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When MySpace came out browsers were only able to upload images and not manipulate them with filters like today. Now cameras on devices like the iPhone will auto “enhance” at the sy…

It’s almost if Microsoft had advocated for citizen infrastructure for artificial intelligence, they could have avoided price gouging at the hardware supply chain layer with their y…

I target IE6 and it just works everywhere

> devgooning Excellent choice of phrase. Succinct and to the point.

It’s a point made in bad faith, easily refuted with: “great, let a human read the books” we quickly learn what “inequality” means, since the computer has more access rights than pe…

In an attention economy, companies becoming religions is a logical outcome.

This take is doubleplus good

I do like the idea of escape the room games becoming the cybersecurity employable competition meta

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I get signal notifications. Anyone I want to talk to uses signal.

Also I daily drive graphene and that has no Google play services

Palantir is forward deployed engineers doing whatever their customers need. Everything else is just marketing and right sizing. For most things yeah, data bricks and no code sounds…

Palantir is best viewed as a React dev shop. They have a bunch of dumb react components that can become the gui for live targeting systems, but that all happens post contract and i…

A shame cause you need to spend a lot of intellect on this site to even be able to down arrow at all and you spend it on… checks notes…. Do u rly want me to say ur perspective or I…

The one above was downvoted once, but the one above went up twice, still nobody wants to talk, just push down arrows.

Look just because you have their stocks in your portfolio doesn’t negate that their business is primarily in managing the narrative around who lives and dies.

Keeping score on this one Currently at 1 point but that’s because at least two people upvoted it and two people downvoted it If I’m wrong, call me out. Am I wrong??????????

But Palantir isn’t an AI company. They’re a guilt-free hands-washing service. You pay them money, and they absolve you of your sins. That’s what Peter Thiel is on about. That’s the…

Also tacking on that ssh is a social network. That’s the crucial social layer that powers all of the everything else on the decentralized internet. Take git as a social platform. S…

Yeah, I hear you. Yeah, them as a single instance is centralized, but if you actually go (show up at 300 Funston on a Friday at 1pm) you can hear about the research into how to rep…

It has been cracked. The internet itself is the thing we want. We’re just constantly in denial that the internet actually does the thing we want it to do. The internet archive is a…

From talking to people from Meta, they don’t believe in E2EE because “it’s decrypted on the other end” which they take as “becomes insecure in exactly the way we’ve designed the sa…

It’s not about your data. It’s about the sum of all expression being able to be reflected back to you in such a way that Dawkins believes he’s met intelligent life. Facebook and Go…

Put simply: I’ve talked to Apple engineers. Siri fell behind due to how good Apple’s privacy is. Everyone made fun of them for protecting them. This is exactly the opposite of that…