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jiofj··on Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school
The mass media (including social networks) get to pick and choose what they broadcast. No matter how hard you try or how despicable something that happened to you is, if the mass media don't want to give you coverage, no one will ever hear of you.

So yes, this is getting publicity because the government wills it.

jiofj··on Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school
I am a conservative. Not that I want to flaunt my political affiliation, because I know no one cares, but in HN "X is one of the most progressive countries" could sound like an endorsement, and I wanted to make sure that it didn't sound that way.
jiofj··on Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school
It's 2023, there's no such thing as "catholic Spain". Sadly, Spain is one of the most progressive countries that there are, and I say this as a Spaniard.
jiofj··on Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
I see. I think our disagreement comes from the fact I don't think "Sikh Canadians" exist.

There are Sikhs in Canada, and they planted a bomb in Canada, but the location was incidental, in my opinion.

jiofj··on Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
A bomb in an Air India plane done by Sikh can hardly be called a terrorist attack in Canada.
jiofj··on MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says
Imagine being one of the guys in charge of cybersecurity of MGM. I would dig a hole and hide.
jiofj··on The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary
Not my experience.
jiofj··on Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products
If you pinch the rubber tip (or chew on it) gravity will make fluid come out even if you don't suck.
jiofj··on The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary
DHT is a protocol that allows peers to exchange data about torrents and peers; you can download the contents of a torrent by its hash instead of having to download a .torrent file and connect to a server to find peers.

Kademlia is similar for eMule, only that it also allows search.

jiofj··on The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary
The future has always been DHT, but having no built-in search feature like Kademlia is a huge oversight imo.

There are websites that crawl DHT and you can search using them https://btdig.com but of course it would be better to have something decentralised.

jiofj··on Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email
They seem to be doing perfectly fine?
jiofj··on Opera's browser is now available with chess baked in
Funny they've struck a deal to put ads in the browser and they tell you as if they were doing you a favour.
jiofj··on How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California
>We recently have begun to pay >$50 for a family of four.

It's incredible how inflated prices for fast food are. It's the same crap as always but it costs the same as going to a real restaurant.

jiofj··on iOS 17 is available today
There are no terms and conditions here, afaik
jiofj··on The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020)
Which is why it's not a real science. No one is saying that "scientists" working on psychology are negligent, but that it's impossible for psychology to meet the requirements of a real science.
jiofj··on Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
It's never stopped working for me, for all queries, and believe me, I use it very often.

This post reeks of Kagi spam to me.

Sorry guys, your product failed, no one is going to pay for search no matter how much Google sucks. Move on.

jiofj··on Pollution in 1/8 (2010)
I have seen some CPEs that are configured to use 1.1.1.1 as part of some internal static route.
jiofj··on Pollution in 1/8 (2010)
There are still people who can't reach 1.1.1.1.
jiofj··on Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Stringrays – Is It Enough?
>Apple iOS 17 option on only in lockdown mode for insecure 2G towers.

Extreme facepalm. So many good options are held behind an all-or-nothing setting.

jiofj··on Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts
(They began counting in 1981)
jiofj··on Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution
>it would work similar to taxes on cigarettes, alcohol etc

The money that these things cost to the public health service is easily quantified. I expect the taxes to reflect that.

>making low CO2 alternatives much more attractive

If there were "low CO2 alternatives" you wouldn't have to tax stuff, you could just force people to use them, and no one would really complain. Like it happened with CFCs. But taking a train instead of driving your car is not an alternative, it's rubbish.

jiofj··on Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution
Since there is no way currently of removing CO2, and we don't even know how that technology would work, there is no fair tax amount. Any amount you set will just be a robbery. Might as well make it a cent per ton, or a gorillion dollars per ton.
jiofj··on “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022)
And they use stock symbols instead of company names like any other presumptuous user of this site.
jiofj··on Masked 'boot girls' are freeing booted cars in Atlanta
The individual must always be before the collective.

Putting the collective before the individual has a name... and it is...

jiofj··on Masked 'boot girls' are freeing booted cars in Atlanta
One works for the citizen and the other works against them.
jiofj··on Threat from Climate Change to Some of India’s Sacred Sites Is Reshaping Beliefs
Also known as Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times
jiofj··on Bitwarden login down due to Azure outage
Yeah... tried to edit a password before and took me a few attempts. It was odd because bitwarden always works very well for me.
jiofj··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
As someone in Spain: those numbers are absolutely fake.
jiofj··on Everyday uses for PVC water pipe
I guess I would. It seems dangerous not to for the reasons mentioned here.
jiofj··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
That's nice if we forget about the ECB printing money like there's no tomorrow.
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