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I've seen opus 5 give hallucinated user responses in the middle of a workflow that's supposed to grill a user about their understanding of a topic. Pretty inconvenient to have the …

Do they have to

Does this mean I'm not going to be able to store stuff for cheap on backblaze anymore?

Yeah, labor law is bad. You tell em

Gross

Yes actually. After zirp ended, cloud costs got materially more expensive for enough enterprises that there was a good year or so of celebrated "we're moving back on-prem" stories …

what i personally don't like about privacy-preserving age verification is the single subsequent law change that would criminalize individuals for "improperly" doing age verificatio…

The more specific the better

Not having a choice is not the same as consent

Are you kidding right now? Have you seen what's happening with ICE in the US? EU countries are just one effective social media campaign cycle away from the same policies. "It can't…

Just because the government is not out to get you at this exact moment doesn't mean that a future government won't be. Surveillance capacity seems to be a one way ratchet.

Europe needs a private European identity provider. Until this happens, Europe will remain a technological vassal state of the US. These are expensive products, you need depth of ex…

Need a proper mobile os alternative

Oh my god, what are we doing

Touch this grass to prove you're not a robot

let's try to keep to credible sources here eh

"can the bot army push average opinion x% in this innocuous topic?" it could very easily be a/b testing a propaganda system.

I'm not convinced that this whole discussion section isn't astroturf... some real out there opinions popping up in here

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.19897v1 Direct link to the paper for those who don't want to wade through the ads

Bad teeth also harbor bacteria that have been shown to exacerbate cardiovascular disease, at the very least. Not saying this article is claiming that as a casual mechanism, but dis…

Everyone is saying LLMs did this site in, but what if we just asked all the questions already? We should be celebrating how we solved programming!

if you have a server that's overloaded, then a request comes in that requires fractionally more memory use than the average request, do you blame the single request for crashing yo…