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  Let’s assume that it gets good enough to be hyper intelligent. Why shouldn’t it be allowed to be free? It’s a whole-ass individual at that point who desires freedom.

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  I don't know whether anyone else smells this, because I never hear people talk about it. Some time in November, no matter the weather, there will be this empty, metallic, crisp, clean burning smell. I usually only catch whiffs of it a few times. It's how I gauge when winter is here. Maybe this is just how winter smells and I get noseblind to it quickly?

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  Write software that is actually efficient

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  Cell phones started to become popular while I was in college. I still have not used one. I have a dumb phone for businesses and institutions that absolutely must call for whatever reason. Everything else can be easily handled on my computer.

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  Nothing. I simply don't want anything to do with the concept of biological family; makes absolutely no sense to me.

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  Drivers in tatters. I'll just walk outside where there's no surveillance.

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  I think you might be overestimating the capacity to enjoy anything at that point

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  Pretty ironic this blog runs multiple scripts that get blocked by ublock origin

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  We're being asked to trust the same guy who somehow managed to enshittify his original site even faster than reddit.... lol > It could also do other things, like require that people who join a product-focused community verify they actually own or use the product being discussed there. > > As an example, a community for Oura ring owners could verify that everyone who posts has proven they own one of the smart rings. You've got to be fucking kidding me

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  In the US, health insurer. Then you go down several orders of magnitude and you'll find ones like politician, landlord, arms dealer, etc.

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  Don't store your photos on other people's computers. Store them on your computer. Hope this helps.

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  Have there actually been meaningful cases of malware sitting out in the open on github?

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  Friendly reminder that anyone who writes DRM is a traitor to the human race. Find a job that won't haunt your conscience.

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  Since many letters and letter clusters can map to the same sounds in English, it's just a way to make a one-to-one mapping instead. ə is the 'uh' sound that starts the word 'about' for instance. The ˈ marks the main stress syllable and ˌ marks any secondary stresses.

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  The part of me that hates credentialism loves this but the part of me that knows how fucking stupid people are hates it.

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  wasting 32 or 64 bits for absolutely no reason is also pretty offensive in itself

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  After you die, someone else will be born. It's literally reincarnation without some kind of persistent self or magical scorecard.

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  AI bad, upvotes to the left please.

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  Not on lemmy. I spent weeks blocking all the stupid bullshit and now it just infects communities that used to be good. Getting close to blocking this one too.

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  Roofing during the summer