Restic’s dedupe is very good. I used to take uncompressed tars of whole systems and it would add only megabytes to the storage repo each time. Almost everything got deduped despite being in various tar files and very fast.

Keep their customers happy… this was a company that tried to charge people more than the price of a new car for a personal computer in the 90s.

Do you consent to this shit? [ ] yes. [ ] ask me again later*.

• we reserve the right to change out terms at any time, including the pretense of the above question.

And even then only that one very narrowly defined specific thing that effected them personally becomes an exception. Every other progressive thing is still bad without question.

Do you use plain webdav for all your files? Mounted on your computer or via libreoffice somehow?

I think you might mean “partisan” rather than political. Ethics is always political.

To be clear, capitalism is fucking our world. Nothing about the technology can do that on its own. Its how it is being deployed.

We could have started with smaller LLMs, deployed strategically at institutions of higher learning for real societal value, running on renewable electricity… fuck it lets aim for a trillion dollar IPO promising to replace all doctors and engineers!

Why do we all have to be morally homogenous? I use AI tools, but I understand that a “morally absolutist” take from someone who doesnt use it or see the value, and who places a lot of value on, say the environmental or social cost, can be reasonable. I also eat meat but understand that some people have a reasonable argument for totally avoiding it. The messyness is human.

Were you perhapse… talking to different people?

100% bot ridden. However site:reddit.com is used for the types of questions where otherwise, you just get page after page of SEO sites, which are even wose.

If this were about pulling data from GNIS, it would have taken at least a month to show up on their platform. Its governent data and legacy data pipelines.

Some Google developer had to write an entry for this to happen so fast. 100%.

He only has the power to do that for the executive branch. He can’t compel citizens or corporations to follow along - not with the law anyway.

Exactly. And when companies and citizens are rushing to comply out of either fear of retribution or the hope that sycophancy will keep them in the protected “in-group”?..

Thats fascism.

Then why does Google show “Gulf of America” in brackets to Europeans? Why did Google update “Lake America” to Americans faster than the actual usgs maps?

Sycophancy is the answer.

All that stuff is a lot of expensive data entry and purchasing of live data feeds.

I have no interest in paying for a search engine, but if someone like Kagi did a legit google maps replacement, I would pay.

Yes. Thats how all these platforms work. Many things have several names that are region specific. If you are in France, you might even see “United States of America” renamed! (Spoiler, it is often translated).

Still shows their colours yet again that they make the change within America, even before the usgs maps.

Osm is superior for hiking and very local data. Google is still a requirement for navigating Toronto traffic/construction.

Yeah, literal camera pointed at computer screens, with a view of fingers on the keyboard, and who knows what apps installed with access. Anyone who does that should be fired as they are a danger to the organization.

I hate that I had to retire my Raybans to home use only. They look exactly like meta glasses.

If you have a reasonable group of people like a friends and family group, you can get machine learning to be very accurate (with odd exceptions like babies and twins). But what is 99% accurate for 50 people will almost universally give false positives when searching a group of 50 million faces. The math just doesnt work for them.

No, they will do what they do everywhere else and stack the decks so that nullification is only ever used for “their people”.