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PierceTheBubble

@ PierceTheBubble @lemmy.ml

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  • We might not even be communicating.

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  • Yeah, if you really start breaking down sentences, to their individual words and their respective concepts, everything falls apart. But it's important to keep context in mind: which generally limits room for interpretation enough, for most to roughly interpret them similarly (unless your autistic brain makes you go on a detour...). If you start formulating your wording carefully enough, you can start writing legal documents; and ironically make sure, 99% of the population, can no longer follow a word you're saying.

  • Income Tax Is Theft

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  • If you want citizens to keep working their ass off, you minimize worker capital through taxes, fines, profit, or any other artificial expenses; so they're stuck in a perpetual struggle for stability. And as a byproduct, the parasitic upper class can live royally, of the working class' hard work.

  • We might not even be communicating.

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  • So you mean to say: we personalize interpretation of someone else's writing, therefore we're rather responding to our own thoughts, than in response to the other's writing? If so, I would say this is true for the majority of people; especially when discussing anything political for example, where a strong bias is present.

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    If you think about politics in the shower, you consume too much media or you're a politician.

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  • If you mean to say: there's too much politically charged posts on here, despite rule number 3 being 'No politics'; I wholly agree.

  • DeFlock offline? [Update: online again; temporarily offline, likely hosting-related]

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  • Yeah, it seems I've pulled the trigger a bit soon. I was just about to head to bed when I noticed, which is arguably not the best moment to be posting haha...

  • DeFlock offline? [Update: online again; temporarily offline, likely hosting-related]

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  • I noticed it just before heading to bed, so I'll take the sound bit of advise, and sleep over it the next time haha.

  • DeFlock offline? [Update: online again; temporarily offline, likely hosting-related]

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  • That's correct, I've also added some ALPRs to OSM; which is why I decided to check it once more. There's other websites, which also render ALPRs (alongside other surveillance POIs) on a map. However, DeFlock's is the most clear for ALPRs in specific, at least for what I've seen, and also providing information on the subject. I simply noticed it being offline, and figured it might be relevant to the community.

  • There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport.

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  • Yeah, it seems I made a quite ignorant comment; as taking these factors into account, would make it an entirely different showdown. Perhaps putting both in a simulator, sim drivers might outperform the drivers; but would challenge just a select set of abilities.

  • There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport.

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  • I would love to see F1 drivers being crushed by sim drivers

  • In a future that will hold robotic police there will surely be robotic house burglars.

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  • For real haha

  • In a future that will hold robotic police there will surely be robotic house burglars.

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  • All you'd have to do is hijack the home robot, to simply hand you over the subscription-based slop

  • You can't legally drink and drive, but you have to present your driver's license to prove you're old enough to drink.

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  • At least you ensure they're licensed to drive, when they go drink and drive... What if it's just damage prevention?

  • Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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  • Which in practice will simply drive up the price: like refundable deposits

  • Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic

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  • Deploying its roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support “mission driven” tech businesses and nonprofits, including its own

    I mean, how else can you deplete a non-profit's reserves?

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • E2EE isn’t really relevant, when the “ends” have the functionality, to share data with Meta directly: as “reports”, “customer support”, “assistance” (Meta AI); where a UI element is the separation.

    Edit: it turns out cloud backups aren’t E2E encrypted by default… meaning: any backup data, which passes through Meta’s servers, to the cloud providers (like iCloud or Google Account), is unobscured to Meta; unless E2EE is explicitly enabled. And even then, WhatsApp’s privacy policy states: “if you use a data backup service integrated with our Services (like iCloud or Google Account), they will receive information you share with them, such as your WhatsApp messages.” So the encryption happens on the server side, meaning: Apple and Google still have full access to the content. It doesn’t matter if you, personally, refuse to use the “feature”: if the other end does, your interactions will be included in their backups.

    Cross-posting my comment from the cross-posted post

  • When I upvote a post and it increments by more than 1, I feel good knowing someone else was reading and up-voting it at about the same time.

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  • What you're describing is what I meant to communicate; but may not have used the correct word for it.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • Yeah, I guess if you want users to keep sharing "confessions, [] difficult debates, or silly inside jokes" through a platform you've acquired, E2EE might give the WhatsApp user the false sense of privacy required.

  • There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with.

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  • In team sports, I suspect the dynamics between different players, and their inventiveness to outperform the opposing team, is what creates an interesting match; it's quite strategic really. Team sports I enjoy most are: ice hockey (got to love the obnoxious truck horns and organ music haha), curling (the weird sport with the brooms: which affect the trajectory and placement quite a bit), doubles tennis (especially when front players duel intensively and the back players providing support).

    If Alice argues all should be black, and Bob argues all should be white, Carol may add further context to the argument: creating a grey area if you will. In this case: Alice could argue all team sports suck, Bob could argue all team sports are great, and Carol may argue things are bit more "nuanced" than that: taking into consideration, both her interest in curling and her aversion to narcissistic soccer players, dropping themselves to the floor; like every 10 minutes.

  • There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with.

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  • And those that are not in full support of a cause, neither fully opposed to it; but would rather see a more nuanced approach to the cause. As for the sport example: I initially don't care for sports either; however have learned to appreciate some sports, because I took the time to understand their intricacies.

  • Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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  • One would almost start to think the lawyers were out for the settlement money...