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The winning play is to make no changes that could get you back in the news, and wait for the news cycle to move on to the next outrage. Possibly try to grease Rogan's hand to lay l…

Many 'rules' (like one request -> one file) create limitations in Gemini that prevent it from being capable of web-style corporate behaviour, so even if business isn't content with…

https://search.marginalia.nu/ made the interesting observation that a big chunk of that amateur OG internet never stopped or went away, Google etc. just stopped linking to it and i…

The list doesn't have ANØM

"Paltering" is another one, with an "Artful Paltering" psyc paper differentiating it as: * Lying by omission - the passive omission of relevant information. * Paltering - active us…

The deal to be acquired by Muse Group was announced 30 April, and "Muse Group was formed just a few days prior to the Audacity announcement, on 26 April" The latest release "Audaci…

I recall they provided multiple payment options back when crypto was too hard for victims to obtain / figure out. e.g. this 2013 article from a quick web search, where the payment …

though our companies will one day be competing with product manufacturers in China who get to use it to its fullest

> I hope that GitHub is at least limiting any training data to a sensible whitelist of licenses (MIT, BSD, Apache, and similar) Yes, and even those licences require preservation of…

> The one thing it didn't have was longevity Wikis would come and go like mushrooms and I too was burned once, so I figured Wikipedia's data will never be abandoned and so have bee…

I'd go with reduced video call bandwidth, but I'd be thinking of a home assistant UI like Holly. -- https://www.google.com/search?q=red+dwarf+holly&tbm=isch

Wow, the PGI compiler becoming open-sourced is awesome.

How is Fortran coming along with GPUs? (last I looked it was being done with proprietary compiler language extensions, but that was a while ago) Are modern supercomputers faster th…

Yeah, to create a good free speech site these days with the big sites expelling crud while keeping the rest, you may have to keep quite about the free speech aspect and instead con…

You're railing against claims I didn't make. Section 230 explicitly allows the tech industry to perform moderation. It was needed because ISPs were being sued for user-generated co…

> When in American history would all of the major book publishers refusing to print someone’s words mean the publishers should be made legally liable? Major book publishers are leg…

The Reverb G2 looks like the best of the current crop - it launches in a week, however it needs a high-end gaming PC to run, and costs twice as much as a Quest 2. https://i.redd.it…

yeah, from 10 years ago: > The laser detection is so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted. “The women are bigger. They beat …

And if entrusting everything about your life to one company ever does backfire, you still won't get to call this out, because then it will be 'blaming the victims' ;) I don't know …

It costs 3 times as much and is tethered. Price aside, tethered is a different market. I like powering VR with a gaming PC, but a standalone headset with inside-out tracking like t…

While it's beside your [good] point - you can do VR with fifty cent lenses and early headsets did, but the lenses in headsets like Oculus are specialised and still evolving.

> I wonder if there's a forum... There was one https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread... Various satellite forums of slatestarcodex have grown and are around,…