Posts by quixote@mastodon.nz
 (DIR) Post #B48WeVtuWXlzvM7CXA by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @Gargron Has everyone already heard of the brilliant machine translation for the saying "Out of sight, out of mind"?"Invisible, idiot."
       
 (DIR) Post #B4GQfCytJ6hL4i4XRI by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @eff We (those of us for privacy and controlling our own business) would get further, I think, if we simultaneously addressed the concerns of (some of?) the people on the other side.They're desperate to stop the flood of mental sludge choking the web. They're not anti-privacy. But they do provide a socially acceptable screen of "widows and orphans" for the politicos and broligarchs to hide behind.Pointing out the privacy problems is useful. But how about if there's at least one paragraph talking about how to solve the sludge issue?A whistleblower (don't remember his name) said recently that (I think it was) Facebook could do a one-click solution to the problem. But he didn't say what. Somebody here or at EFF probably knows what he meant. So mention it! Explain it. Say why it would or wouldn't work.Mention solutions for pollution that *work with* privacy and own-control. Point out that it's not a fight of either privacy OR crap. If there's a way to have both, point it out.My wild guess is that the way involves broligarchs modifying their damn products. And that the assumption is that's hopeless. So we all talk about something else. Let's not. There has to be a better choice than either drowning in sludge or living in a constant colonoscopy.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Gxkh4i8wc8LR1ABc by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @dalias What's the evidence for it being LLM slop? I glanced at it and it didn't look self-evidently awful. (I'm talking about the long article with nine sections or so.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4T4C15clg2VrNNMWG by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @itsfoss Nope. Been running Linux since I was a small child in a sailor suit. (Not really. Early 2000s. But it feels long ago.) Is this a way to skip the asinine Windows hardware checking or something? (I know it's BIOS, but my BIOS screen looks a bit different, so I'm guessing it's some Windows modification?)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4brmjjehgsLllv11s by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @ojocle_olonam @protonprivacy @mullvadnet @GrapheneOS Strange. Yours is the third time this question was asked about GrapheneOS and the GOOG VPN bug, but nobody answers.Consider this the fourth request for an answer!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ZBSR4ZqIa7VSwAvw by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @EUCommission Speak to Germany about their beetlebrained idea of building gas peaker plants instead of grid-scale battery installations!
       
 (DIR) Post #B63q1WLc32rsuTzJmi by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @lynnesbian Yeah, I've started coming across this shit on archive.today. If you click on the eye icon at the bottom, that gets you back to the old, very annoying, grids of cars, bikes, bridges to identify.What is this actually good for? Anybody fraudulent probably has a way of automating that crap in milliseconds. I've always assumed it's the goog getting free training for its self-driving software.
       
 (DIR) Post #B66SO7nveP341cMGFE by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @lynnesbian Allowed through seamlessly? ?? What? I've been doing those idiotic things since what feels like early childhood and they're always the same, always there. Some people actually get on some virtual list of Proper Eggs?Admittedly, I'm generally on a vpn with scripts blocked, OS is linux, browser is a weird thing out of the Paleolithic.Years ago I had trouble with some online thing my utility company required. I finally had to call them up, fight my way through to third level tech support, only to be told I used linux, so I must be a hacker. 🙄 🤣 🧐
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EdUWqq5pIQCkefeC by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @lynnesbian Well, that explains it. I guess since I'm already smelling of sulfur I should just embrace the badness, learn how to hack, and make millions.(That's how it works, right? (😆 ))
       
 (DIR) Post #B9u7KUMxhjtA1v65dw by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon  So, ahem, sorry for shouting, but... DON'T REPUBLISH THE REVOLTING IMAGE.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9wIvfcsIqH7T6ONtI by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Yeah, I realize his revoltingness is not your fault. I still think we don't need to see the garbage. The words describing it are plenty. Especially since it's a Trump fakery.(Anyway, I'm not mad at you. Just the pollution of the internet with his awful slop.)