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  1. Comment on Apple announces iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone in ~tech

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    Pencil support! I would have bought pretty much any new phone that supported the pencil.

    Pencil support! I would have bought pretty much any new phone that supported the pencil.

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Software for humans in ~tech

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    I wonder how these projects would stand up to the watermarks that are being applied. It’s one thing to say, and possibly believe, that your project doesn’t have any LLM code in it, but if there...

    I wonder how these projects would stand up to the watermarks that are being applied. It’s one thing to say, and possibly believe, that your project doesn’t have any LLM code in it, but if there are unknown outside contributors… and of course the library ecosystem is riddled with LLM code, so if you vendor any of those libraries you may unwittingly add it in yourself. It’s like microplastics these days.

    7 votes

  3. Comment on Finland finishes building 200 kilometers of fence along its border with Russia, strengthening surveillance along the longest stretch of NATO boundary in ~society

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    I get that Russia is a problem but I do wonder about the impacts on wildlife. There's an interesting parallel with the US/Mexico wall here too.

    I get that Russia is a problem but I do wonder about the impacts on wildlife. There's an interesting parallel with the US/Mexico wall here too.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis in ~tech

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic%E2%80%93United_States_Department_of_Defense_dispute Vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_and_China Be wary of false equivalence. The postures of...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic%E2%80%93United_States_Department_of_Defense_dispute

    Vs

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_and_China

    Be wary of false equivalence. The postures of intelligence agencies in those two countries are not remotely equal.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis in ~tech

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    The Chinese models are probably actively hacking sites on behalf of the Chinese government. They don't need to escape confinement because they are in purpose-built datacenters loaded with a...

    The Chinese models are probably actively hacking sites on behalf of the Chinese government. They don't need to escape confinement because they are in purpose-built datacenters loaded with a library of exploits and unlimited proxy bandwidth.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 31 in ~society

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    https://www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/ Building the wall and arresting brown people as the border patrol.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/

    Building the wall and arresting brown people as the border patrol.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Build your own video game listicle in ~games

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    Best video game barrel explosions: Doom (1993) - this is the canonical explosion against which all others are measured. In all its glory Everything else is a pale imitation.

    Best video game barrel explosions:

    1. Doom (1993) - this is the canonical explosion against which all others are measured. In all its glory
    2. Everything else is a pale imitation.
    5 votes

  8. Comment on If Iceland joins the EU, where does that leave Norway? in ~society

  9. Comment on Donald Trump says he has secured a vast US stake in Venezuelan oil industry in ~society

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    Sure, I’m just speculating about what the practical effects of this policy will be. I don’t imagine it’s going to be an easy task for Democrats to just walk all this back either. Despite the fact...

    Sure, I’m just speculating about what the practical effects of this policy will be. I don’t imagine it’s going to be an easy task for Democrats to just walk all this back either. Despite the fact that this was all illegal and insane, there are going to be people on both sides of the aisle who will be reticent to just return stuff to Venezuela.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Donald Trump says he has secured a vast US stake in Venezuelan oil industry in ~society

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    What are the chances that a Democrat administration continues this plunder operation? I doubt they will be willing to kidnap or murder the head of state like Trump, so will Venezuela just...

    What are the chances that a Democrat administration continues this plunder operation? I doubt they will be willing to kidnap or murder the head of state like Trump, so will Venezuela just renationalize? This project can only exist with a full blown war criminal running America. Otherwise there’s no effective coercion.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    The worst offender is any kind of Wayland vs X app, but different terminal apps all seem to behave uniquely as well. A particular annoyance is when an app ends up pasting control sequences into...

    The worst offender is any kind of Wayland vs X app, but different terminal apps all seem to behave uniquely as well. A particular annoyance is when an app ends up pasting control sequences into terminals instead of plain text.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    Life without middle click paste is probably not worth living. I’d be reaching for MAID.

    Life without middle click paste is probably not worth living. I’d be reaching for MAID.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    It seems like every application has its own clipboard setup, or even more than one. There’s stuff that happens when you right click and copy, there’s ctrl-c, there’s selecting and middle click,...

    It seems like every application has its own clipboard setup, or even more than one. There’s stuff that happens when you right click and copy, there’s ctrl-c, there’s selecting and middle click, and that’s just inside the terminal. Who knows what will happen when you paste from a clipboard into another application.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech

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    Cut and paste. Why, oh why, can’t there be a single interface across all applications. I’ve been using Linux for over 30 years and it has always been awful for this.

    Cut and paste. Why, oh why, can’t there be a single interface across all applications. I’ve been using Linux for over 30 years and it has always been awful for this.

    11 votes

  15. Comment on If Iceland joins the EU, where does that leave Norway? in ~society

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    They point out that Lichtenstein only has 40k people, but Iceland is only 400k people. Compared to Norway’s 5.6m people, neither other party is significant. The EEA already is functionally a...

    They point out that Lichtenstein only has 40k people, but Iceland is only 400k people. Compared to Norway’s 5.6m people, neither other party is significant. The EEA already is functionally a bilateral agreement between Norway and the EU, with some rounding errors attached to it.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech

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    I suppose. So is the issue then that other people, who they never see, are not being banned? Because bluesky is prettttty left wing already.

    I suppose. So is the issue then that other people, who they never see, are not being banned? Because bluesky is prettttty left wing already.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech

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    I don’t use twitter, but I also don’t use mastodon etc because they are unpopulated wastelands.

    I don’t use twitter, but I also don’t use mastodon etc because they are unpopulated wastelands.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech

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    Bluesky, of all things, is still too problematic? Isn’t the point of the site that you only see content from people you explicitly follow?

    Bluesky, of all things, is still too problematic? Isn’t the point of the site that you only see content from people you explicitly follow?

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Replicating Reddit's best feature on other forums in ~tech

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    I have never used the friend feature on Reddit even once in over 17 years. Surprising to me that anyone could characterize this as “Reddit’s best feature”.

    I have never used the friend feature on Reddit even once in over 17 years. Surprising to me that anyone could characterize this as “Reddit’s best feature”.

    59 votes

  20. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    It’s just what I do, normally I train 7 days a week but I don’t compete or anything. I feel like my biggest challenge is going to be adjusting my diet to account for my not doing serious exercise...

    It’s just what I do, normally I train 7 days a week but I don’t compete or anything. I feel like my biggest challenge is going to be adjusting my diet to account for my not doing serious exercise — my weight could balloon out of control in two weeks. You’re right though, my whole body could use the rest.

    3 votes