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infinite_spinon Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

Not much, but it's interesting and I think a large population of users here are curious about drone tech

infinite_spinon Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

foot-wrap? What are you saying here? Is this a colloquialism that I'm not familiar with?

infinite_spinon Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

One other reason, Shahed drones are preprogrammed with their target, they're not being flown by an operator who can quickly change their course. They're basically a cruise missile with propellers.

infinite_spinon The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

I don't think a single ghostwriter has ever been convicted of fraud for writing an auto biography on behalf of another person. Do you have some evidence to back this claim or am I expected to take your word for it?

infinite_spinon The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

> Reading has always been a contract between the person who wrote the text and the person who’s reading it

I don't think an author is bound to their readers via contract, implicit or otherwise. I have no obligation to tell people what tools I use, or how I've arrived at a final product. That might be upsetting to hear, but authors don't owe their readers anything, just as readers don't owe authors anything.

There is a precedent for this, many auto biographies are actually ghostwritten, demonstrating that this contract you speak of has never actually existed.

infinite_spinon Does creatine make you smarter?

Yes you can. E.g. Euler's proof that there is no largest prime number.

infinite_spinon Does creatine make you smarter?

You still haven't specified what negative side effects you're referring to. Nitrogen tends to be inert, so I'm questioning your claim that N2 causes some negative side effect, not your claim that creatine hinders this yet-unnamed side effect

infinite_spinon Writing by hand is good for your brain

I think the article offers some good advice, at least advice that the author believes in, and from my own anecdotal experience it seems to hold water. Writing by hand, on physical paper, does indeed seem to offer some advantages over typing or using a tablet/stylus.

infinite_spinon Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

care to clarify yourself then? It's hard to see what other conclusion I should arrive at, because it seems like you're implying that privacy interferes with safety.

infinite_spinon Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

except this implies total control, and a willingness to use that control to gaslight your citizens into believing they have some control

infinite_spinon Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

How is private messaging causing people to become unsafe? If you're saying privacy = unsafe environment, then your right to privacy is meaningless.

infinite_spinon Does creatine make you smarter?

It's not unregulated.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B...

infinite_spinon Does creatine make you smarter?

what negative effects? N2 is inert under physiological conditions.

infinite_spinon Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

They began strapping them to existing light poles here. I took a photo of one and it was gone a few days later. I didn't report it, it just vanished, which I noticed the next time I went for a walk. I want to know why they decided to put one up on my street, it feels like an intrusion.

infinite_spinon Zoom is now Chrome only

I joined from Firefox this morning too, but it launches the application in the actual zoom app

infinite_spinon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

well also I read the parent's comment wrong, they just said colons, not semi-colons

infinite_spinon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

ah my mistake, those are a bit uncommon in my writing, I feel like they seem pretentious. i just use the semi-colons because it's closer to the way I pause, and alternate, in my thoughts.

infinite_spinon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

> You'd know that if you'd done any research at all.

I'm not in the habit of researching the people who respond to me before I ask them about what their role was in something they seem proud of. I thought I was being polite by asking about it.

That's really cool that you were interviewed, which of the interviews do you think most represents your hand in this? I wouldn't mind checking it out. I also really like Veritasium's channel, that's pretty awesome.

infinite_spinon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

the argument was that use of semi-colons indicates AI usage..

what do you mean by "being first hand involved in all this"? what part did you take if you don't mind sharing, this was an incredibly interesting turn of events.

infinite_spinon Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

I've always used a lot of semi-colons in my writing, especially in my technical writing. So I did a search on this pdf for semi colons, and there are 260 in a 264 page document. I then repeated this for the last book I read, Candide by Voltaire, and there were 507 semi colons in a 189 page book.

This seems like a witch hunt.

infinite_spinon NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

I think advertising can be done right. Stack Overflow seems to have gotten it right, so much so that I disabled my adblocker for them. What bites me is when the advertisements are for something toward my caveman brain, like being advertised alcohol products while scrolling through instagram. I'd like the ability to say: "yes tell me about the newest raspberry pi products, but don't keep advertising gambling services".

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

> Then you are going to have a hard time in a society filled with other humans, or living with a legal system that takes human complexity and grey areas into account in so many different ways.

Yes, and from my perspective that's corruption of society. We must at least make an effort to eliminate gray areas, otherwise we're failing our duty as citizens of that society.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

> Identical treatment of all people in all situations for all laws does not exist and should not exist.

How did you arrive at this statement from "We need equal rights, ones that exist for everyone, i.e. constitutional rights"? Seems like you're making an appeal to extremes.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

> I'm half joking because the situation is quite bizarre and I never encountered anything like that.

half joking is still joking, and this is not a "quite bizarre" situation, in fact it's rather common for people to make threats. It's "quite bizarre" to me that you don't realize this.

> Not to mention the owner could just ban a person thatch bad for business. Or just install a camera, since police demands a proof.

I think I mentioned, the owners did in fact trespass this person. Aside from that, the cameras don't have audio.

I think I need to end this conversation, because it's going off track into my personal life more than I'd like, and I don't think your investigative (or joking) tone is appropriate. My example stands, from my perspective, as a valid reason to want this technology.

infinite_spinon LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

the paranoid part of me thinks this is a war of attrition, where if every company imaginable has to be taken to task for intrusive behavior that we'll eventually grow numb to it, or that with a large enough onslaught we'll never be able to outpace it. It's not like there is profit to be made from preventing this behavior, and incredible incentives to, at minimum, turn a blind eye.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

We need equal rights, ones that exist for everyone, i.e. constitutional rights. When we say some people have those rights more than others, we destroy equality under our laws, at the very root of our system. I think it muddies the water to call these "absolute" rules, they're clearly up for interpretation, but what shouldn't be up for interpretation is their applicability to all, in "absolute". If you're going to say "rules for thee but not for me", then we view these rules in a fundamentally different way.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

I'm not a fan of rules that aren't concrete, especially when the opposition tends to muddy the water and use ad hominems to justify their opinions. Lacking a clear set of rules has never led us to a safer community.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

> glasshole-women

Please stop using ad hominem attacks, this is not the appropriate forum for such remarks.

> "nice rack you have there, sweetheart"

I assume that would be considered sexual harassment in most jurisdictions, which local police should concern themselves with, especially if it's happening to minors.

I'm at a loss for why you brought up the FBI.

infinite_spinon Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

The coffee isn't why I go there, it's where my friends meet up, and I go to the gym next door. He's also threatened employees, one quit. I'm not sure why you're making jokes, but since you are it seems like I should double down and insist that I have the right to film such encounters.. especially when my account of these events isn't taken seriously.