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You can secure your privacy on modern cars, it just takes work. You can find bypass harnesses on a lot of forums, or plans to make them. You often have to crack open your dash and find the modem.

You can't just pull the fuse because almost every manufacturer wires it in such a way that if you pull the modem fuse, you loose bluetooth and one speaker (used for the on-star shit).

@Zergling_man @grey Kit cars are a thing, but they are made from salvaged parts of old cars. They're even legal if you can get them registered.

@Zergling_man @grey I get your reasoning, but I feel like the "don't buy any new x" is just a band-aid solution as all cars eventually die and given that a lot of people are fed up with the bullshit of new cars, I see used car prices skyrocketing in the coming years.

There truly is an untapped market for dumb cars, but given the heavy regulations in the car industry that prevents any newcomers, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

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@Alex To be fair, the generative AI could make something that is heavily inspired but not something that would normally be copyright infringing if done by a human.

My game is using a few AI generated assets (text and backgrounds) and they are too generic to be infringing on anyone's copyright.

Has anyone else noticed that the same people who are criticizing generative AI for "stealing" people's intellectual property are the same people who were claiming that copyright is an outdated concept, years ago?

You can't have it both ways.

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shitlibs praise the cia when you try to shut down usaid
shitlibs praise copyright law when you use tech to mock powerful people
shitlibs defend global surveillance when the guy who exposes it also exposes hillary clinton

they are scum
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"The data was wrong" is a very convenient euphemism for gaslighting the public.

"What they rarely considered was whether something else might be responsible for the disconnect — whether, for instance, government statistics were fundamentally flawed. What if the numbers supporting the case for broad-based prosperity were themselves misrepresentations? What if, in fact, darker assessments of the economy were more authentically tethered to reality?"

What if people had been saying that for a long time....

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@LukeAlmighty Good for me? I'm not black. I'm just saying what I've noticed.

@LukeAlmighty I don't think black people actually get that treatment during black history month. It's mostly to honor famous black people throughout history. I never see any of my black peers getting any special treatment during this month.

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>download mod
>mod.7z
>extract
>mod.txt
>open
>download link for real mod

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That is always what is said in the beginning in order to get people to accept it and not try and stop it. Before long they make life difficult without it and soon after that, it is mandatory.

Say no to Digital ID!

#NoDigitalID #digitalid #trudeau #optional

Repost from @lifesitenews on Gab:
A briefing note from members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet claims that a national digital ID system is “easier” and “more secure” than traditional identification, but insists it will remain “optional.”

Read More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-government-claims-digital-id-system-would-remain-optional/?utm_source=minds

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Added a "death animation" for bosses (actually for all enemies but I don't think it works well with them when I tested it) instead of just a single frame. There is supposed to be an additional frame but it doesn't appear in game.

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@hfaust I'm starting to think that social media sites adding ActivityPub support is kind of a way to keep a platform relevant. If a userbase is dwindling then it just leads to even more people leaving the site. Adding federation seems like a last ditch effort because it gives your userbase more people to interact with. So it isn't really surprising that Tumblr is adding federation.

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> tumblr joining fedi

I guess that means porn's back on tumblr lol
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