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While China has warned the West against 'decoupling', the country’s censorship system is designed for the purpose of isolation, report says ( globalvoices.org )

When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok is also unavailable...

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  1. Virtual private network – VPN: 240 unavailable apps including Lantern VPN, ProtonVPN, ExpressVPN, Nord VPN.

When assessing a VPN, using one that's blocked in China seems to be a safe item to check.

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Weird how i still remember my number... and useless now, 'cept maybe for passwords.

So long 104034239.

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You forgot the FBI agents.

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Mostly for tech communities but yes. Libera.Chat seems to be the go-to network.

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Don't disturbed celebrities kill themselves at 28?

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True... although i'd think ICQ numbers in Ripper dictionaries are probably lower priority than simple brute-forcing sequential numbers.

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The vast majority of projects on GitHub is open-source and forkable, why would that need authorization?

It's... suspicious that China's doing it en masse, but there's nothing wrong in cloning or forking a repo last i heard.

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In this day and age an artist can be their own record label.

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And what does that skin feed off of?

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Rule 37?

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The human mind is a curious mind.

If that skin is just copy/pasted without nourishment it'll rotten away, decaying in a sea of pus and putrid, gangrenic tissue, festering away as maggots feast on it.

So if these scientists are half-serious about their grants then they should consider a way to feed the skin.

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Right! There's even a Stross about it.

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WikiLeaks was churning along fine and doing actual useful work in relative anonymity until Mr Assange's ego decided WikiLeaks needed a figurehead, painting a target on his back - you reap what you sow.

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If i were to take a shot every time vulnerabilities are found in the WordPress ecosystem i'd be comatose by now...

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If you want to add something to your website then you're already running WordPress, no?

Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

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Not even the door locks are mechanical? So much built-in obsolescence...

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All because suburban whites don’t want to remember to lock the doors as they drive through the black neighborhood so the car locks itself whenever you put it in Drive.

Color discrimination?

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And drop the oil subsidies?! How dare you!

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we’ve been out of IPv4 for over a decade now

Really? Haven't had trouble allocating new VPSs with IPv4 as of late...

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If promotion means becoming a manager... no thanks.

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So you could just got he the office days straight and don't show up for the rest of the year... interesting... but considering promotions are everything but lately i'd just go remote anyway.

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Not just American unfortunately... crap ass managers use the internet too, the news spreads... beyond the marginal raise i get due to inflation every year i only ever get a decent raise by, well, changing companies.

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Riiiight.... trust American companies instead... definitely so...

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and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.

The whole point of NATO is that if you attack one country, the others come to the rescue, meaning the US war economy is frothing at the mouth just begging that Russia does something stupid with a NATO country. Not their backyard anyway.

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Distributed/Federated apps probably? Session, Briar...

Overlay networks like Tor, I2P and Hyphanet (ex-Freenet)?

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Distributed/Federated apps probably? Session, Briar...

Overlay networks like Tor, I2P and Hyphanet (ex-Freenet)?

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...

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I use them like wikipedia: it's a good starting point and that's it (and this comparison is a disservice to wikipedia).

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I don't think the author was referring to people pruning AI data but rather to mechanical turk instances like recently happened with Amazon.

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Small message boards only really worked when people, generally, did not care about moderation.

Or had ticker skins and just /ignored assholes.

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Don't need to go to Japan for that, it's a common tactic in the west too to get the employee to quit.

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If you want realistic humanoids look at the Japanese sex industry.

This article is all "China bad" while neglecting to realize Amazon is aiming at replacing workers with humanoid robots too.

Hypocrites.

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when this t480 finally kicks the bucket

So 2178?

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I wouldn't gasp in surprise if both Sony and Google have similar shady deals. Apple seems to.

Google is evil, although Pixels seem to be tolerable, especially for custom ROMs, ironically.

Sony phones are good but expensive.

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That's ok, Rest of the World governments also allow Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta and others to fuck their citizens sideways too. <3

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I didn't interpret it as patronizing.

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It's Natalie Portperson, keep up.

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Tesla always knows where their cars are,

You're renting it?

urning off GPS and LTE ruins 90% of the features in the car.

can it still... ya know, move like a car does?

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You do know that marketing is, by its very definition, in practice all lies, right?

Wanna rent a VPN with military-grade encryption?

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Not in this case, but it may have been when two drivers killed two motorcyclists.

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At the dealership? Kinda, yeah, it's a dealership and news like this pop up every week.

On the road? I wouldn't trust my life to any self-driving in this day and age.

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I don't have to admit to anything because a) i'm not on trial, b) don't work or care for Tesla and c) don't give a rat's ass about your opinion on me :)

Marketing is and always has been mostly lies or half-truths. Yes, legislation has mitigated that to some extent but marketing is still marketing. You'd have to be cognitively impaired to take all that advertising to the letter (come to think of it, maybe that's why coffee in some countries comes with a warning saying it's hot... or microwave instructions must specify they're not suitable for pets).

You'd be kinda excused for believing in all the hype when AI/Tesla were just hitting the scene but nowadays? Get a grip.

Bitch all you want about how Tesla misleads or mismarkets their products (they do, anyone with two brain cells knows that) but if you's gonna use that as an excuse to trust a car to drive 100% independently and flawlessly because they said so... it's totally on you. Or your corpse.

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You don’t have to admit to anything, but you just did.

Did i now... if you say so... keep'em internet points, i attach no value to them. 😘

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Never said they were, but LIDAR is a big improvement over "cameras and AI". Most other manufactures use it, Tesla stopped using it because of cost sav... because their AI kicks ass and if eyes are enough for humans they're enough for their cars too.

Hell any system where lives are involved should be triple-redundancy.

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