask.

  • Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

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  • Hmm. I wonder if Aquaman is in the market for some old computers.

  • Why indeed

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  • It's like Moore's law. The number of bytes for a basic app doubles every 2.5 years.

    When I was young, we'd get a few different games games on a single 1.4 Mb floppy disk. The games were simpler, sure, but exactly the same games now would be far bigger in bytes.

  • Some things never change

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  • gTerry Pratchett, I think.