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Google was ordered to identify people who watched certain YouTube videos. Privacy experts say the orders are unconstitutional. in c/[email protected]
In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

ah, yes, prejudice

Reddit: IP Address Disclosure Puts User Anonymity At Risk * TorrentFreak in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Reddit blocks VPNs on desktop...

How Technology Will Reshape Our Communication in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh gosh... It's basically stock market spam

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

DDG is still the best.

Stop asking this same question repeatedly.

Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I'm pissed that large corps are working hard on propaganda to say that LLMs and theft of copyright is good if they do it

Raspberry as NAS, multiple HDDs and an enclosure in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.

It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.

I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem's I tried like zfs and btrfs didn't appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.

Right now they're xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage

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I can't stress enough how much I don't care. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

wait, what?

Spotify (un)wrapped: Unpacking recommender algorithms in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A CSPRNG is more than random enough for a playlist xD

Take it from someone who works in the field - computers do random well enough rotflol

Spotify (un)wrapped: Unpacking recommender algorithms in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

CSPRNGs are a thing...

As are radioactive sources

And there's mathematical tests for whether something is random enough

So no, computers really can do random xD

When/how do you think capitalism will be defeated? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The current strategy of venture capital is not success, but sabotage

It's not good enough for you to be doing well, you have to strangle the competition and introduce yourself as an unremovable bottleneck

For example, becoming the intermediary between concerts and concert goers. The fees charged and the trouble caused is worse than if they hadn't been there.

Amazon makes examples out of any business that dare challenge it's dead zone around it.

VC money is meant to crush the competition and lock in the consumer to charge rent.

Why would they ever want worker control, or unions?

Why would the private healthcare industry ever stop lobbying against socialized healthcare? Why would a capitalist success ever lead to the political change necessary for it when the doctrine of capitalism is privatization

Why would any commercial real estate firm allow affordable housing to exist when they can scalp it on investment properties and leave them empty? Why build affordable housing when the margins are small?

Capitalism isn't a savior, it's just locally optimal to the people with capital.

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