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WesternInfidels

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  • The 49MB Web Page

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  • I'm concerned in a general way that the federated design of Lemmy / Mastodon etc. is by its nature (arguably even by its intent) likely to lead users to construct isolated media bubbles. But I don't know how to improve it. I'm not going to subscribe to a (hypothetical as far as I know) fascist community just to "broaden my mind," that wouldn't work.

    It's hard to know how much of the division we see and feel is meatspace division facilitated by social media, and how much of it is social media reflecting divisions in meatspace. There's no reason to suppose the answer would be simple or easy.

  • [QUESTION] - Indian Cuisine Butter Chicken

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  • Butter chicken is one of our family's favorites. The recipe we use ([gift link](Enjoy this complimentary ATK recipe—no login required—for the next 30 days. https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/11519-indian-butter-chicken-murgh-makhani?gifted_recipe=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdHJhcGlJZCI6Ijk5NCIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzQyMzU0NCwiZXhwIjoxNzc2MDE1NTQ0fQ.--AlhoRhr84gwtLHEZsugAgHB7R7K2R-DZOPZh21SZA)) has a couple of noteworthy features:

    • The yogurt isn't really a marinade, there is no "marinating" time. The chicken is coated with yogurt and cooked immediately. The notes explain that this is a strategy to enchance browning and to imitate a tandoor.
    • The chicken is cooked on a wire rack under the broiler. Under those conditions, plenty of searing / charring is possible. We also do this on a grill when the weather is agreeable, and that also works, as you predicted.

    We've had butter chicken at restaurants that was better than what we make at home. And we've had butter chicken at restaurants that was nowhere near as good as what we make at home.

  • Why is checking age at os-level that bad?

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  • ...it wasnt a slippery slope. They didnt make laws a little bit invasive ... before slowly nudging it further

    I disagree.

    There was a certain (large) amount of government surveillance and eavesdropping going on before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to massively expand it. There was already inspection and security and traveler record-keeping at airports before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to expand those. CBP had long had the legislative authority to do all kinds of nastiness within 100 miles of a border before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to step their activities up, to legal limits and beyond.

    In every case, an initial claim of urgent, exceptional authority was used to create both the physical infrastructure and the cultural permission required to make later, expanded claims of urgent, exceptional authority much easier to implement when an excuse presented itself. That is the slippery slope, we really slid way down it, it's a real phenomenon. It doesn't have to be smooth or gradual, it can happen in jerks and waves. It doesn't have to come as a result of a plot, a plan, a deliberate conspiracy, it can be an accretion of individually opportunistic acts.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • "The utility" has never had a way to prevent you from doing something dangerous with your wiring or with the electricity they send you. The best we've managed has been to encourage appliance manufacturers to design their products with safety in mind, through the UL program (which is voluntary). This is why the writer talked to the "vice president of engineering at UL Solutions."

  • Why is checking age at os-level that bad?

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  • It doesnt make it easier for them down the road, if anything it makes it harder as there’s the ability to say “but we already have that”.

    This is perfectly reasonable, but my feeling is that the real world isn't reasonable in this way.

    Consider all the infractions of liberty that have been approved in the name of combating "terrorism." The no-fly lists. The universal warrant-less searches. All domestic communications recorded and archived for who-knows how long. The pervasive surveillance. The huge extension of CBP power to do things like raid Greyhound busses that aren't even crossing borders.

    None of these steps were prevented with the argument "But we're already doing something about that issue." That argument never even came up, to any noteworthy degree, in the public discourse.

    Look at it this way: All sorts of websites that aren't for kids already have banners requiring the visitor to affirm that they're legal adults. So, we're there: "We already have that." But no one is seriously making that argument. Because, of course, those banners do next to nothing: Visitors can just lie. So it will probably be for OS level age verification. Thus, in creating a system that doesn't work, the excuse for extending the system, to exert more control in the future, is built in from the start.

    People who are interested in asserting more control over others are never content with the amount of control they have. They always want more. It is the gaining of more control that motivates them.

  • Now I want to play it

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  • Knee Deep In The Underbrush

    The Shores Of Sawdust

    Inferno

  • From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT

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  • Putting a dollar figure on your schadenfreude? Do you want a block chain based "prediction market" for schadenfreude? That's how you get a block chain based "prediction market" for schadenfreude.

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  • A "pushover" is someone whose mind is easily changed by pressure, not someone who is pushy or who pushes other people around.

  • Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns

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  • The kind of thing only your grandparents would fall for

    But evidently not.

    Last week I helped someone navigate their bank's tech support to regain access to an account they'd been locked out of. I believe the bank was having some technical difficulties that they weren't admitting to (or which the support people weren't even aware of). Many standard approaches did not work, and we kept getting escalated. The top person we talked to eventually asked for some information that didn't conform to the usual security question / answer format ("What year what the account opened?" for a ~50 year old account that had been opened many bank mergers ago) and wound up reading us a new password over the phone.

    This approach alarmed me, it seemed to violate some security rules of thumb that I thought I understood. But this is what the bank does, sometimes. Given the sort of nonsense that goes on legitimately sometimes, expecting the general public to understand which information flows to be suspicious of -- expecting them to think in terms of information flows at all -- may be asking too much. We'd all hope journalists would be more savvy, I guess, but "government officials?" Nope. I used to think "Oh, I wouldn't fall for that" when I read stories like these, but now I'm less sure.

  • Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases

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  • The stated reasoning sounds okay in isolation, but:

    1. Why didn't they start the blackout when the conflict began, as opposed to waiting like this?
    2. Why is it just a delay, instead of a real blackout?

  • New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice

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  • Your objection does nothing to address the issue you raised. Where is the line drawn between "information" and "legal advice?"

    Wikipedia and the lawmakers themselves present us with static information that is not specific to us personally or to any particular situation we may find ourselves in, and which generally does not include specific recommendations. I think most people would agree that's just information, not advice.

    If an LLM can be coaxed into saying things like "you should," advocating specific courses of action for your circumstances, is that legal advice? I think many of us would agree that would be unlicesenced legal advice.

  • New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice

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  • Is the wikipedia responsible for you reading an article about a law and then taking that as legal advice?

    Is the U.S. House of Representatives [or any equivalent publisher of the law] responsible for you reading the text of a law itself and then taking that as legal advice?

  • Prepared for this day

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  • I never consented to this portrayal. Or it's distribution.

  • We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened

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  • That's very odd. The translations built in to Firefox run on the local device - like a phone, even a dumpy old phone - and they're pretty okay.

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  • ...presumably violations of existing law ... changing policy ... They are not the same.

    This is kind of bonkers. Women's advocacy doesn't split this hair, gay advocacy doesn't split this hair, trans advocacy doesn't split this hair, racial advocacy doesn't split this hair. The challenges facing any identity or demographic group are often only weakly affected by the law.

    All of the problems listed are cultural problems, problems caused in no small part by men's own values and attitudes about what manhood should be.

  • Crackheads versus Palantir Spybox

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  • The first time I saw one of these was at a Fourth of July gathering in a public park. I saw the high blue lights and I figured it was marking some kind of portable police resource center. I had imagined some basic first aid and some officers ready for emergency assistance. I had imagined something that was partly a service and partly community outreach. I had imagined something with positive features.

    I was so disappointed to find out it was just cameras. Quite an emotional trip in my head there, from "We're here to help!" to "We're watching you, fuckers" in the space of a moment.

    But I guess the cops in my suburb are no better than the cops in any other suburb.

  • What is tool / technology has come closest to becoming your "Digital Aristotle" ?

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  • See this is why I'm sticking with analogue

  • How did you meet your significant person?

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  • Okay well that's great and all but did you ever get to see A Quiet Place?