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Kids should focus on the one thing AI can’t do: Stand-up comedy.

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“Piracy shield” sounds pretty stupid. It needs more of a catchy name. “The Great Melonian Firewalls” maybe?

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This green tea I’m sipping made my mind sufficiently relaxed and agile to see that punchline coming from a mile away.

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Your post calling for peoplpe to contribute something of value to the discussion contributes nothing of value to the discussion. This comment adds to the noise by pointing it out. Such is the way of Internet forums since time immemorial.

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Pointing to android and chromeos as successful examples of immutable systems is a very effective way to convince some of us to avoid the immutable distros.

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It’s not that easy being free Having to wonder if you picked the right instance When I think it could be nicer being Zucked or Musked or Spez’d - or something much more profitable like that.

It’s not easy being free. It seems you vibe with so many other federated things. And people tend to pass you over 'cause you’re not standing out like influencers in the feeds - or big brands in the web.

But free’s the color of fedi. And free can be cool and friendly-like. And free can be big like an ocean, or dank like a meme, or round like a blobcat.

When free is all there is to be It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? Wonder, I am federated and it’ll do fine, it’s pretty good most of the time!

And I think it’s what I want to be.

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I’ll just go ahead and assume that the downvotes are because it’s fucking twitter (and @firefox@mozilla.social is still 404) not some kind of animosity towards furries.

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Problem: 5 companies control 80% of the retail grocery market.

Solution: Ask their bosses to be a little less greedy, please.

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Preliminary calculations show that it would take decades to break this cryptographic separation [between a subscriber account and its associated network traffic]

The unnecessary rubbishing of Android VPNs seemed like one red flag in there. Is that another one? It seems both unlikely given the kind of traffic analysis that could be brought to bear, and very unimpressive that the hypothetical time to break it is measured only in decades rather than the multiples of the age of the universe that seem more normal when discussing things that are meant to be cryptographically secure.

But it would nonetheless be interesting, if Google hadn’t shut it down last year as seems to be the case far as I can tell.

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Even if one goes along with the premise that this bill itself or its implications and effects are all about pornography it’s still an obviously bad idea, but it seems notable that so few of the contributors to this round of press coverage of it have questioned that premise.

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