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Personal internet radio: Agentic AI DJ(github.com)
2 points by fidotron 4mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 4mo ago
The one that amazes me is Okta. OK their Mac UX is great, but given their rate of incidents how can you trust it? Clearly this stuff is not actually bought based on track record.
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by fidotron 4mo ago
This has been de facto true for a while, not that it improves the situation. Various EU countries have legal limits for the size of cash transactions, requiring you to do it via a bank. The idea that people have private property does seem t
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by fidotron 4mo ago
> The money doesn't go to the start ups - it all goes to large tech companies like IBM, etc, because, obviously, IBM knows about innovation. And the big accounting firms. It's incredible how efficiently they divert all activity
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by fidotron 4mo ago
One dimension of this which isn't discussed enough is this opens the road to inference providers silently discriminating against different users who will remain oblivious to what's going on. i.e. if you "fail" ID verific
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by fidotron 4mo ago
It would have to alter the voice of anyone on it to make them sound ridiculous.
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by fidotron 4mo ago
> I’d have to imagine that a modern VS would sell better than Virtua Tennis 4 did (assuming it was good). I mean, no. Virtua Striker is fun for maybe 5 minutes, while Virtua Tennis is sublime, especially in multiplayer. For couch multipl
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by fidotron 4mo ago
> I want transactional interactions that actually work. One of the great lies of the modern world is that this actually happens.
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by fidotron 4mo ago
+ Australia + Canada
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by fidotron 4mo ago
Curiously all the opponents are in favour of it, or even think it doesn't go far enough.
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by fidotron 4mo ago
> And the obvious rebuttal to that is that it's equally hard to provide an upper bound for the runtime of a single insert This is precisely where you're going wrong. The insert is upper boundable in advance (you know the set of
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by fidotron 4mo ago
The whole problem with the delete cascade is you can't tell how big it will be until you have entered the transaction to do it. An insert you either know or it will fail and you can retry.
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Gemma 4 for Telephony: From Two AI Models to One – Until I Switched to Chinese(medium.com)
4 points by fidotron 4mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 4mo ago
> I'm not aware of instances where a delete is "far more work" than an equivalent insert though. That's not the general case, and I'm having a hard time thinking of any situations where that would be true. Transa
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by fidotron 4mo ago
> Heck, China, Israel, and India all have larger tech industries than Canada and have much stricter internet speech requirements. It's almost like all three of those involve absolutely enormous captive markets, including for their d
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by fidotron 4mo ago
While deeply unlikely to change anything it really is important as much noise is made about this as possible. On top of this will be C-34 which is just full no privacy anymore territory https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/
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Everything at Once: Social Media, AI – – – A Digital Safety Commission (Canada)(michaelgeist.ca)
4 points by fidotron 4mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 4mo ago
Curse you. Now I have a new objective in life. For those of this persuasion in the Montreal area we have https://exporail.org
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by fidotron 5mo ago
The enormous question here is if AI works the way these people say then surely competing companies will emerge that are enormously smaller and more agile, thus eating their lunch completely. The fact this doesn't appear to be happening
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by fidotron 5mo ago
For whatever reason the British underappreciate Brave New World.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
When EU ID is needed for Eurovision voting we can all act surprised by the change in rankings.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
There was a very clear campaign to downvote/flag your comments as fast as possible resulting in "dead" and "flagged" status. Then to gaslight that this wasn't going on was nuts. Honestly it's incredible ho
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by fidotron 5mo ago
HPC will always be years away. There is a big structural problem in Europe with these sort of initiatives: people receive grants for attacking identified problems; if you actually solve the problem then you have to find a new problem for yo
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Hays Code(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by fidotron 5mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> I think what OC is saying above is that the adult version of reality is often unsatisfying I'd quibble with your choice of words there, although I agree with the overall point - ultimately adult reality is the only thing that sati
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by fidotron 5mo ago
The problem is the version of events you'd prefer to see simply never happens, it's just pure fantasy. If this represented that it would be reduced to childish nonsense.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> All of which are understandable for someone who has been through such a traumatic turn of events, however it was a bit sad that the young, rebellious child that was so likable did not seem to survive the conflict. Great literature does
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by fidotron 5mo ago
He's totally being deliberately buried. Which ironically enough proves the precise point.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
One of the most surprising things about the movie was how precisely it captured the artistic intent of the book. A serious achievement by those animators.
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French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56(france24.com)
457 points by fidotron 5mo ago|131 comments

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