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Rambler wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Without further context, how would you continue the following list? And what do you think the common thread is? by Wahaha
You said:
(It has nothing to do with Science Fiction.)
I ignored that and went with SciFi, haha.
smartypants wrote (edited )
Reply to Without further context, how would you continue the following list? And what do you think the common thread is? by Wahaha
Not enough data points.
And I am a person who subscribed to five different filmmaking,cinematographer,producer,SFX magazines and a few exotic underground film quarterlies for 25 years.
I looked for letters , vowel patterns, us soil release date months, box office takes, runtimes, amount of CGI, etc.
Not enough datapoints for me. And as a logician, i disregard 1960s and 1960s as possible empty sets in the above puzzle, and possible red herrings, though in most IQ oriented test corpus questions, the blanks are meant to not be null sets (WISC-R Full Scale, WISC-IV extended, Stanford-Binet, WPPSI-III, etc). Null sets as part of a puzzle are not considered valid in a open ended answer, and only used in multiple choice answers.
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in Without further context, how would you continue the following list? And what do you think the common thread is? by Wahaha
Interesting choices. Which was the common thread you saw that led you to them?
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to Without further context, how would you continue the following list? And what do you think the common thread is? by Wahaha
I don't know how I would complete this, but let's see how GPT-2 would:
1970s — Star Wars
1966 — Superman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Star Wars
1966 — Star Wars
1966 — Superman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Superman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Batman
1966 — Batman
...not what I expected, really. Maybe GPT-3 would do better, but come on, I don't want to join the private beta just for this.
Rambler wrote
Reply to Without further context, how would you continue the following list? And what do you think the common thread is? by Wahaha
1960s - 2001: A Space Odyssey ?
1950s - Godzilla?
Kalchaya wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Why cookies don't get deleted from the browser unless whitelisted? by Wahaha
Everything is pretty much a cost-benefit ratio....in this case, convenience vs inconvenience. I have no problem logging into sites in order to maintain a cookie-free PC. Well, so far as I can make it cookie-free. There is only so much Self-Destructing Cookies, BleachBit, and CCleaner will do.
Kalchaya wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha
As said, I've been using XP Pro for three years now, and hence relegated to using Mypal, Centaury and Firefox 52.9.0 browsers. As both the OS is long ago EOL/EOS, and the browsers are equally outdated, I'm not impressed with that malarkey.
spc50 wrote
Accessing it via the public spy net.
Need to bump my login info over to my Tor contained zone. Will be via Tor, soon.
smartypants wrote
tunnel into a unwitting persons router remotely, then use their point of presence, kind of like a http proxy relay but not a open proxy
not what i use, but would work, if javascript also remote :
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Kalchaya in Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha
Yes, but a browser that won't update until six months from now, can be trusted for six months. Also, a browser that you can read the source code of, in the sense that it is short enough that you can actually manage to read it in an evening or two, also has higher trust from me, like the surf browser.
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Kalchaya in Why cookies don't get deleted from the browser unless whitelisted? by Wahaha
I kinda like the cookies that keep me logged in to websites I use frequently. Or the ones saving some layout choices, like dark mode.
Kalchaya wrote
Reply to Is it possible to make a Twitter or Parler account without using your real phone number? by Uther
Temp burner phone.
Kalchaya wrote
There are no 'good' cookies. Only those some are fooled into thinking are useful to themselves....but are always far more useful to others. I have Self-Destructing Cookies on my Firefox-deriative browsers, Cookinator on auto, then always back that up with BleachBit and CCleaner prior to turning off the PC.
Kalchaya wrote
Regular ole internet.
Kalchaya wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha
While I fancy myself a 'futurist' able to make fairly accurate predictions, I would not attempt that prognostication. Developers are an unreliable lot. The same one that creates a freeware app today is likely to sellout tomorrow, and include nasty bundleware with his app. In its early days, Firefox used to be one of the good guys, now it's just as likely to "fuck you over" as Chrome is:
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/mozilla.html
Brave is another one that started out okay, then quickly crossed to the darkside:
https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/brave-browser-sacrifices-security/
I would not venture to guess which browsers will go rogue in the future. I can only list those that are okay now. Browsers are much like sites that source software. Right now, Softpedia and Majorgeeks are kinda/sorta safe...how long before they become as nasty as CNET is unknown.
____ wrote
Clearnet.
podnas wrote
Clearnet site
CptL4 wrote
i was using torch search engine
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
I use the onion site because it's the network I'm the most familiar with (besides the clear net, of course - but I prefer Tor over it because Tor has at least some privacy baked in)
notaspook wrote
I2P to lurk.
MilkyPastel wrote
Clearnet, for now.
BasedPatriot wrote
Usually the Tor onion site since it redirects automatically to it in the Tor browser.
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Kalchaya in Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha
I mean trust in the sense that it won't fuck you over in the near future. I've also continued using FF 3.6 and later FF 38 for years without experiencing any trouble. The only trouble I ever experienced with FF was related to upgrading it. And this happens basically with every other update.
It's hard to trust software that updates every two weeks, so even if you wanted to poke at the source code to make sure nothing nasty slipped in, nobody would even have the resources to do so.
Kalchaya wrote
Reply to What are your thoughts on "free speech"? by Rambler
100% for it, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and so on.100% against the commies, socialists, and leftist-libtards that either want to scrap it, or reword it to suit their lil feelings.
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by smartypants in Without further context, how would you continue the following list? And what do you think the common thread is? by Wahaha
Hm... maybe it helps to know that the list only goes down to the 1920s, so you already got half the set. Also, I'm interested in how people would answer this with incomplete information, so not having enough data points is so that everyone's answers can be different. Just go with the first thing that comes to mind.