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Amusingly, they deprecated it with a message of "Unpublished" instead of actually unpublishing it [1]. When you use npm unpublish it removes the package version from the registry, …

That's a fascinating paper, but you're editorializing it a bit. It's not that they fed it illogical code making it less logical and then it turned more politically conservative as …

I've been pretty happy with the python package hns for this [1]. You can run it from the terminal with uvx hns and it will listen until you press enter and then copy the transcript…

your data can be used UNLESS you opt out It's even more nuanced than that. Google recently testified in court that they still train on user data after users opt out from training […

I signed up to give it a try, but when I click "Go to Levels" it takes me to https://vimgolf.ai/levels and I get a 404 error.

It's also important to take any corporation's explanation for increasing their own margins with an extremely large grain of salt. I'm not doubting in the slightest that consumers h…

That's quite the broad brush you're using to paint the Left as accelerationists who favor Trump over Biden.

I mostly agree with this in principle, but an important point is that, when you squint, the technology behind blocking ad blockers starts looking very similar to the technology beh…

My pet theory is that the only reason we didn't see a copyright extension act this year, like we've seen every time Steamboat Willy was about to enter the public domain in the past…

Does it always mean that in Australia, or does it depend on how you say it? I think both usages are actually pretty common in the US, but you tell the difference based on the infle…

What about the less convoluted scheme of "I forgot it?" The "I do not recall" answer in high profile trials is so common that it's essentially become a meme. How can you possibly b…

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow Not the only war criminal to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize, but he's surely in t…

There are a lot of interesting things in this announcement, but the "less refusals" from the submission title isn't mentioned at all. If anything, it implies that there are more re…

you have to show how a significant faction of the consumers are being harmed. You're going to have a tough time with that one. I'm not a lawyer and can't speak to what qualifies as…

As I said, the decisions are locally reasonable. However, if not supporting Firefox potentially exposed my company to scrutiny over anti-competitive behavior, then, yes, I would ab…

I use Firefox, and Google's sites are literally the only ones where I consistently have issues. There was a period of about a month this summer where Google Maps was just completel…

For reference, Equifax leaked the personal information of 147 million people (myself included). Multiplying that by $50k is over 7 trillion dollars. In actuality, they were ordered…

GitHub Copilot offers free access to "maintainers of popular open source projects." The criteria for what constitutes a "popular" project seems somewhat open to interpretation, as …

> it works slowly over thousands of years This isn't always the case; evolution can happen relatively quickly in response to rapid changes in the environment [1]. There are plenty …

I'm not against selling developer tools either, but I do have a problem with EEE as a strategy. As far as I know, JetBrains has never engaged with this behavior and they have coexi…

This is separate from the telemetry, but I suspect that part of the roadmap is for LSP extensions to become monthly subscription services eventually. We currently see hints of that…

You can switch the extension marketplace, but Microsoft uses DRM in their extensions to prevent them from running with non-proprietary builds [1]. Pylance, their Python LSP, is one…