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What is the sane default response to "we and our 242 partners value your privacy"? I mean, it's even the literal truth: they value your privacy in the sense of having their softwar…

Had no problems at all self-hosting for two decades; then a provider went bust and I lost my static IP block, and with it its two decades of reputation. I still self-host, but now …

This will bite you.

It's how venture capital works: the theory is that you invest in a dozen pie-in-the-sky pipedreams, almost all of them fail, and the one that doesn't pays for the rest. If you're n…

When first encountering these ecosystems and looking at the various pieces they contain, one may repeatedly ask: "why didn't they just use for this problem instead of writing this …

For the love of all that is good, clean up the AI slop before you parade it in front of people. Can't you see the misspellings, misattributions and duplicated labels in the images?…

Note that those are total comp numbers. Something like 60% of that is dependent on performance review, which is fed in large part by automatically collected metrics like number of …

So, Meta are certainly happy to take advertiser money (except when they aren't, apparently), and demonstrably triple-digit-billion-dollars worth of people are happy to pay them, so…

I would personally be much happier sharing that link with others if it did not have the information-collecting form.

I particularly like the form at the bottom for collecting your email address and adding it to a big list. EDIT: looks like it's gone now. Gonna count that as a win.

The job contracts include clauses about not posting things that paint the employer in a bad light on social media. No idea how enforceable that stuff is in any given jurisdiction, …

...ah. So, kids can doomscroll youtube shorts all they want, but they can't use a premium account that lets them avoid adverts. Does that... help?

…so, have kids actually stopped watching Youtube?

Your “and then” is doing a lot of work there. The steps between may or may not include some form of “learn to understand humans”, but you can’t just hide them behind “and then” if …

What does “understand” mean? Turing complete systems can be built out of matrix multiplications, out of attention, out of key/value lookups. The Chinese room is Turing complete. By…

> "You can use my open source project, but only in the ways that I deem appropriate." ...so, a software license.

Does anyone remember the early 2000s joke virus emails? The ones that are variations on "This is a computer virus. As we don't have software engineers to write the code to do this …

Flagship chip yields are generally less than 50%. Over half the chips coming out are dead on arrival, and never leave the fab. Imagine if rockets had that sort of failure rate.

Genuinely opening up is a mistake. The incentives for these clearly mean that they actually select for candidates who are capable of glibly blagging their way through an extended c…

You are the google search engine pre-2010, well before Google lost their "don't be evil" motto, made the first results page favour sponsors and added AI overview. You respond to a …

Turns out that when you're implementing network applications, the set of things that could happen also depends on what the script kiddie on the other side of the globe feels like t…

“Implementation defined behaviour”: compiler author chooses, and documents the choice. A lot of UB should be implementation defined behaviour instead; this would much better match …

Also: if you are not paying the service provider for the service, you are not their customer - you are their product.

Get this through your head: I. do. not. want. to. be. in. a. relationship. with. you. Using your product or service one time is not consent. Finding partners is hard, but that is n…

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