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That's going to be an interesting lawsuit..
And I'm seriously conflicted how to feel about this issue.. one one hand, there's no real human being hurt if it's AI generated, but on the other hand, we don't know whether harm was inflicted to get the material the AI was trained on. (and that the whole consumption of such material is disgusting, but that's less a legal and more a psychological issue).

2026-10-11 13:53:58 UTC

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They should establish a Nobel Price for Evil Dictatorship and hand that to him.

2026-10-10 10:31:26 UTC

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the chinese version is probably like eight characters long in writing.. ;-)

2026-09-21 16:12:30 UTC

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You could at least use different pics of her occasionally.. =^.^=

2026-09-21 14:24:11 UTC

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"If you're having problems with the Antifa, it means you're likely the 'fa'."

2026-09-04 14:32:40 UTC

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I didn't like the concept of everysite and their dog pushing for Passkey authentication. While the crypto concepts behind them may be sound, the practical implementations were expected to suck.. and they turned out doing so.

2026-09-01 00:18:29 UTC

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I feel sad for the White House.. sure, the courts may have stopped the building of the ballroom, but the bulldozers have already done the damage.. not to mention the rose garden that he hard turned into a concrete terrace.
Going to cost a lot of money to put it back into any remotely period-correct state once Mango Mussolini has been removed..

2026-07-30 09:32:47 UTC

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I've considered such ideas, but since the spammers use open relay servers all over the world, it's not very effective.

2026-07-30 07:58:17 UTC

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I've mostly given up on tools like rspamd/spamassassin etc.. so many newsletters and info mails from legit companies score higher on those than the actual blackmail/scam/malvertisement mails.
I'm currently trialling a sort of whitelist.. since 95% of all legit mails contain my name somewhere, I'm filtering on that to go into the regular inbox, everything else goes to spambox by default. Far less effort so far to pick out the few wrongly accused ones.

2026-07-29 15:11:08 UTC

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damn, I should have kept my mouth shut. *now* I've also started receiving tons of those mangled versions.. all going to a mailbox I used to use for Kickstarter ages ago.. (which makes it rather obvious they're spamming addresses in the usual account database leaks..)

2026-07-29 07:55:55 UTC

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I'm at about 1-2k copies of the same email *per day* for a few weeks now. (although a different one than yours, mine doesn't have the weird unicode replacements).
The amusing part is that they call me a pervert, even though *they* allegedly recorded me fapping. (when none of my PCs have a webcam, mind you..)

2026-07-15 11:43:00 UTC

I need help identifying a vintage connector..
does anyone have an idea what this 12-pin plug is called, or can provide me with a link to the appropriate counterpart (or even have one at hand to sell me)?
This is on a Siemens paper tape reader, ca. 1960, originally meant to be connected to a Gretag Tape Sender.
Boosts appreciated :-)
https://chaosfurs.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/923/783/540/399/502/original/183c4b67f1a95d0b.jpg

2026-06-27 16:13:23 UTC

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the thing I'm wondering about is the amount. Most people I talked to receive a handful of those every now and then. According to my filter log I'm currently at ~1k a day. And all of them go to either my generic devnull@ trash collector, or the one I used for Tunngle signup about two decades ago, no others.. even though the usual "leak" collections would have many more of my emails. I don't get it.

2026-06-27 08:48:33 UTC

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those are still around?! Haven't seen that in ages.
If, back in the days, I had only accepted ever tenth of these offers, I could wrap my sausage around my waist several times..
What I'm being inundated with for months now is "YOU PERVERT! I RECORDED YOU!" blackmail spam. First.. *they* record me secretly but *I'm* the pervert?! Also, good luck showing the pics to my parents.. the shovel's over there, please clean up afterwards.

2026-05-23 19:30:44 UTC

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My first steps onto the internet were through CompuServe in 1989.. so my UUCP path for the longest time ended in !ucbvax!cisvax!<user#>, before they turned it into arpa/internet addresses as <user#>@compuserve.com in I think 1992..

2026-05-13 07:07:03 UTC

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good start. They need to be sued for ALL the bullshit and hallucinations that comes out of their slop machines.

2026-04-30 13:44:34 UTC

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I don't get why, despite all the shit Google keeps pulling off, people are still using Chrome..

2026-03-24 17:25:51 UTC

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HOW?! That tempered glass is usually strong enough it survives even a well aimed kick..

2026-03-19 22:38:43 UTC

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I assume they're just trying to stay ahead of the upcoming EU regulation on repairability and harvest a bit of Karma before it becomes mandatory..

2026-03-14 16:57:43 UTC

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I'm wondering more and more, what those companies are going to do once they find out that AI can not actually replace real engineers..

2026-03-14 16:40:47 UTC

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so, about ten people? the rest is bots anyways..

2026-02-22 18:05:02 UTC

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Of course. And it can't really be prevented anyways, at least not as long as things like screenshots exist. "do not quote" will never be much more than a polite request, it's not enforcible.

2026-02-22 17:48:44 UTC

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I don't get what the person who came up with the current concept was thinking.. the only real solution that I can imagine, is setting a flag *at posting time* "can be quoted / can not be quoted". Everything else is useless in the fast and mostly-ephemeral nature of social media.

2026-02-08 17:16:56 UTC

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no, people are voting in accordance with what the media and the government tells them. and looking at US media, about 80% of all EV-related content is lies paid for by the oil industry and/or Gleichschaltung dictated by the White House.
It's not like any manufacturer tried to force buyers into EVs, they all (except Tesla) have gas powered vehicles still in great supply.

2026-02-08 01:01:54 UTC

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I don't really get what takes you to that conclusion.. if people can drive to a gas station once a week to fill up, why can't they drive to a DC charger once a week instead?
I can't refill my petrol car at home *at all* (unless you count carrying jerrycans around), while even without a garage or driveway of my own, I can still find a solution to drag an extension cable to the car to slow-charge at home.
Also, since many grocery chains are adding chargers, just refill while shopping..

2026-02-02 09:54:31 UTC

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Is this still incompetence or already malice?
Feels a lot like they're trying to kick the victims once more..

2026-01-27 20:37:48 UTC

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The common argument seems to be "but we made printers and copiers block printing money", without understanding that this only works because we put an easily recognizable pattern into our money which a printer or copier can look for. There is no such common design pattern in gun parts.

2026-01-18 01:20:22 UTC

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Turns out, Bluesky is working towards becoming the same shit site as the one it was cloned from. What a surprise.

2025-12-10 17:37:03 UTC

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Huh?! I thought the Nazis loved Fraktur.. that's why they put it all over their stuff. I guess the Neonazis who keep using that on their shirts and posters have failed even that one history lesson.

2025-12-10 09:45:19 UTC

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It's not supposed to protect childred (like everything else they do to "protect the children"), it's supposed to get people used to a regulation and surveillance state.

2025-11-10 00:30:40 UTC

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I've got a golden Sharpie and a few old Samsung S7 around.. maybe I could make a few bucks on Ebay right now..

2025-10-02 09:32:24 UTC

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https://chaosfurs.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/303/876/877/988/224/original/4f7d8da688a81014.webp

2025-09-15 08:01:30 UTC

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Absolutely unwatchable.. thanks for the warning.

2025-07-30 07:54:08 UTC

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Let me guess.. it doesn't factor in things like "this account has actually been created more than 18 years ago"..

2025-06-11 23:14:30 UTC

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Are phones without cameras even a thing?
I'm fine with calling out Google when they do stupid shit, but expecting a smartphone to have a working camera is kinda ok in my book.
Introducing new 2FA methods without informing the user is a bit shit, though.

2025-05-21 14:21:48 UTC

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An AI trained exclusively on Discord messages would be something that I'd want to try out. The results must be hilarious.

2025-05-21 14:16:05 UTC

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2B lines of gamer lobby shitposts.. I can't imagine any larger steaming pile of digital garbage.

2025-05-02 21:00:41 UTC

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yea but since these also originated from China, are those not affected by tariffs?

2025-05-02 06:51:26 UTC

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so.. it's an empty page now?

2025-02-07 00:25:56 UTC

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are /states/ even installing chargers right now? i'm not aware of any such programs, so i assumed this meant barring states from allowing installation of chargers (which would also affect tesla)

2025-02-07 00:15:23 UTC

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Elon is going to love this..

2025-02-02 01:00:56 UTC

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Has that ever been different? The whole existence of information subpoenas with attached gag orders makes me think it has not.

2025-01-17 19:03:07 UTC

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From how square the keyboard arrangement is, I kinda expectd it to have an Eatoin Shrdlu layout..

2024-12-30 00:28:16 UTC

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Even for former ones? That sounds unusually long..

2024-12-30 00:15:49 UTC

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If only previous R governments hadn't squeezed every last cent out of the educational and professional training systems.. who could have thunk that this would backfire some day..

2024-12-23 16:39:40 UTC

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Is there anything in it that we didn't already know for months or years? The (social) media has done quite a thorough job with reciting his laundry list of crimes and immoral behaviors for a long time..

2024-12-13 08:16:50 UTC

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The only way to make them get moving would be to attach some form of punitive compensation to each reported spam call. If they had to pay out even just 1$ for every spam call that gets reported to the FCC, those rogue spoofing providers would be disconnected within hours.

2024-12-07 00:32:48 UTC

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so if you should not trust it to give correct answers, and you obviously can't use Google to verify the truthfulness, what is it actually good for, besides wasting energy and internet bandwidth?!

2024-11-26 15:02:04 UTC

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Ich bin ja schon ein wenig erstaunt, dass Microsoft nicht auch die Befehle in KraftSchale lokalisiert hat, so wie sie es mit den Funktionen in Excel etc gemacht haben...
"kraftschale Hinzufüge-Inhalt -Zwang -Pfad $umgebung:Programmdaten\ssh\Systembetreuer_berechtigte_Schlüssel... "

2024-11-21 08:17:31 UTC

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Also, forced breakups of companies, especially in tech, don't really work. While the idea may be that customers get more choice who to buy services from, I am very afraid that it would go wrong in the same way as the Bell breakup did, where one geographic region is now served exclusively by Noogle, the other by Zoogle and the third one by Froogle. No gain in choice, just more bureaucracy and cost, and an overall loss in service quality.

2024-11-10 19:32:48 UTC

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I can already see her with a "cat" sticker on the forehead.. =^[cat]^=

2024-11-04 01:27:07 UTC

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Does it involve pizza in the hallway?

2024-09-06 23:55:21 UTC

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I don't think I've ever encountered that in all the years I've been doing Linux. Usually, if something doesn't come up after a power cycle, something external to it is broken and even another reboot won't fix that.

2024-08-08 20:58:49 UTC

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Maybe I'm too pessimistic. Maybe I'm overly cautious. Only time will tell. I'm not trying to denigrate your printer manufacturer, I'm just stating why I've taken them off my list of candidates.

2024-08-08 20:49:02 UTC

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That's how it started with inkjet printers two decades ago, though.. "oh we're only putting those chips on the cartridges to keep better track of ink usage and reduce waste".. and not much later we ended up with vendor lock-in, subscription models and class action lawsuits.

2024-08-08 19:39:15 UTC

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I've gone through pretty much the same.. wanted to try 3D printing but not spend a lot of money on it, so I grabbed an Ender3 clone in 2019. It turned out a rather high maintenance project (clogs, worn out bearings, cable fatigue), but so far I've gone through about 50kg (100lbs) of PLA and it's still working. Only recently started considering an upgrade, mostly because current models are so much faster and more accurate. I don't like Bambu for their filament roll ID crap though.

2024-08-07 07:17:29 UTC

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wasn't the broken update file only 00s?!
also, shouldn't the compiler catch mis-specified function calls?