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I don't understand this, what's the point? How does anyone accidentally give personal information to an LLM? Because either you don't in the first place (eh, I guess, most people?)…

Owning your device (instead of the manufacturer, a set of unlisted governments, big software corporations, etc.) means no scanning.

Social media as it was born touched a novel point of contact that didn't quite exist before. It was a powerful shift from what we had before. Social media allowed you to be in touc…

Emission controls are the best scapegoat for Deere and others to lock down systems as tight as possible for profit. They don't care about emissions, the farmers don't care about em…

The interesting part of this mostly bullshit is how it exposes a kind of reverse Goodhart's law scenario. When driving becomes less about attention to surroundings and focusing on …

They should classify it as personal information, and you could share, sell, and publish it as much as you want.

If this continues long enough there will be plenty of 140-year-olds rocket-jumping through levels in TF...

> biggest reason why air conditioning is not so widespread in Northern Europe as in the United States It certainly is a transitional period where each summer more and more people r…

> It's not that I don't agree, but lawyers will then ask you to define "buy" in such a way that One fundamental thing would be to make it illegal to lawyer redefinitions of common …

> IRC's UI is horrible. (Like email.) No wonder people don't want to join it. I consider it a feature that acts as a filter.

On a related note, does anyone know of a good (open source) golf simulator/game for Linux? Serious level gaming more than just entertainment, I'm thinking something like FlightGear…

Where do you store the indices? Blockchain!

Why bubbles happen? Because investors, out of greed, pour into corporations that burn their cash. The internet was a bubble: you could make a web page and sell it for millions beca…

> I can't understand the people who blindly believe any law is good just because. Stop, think. Is the law good? What's good about it? What's bad about it? Can it be abused? Then ma…

My impression is that people who can work on stuff like that are the kind who just take the stuff in the world for granted. "This is how the world is, we need digital restrictions …

I got my C64 in 1985. Obviously, I can revisit the graphics and sounds of that machine online now, via emulators and youtube videos. But one thing I always remember is the smell of…

The only point you can conclude out of these discussions, especially in an interview, that it doesn't matter what the answer happens to be on $CC and $ARCH but you wouldn't want an…

We're still in the early ages and must discern hard what AI is good for, what it can maybe do, what it could potentially do and what it just can't do, and move those threshold mark…

That was surprising. Goes against the idea that deregulation allows companies to squeeze consumers and earn excess profits. I've held the belief that an occasional bankruptcy is ba…

On the other hand, Spirit as mentioned in the article stopped making profit in 2019. Some years later, chapter 11 filings and then another round.. That's like a 7-year runway (pun …

It's very easy to antropomorphise AI as soon as the damn bugger fucks up a simple thing once again.

In principle, this is the kind of right sentiment but for the wrong things. I can't remember a phone that died because of the battery since the era of Ni-Cd cells in early cell pho…

Back in the day, I read Applied Cryptography (by Schneier) and clarity rained upon many things.

Dare I say those stuck on nostalgia for pressing keys are demonstrating that they cared more about their own personal experience than about the outcome of their work? Now that codi…

Google Maps uses Internet access to determine the speed of traffic on your route, allowing it suggest alternate routes if there's a traffic jam. My phone can pre-download maps into…