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by a2128 5mo ago
I developed my first Android app when I was around 16 years old and I remember distinctly wanting to publish it on Google Play, but couldn't because they required developers to be 18+, and this was even before they introduced strict id
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by a2128 5mo ago
Around the end of 2024, it was reported that OpenAI and Microsoft agreed that for the purposes of their exclusivity agreement, AGI will be achieved when their AI system generates $100 billion in profit: https://techcrunch.com&#x2
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by a2128 6mo ago
> To use our Service, please first verify your age with Google. I guess to protect kids, we need to restrict them from.. checks notes music?
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by a2128 6mo ago
Why would identity verification solve this? The spammer can just verify himself, or if he doesn't want to or it's at a bigger scale than individual, then there will be services where you can get identity verifications on the cheap
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by a2128 6mo ago
Just anecdotally, I get the feeling telemetry often does more harm than good, because it's too easy to misinterpret or lie with statistics. There needs to be proper statistical methodology and biases need to be considered, but this doe
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by a2128 6mo ago
Why we collect telemetry ...our team needs visibility into how features are being used in practice. We use this data to prioritize our work and evaluate whether features are meeting real user needs. I'm curious why corpo
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by a2128 6mo ago
Right to repair has never been about requirement to repair. Obviously we can't force people to repair their phones instead of buying a new one, because that would involve replacing the market economy with a planned economy. This would
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by a2128 6mo ago
They mention in several places that the phone is degoogled and that certain apps won't work due to lack of Play services. They also probably can't redistribute popular messaging apps without a special agreement with the developer,
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by a2128 6mo ago
I think the market could adapt if regular people left. Insider trading would become multilayered and complex. Insiders would scheme against lower-level insiders; decisionmakers would try to trick insiders into thinking that one thing will h
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by a2128 6mo ago
The bill mentions a parent verifying a child's age, but the bill also later mentions the issue of "verify the date of birth of a parent or legal guardian" which I can only interpret as a face scan or ID check of the parent
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by a2128 6mo ago
This is not the bill you're hoping for: 1. The text implies software should get access to your date of birth, rather than talking about age groups. If it becomes the case that websites can get your precise date of birth, this will be t
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by a2128 6mo ago
This will be perfect for those washing machine manufacturers! It will permanently pair itself to your passport with e-fuses, so that if you ever try to resell your old washing machine on the secondary market, it'll be worthless unless
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by a2128 6mo ago
I've never once been able to use the McDonald's app over several years and multiple devices. I originally wanted to check the nutritional info of the menu. Download our app, it says. This website is better in our app, it says. The
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by a2128 6mo ago
If the API costs are gonna be thousands, or the subscription will be $20/month, is it really that expensive to pay some guy on Discord a $50 gift card to verify the account as a one-time setup? Better yet, we'll probably start see
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by a2128 6mo ago
This will do absolutely nothing to prevent those actors from accessing Claude... they already recruit young unemployed Americans to do proxy job interviews[0][1], etc. They'll just pay young unemployed Americans to do verification for
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by a2128 6mo ago
I've since replaced Office Lens with FairScan. Usually it's the case that the big tech proprietary software is extremely streamlined while the open-source alternative is janky and confusing, but in this case it seems Microsoft&#x2
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by a2128 6mo ago
Other than money, a really good reason to shut down Sora is that it was a horrible idea in the first place that went completely against OpenAI's mission to make AI benefit humanity and improve lives. Sora was like TikTok, an app alread
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by a2128 7mo ago
I don't know of a solution. I don't think even identity verification will meaningfully solve this. People will get hacked, or provide their SEO-spamming agent with their own identity, or purposefully post fake videos under their o
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by a2128 7mo ago
AI companies love to hype up how AI will provide a great benefit to the economy and transform intellectual labor, but I hardly see any discussion about how much damage it will cause to the economy when you can no longer trust that you'
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by a2128 7mo ago
OBS can't screen record (it segfaults instead), I can't copy-paste, and I can't see window previews unless everything implements a specific extension to the core protocol. I can't take articles like this seriou
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by a2128 7mo ago
You're not just using a tool — you're co-authoring the science. This README is an absolute headache that is filled with AI writing, terminology that doesn't exist or is being used improperly, and unsound ideas. For
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by a2128 7mo ago
You are misrepresenting the situation. The debate isn't about whether they should go with another vendor or not. Everybody can agree that they would have the right to pick a different vendor. That's not what they're doing, th
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by a2128 8mo ago
Has there ever been any documented circumstance where significant inside information became public and known thanks to a trade? Most often, the trade is made at the last minute, and the information gets subsequently revealed anyway. And it&
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by a2128 8mo ago
If you believe Polymarket as a serious source of truth, consider that somebody manipulated "Will Jesus Christ return before 2027?" because there was a secondary market on whether that market will rise above 5%. Which defeats the w
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by a2128 8mo ago
I don't think Google considers such legislation to be their enemy. It would effectively kill F-Droid and other third-party app distribution methods, and would fully lock them in a place of high power over their platforms and pull the l
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by a2128 8mo ago
This is terrible for transparency and record keeping. X has also blocked internet archive access under similar concerns, but the end result was that now it's very difficult to tell who said what and when, posts can be deleted or edited
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by a2128 8mo ago
1. Citation needed. Why would Google be secretly ingesting all of your Discord messages and be using it for... YouTube recommendations? Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a more likely explanation 2. Already collecting a lot of data is not a reas
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by a2128 8mo ago
This is a scary argument. Should we also ban car emissions/safety testing, because Volvo's competitors might discern something from the results? Should we also stop FCC certification because competitors might glean information out
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by a2128 8mo ago
It was only through external review that the problems with the project were discovered, and the blog post was clearly written for marketing as it hardly shared any actual details about the result other than an unexplained video they called
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by a2128 8mo ago
You don't need to wait and see, Kimi K2 has the same hardware requirements and has several providers on OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking https://openrouter.ai/moonshota

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