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by hedora 8mo ago
So does DRM. In the long run, web sites will end up requiring measured boot to use passkeys, and also require passkeys. This is already common practice with android (to prevent third party ROMs from working).
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by hedora 8mo ago
Oh; good point. The great economic crash of 2029+ will be caused by the democrats cleaning up Trump's mess. (Sort of like "Biden's" inflation.)
723.
by hedora 8mo ago
Worse. Google has to add this to all the machines in their data centers? Imagine the expansion of DevOps BS this will enable: Vendors will need support stuff like "account holder is 12msec old, and can access adult content". Th
724.
by hedora 8mo ago
Normally, there's at least a locked suitcase full of newspapers racking up frequent flier miles...
725.
by hedora 8mo ago
This time, does the $100B actually exist? https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/nvidia-is-wavering-on-its... What's the statue of limitations for securities fraud? The current administration won't last forever.
726.
by hedora 8mo ago
Does the methodology for this study match real-world use? How often do people clone a repo, and then ask open ended questions? At a minimum, I usually provide some requirements and ask it to enumerate some options and let me pick. This is
727.
by hedora 8mo ago
It's standard practice for customer support people to chase away unprofitable customers (in the US; no idea how Google works). Human or LLM, they may simply not want your business.
728.
by hedora 8mo ago
That's how Google search worked back when it was at its most useful. They had a large "editorial team" that manually tweaked page ranks on a site-by-site basis. The core graph reputation based page ranking algorithm lasted f
729.
by hedora 8mo ago
My reading of their AI statement says your kernel contributions are no longer welcome in PostmarketOS, and also, since you're encouraging others in their space to use such tools, you're in violation of their code of conduct. This
730.
by hedora 8mo ago
Option 1) You’re right. They’re screwed because they won’t be able to keep the lights on and these layoffs make it worse. Option 2) AI can just vibe code what block needs now, or maybe in a few years. Laying off talent makes sure there ar
731.
by hedora 8mo ago
This is the only correct answer. The second firefox is actually no longer viable, I guarantee you chrome is going to rapidly go closed source or require software attestation to prevent modification (not sure what the analogous plan for Saf
732.
by hedora 8mo ago
I suspect this is one of the less nefarious reasons age verification is getting pushed so hard. 2026: you need a webcam to prove your age. 2030: we know you have a webcam because you verified your age. It must be left on with echo cancel
733.
by hedora 8mo ago
Pro tip: If you still have a local record store with a used section, you can probably buy blurays and dvds super cheap. They’re typically 25-50% the price of renting on Amazon/Apple, or buying used media on Amazon. Also, it’s actuall
734.
by hedora 8mo ago
We use an official YouTube app, and it’s all ad fraud . It rapid rolls through video streams showing a second or two of each ad. Presumably this is so Google can charge advertisers for impressions that don’t actually exist.
735.
by hedora 8mo ago
Hunter’s Point was where they cleaned the boats that were used for open air nuclear weapons testing. It’s not a great example. I’d be more convinced if you picked a decommissioned shipyard with more conventional problems, like marinship.
736.
by hedora 8mo ago
Tesla famously has to use horse drawn carriages to move new Teslas to their paint shop in Nevada. This is why they do not paint the cybertruck. /s
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by hedora 8mo ago
It usually boils down to who controls the technology, not the absolute cost. Centralized AI killbots with no safety controls are almost certainly bad. Individually owned and controlled militias of defensive (and decentralized) AI killbots?
738.
by hedora 8mo ago
How do you propose GH take action without risking taking down legitimate projects due to brigades of false reports?
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by hedora 8mo ago
Some cameras support this, but usually only for raw. Note that your cell phone camera is using gen AI techniques to counteract sensor noise. Was that famous person in the background really there, or a hallucination filling in static? Who kn
740.
by hedora 8mo ago
Everytime someone proposes protobuf as an rpc format, I respond “Hell no! There’s no support for protocol versioning.” Of course, I bring this up because they could just version their API keys, completely solving this problem and preventin
741.
by hedora 8mo ago
Not the person you replied to, but I imagine less gameable signals than stars would make sense. Download count, default installs in multiple distros, industrial use cases in the cloud all come to mind. Maybe giving money to the endowment g
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by hedora 8mo ago
Basic marketing theory says that spending extra to make your ads signals (term of art) to your potential customers that (1) you are successful, since you can afford it and (2) you are confident your product is superior, since you’re effec
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by hedora 8mo ago
Open weight? How many parameters?
744.
by hedora 8mo ago
I've found that, whenever considering Google's actions and incentives, you need to remember two things: - They make almost all their money on advertising - They have deep ties to the US intelligence agencies (To the point that a G
745.
by hedora 8mo ago
I’m not convinced laptops were as big an issue as intentionally sabotaging the US educational system with things like No Child Left Behind and Common Core. Are Gen-Z folks overseas as screwed as Americans, and is there a correlation between
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by hedora 8mo ago
Ignoring the disastrous policies of the Spanish government, I find it telling that this was the year when it finally became worth it to pay to VPN out of the US, and also the year when this freedom.gov propaganda thing launched.
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by hedora 8mo ago
As I understand it, Sierra acquired most of the educational software outfits, and then was acquired for stock by a company that had been propped up by securities fraud. Here’s the story of the acquisition that killed the company: https:&#x
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by hedora 8mo ago
There’s definitely an inversion going on, where all the predators (individuals and corporations) target parts of the internet designed for children, and the kid’s platforms created financial incentives for themselves that mean the worst con
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by hedora 8mo ago
I think things are pretty clear. I don’t know when the markets will agree, sadly. We do know technological advancements will leave the data centers as stranded assets. There’s not enough money in the most optimistic revenue projections to
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by hedora 8mo ago
Back in the 1990’s everyone had to have a unix workstation for unclear reasons (why not run Linux for < 10% the cost?). There were crazy bubble economics schemes that meant doomed startups got unix boxes for free. When the bubble popped,

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