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I don't know why, but piracy seems awful to me for things like books or music when it's one or a small group of people producing the media, but it doesn't seem too bad for films/series where they're often hard to get legally, and are created by large groups of people. It's not like any less human effort goes into them, it's just something I've noticed feeling and I can't put my finger on why. Maybe it's just that human connection, whatever that really means.

I find it amazing how close the front page of this is to what I actually watch/want to watch on YouTube. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it feels like an unpersonalised feed (besides being based on Hacker News) shouldn't have a significantly better hitrate for me than YouTube's "personalised" feed.

I personally think you can deal with illegal immigration without masked thugs who refuse to present any form of identification tackling people who they think may be illegal immigrants without due process. If I got tackled by ICE agents without having showed them any aggression (as has been happening), how on earth am I to differentiate that from being mugged with the way they're going about it?

It can be true that illegal immigration is an issue, legal immigration can be a positive for society, and that they way ICE is currently operating is not the way to handle things.

It's not a tax on the customer directly, but who does it get passed on to? That's like saying VAT isn't a tax on the customer as the retailer pays it to the state.

The value of it to me is that as money has got more digital, I feel that there is an incredible amount of tracking that previously did not exist in a primarily cash based society. It really isn't my bank or the government's business what I'm buying, or that I went to a casino, or that I went into an adult shop, or <insert sensitive purchase for your situation here>. Using cash more is another solution, but that's not feasible for most online services, and not all businesses accept cash any more. Maybe this is all paranoia, but you see data breaches all the time, and you see how so many industries mine data (and there really isn't much better data for advertising than your entire purchase history).

This is why I don't particularly support most cryptocurrencies, as they don't solve these issues and feel more like a horrific version of the stock market. Monero on the other hand does pretty decisively solve these issues, I can give you an address to send money to without giving out any other information, I can send money to you without my purchase history being public (unlike bitcoin), the transaction fees are very low (unlike bitcoin), the block time is quite low. It does feel like the perfect system for daily purchases if it would be embraced, which I am aware it won't be. The issue of no recourse for keys being compromised could be slightly mitigated by putting only limited amounts of money in the wallet at a time, although I do know this isn't ideal (but it's probably a cost for having actual privacy). I really don't get most cryptocurrencies though, bitcoin was a good POC but it's been surpassed in every way by now.

I just feel like I'm being forced to give up my privacy, and Monero (or similar) is a potential solution to this that doesn't give up the convenience of digital currency. I guess though I'm seeing it from the perspective of a daily payment system, rather than a savings system (I'd pretty much always prefer my savings in an actual bank with the protections therein).

You can always atomic swap between bitcoin and monero.

Would this mean any TPM based decryption keys could potentially be compromised in this kind of attack? E.g. when they're used for LUKS disk encryption.

Presumably this makes SELinux enabled distros like fedora are significantly less vulnerable, as the PHP process can only access files in a few contexts?

This is just how I've felt writing both Rust and C++. Rust's language complexity often feels like it's there so that I don't have to think about so much complexity when interfacing with the code, whereas C++'s language complexity introduces footgun after footgun and I have to think very carefully about what everything could possibly do (e.g. if destructors even get run in certain instances when I'd expect them to).

On the other hand more stoves are electric now rather than gas, new builds frequently have air source heating where they would've had gas or oil boilers, more cars are electric; all of which are huge percentages of a household's total energy consumption compared to something like lighting.

I use it, it's not that slow for me, the main issue is a lot of websites block traffic from Tor. Funnily enough Reddit allows traffic from Tor but blocks traffic from my VPN.

To be fair I see two separate ways CS students use LLMs, one is to just complete assignments in the same way you could by asking someone else to do it, the other way is by getting an LLM to explain certain concepts in another way, or create more examples of them to aid in understanding quicker/in more depth. I actually think in the 2nd case they can be incredibly useful and can assist in creating a deeper understanding, but in the 1st case they obviously create fundamental gaps in understanding.

In a way it's on the student to make sure whatever they're doing, they actually understand it, or come exam season the gaps in their knowledge sans Claude will become quite obvious.

But also Pin is the one you're least likely to run into in most projects.

For 2.5k a 512Gb SSD seems extremely disappointing, I'd expect 1Tb on something half that price.