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Entinel··on Nostr – Decentralized social network
Great response that will help people join in on your cause.
Entinel··on Nostr – Decentralized social network
That's not how that works though. It would be like me calling XMPP a cryptocurrency.
Entinel··on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes again delays start of 11-year prison term
A lot of "eat the rich" type comments but you can do this if you aren't rich and aren't currently in custody. I knew a guy who was told to report to jail to begin his sentence and managed to delay it for 3 years. With appeals, medical extensions, and whatever other bullshit you can think of, you can keep this charade going for a long time.
Entinel··on Supreme Court will decide if all home equity may be forfeited for unpaid taxes
> If you have to pay taxes on property do you really own that property?

A different way of looking at this is that I'm letting you own a piece of land within my borders and in exchange I'm asking you pay a tax on it and if that isn't agreeable find a different settlement.

Entinel··on We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates
I used to work in IT and one of my responsibilities was managing the company email and TONS of people used their work email for personal stuff. At least 1/3 of the company.
Entinel··on Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy
Target is much better than Amazon They may not have the wide variety you want but what they do have is good enough for the price.
Entinel··on The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
> On the contrary. Copyright itself is a non-starter.

Clearly it is given that we are currently living with it.

Entinel··on The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
I disagree with your disagreement. 10 years is too short, 70 years is too long. There should definitely be a reduction but 10 years isn't it.
Entinel··on Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2
Just for GPU comparison I'm on an AMD RX card so it could be an Nvidia issue which is known to be jank on Linux.
Entinel··on Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2
Devil's advocate, I use Steam on Fedora and have had 0 issues. Very rarely freezes or crashes. It's probably the most stable application I use daily.
Entinel··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
It doesn't deliver for the company. Opt in telemetry is the same as not doing telemetry. Not because people are morally against telemetry but most people just click through. You might say that is a good thing or that is how it should be but that is exactly why it doesn't deliver the desired result for the company.
Entinel··on Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice
If I was in a situation where I needed emergency blood, the level of microplastics in it is the least of my concerns.
Entinel··on GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
Legitimate question, Microsoft does not seem to care about Copilot violating licenses and GPL appears to be toothless as many companies use GPL code without following the terms of the license and nothing happens to them so what does removing GPL code accomplish other than making a weaker product. I have not used Codeium but my assumption is that GPL code is a very significant amount of open source code so removing that must have some ramifications?
Entinel··on Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code
I haven't used Evidence so can't speak to its capabilities. It's been a while since I've used Dash and Streamlit so I can't recall exactly what caused me to throw it aside but I do remember that formatting was hell and to even get close to what I wanted I had to use components from plotly express, dash, streamlit, essentially every Python data viz library. It was just too much of a hassle.
Entinel··on Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code
You are wrong. I work in FinTech and use Python and markdown. I am very interested in this. The current visualization tools in the Python space are very hamfisted. Dash and Plotly all hit a wall when trying to do complex visualizations.
Entinel··on Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
Fox negotiated with Dominion lawyers not the US govt. Former government employees sliding into positions at Fox is irrelevant to the amount they paid. Dominion is a for-profit company so obviously they wanted to wring the most amount of money they could out of Fox.
Entinel··on Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
No.
Entinel··on Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
Fox also got off easy though. What Fox wanted to avoid was having their broadcasters on the stand under oath having to tell the truth and that is what they got.
Entinel··on Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
> it has reached a settlement agreement with the Department that will see it pay $300 million over five years, in quarterly chunks of $15 million.

> ...Seagate persisted and between August 2020 and September 2021 sold 7.4 million hard drives to China, in 429 transactions worth a combined $1.1 billion.

Useless fine. This is a rounding error to Seagate.

Entinel··on Analyzing the websites that are used to train AI chatbots
I am shocked that Discord is not on this list. I would bet my mortgage that Discord would sell their chats as a dataset to train on if the price was right.
Entinel··on Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
What culture war specifically?
Entinel··on Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
No one really talks about it but I think it is a symptom of bad parenting. How many times have people sat their kid down and explained these Hollywood types are not the average looking person?
Entinel··on Reddit will begin charging for access to its API
I would say no to this. Reddit is giving you a platform and in exchange they get the content. If you don't think that is fair deal you're free to just not make the content.
Entinel··on Why don’t more people live close to friends?
They gave many reasons but I have a different one. I don't have any friends.
Entinel··on Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time
There is a very simple answer to this. The people that were leaving Twitter went to Mastodon and found it unsuitable. It's not that people who were cheerleading Mastodon turned coat or went away, they just got outnumbered.
Entinel··on Canada is seeing violent crime like never before. What's behind the crime wave
High rent, low pay, no housing or safety nets.

If people want to say this is a hard problem to solve then fine but a bit tired of government and news organizations acting obtuse like they just can't figure out what the problem is.

Entinel··on Most AI Fear Is Future Fear
You can find stories online about content writers and what not being replaced but ones that I personally know of are a lot of minor art roles in game development being replaced. Things like icon art for example that would usually be outsourced to a contracting studio. I will give the disclaimer that I don't work in game development but I'm in the PNW so I know a lot of people who work at studios.
Entinel··on Most AI Fear Is Future Fear
Sure, if speaking generally. I mainly take issue with the author passing it off as fear of change or fear of the worst case scenario as if it were just a phobia. The things I listed I feel are very real and actively happening.
Entinel··on Most AI Fear Is Future Fear
This is pretty naive. My fear isn't that AI is going to suddenly turn into Skynet(although I think it is possible) but that AI is going to:

1. Enable more sophisticated scams and exploitation.

2. Create even more distrust in people through the use of Deepfakes and AI generated voice.

3. Put a lot of people out of work without the required safety nets to give them time to find their way through the turmoil.

4. Lead to a giant deluge of content spam that is just regurgitated AI text and art that makes the discoverability problem even harder to solve than it is now.

And from what I can tell, all 4 of those are currently happening.

Entinel··on Meme group on Discord is focus of uproar over leaked Pentagon documents
This is getting away from the original point. If you associate with a nazi then yes I believe you are guilty by association. There is no coexisting with a belief that doesn't believe you have the right to exist in the first place. If you believe that communism is in the same lane then feel free to throw them in the bin as well.
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