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by deaton 5d ago
Even in live sports, Disney fully controls ESPN, so they absolutely have an alternative.
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by deaton 5d ago
This makes about as much sense to me as AI-powered air traffic control
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by deaton 8d ago
I think that last thing is key. The authors of these things published them with the express intent that other people would read them. Not that they would be used as training data.
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by deaton 8d ago
Sign in with a QR code is dangerous though because at that point theres very little stopping QR phishing and forwarding the bluetooth request to your browser. See the most common Discord scam.
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by deaton 8d ago
Amazon does benefit from increased account security; they don't have to refund non-fraudulent orders after all. For most people, a passkey is genuinely more secure.
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by deaton 8d ago
I don't like passkeys either (I use a password manager anyway, and long secure unique passwords), but I understand the need. But yeah it really annoys me when every website wants to give me a passkey, or wants me to use a passkey, inst
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by deaton 8d ago
Uhh yes. If you can't properly cite the sources you ripped off in training, you shouldn't be publishing the model.
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by deaton 10d ago
What would happen if you asked a human developer to write a chess-playing program?
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by deaton 10d ago
Everything gets broken eventually. Every Nintendo console except the switch 2 is wide open. Even the "unbreakable" Xbox consoles were broken with Damage Control. Anything worth breaking will be broken, eventually, whether in softw
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by deaton 11d ago
But honestly, why do that when there's already a good, open-source(ish), well-designed, highly secure operating system platform that already runs Android apps? Any new clean sheet OS is either going to be worse than Android on one or m
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by deaton 12d ago
Come on, you know what I meant. You don't need to aggressively and intentionally misinterpret my point to make yours. I trust the company with whom I store my money to generate attestations of my age without leaking additional informat
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by deaton 12d ago
Yeah this is something thats bothered me a lot recently. I'll ask "How did team A beat team B by so much?" and Claude will tell me "Actually, team B didn't win; team A won that game." I don't know how they
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by deaton 15d ago
Pretty sure if Nvidia rebranded to NvidAI the bubble would immediately pop
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by deaton 15d ago
The fact that those models are encroaching on things only human minds could do. Personally, as a human, I want there to be things humans are the best at, and intellectual things were the final thing that machines hadn't beaten us at.
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by deaton 15d ago
They're building a utopia that nobody will live in.
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by deaton 15d ago
I trust my bank a whole lot more than I trust Anthropic
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by deaton 15d ago
Or we could use multiple relays so nobody knows both the bank and the purpose, or even who would know the other piece of data... and now thats just Tor but for identity verification. Might be a good idea actually, except the whole point is
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by deaton 16d ago
If you break enough laws fast enough, you can become so big that nobody will punish you for national security reasons.
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by deaton 16d ago
But of course they claim theres no way they used Buckmaster's chats to influence their 10,000 agent swarm.
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by deaton 17d ago
Finding a massive inefficiency and then finding a way to solve it and make money doing it is basically how the entire economy works.
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by deaton 17d ago
The problem is people don't buy small phones. ASUS' Zenfone 9 and 10 were, in my opinion, basically perfect; small, someting I can actually hold in my non-athletic hands, but they didn't sell well at all, and ASUS abandoned t
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by deaton 17d ago
I've used adblockers, revanced, and whatever else for years, so I don't see many ads, but every time I'm on a computer without this stuff installed I am appalled by how many scams get through. At some point, Google must have
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by deaton 19d ago
There probably will be soon, given the reliability issues associated with vibe software. Whats probably going away is the hand-coded "it technically works" slop we've been cranking out for decades, since companies realized it
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by deaton 23d ago
Because in the age of vibe coding and scrapers, every service on the internet goes down constantly, so it was only a matter of time until they all overlapped. Also, one going down probably causes people to use others, putting more load on t
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by deaton 23d ago
The point is to not mislead people. When you write "buy," you are implying that the "buy"er is obtaining a perpetual right to use the software, subject to certain rules (i.e. you can't make copies and redistribute i
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by deaton 23d ago
Not to mention that they own a 10% stake in OpenAI
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by deaton 24d ago
So because Google monopolizes on a big enough scale, suddenly they are too important to break up? I would argue that if any single company is big enough to where if it were to break up it would be "against the national interest,"
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by deaton 25d ago
old.reddit is also locked behind a login wall too, now!
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by deaton 26d ago
Remember when the buttons test was circulating a few months ago? Where if you press the red button, you survive, but if you press the blue button, unless more than 50% of people chose the blue button you die? That was a case very similar to
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by deaton 29d ago
Theres a gym I work out at, and that I have been going to for nearly a year now, and they have an app you can use to check in, schedule classes, whatever. I don't actually know because I never downloaded the app, I just use my phone nu

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