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Fair!

I have great memories of Snow Leopard. It even gave you back a few GB of storage (IIRC) at a time when every GB really counted.

The Fallout analogy is perfect. Limitation stimulates imagination. I think that’s part of why essentially limitless AI models produce things that are so devoid of it.

An airplane is not something I would personally want to beta test

Putting aside whether or not I agree with the policy or whether it’s at all reasonable, a policy of restricting access to information because there’s a fear it could be used to cre…

The fact that your username is a racist meme seems relevant to this complaint and how legitimate it is.

But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. “Someone has filed an objection against something you wrote,” No one in their right mind is going to do anything other than ignore a…

I think there might be a difference between “I’m violating copyright law to enjoy a work of art” and “I’m violating copyright law on a global, species-wide scale to create a trilli…

If Google changes the internet so that no one visits websites anymore, no one is going to make or maintain websites. And at that point, A) What is left of the internet and B) What …

How the hell are most people supposed to balance the risk of not updating software against the risk of updating software?

Libertarian publication run by the wealthy suggests course of action that will disproportionately harm the poor, I’m shocked!

This system introduces a fun question: What’s more likely, that you suffer total spontaneous memory loss or your best friends betray you?

This is fanfic not science

RFK Jr: “Not so fast”

Because Firefox users have been clamoring for the ability to turn them off rather than the opposite.

Cool idea, bad AI slop execution

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Still seems far, far more likely that the average user will have their account stolen via password theft/reuse than the more complicated scheme the author is describing. Links inst…

Big loss for the web.

This will never, ever, ever stop happening until executives start going bankrupt and/or to jail for negligence. Even then it won’t stop, but it would at least decrease in frequency…

The author was not only a longtime CIA employee, but staff historian. Not the most trustworthy source here. https://nationalsecurity.gmu.edu/nicholas-dujmovic/

If you'd told me several years ago I'd be paying $10/month for a search engine, I'd say that's crazy talk. But it genuinely is worth it.

This is a really fun exercise; a rare example of something that's "data-centric" without being soulless. I think it's fascinating how it illustrates weirdness about how Americans t…

Which brands?