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sobchak

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  • There's an intersection like that near me (android auto always drops). I haven't figured out what's causing it though. Haven't spotted a Flock camera there. There's some down the road, but none that I've noticed at the intersection. There are what look like the normal traffic cams there. I too wonder if it's something that's purposely forcing disconnections so devices start broadcasting SSIDs/MAC info or something like that.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • OpenAI just bought the raw wafers? WTF.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • I think the RAM manufacturers were found to be guilty of colluding/price-fixing in that case (maybe this case too).

  • Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down

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  • It's ok. It seems a bit ad-hoc to me compared to some of the higher-level academic languages I like (Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Chapel, etc). It's much simpler than C++, and more expressive than C though.

  • The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOS

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  • I could be wrong, but I think Linux would be horrible for the kind of security you'd want in a smartphone. At least that's what I read from the GrapheneOS folks...

  • Wisconsin VPN bill is 'going to be a disaster for everyone,' says online privacy nonprofit

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  • It seems like a "great firewall" is where all this will lead. Projects like xray-core may become important to a lot more people in the future.

  • Nearly a quarter of U.S. households live paycheck to paycheck, report finds

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  • I think you may have a misconception of what the bottom 25% of earners do. Or, maybe I do. I don't know anyone that does that stuff regularly, not even the high earners I know.

  • Gov. Greg Abbott plans to gut public school funding as he sends $1 billion to private schools

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  • "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat” Freeman [an advisor to Reagan] said. “That's dynamite! We nave to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.'

  • Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears

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  • Not really. TSMC has a near monopoly on the advanced fabrication, and ASML has a near monopoly on the lithographic machines TSMC uses. Nvidia is a fab-less designer. Google has its TPUs, and Amazon has some kind of custom chip too.

  • I discovered Resident Alien recently and I'm loving it

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  • It's ok. It's like a sillier, less philosophical Northern Exposure.

  • Paul Krugman. He is the author of 27 books. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • I don't like chargebacks being impossible. I think countries being able to manipulate their currency to balance inflation and unemployment has advantages too; if we're going to keep doing this capitalism thing at least.

  • Paul Krugman. He is the author of 27 books. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • I think Krugman is a legit intellectual and doesn't intentionally cherry pick numbers. I followed his blog and such starting when I was a teenager (during the 2008 crisis), and I think he helped me understand what was going on, using fairly rigorous math and data (for a "science" communicator). Few other economic communicators made sense to me at the time. The Austrian school was being pushed heavily by the right and tech-bros, and didn't seem based on anything but vibes.

  • Pornography can be art

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  • There's the famous Pirates porn movie; I think still the highest budget porn ever made. I remember a porn movie about a fire department that also seemed pretty high budget (Flashpoint, I think). Seems like most porn is clips now rather than full-features. I think porn with stories used to be a lot more common when you had to buy tapes or DVDs. There's a really old one I saw called The Devil in Miss Jones, which I guess could be considered horror. And another one from I think the 2000s called New Neighbors where some demons move in next door or something.

  • Pornography can be art

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  • I liked a lot of Michael Ninn's work back in the day, like Catherine and Neo Pornographia. He definitely was trying to go for a more artistic thing. Looks like it's extremely hard to find now, and Ninn is now on an AI slop kick.

    On the other side of things, Nyphomaniac was an artsy film bordering on pornography, IIRC.

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  • I've seen many projects like this over the years, they never seem to take off for some reason. Freedombox seemed pretty interesting to me back in the day, but I already had some old hardware and didn't mind learning how to set things up myself. I think Sandstorm is/was another option. And I think Nextcloud is also a framework of sorts (idk, I don't use it). To an extent TrueNAS is also a kind of an all-in-one solution that has one-click installs of most of these apps.

  • Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?

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  • The weasel humping a ball logo (IceWeasel).

  • Trump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit in a push to lower grocery store prices

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  • I'm guessing he got his bribes.

  • Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.

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  • I think the laws are just meant as a soft-ban. There may be legal complications with outright banning strip clubs. The no physical contact takes away what I think make up stripper's largest income source, and no nipples and alcohol makes it a less attractive place to go. I had a few hours to waste in a city once, waiting on a flight, and walked into one of these strip clubs. There was only one stripper there, one bartender, and I was the only customer; so I'm guessing it really did hurt the market.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • I'm not sure I'm following. The owners of the code can re-license anytime they want, and even dual-license or license on a case-by-case basis. Would require a contributor license agreement to be practical though, and it looks like ffmpeg may not have one.