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The next logical step in "publish or perish". Get rid of p-o-p and this problem will also largely disappear. I know managers and administrators want a simple metric, but there is n…

Wow, that website is so 1990s.

As with almost any successful system: more and more special features and edge cases get added. Git has become ridiculously complex. I wonder: would it not be better to tell users w…

Wow. 25km resolution of the exoplanet's surface. Of course, getting the telescope into place, steering it, etc. - that's the hard part.

Humans can read it, but with difficulty. If it becomes important, AI can be taught to read it. So...usefulness?

Requiring companies to state the actual price you will pay? Makes total sense. What I don't understand, is why thus is not already the case. Why do hidden fees not fall under decep…

Disagree. Way too many modes of communication, which is endlessly irritating. If you want to send me a message at work, email is the common denominator.

Stupid parliamentary trick: Hold the vote on the day before the summer break - ensuring that many people have already returned to their home countries. Then use a sort of "reverse"…

Just yesterday I was brainstorming with ChatGPT about this. I have an ancient QNAP plus a slightly less ancient NUC running PiHole, Wireguard and other services. Both need replaced…

WTF? Bicycles on sidewalks? At least where I am, that's illegal, and I'm not moving.

I'm a teacher and I've had blind students, so I am aware of the barriers. But: do an honest evaluation of the costs of full, correct accessibility vs. the number of people who bene…

Which shows why guardrails on AI are just dumb. What harm could come from answering your question? None.

DMCA takedowns should not exist. If it's important, get a court judgement, where the opposing party can present a defense. If it's not worth a court case, then it must not be very …

It's not just Europe. DMCA takedowns in the US: no liability for taking down innocent content. Really, it comes down to this: censorship is bad. Always. If someone violates the law…

WTF is LastPasd doing, handing customer details to a market research company? Any such data should have been fully anonymized: no names, no specific addresses, etc.. For anyone loo…

This. There really is no such thing as an entirely good government. Government is composed of people. From politicians to clerks, it's people all the way down. Some people are good…

Can we please stop with the extreme "safeguards"? I don't want to waste processing power on a model deciding whether is can answer my question, or ensuring that it's answer is poli…

I use AI for a wide variety of things, of which technical is only a small part - and then it's usually a problem with project configuration, not coding. Why? Because I am often tes…

The problem with immigrants in Europe from Africa and the Middle East isn't their skin color, it's their religion, which is inseparable from their culture. Immigrants from these co…

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Good work, and fun to read. It's crazy that companies just stick their head in the sand, when confronted with serious security issues.

First off, money laundering does not require cash. So the premise is a bit strange. Second, I submit that money laundering should not be considered a crime at all. Monitoring it (f…

You have to ask: Why is Google pushing the AI results? You would think that this would impact their ad revenue. Since Google is fundamentally an ad company, this deserves a closer …

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Sadly, the Internet is not a high trust society.