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I utterly detest the idea of having AI potentially lock me out of my own writing style.

I agree that it's an exaggeration to say that every website, platform, app, and service will require identity verification. I don't think it's inconceivable to think of a future wh…

It's very hard to stop being their users/customers when they're the only platform where people are gathering for that particular purpose. The nature of walled gardens and network e…

In some cases, it also seems like a lobbyist-driven effort that would benefit certain companies likely to be hired by the government to provide identification services.

Maybe requiring identification to speak online is not the intent but it would likely be the practical effect of the laws that were originally intended just to help children. It's n…

As with many detractors of anonymity, it seems that you're assuming that the authorities and neighbors you'll deal with will always be virtuous, and not corrupt nor vindictive towa…

You would think so but some future authoritarian or paternalistic government might disagree. Maybe the government will say that a newspaper should not report on the poorly built br…

My first question to you is whether you are a pro-privacy advocate yourself, znnajdla. I don't see any biographical information listed in your profile so I'd initially assume that …

I was similarly upset and also dropped Carbonite over 15 years ago over something along these lines. Backup services should be agnostic about the data they back up for their custom…

Sorry, but these Chuck Norris jokes are more like Bruce Schneier facts: https://www.schneierfacts.com/

I've been recently using a similar description, referring to "AI" (LLMs) as "glorified autocomplete" or "luxury autocomplete".

* Time to wade through all the AI slop * Trust that what we are watching or reading is human-sourced and real * Time for real creators' unique voices to remain unique * Hope for so…

Fascinating vision about abstract art. And here I thought all these artists were trying to get away from reality. On a different note, I'd love to see that board game.

I strongly disagree. Many technologies aren't neutral, with their virtue dependent on the use given them. Some technologies are close to neutral, but there are many that are either…

That is an extreme, also undesirable alternative. How about just having a reasonable level of market regulation, especially monopoly regulation?

How about giving less profit to the shareholders? How about making customer support legally mandated so companies don't have the "greedy shareholder" excuse?

Unlike the author, I think featureless slab phones are an improvement, yet I'd like my phone to have several user-customizable buttons on one side (or maybe both?) in order to be a…

Orson, what motivated you to tune Rust's out-of-the-box sort in this way?

"The first thing I was told in an educational psychology lecture was to never cite any research more than ten years old." Just to confirm, did you really mean to say MORE than ten …

What happened to Willow?

Your comment is interesting in various ways, but I want to focus on the idea that Legitimate song structure = melody + chorus + bridge Is there something about such a song structur…

Same here, or patches to malfunctioning systems while in space, such as the Apollo 13 carbon-dioxide scrubber hack.

Happy 2025! Only 13 more years now 'til 2038! Maybe we can still fix that problem! But feel free to take today off, hackers.

It's stealing. It's one thing if I buy a tool and it breaks down naturally. That does happen... in the physical world. It should NEVER happen in the software world, not for a stand…

Or I can cough up my password long before that, but if they need my biometrics, then they'll have to hold on to me personally... or a piece of me.