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Is that better or worse than Google?

It's more like you ask a paralyzed person to lift his arm and he says he doesn't want to. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/discovering-that-...

FYI there are no FOSS LLMs

> In the current Iranian war the UK is only allowing it's bases to launch defensive missions, i.e. strike offensive capability If Iran struck all of the UK's missile factories and …

That's true. There is, like, no GUI library on desktops any more.

I'll believe that you believe that your bank statements only need to be private for a year, when you upload all of yours until a year ago.

Why would you take the stupidest possible interpretation of that person's comment?

Signatures aren't as urgent to replace as encryption keys are. You can wait until someone is about to build a quantum computer, then change all your signatures. Encrypted data is m…

In terms of actually doing it, it's still very remote, but not as remote as it would have to be for us to completely ignore it. And the NSA has massive data centers full of hard dr…

Gradually, and especially when hot. Modern chips are pretty close to the physical limits of how small they can be made, and that means atomic/chemical effects like electromigration…

Thanks captain pedantic

Just make a new one and start using it for new things. Move things over piecemeal. You don't have to close your old account.

Do casual computer users use the word "malware"? I think people only know the term "virus" but when I say "windows is a computer virus" everyone thinks I'm insane.

I can see that chrooting into an empty folder can make it look like everything is deleted but it's actually the mkfs command that deleted everything.

I think it's a case of projection. Megatech CEOs feel that avoiding interactions with peons is the most important thing, so they add this feature assuming that everyone else also w…

Banning selling alcohol to children is a slippery slope to banning candy and then banning food and then banning giving water to children. Right?

> It's the digital equivalent of requiring ID to go anywhere or do anything, rather than just a few well-defined things. No, it's social media, specifically. That's why it says soc…

Thank god we have "American ingenuity" to enshittify new inventions. Where would we be without that?

Did the USSR have a space program?

For $5 I'll give you an age token from my card.

How about the internet?

That's Google's new captcha design - they want you to scan a code on your phone to reuse your mobile's attestation on your desktop.

Fun fact: America invented the social credit score, long before China, and they still have it. The only difference, is the lack of the word "social" in the system's name, but it's …

It's to prevent you training another model to emulate the reasoning. They want it to be their moat.

According to Cory Doctorow, P&G (Proctor&Gamble) canceled $200m of ad spend and saw no change in sales