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  • Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback * TorrentFreak

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  • are you saying that if a site is entirely hosted on TOR then no information makes it to an endpoint?

    Basically yeah. My understanding is that exit nodes are special and using them is a vulnerability, but you only use exit nodes to access clearnet sites from Tor, and you are less vulnerable if you aren't doing that and rather going to sites with .onion urls. Which, unfortunately I can't find one for this website, but I'm thinking they'd probably consider making one if they can't maintain any clearnet domains anymore.

  • Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback * TorrentFreak

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  • In this scenario it wouldn't matter because the idea is to use it as a way to access a website that would otherwise be accessed over clearnet but has become inaccessible. But if they made an onion site endpoints wouldn't be used anyway afaik since the traffic doesn't leave the network. Now that I'm thinking about it there might be some issues with practicality doing it this way if they have a big volume of traffic, but there are options for routing around censorship that don't involve DNS.

  • Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist

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  • I don't think I ever actually fully played through a Splinter Cell game, but I have vivid memories of repeatedly replaying the demo of the first one off a PC Gamer demo disc. Really atmospheric games. Also I gotta put a link to Chaos Theory OST because Amon Tobin

  • Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback * TorrentFreak

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  • Maybe this will prompt some people to learn to use Tor

  • I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

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  • Not since college tbh, I really struggled with that compilers class, might give it another go at some point though and Chicken Scheme would be a natural choice

  • As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

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  • Damn I got ripped off

  • I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

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  • Talking about low level compilers seems like moving the goalposts, since they are way more well defined and vetted than the mass of software libraries and copy pasted StackOverflow functions a large segment of programming has been done with.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • The fact they are being shown to users is jank (it's a popup within the Mumble gui), the fact that the hosters ran into this problem is evidence that hosting Mumble is a big challenge because I am convinced they generally know what they are doing. The comparison here is Discord, for which neither the people running a channel or its users have problems like that.

  • I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

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  • The author's point is that people already don't understand what the programs they write do, because of all the layered abstraction. That's still true whether or not you want to object to the semantics of calling the use of LLMs an abstraction layer.

  • As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

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  • Some years ago I did work rating robot surgery videos on amazon mturk for 25 cents each, despite having basically no idea what I was looking at, can't help but wonder if any of that got used to train this sort of AI

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • Mumble still works but from what I can tell its software ecosystem seems to be decaying due to bots etc. not being updated and breaking changes in their dependencies, people can still get them to work if they really know what they're doing but it's difficult. It also has some quirks that make it confusing for people to use, I'm in a mumble server and any time anyone new joins someone has to explain to them that they need to go through the menus to "register" in order to join the main channel, even though this registration is entirely within the application and doesn't require email authentication or anything. There's also frequently SSL warnings and things like that.

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  • If they're doing it that way then it's dumb for these to be questions about your life because the point of that is to make it things that people will definitely be able to remember, but realistically you're only going to remember the answer in general, not necessarily the specific wording or how the answer was formatted.

  • How bad is our e-waste problem when $500 of RAM is getting tossed?

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  • Ok that does sound like a good deal, if it's comparable to something sold new I'm guessing it at least has 8gb of ram, and therefore better than the other stuff available at that price. But yeah, still, I think there is just more supply than buyers in general. I was looking at stats on the sell through rate for a lot of cheaper used laptops the other week and it's often extremely low.

  • How bad is our e-waste problem when $500 of RAM is getting tossed?

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  • $50 seems to be about what a large portion of used laptops on ebay go for, so whether that's a good deal would depend on how nice a laptop it is

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  • There is normally a large spread between retail and used price of consumer goods, especially if it's not a hot commodity with a big resale market. The explanation in the comic is at least plausible; if someone got something as a gift, but they want cash instead, their only option could be to sell it at a significant discount. Same goes if they bought it themselves at some point but need to come up with money quickly.

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  • I feel like maybe someone could convince people over the phone to give them access if they explained correctly that the fields have random strings and roughly how they are formatted, but claim to have forgotten what they are

  • European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief

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  • Paywalled, and archive.is doesn't seem to work for this site

  • YSK that TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale. We know this because we obtained internal documents from the company

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  • I don't trust either, they're in cahoots

  • YSK that TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale. We know this because we obtained internal documents from the company

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  • I agree that our current priority should certainly be to implement a government that can be trusted to regulate things effectively

    I don't, limiting the danger it poses to us and guaranteeing civil liberties should be a higher priority.

    Still, the ultimate goal should be government action on this topic because we cannot solve the problem at an individual level. Some people can have better outcomes than others but there’s no level playing field without government intervention.

    To me what a level playing field would look like for social media would be mostly about the government no longer doing harmful things that prevent such equal chances, enforcement of the DMCA in particular comes to mind. Exercising more control over who can use which parts of the internet and how, is obviously incredibly dangerous especially given that we know it is possible for a government like the current one to come to power.

  • Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’

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  • Because he keeps being enough of an embarrassing idiot in public to write roast articles about that can attract people's attention, I guess