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- Comment on Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders 10 hours ago:
Make the companies pay dearly for this
No, not the company, this would only put in in danger the employees (guess who would be fired in case of downsizing).
You need to dearly punish who signed the contract. - Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 12 hours ago:
Partially, if OpenAI lose 11.5 billion, someone get 11.5 billion, the money is used to pay something it did not vanish in a cloud
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 12 hours ago:
I wonder how long it will be before investments start getting pulled back because of a lack of ROI.
Just wait for the next hot thing to come out
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 day ago:
“We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”
I suppose that this would be against the other part, the one relative to the federal anti-discrimination laws.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 day ago:
For the record, it also say that they should not violate any anti-discrimination federal laws.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Well, Discord is available on Linux, Archlinux for example has the package and I suppose this is true for many other distros.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Dual boot is an option, but I would go with 2 machines, one with Windows with only the Autodesk products and the other with Linux and all the other software.
- Comment on Has anyone sold or otherwise handed off their 3d printing business? 1 week ago:
He can do both.
He can sell the STL to someone willing to print the thing himself and there are people who prefer to let someone else print the thing. One thing do not exclude the other - Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
Partially true. Old generation is used to do things, I would bet that it would have easier anyway.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
I think that you overestimate the capacity of the yourger people to solve problems without any access to any form of online informations.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
Not really, sorry. Only problem would be the freezers.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
Point is that most people who read on Internet have not the experience to do somthing without Internet since they never lived without internet.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
With a bank investement I get something back, even if less than what I invested. Could OpenAI pay back even half of what received ?
Which send us back to the starting point: what will happen when the VCs will start to ask for their money back or for their share of the revenue ? Inevitably the bubble will pop.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
I think that this is just a technical difference based on what you are investing into.
A personal bank’s investement is a different thing than a investement in a startup, with different level of risks and revenue. - Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
I would think that this warning, in a way or another, is true in every kind of investment, even my bank’s personal investment have something like it.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it, I was only pointing out that he was comparing two different things.
I know that there is no way the two events have a compatible frame of reference but that does not means that you can compare the two values.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
You are right, but you are comparing apples with oranges here, what was the Great Depression economy contraction ? Or what was the unemployment rates in 2008 ?
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
It would be interesting to know how many resources this growth has taken from others places…
As for now it don’t seems that AI has generated a profit for the companies that bring it to the market and it seems it will not do it even in the near future, so I assume the question is: how many years can your economy be sustained by a sector that is not generating any revenue and is absorbing a monstrous amount of resources ?
We are not talking about a single company (like Amazon back at the time), do you really think that even when Ai will start (if ever) to generate profits these will be able to repay all the investements done today ?
- Comment on German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email 2 weeks ago:
It is first step. If it will work well, maybe other states will do it.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 2 weeks ago:
As today if I give you a phone number you have no idea who is the owner if you don’t look up on some service.
It will not change if instead of the phone number we use the IMEI or a UUID, somewhere you need to have a link between the owner and the something, if nothing else in your phone and at the phone company. - Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 2 weeks ago:
Even talking about phones, having so many fees that you cannot list them all is insane.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 2 weeks ago:
so instead of creating some kind of authorization system that would not require sending your private information to everyone the govt did nothing and instead put that responsibility on EVERY company. begs the question why rushing so much?
I would suppose that this is because there is not a single way valid for every govt. For example, in Italy we have SPID, which is different from what Germany, France and every EU state have.
If Discord wanted to use it, they had to implement a numbers of way to do it, which can be not that easy. - Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 2 weeks ago:
Option 3: companies that you pay to provide authentication service. Regulated so that they clearly tell you if they are subsidizing service outside of your payments.
Then you just need to hack this company instead of Discord, you only change target.
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 3 weeks ago:
Also a great way for Flock to lose their contracts with large blue cities in Texas (and elsewhere).
This would only lead to the emergence of another Flock, with the same problems.
What you should really do is abolish that stupid and retrograde law.
- Comment on Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible 3 weeks ago:
More than Open Source, I would say that Vibe Coding is the new Visual Basic 3.0
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 4 weeks ago:
And probably it is also the only thing that China wants so that can try to corner the market. But if they move half of the production oversea then they probably will become less appetible for China since they cannot really control the production.
Not that they must do it, just a consideration. - Comment on Any tips for designing a fitting part for the golf 6 dashboard 4 weeks ago:
Probably without a 3d scanner, using paper and scissor you will only get a (hopefully) better and better approximation of the real surface.
Anyway, without a 3d scanner, to have some precise measurement you could just use some modeling clay to recreate the correct form and then set some reference point and take measurements from there, it should be precise enough to create a model in Fusion360 that account also for every asymmetry that could be present.
- Comment on Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search 5 weeks ago:
They say to use PDQ for images which should output a similar hash for similar images (but why MD5 for video ?). So probably it is only a threshold problem.
The algorithm is explained herehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/main/hashing/hashing.pdf
it is not an hash in the cryptographic sense.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 month ago:
For example, I went in to met a coworker and fix her laptop. While I was there the devs in front of me were discussing a thing that my team was working on. I didn’t know they needed that thing and they didn’t know we were working on it. I took new information back to my group.
Ok, but that just demostrate that you have no communication between teams. You get the information by sheer luck. have you been there 10 minutes earlier/later you would have missed it.
While bullshitting with the tech support manager I learned some things about their policies and procedures. Found out I had made incorrect assumptions and learning about those helped me in my role.
Again, non clear communication between teams and again you got the information by sheer luck.
True, it has happened because you both were in the office but in a sane environment you would have knows these thing because they would have been documented.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 month ago:
At some point they just said it’s happening and we’re not listening to you.
Which at this point is a more honest answer than the mental gymnastics they are pulling out.