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by concinds 8mo ago
It'll get worse. The US has lived above its means for a while, and it would need a big tax increase to only maintain the current level of service, no fancy extras.
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by concinds 8mo ago
Where's the money for local services supposed to come from? Why should you be allowed to monopolize a piece of finite and scarce resource, land, for free? Since you think it's a scam, surely you support 100% capital gains taxes on
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by concinds 8mo ago
"Capturing the value you create" is a euphemistic way to describe pushing producer surplus towards 100% and consumer surplus to 0%, your ability to pull it off depends on your monopoly power, and it would be more honestly describe
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by concinds 8mo ago
> Claude refused to build me a news scraper that would post political hot takes to twitter > Just choose your political leaning and the AI would consult the correct echo chambers to repeat from. You're effectively asking it to bu
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by concinds 8mo ago
Please try and publish a blog post
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by concinds 8mo ago
The armies of millions of scammers, thieves and organized criminals out there are also abusive and exploitative.
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by concinds 8mo ago
I just found there's two separate bugs: sometimes the page goes blank but the URL stays, sometimes it loses the URL too and the back/forward button so everything's gone.
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by concinds 8mo ago
The "safety drivers" do nothing. They sit in the passenger seat and the only thing they have is a button that presumably stops the car and lets a remote operator take over.
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by concinds 9mo ago
I was about to mention that too. A browser that loses tabs!
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by concinds 9mo ago
Not so much "aiming" as doing it. The alternative already exists, is open-source, and used by 40,000 government users. By 2027 all government agencies will use it exclusively.
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by concinds 9mo ago
What blows my mind isn't the pervasive bugs throughout the system, which you could attribute to a poorly-run division or dysfunctional company. It's that the basic shit is now so broken. Safari is unusable with too many tabs bec
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by concinds 9mo ago
I've been dismayed by how fast the "we should own our hardware" crowd has so quickly radicalized into "all security features are evil", and "no security features should exist for anyone". Not just "th
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by concinds 9mo ago
Wired is inappropriately US-centric. This is "TikTok US", not TikTok.
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by concinds 9mo ago
The median user's threat model doesn't include the government, but does include data loss, forgetting the password, or a thief stealing your laptop. Microsoft struck the right balance. I'm glad the knee-jerk absolutists are m
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by concinds 9mo ago
"Local-first software" refers to single-user consumer apps like Obsidian. It's not remotely on-topic here.
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by concinds 9mo ago
Why not have a "rewrite policy", criteria for when a rewrite makes sense or doesn't? Surely a random engineer can't decide to rewrite things on his own.
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by concinds 9mo ago
> But that’s ok because big rewrite of subsystem is gonna ship next release and it’ll probably make all the bugs invalid, right? Right? Well, it certainly won’t have more bugs, right? Right? They keep doing them, but I wonder to what deg
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by concinds 9mo ago
Yep. And there are even more macOS Safari bugs. One is that history search won't work; you'll can type in the search bar but it won't filter the list. At least a few years old. Another bug I've been getting for a few yea
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by concinds 9mo ago
Cool. That covers approximately 0% of the data out there. What about your health data? Government data? Corporate data? Financial data?
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by concinds 9mo ago
The EU must fix itself, and that means ignoring those NGOs. The EU's current tech laws penalize EU startups vs. US Big Tech. It should be reversed. Remove these worthless regulations (except DMA), and explicitly start discriminating ag
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by concinds 9mo ago
I think that is the flawed conscious reason for these icons getting excessively oversimplified and minimalistic. And why the Save floppies were replaced with inconsistent crap. And some higher-up at Apple's severe untreated OCD is th
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by concinds 9mo ago
The health dashboard says it only affects Enterprise and IoT. The KB note says “all editions”. Which is it? I wish El Reg did deeper reporting besides their snark shtick. Also, 3/4 of comments here are already off-topic. Never change,
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by concinds 9mo ago
Safari has used way more RAM than Chrome for a decade. It uses more battery in some tests. It starts way slower, Chrome is one bounce and usable immediately, Safari is 2-3 bounces and 3-4 seconds before it starts accepting input.
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by concinds 9mo ago
Surely there are ways to measure its quality objectively, and separate dumb nostalgia from real concerns. Are support tickets down? Is the OS a less frequent root cause for tickets? IT people with big enough fleets could settle this debate.
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by concinds 9mo ago
> Musk isn't actually favored by Trump anymore. He was a Trotsky - useful to the Trump regime's ascendance to power but not necessary now that it's in place. That's shortsighted. The Trump admin is sanctioning and pre
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by concinds 9mo ago
It's a massacre. The originals[0] were metaphorical and easy to grasp. These new ones are meaningless, for most of them you can't guess what the app does from the icon. The beautiful 3-axis colorwheel gimbal, gone. The concert acc
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by concinds 9mo ago
Gary Marcus is a terrific self-promoter and grifter, and there are very large audiences for that sort of stuff. It's simple. He does more than dunks though, I don't think that's really fair to him. He's trying to positio
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by concinds 9mo ago
Of all the dictatorships you might want to be an apologist for, I can't think of a shittier and less inspiring one than this one, other than North Korea.
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by concinds 9mo ago
Thanks, it's better to have the real quotes than my recollections.
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by concinds 9mo ago
I don't recall where (Vic Berger?), but someone made a compilation of "regret" clips from Trump influencers (Alex Jones and others, and Scott Adams). This was in the circa January 6 days, where humiliation reigned, and they a

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