The fact that my Facebook timeline had become a pretty steady ratio of 1 ad:1 suggested post which is essentially an ad):1 post from either someone I follow, a group post from a group I’m in, or a post from an account that I liked or a few other ad-like types of posts, meant I only saw content I wanted on one or two posts out if every 20 or so posts in my timeline and I rarely saw important posts from friends. That was one of many reasons I left last year.

Can’t put my correct gender on a passport like I can a real ID. And I need to be able to fly since it’s the only feasible long distance transportation in this country. So, I need to keep mine.

Not adjusting settings, but definitely auto updates which require a login and they’ve been adding more and more things that require an account so they can track you.

Yeah just meant the ones ive seen in China that looked similar didn’t have flushing mechanisms much like the urinals that don’t need to be flushed. Those ones aren’t suitable fir pooping, but sounds like this one is different.

OK the white ones like that that I had seen a couple of times didn’t have a flushing mechanism or big enough opening to aim, so if someone pooped in it, it would just sit there until someone came to clean it.

Squat toilets are usually either a pit or like this one that’s basically a floor mounted urinal that almost anyone can use. So yeah, can’t poop in a urinal. But sucks when they’re all that pubic restrooms have.

Good thing I don’t use YouTube anymore because they block me for using an ad blocker even though it doesn’t do much on YouTube since they switched to serving ads natively.

I don’t have a YouTube account and my pihole ad blocking gets me bkocked, is there an article it references? Also, what’s the kWh to cubic feet/meters ratio compared to current lithium ion?

Copyright in general should be strictly limited to an extremely short time, like maybe 1-5 years. After that others should be allowed to use and expand on it unless you release a new work that expands on it yourself. Trademarks eliminate the confusion about who published it and if you aren’t actively using the content, it should be given to society to benefit everyone. This would promote progress and competition. Extended copyright, especially, is only useful for people and companies who don’t want to be productive and just get paid for one thing their ancestors/predecessors did ages ago. The original design for copyright said exactly this would happen.

Or maybe stop “AI” from sucking down gobs of power for no good reason other than to steal content and waste websites’ bandwidth that specifically say not to crawl them.

I mean, even if the NPU space can’t be replaced by more useful components easily or cheaply, just removing it is sure to save a small amount of power which equates to a possibly not so small amount of heat that needs to be dissipated, which takes not insignificant amounts of and/or requires slowing the system down. Additionally, the pathways likely could be placed to create less interference with each other and direct heat transfer which is likely to mean more stability overall.

Of course without a comparable processor without the NPU to compare to, these are really difficult things to quantify, but are true of nearly all compact chips on power sensitive platforms.

Yes, but I’m saying they’re making these laws and saying they need it. Many people agree that they need it and because they think they are still secure because they’re using an “encrypted connection”, assuming they don’t think they need to be secure from their government, they are supporting it. If they see that by letting the government steal their data they are also letting that scammer that keeps scamming their grandmother for her credit card to get that credit card number without even needing to scam her anymore, they may think twice about supporting the policy.

Problem is many of us are stuck with very low upstream bandwidth due to cable company ISP monopolies and/or data caps or just were running things on a small raspberry pi or something and the malicious requests will create extra expense or flat put denial of service for real traffic.

Oh totally, but that’s the intended purpose. The thing is they’re saying they can do all that and still allow people to have a secure connection to their bank or whatever, but that’s impossible. Eventually, backdoors always lead to making the security worthless whether it’s bad design like putting hinge screws outside of the door so thrives can just use a screwdriver to remove the door, or a backdoor for locksmiths or government, it’s a weak link it doesn’t matter how thick the door is if a screwdriver removes it or how hard the encryption is to break if it can be bypassed by getting the code used by locksmiths or government, bad actors will get ahold of it and use it.

Problem is scraper bots are way more aggressive and harder to block. If they were ignoring Reddit because they were taking content from IA but IA is willing to obey robots.txt whereas scraper bots are not, they just shifted the load of serving the bots or playing whack-a-mole with their block evading mechanisms. They aren’t going to stop the bots. It may result in being able to negotiate a license with the bigger guys, but that’s likely not going to make up for the money they spend on dealing with the bots in the long run. Of course companies like this don’t really think long term, it just looks good to investors this quarter.

To a point yes, for the crawler bots, but Anubis uses a lot more resources to keep the bots busy than a simple firewall ignoring the request. And if there’s no response vs a negative response, the requests are likely to fall off more quickly. And the even more significant load might be from malicious login attempts which use even more resources and Anubis likely won’t be as effective on those more targeted attacks depending on the types of services we’re talking about. Either way, firewall blocks are way, way less resource intensive than any of that, so as soon as you open up that firewall and start responding to those malicious or abusive requests they will become progressively more resource intensive to mitigate.

And this is the same reason why encryption backdoors would basically make encryption worthless. Doesn’t matter how strong the metal/encryption is if a backdoor exists to be the weakest link.

I just use the Play Store in sandboxed mode on GrapheneOS. The other stores out there haven’t looked all that trustworthy, especially ones that modify the apks. Some are even on common spam blocklists which may be for things other than abuse by the store portion of the site, but it reduces trust.

For anything open source I use Obtanium, the few proprietary apps I need I use the vanilla play store.

Just use a VPN outside the country or lease a low end VPS outside the country with decent bandwidth and host your own VPN endpoint. They can’t force ISPs to block all of the VPN protocols in general or they’ll lose a ton of businesses that rely on it for basic security of remote/traveling employees.

It’s very time consuming to detect and correct the small mistakes that LLMs make. Beyond one or two lines of code, it becomes much more time consuming to correct the multitude of subtle mistakes vs coding it myself. I use code completion that comes with my IDE, but that is programmatic completion, not LLM, and is much, much more accurate and in smaller chunks that are easy to verify at a glance. I’ve never known any experienced developers who have had a different experience. LLMs can be good for getting a general idea of how to code something in a new language or framework I’ve never touched before and more to help find actual examples rather than use the code directly in the IDE, but if I were to use LLM code directly that would be in a test project, never, ever in production code. I would never write production code in a language I’ve never used before with or without an LLM’s “help”.