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The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports

I just rewatched Minority Report a couple weeks ago for some reason. There was this scene where Tom Cruise had to get a new set of eyes because he got automatically identified everywhere. Everyone in the movie was constantly bombarded with personalized ads everywhere they went.. That movie is over 20 years old and they knew exactly what was coming. Fucking scary shit...

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Habe heute mein erstes Rennrad gekauft und wurde auf meiner ersten Tour zurechtgewiesen

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum neuen Fahrrad. An Aggro-Leute (im Auto oder zu Fuss) wirst du dich gewöhnen müssen. Ich fahre selber ca. 100km die Woche und es wird halt nicht besser.

Allerdings mitten auf der Strasse zu fahren, weil einem die Autos zu sehr auf die Pelle rücken ist etwa so schlau wie sich eine Zielscheibe auf die Brust zu malen, weil einem zu viel Leute mit Waffen rumlaufen. Als jahrelanger Fahrradfahrer kann ich dir nur zu extrem defensivem Verhalten raten. Es ist egal wer recht hat, das Auto kriegt nur eine Beule während du im Krankenhaus landest. ich spreche aus Erfahrung...

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(Located in Germany) Finally got the dreaded lawfirm Letter demanding 900€ for a John Wick torrent I accidentally left running. best course of action?

I got one of those years ago and never replied. Never heard back again.

A friend got one some time after that. He got scared and got a lawyer. He phrased a response letter with a reduced payment. He explained to me, that the phrasing is very important. You cannot under any circumstance show guilt for the alleged infringement, because then they come back with a vengeance (demands in the thousands of €). Paying the 900€ would already equate an admission of guilt.

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"Man muss auch schwitzen": Lindner und Wirtschaftsbosse fordern mehr Leistungsbereitschaft

Da haben die üblichen Lackaffen mal wieder den Schuss nicht gehört. Seit Jahren wird die Arbeit mit stetig sinkender Kaufkraft belohnt. Da stellt sich doch die offensichtliche Frage nach dem warum. KI ist in aller Munde und ist jetzt schon dabei Arbeitsplätze zu dezimieren aber wir sollen noch mehr schuften. Die 4 Tage Woche bei gleichbleibenden Gehalt ist doch die Lösung um Kosten nicht steigen zu lassen aber die Proportionen für die geleistete Arbeit wieder in ein normales Spektrum zu bewegen. Offensichtlicher kann man sich als Sklaventreiber nicht outen...

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When I finally switched from windows to linux a year ago, I read about timeshift and how it is basically windows restore points. So I installed it and played around with it but didn't really get it so I wanted to remove it. At that point I didn't really understand what symlinks are, and I just thought timeshift is just crappy bloatware that dumped a bunch of unecessary shit on my drive. So I sudo deleted that shit. Turns out that was a bad idea. That's the story how I nuked my first linux install.

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Don't be that guy.

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Everyone without exception has had moments of weakness where they lashed out at something or someone wrongfully. That's a bad deed but that can't be the definition of a bad person.

Especially in this context. The dude isn't really attacking the dev directly. He actually might just be venting. I wouldn't do that like that but you really can't assume anything from such a short exchange.

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Nvidia GeForce Now is putting video ads before play sessions on their free tier

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Standard tactic since the early 2000s. Provide a service for next to nothing by dumping insane amounts of cash into it. Competition either can't hold up or is straight up bought up. Fast forward 5 years and you're the only real player left. Then you're a monopoly and can set the prices as you see fit. Best example of this is uber, but amazon and youtube have done it too

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I am looking for a privacy respecting android tv box/stick

It just doesn't exist. You will need some kind of mini PC like Raspberry Pi. I Use a mini PC from Beelink.

If you just want a media station with some basic apps a Raspi with LibreELEC is perfect. Your TV remote will work out of the box and there are plugins for Netflix, Disney, etc... available.

If you want a little more, like a working browser and / or some light gaming I would suggest a full OS with a little beefier PC like the ones available at Beelink.