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Hand-picked by Noem, so yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_Gottumukkala
> In April 2025, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem named Gottumukkala as the deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; he began serving in the position on May 16. That month, Gottumukkala told personnel at the agency that much of its leadership was resigning and that he would serve as its acting director beginning on May 30.
> Tell ChatGPT to multiply 129348723423 and 2987892342424 and it'll probably get it wrong because nowhere on Reddit is that exact question for it to copy.
ChatGPT appears to get this correct.
Being transparent about such incidents is also what stops them from potentially becoming a business/industry-killing failures. They're doing the right thing here, but they also surely realize how much worse it would be if they tried to deny or downplay it.
> The Democratic Republic of the Congo, which by most estimates has the fourth-largest population in Africa, has not conducted a census since 1984. Neither South Sudan nor Eritrea, two of the newest states in Africa (one created in 2011 and the other in 1991), has conducted a census in their entire history as independent states. Afghanistan has not had one since 1979; Chad since 1991; Somalia since 1975.
It has? What exactly do you mean by that?
> For whatever reason, construction hits a snag or revenues are not enough to cover expenses, how would it become “society’s” problem?
You declare bankruptcy. Your vendors who extended credit get hosed. Your employees go on unemployment benefits. Each of these costs money, and each of these reduces taxable income.
Of course, got to sell those new subscriptions.
Satellite photos?
You can easily get an estimate of the number of buildings and especially vehicles, which tell you two important things. Not to mention that as a matter of course the first thing to do is photograph everything that looks like a piece of military equipment, which has been a purpose of satellite photography from the beginning.
Various kinds of countries get paranoid about letting people have maps or accurate geographic data. This makes very little difference militarily but causes real inconvenience for the locals.
Besides, nobody wages wars for labour exploitation any more. It's all about what's under the ground.
> Fake would imply that the people releasing the population estimates have a much better estimate but are choosing to instead publish a made up number.
That is literally what the article describes, though, in Papua New Guinea. And it describes why states in Nigeria have such a strong incentive to fake their population numbers, that it's impossible to achieve an accurate national total.
I do think the headline exaggerates, I doubt "a lot" are fake, but some do seem to be.
The main tweet the article is referring to
You say this as if venture capital is lying there on the ground for anyone to pick up. What VC do you know that aren't investing in companies that want to grow very quickly (or in companies that they then force to grow quickly)?
> Home Depot is projecting a sharp drop in fiscal 2025 profit in its latest quarterly earnings, according to Reuters.
Dying on the exact same frame, or just generally in the same spot?
In the case of the latter my first thought would be thermals. Different video codecs have significantly different decoding costs, and may also stress different parts of your system. You could check for that by playing that same video but not starting at the beginning and see if it's the same duration. Or jump to just before it dies and see if it plays through.
If by "downloaded" you mean The High Seas, those who provision the high seas are often on the cutting edge of using codecs with every last feature turned on to make the videos smaller to squeeze every last bit out of the encodings that they can, which can make them unusually expensive to decode. Or so I've heard.
> It’s incredible how some engineers assume they understand economics
I would say most engineers. The reason is simple - basic economics is not taught in the public schools, and economics/business is not a required course for an engineering degree.
One of the best classes I ever took was a summer class in accounting.
Except that ignores the amount of times the OS preempts the thread, or moves it into another CPU trashing all the cache contents in the process, and related NUMA patterns.
The way it is measured, is mostly ideal, assuming that threads run to completion without any of those side effects taking place.
Reform isn’t even close to “far right.” Are they trying to defund the NHS? Get rid of government pensions? Immigration restriction isn’t “far right.” The sharp curtailment of immigration from Britain’s colonies was enacted in 1968 under a Labour government. In the U.S., sharply restricting immigration was a policy that prevailed during FDR, who was the most liberal U.S. president in history. “Far right” is someone like Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan who thought the private sector could fix everything.
“The next census, in 1991, was by far the most credible, and it shocked many people by finding that the population was about 30 percent smaller than estimated. But even that one was riddled with fraud. Many states reported that every single household had exactly nine people.”
If I worked in the government of a country like this I’d just throw in the towel.
I've been running 3x a week for over 40 years now.
* about 4 miles
* I don't run for time, just a trot
* not training for anything
* drink a full glass of water beforehand. If sweaty outside, two glasses
* had some pain in my hips and knees. Switched to a ball-strike rather than a heel-strike. Pain went away. (you can feel the difference in the impact on the knees and hips)
* don't run downhill
* the big toe joint hurts and has gotten large making it hard to find shoes that fit
* don't run when not feeling well, or there's ice
* I feel weird when I can't run for some reason
* It feels good to run, and I like the results
Tesla benefited from tax payer subsidies.
It's sad. These were really affordable and covered escapist fiction (all kinds of sci-fi) but also a lot of serious and civic-minded literature.
Funny two weekends ago I watched a woman set a world record for the mile for women 80-85.
Presumably that's why they said "almost a century" and not just "a century".
A lesson I learnt during the 90's already switching into Perl instead, somehow people keep writing pieces of wonder in plain shell scripts.
Cheap venture capital is uniquely driven by the interest rate more than any other factor. Low interest rates drive money away from safer vehicles towards more risky vehicles because they still offer a return. This is good far people starting companies, but in the long run the decision makers on those investments almost always turn out to have mis-priced the risk factor and end up with negative returns.
This then causes the market to dry up again and if the interest rate hasn't dropped even further then a lot of companies that need follow up investment will now get killed off. It's a very Darwinian landscape that results from this and I've been wondering for years if there isn't a better way to do this.
This is the same argument people made with Bernie Madoff before the ponzi collapsed.
New variant on "I followed my satnav blindly and now I'm stuck in the river", except less reliable.
It is however fraud on the part of the travel company to advertise something that doesn't exist. Another form of externalized cost of AI.
Qualification is a very difficult problem, but I think everyone resents the characterization of "bad devs". Things like the Metaverse failure - apparently $70bn spent for no results - are primarily management failures. Like the Cybertruck, they succeeded 100% at building a product that the CEO wanted. The problem is that the CEO is basically the only person that wants that product.
There's also the thought nobody wants to examine: what if the consumer market total spend is kind of tapped out?
Nevermind, this was probably a team meeting some KPIs to show value, this is useless.
.. how do you calibrate this against a cloudy sky? It's pretty dark up here at 56 degrees north, and on top of that it's been overcast for days.
It also sucks a lot when it's dark before starting work, dark after leaving work, and during the day rather cold to be exposing skin to the sun.
Microsoft are incapable of naming things. This is the "Xbox one series X" of desktop development.
> You're perfectly entitled to distribute a macOS app with your own paywall
Are you sure the ToS allows that? Given the "anti-steering" rules? Can you point me to an example that isn't by a megacorp?
> $30 per month for 10GB of data in a recent offering I was looking at, and who knows where the data are
That's worse pricing than my mobile contract!
The wealthiest company in the world really needs that last little bit from those Patreon creators who have it way too easy in their lives. It's not as if the people that take that meager bit of cash are going to invest it in Apple stock so they're going to have to pay up.
The Mafia can learn a thing or two from Cook.
First I've heard of this - which anti-corruption reforms?
There is a $2400 plan as well.
It made sense in the early days, phone operators were charging up to 90% for the infrastucture to send an SMS, and get a download link to a J2ME/Windows CE/Pocket PC/Symbian/Palm/Blackberry download link to install the app.
So everyone raced to the iOS app store, it was only 30%, what a great deal!
The problem is that two decades later it is no longer that great deal in mobile duopoly world.
I really hate the exponential growth every year, which is physically impossible, instead of a plain "sustainable business solving a need that people have." as you mention.
Naturally as soon as the need is covered, and there are no new people to sell the product to, the exponential growth every year mentality bursts into entshitification, or firing half of the company because the targets weren't reached, but no worries at least the shareholders are happy.
Maybe it is my European mindset that cannot grasp this MBA mindset into creating /destroying jobs as if people didn't matter.
I didn't really get it, and the problem with these games is that you can't ask, because you might spoil the surprise. The controls were fine, even fun, but I just wasn't really captivated by the story.
I don't know if I'm missing something that would make the game click for me, or if I just won't enjoy it. I can't ask anyone, because I'll ruin it if I am actually missing something.
> Apple still insists that the app store "provides value" for developers. They simply can't comprehend the harsh reality that these days, for most developers, the app store isn't the godsend service that helps their app get discovered, but instead an asinine bureaucratic obstacle they have to clear, and then regularly attend to, to have an iOS app at all.
Oh, no, they can comprehend, they just don't care. Apple controls access to a valuable pool of business, and they are going to extract as much value as possible from people wanting access to that pool. And, of course, they are going to try to burnish it with marketing speak, but that doesn't mean they believe their own marketing.
Upside may be just that the equivalent first-party system doesn't exist or performs worse? ATC tower isn't a SCIF, they probably get their real-time news from Twitter like everyone else, too.
> You had me at EHL0.
You just reminded me of my time working at Sendmail, where I often had to telnet to port 25 of some machine, and pretend to be a mail server sending email.
I used to be able to send all the commands without having to look them up. Not sure I could still do that today.
> Hatred of the technology itself is misplaced
I think hatred is the wrong word. Concern is probably a better one and there are many things that are technology and that it is perfectly ok to be concerned about. If you're not somewhat concerned about AI then probably you have not yet thought about the possible futures that can stem from this particular invention and not all of those are good. See also: Atomic bombs, the machine gun, and the invention of gunpowder, each of which I'm sure may have some kind of contrived positive angle but whose net contribution to the world we live in was not necessarily a positive one. And I can see quite a few ways in which AI could very well be worse than all of those combined (as well as some ways in which it could be better, but for that to be the case humanity would first have to grow up a lot).
Finally a real computer mouse! What a funny story :)
Amusingly, I had the same question and asked Claude Code to vibe code me something similar. :)
Funny, I read it as a very high level compliment.
Your plan, whatever it is is still predicated on the world as it is today being more or less as it is today. The problem with anything truly disruptive is that it may very well cause your plan to become infeasible for a variety of reasons. For your sake I hope that you were aware of that little detail and made your plan bullet proof or flexible enough that that is not going to cause you any headaches.
A reasonable guess.
As far as I can tell, the number of humanoid robots doing anything productive is zero. It's all demos.
This is far harder than self-driving. As a guy from Waymo once said in a talk, "the output is only two numbers" (speed and steering angle).
Also, there are at least 18 humanoid robots good enough to have a Youtube video. Tesla is not the leader.
Remember the "cobot" boom of about five years ago? Easy to train and use industrial robots safe around humans? Anybody?
I'm not saying this is impossible, but that it's too early for volume production. This will probably take as long as it took to get to real robotaxis.
Essentially a clone of Windows 11, and those screenshots make me realise just how much I hate the rounded corners, borderless vagueness, and excess padding of "modern" UI.
For contrast, this UI is more my style: https://serenityos.org/screenshot-b36968c.png
And what would he do with them?
Tesla got the job done, which was empower Musk, not manufacture EVs at scale. The stock is the product.
I struggled with this in Wine. "malloc" type memory allocation involves at least two levels of spinlocks. When you do a "realloc", the spinlocks are held during the copying operation. If you use Vec .push in Rust, you do a lot of reallocs. In a heavily multithreaded program, this can knock performance down by more than two orders of magnitude. It's hard to reproduce this with a simple program; it takes a lot of concurrency to hit futex congesion.
Real Windows, and Linux, don't have this problem. Only Wine's "malloc" in a DLL, which does.
Bug reports resulted in finger-pointing and denial.[1] "Unconfirmed", despite showing debugger output.
We, humans, will read this and laugh, chuckle, but the AI Overloads will not understand that. This will be added to the training data and become a truth. But what if that is?
They should reboot Silicon Valley with this premise.
> I can tap my card. I can tap my phone
It was convenient in Whole Foods. Prime discount and payment together. Remembering to keep the card on file updated was annoying, though.
Until it wears just a smidgen and explodes violently!
That word works two ways: it shows that Trump would like to be feared, but he's not, it also shows that he's probably very scared, especially of the people he's sucking up to.
The printing press also led to books changing from being something only rich people had to everyone having books. This also enabled the industrial revolution, as books made literacy worth having, newspapers, and became a great storehouse of knowledge.
I.e. it created far, far more jobs than it destroyed.
The photo was praised by Kirill Dmitriev, one of Russia’s key negotiators
I think it's part of his strategy of getting on Putin's good side.
Any word on what Optimus might be able to do, or what it would be priced at?
> Therefore, phones are bad?
Phones are utilities. AI companies are not.
Very interesting, thanks that helps me understand.
It seems like you have what might be called an extreme sense of loss aversion, and so the more control and independence you have, the more you can prevent loss.
In contrast, I don't really have that. Sure I get annoyed when a software interface changes, but at the same time I see that the updates overall have also given me 10 other features I really appreciate, and so I see it as a net win. On the whole, I find that being embedded in a web of up-to-date dependencies has always been a large net positive on the whole. There are losses, but they are far outweighted by the wins, so whenever a loss bugs me I just remind myself of all the new helpful stuff. Like, Spotify's changes to UX drive me nuts sometimes. But they recently launched prompted playlists that have been a game changer for me. They added transitions between songs which is awesome. I'm using them to listen to audiobooks my library doesn't have. So I can put up with the UX.
But if you experiences losses psychologically as 10x the size of wins of the same "objective" size, then your calculus could be different. Pretty much everybody has loss aversion to some extent, it's considered a standard human trait -- I have to remind myself to put things into perspective myself sometimes -- but it sounds like you have a much stronger sense of it, so the control that greater independence gives you is much more valuable to you than it is to someone like me.
So that's why, when you say, "i hope it should be self-evident" -- it's not self-evident to someone like me at all, but I can see why it seems self-evident to you.
Bandwidth is only expensive if you're getting it from Amazon or Google. Cloudflare gives it away for free.
> If a 20 year old olympian dies 70 years later, then when their family gets $100,000 USD nominal, it will be the equivalent of getting $8,400 in today's money
Did you inflate over 70 or 50 years?
My read of the original article [1] is it’s a defined benefit. That said, “athletes will receive $200,000 for each Olympics they compete in,” so an athlete who competes for four seasons could stand to get $400,000 when they turn 45 and potentially borrow against their death benefit.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/team-usa-milan-cortina-e...
> FWIW when it comes to Russia specifically, I would broadly agree that the problem there is not just the government but the culture as a whole
You’re correct about Russia. And the same observation applies to the Indian subcontinent, where I’m from, as well. And, while you’re correct that each place requires a separate analysis, I would guess it applies to most places people leave.
People’s emotions and tribalism often make them romanticize the places they left. They attribute the good things about their society to the people and their culture, but externalize the bad things about their society. That’s usually self-deception.
That’s progressive taxes. Consider that roughly the bottom 60% of Americans have no federal income tax liability, simply because they do not make enough. That 60% cannot meet their basic needs on their incomes, very roughly speaking. Any increase of taxes on them would be regressive.
Yeah, and as part of the "class war", a majority of the lower classes decided to elect a billionaire whose first order of business was to implement giant tax cuts for the richest Americans while cutting programs like Medicaid and SNAP.
Class war will never work in America because we're too stupid.
Not really.
I have a rule that any commit which changes the implementation has to include the documentation update at the same time.
Most of these documentation updates are a sentence or two, or maybe a paragraph. The overhead of incremental documentation updates like that is tiny enough that I don't really think about assigning extra time for them.
> Tariffs are price increasing (colloquially "inflationary"), but not definitionally inflationary in the economic meaning. Look it up.
Weird (okay, not all that weird, but ironic, in context) thing to be confidently incorrect about.
Outside of the overtly ideology-over-description Austrian School of economics, which has a different jargon designed to advance their ideology, the general definition of (unqualified) inflation in economics is a sustained increase in general price levels.
And belief that the Austrian School usage is just the “economic meaning” is a pretty good sign that someone doesn't understand even Austrian School economics beyond rote recitation of doctrines and aphorisms.
They tried that. The judge, correctly, went "uh the fuck you will".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple
> While Apple implemented App Store policies to allow developers to link to alternative payment options, the policies still required the developer to provide a 27% revenue share back to Apple, and heavily restricted how they could be shown in apps. Epic filed complaints that these changes violated the ruling, and in April 2025 Rogers found for Epic that Apple had willfully violated her injunction, placing further restrictions on Apple including banning them from collecting revenue shares from non-Apple payment methods or imposing any restrictions on links to such alternative payment options. Though Apple is appealing this latest ruling, they approved the return of Fortnite with its third-party payment system to the App Store in May 2025.
This is a meta-hype article. It's an article about the hype.
I've talked to a team that's doing the dark factory pattern hinted at here. It was fascinating. The key characteristics:
- Nobody reviews AI-produced code, ever. They don't even look at it.
- The goal of the system is to prove that the system works. A huge amount of the coding agent work goes into testing and tooling and simulating related systems and running demos.
- The role of the humans is to design that system - to find new patterns that can help the agents work more effectively and demonstrate that the software they are building is robust and effective.
It was a tiny team and they stuff they had built in just a few months looked very convincing to me. Some of them had 20+ years of experience as software developers working on systems with high reliability requirements, so they were not approaching this from a naive perspective.
I'm hoping they come out of stealth soon because I can't really share more details than this.
A much more detailed and better-linked writeup: https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
As noted, the company has been in decline since going into private equity in 2020. Pro audio users have felt it was less and less about innovation and more about selling preset packs and slim-value upgrades, as well as increasingly onerous license management. At the same time people are distressed because the firm has a very impressive history of software and hardware products.
Inmusic (which owns Akai, Moog and several other premium pro audio brands) is a potential buyer to acquire them as they already have some product crossover in the form of NI plugins available exclusively on Akai hardware. However this would mean two flagship products that compete against each other (NI's Maschine and Akai's MPC, two very advanced drum pad/sequencing powerhouses). That would mean abandonment of Maschine, whose development was already stalled, and disappointment/bad feeling from many owners; pro audio consumers are necessarily emotional about their creative tools and tend to hold grudges.
OF course, the best of both products could be combined in a Secret Third Thing that embodied the best features of both, but the reality is that Inmusic has just released new flagship Akai MPCs (the 3rd generation of the current design paradigm), and they're such a big upgrade upgrade in both hardware and software terms that they're steamrolling their direct and indirect competition. Those flagship units (and some lighter-weight entry level units to come) have a ~5 year sales life before being replaced, and the latest software still runs well on the Gen 1 machines from 2017, albeit more slowly and without the fancy additional hardware features. So Inmusic is positively basking in brand loyalty at the moment, because they've prioritized capital investment for product development across multiple brands. They've saved by optimizing supply chain efficiencies, manufacturing more stuff in Asia, keeping materials costs low and exploiting economies of scale, while still encouraging designers and engineers to follow their hearts which has resulted in a lot of very happy customers.
Native Instruments had all this, with a very deep software stack and very well-engineered hardware offerings that operated perfectly together (ie no synchronization issues, no or minimal manual configuration required for hardware user interface mapping etc). But the product line got more and more bloated, the license management more of a pain, and development on the hardware stalled. When they were taken over by their existing PE owners in 2020 they seemed not to have any innovation or investment ideas of their own but were more focused on how to squeeze more money out of existing IP. This lead to a series of missteps - low value 'upgrades', abandonment of beloved software flagships, and the absence of any discernible roadmap for the hardware side of the business. This really matters in the pro audio space because as I mentioned above creative people are passionate about their tools. It's not unusual to see people who have the latest and greatest sequencer or audio interface hooked up to a 45 year old synthesizer and/or a slavish modern clone of that older design with additional features. music tech buyers want the heritage of the past to be maintained, but also to be excited with a steady supply of new music technology, and NI's private equity owners have completely failed to deliver the latter,w ith no significant hardware developments since 2019. The company went from arguably having the best hardware offerings in its niche (in terms of capabilities, ergonomics, firmware reliability, software integration, consumer loyalty) to seeing those edges disappear to their primary competitors one by one.
It's hard to guess what happens from here. Good managers could revive the company and build it back to its previous greatness, but the market has already seen it wrecked once by private equity and is wary of getting/staying invested in a product ecosystem that may not have a long term future. Music tech people are also acutely aware of the impact of tariffs and AI on hardware component pricing and product design. Currently the mood about NI's long term future is pessimistic; people are already talking about preserving existing setups as museum pieces, ie maxxed out as much as possible and then disconnected from the internet so they can be maintained in working order but otherwise frozen.
> What’s the main use-case for this?
Running weights available models.
> I get that I can run local models, but all the paid for (remote) models are superior.
If that's clearly true for your use cases, then maybe this isn’t for you.
> So is the use-case just for people who don’t want to use big tech’s models?
Most weights available models are also “big tech’s”, or finetunes of them.
> Is this just for privacy conscious people? Or is this just for “adult” chats, ie porn bots?
Sure, those are among the use cases. And there can be very good reasons to be concerned about privacy in some applications. But they aren’t the only reasons.
There’s a diversity of weights-available models available, with a variety of specialized strengths. Sure, for general use, the big commercial models may generally be more capable, but they may not be optimal for all uses (especially when cost effectiveness is considered, given that capable weights-available models for some uses are very lightweight.)
This particular one wasn't going anywhere useful.
That's presumably why the comment said "when [collective they] finally get lucky", not "when [individual they] inevitably get lucky".
A certain percentage of your species having genes encouraging risky/stupid behavior is likely somewhat useful.
The whole point of the sequence is that there's no chance that these "badass penguins" are going to make new species. There's no food where they're monomaniacally heading. They're going to die.
The article asserts that, since this is a one-time tax, billionaires will have no incentive to leave: "The tax’s designers, however, think they’ve come up with a clever solution to capital flight: a one-off tax that is retroactive, based on a billionaire’s residency status on January 1, 2026. In other words, unless they’ve already fled the state, billionaires won’t be able to move to avoid paying the tax. 'At this point, there’s no financial incentive to leave California,' Zucman said. 'You’re going to pay the same amount either way.'"
That misses the point. A one-time wealth tax to plug holes in the state's finances reeks of short-termism and desperation, like Chicago selling off its parking meters. Even if I wasn't affected by the tax, I'd be alarmed at the implication. It would have been much better to implement a well thought out and orderly recurring tax on capital gains or whatever.
Define "low-effort". I recently posted two Show HNs that were mostly written with Claude Code, but overall each took more man hours than my typical (less-ambitious) projects. Reception to both was positive.
> Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543359
> Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal
Ubisoft shares continue to collapse after announcements of cuts and closures: from a total value of $11 billion in 2018 to just $600 million today - https://hive.blog/hive-143901/@davideownzall/ubisoft-shares-... - January 26th, 2026
https://xcancel.com/_Tom_Henderson_/status/20147434951355967... - January 23rd, 2026
> Following the announcement of Ubisoft's restructuring and third round of cost-cutting measures, Ubisoft's internal communication channels are full of employees shaming upper management and asking for change. It's quite something seeing people very openly criticising a company they work for to such an extent, but after years of struggle, it's not surprising.
> Some employee's tell me that this was the final nail in the coffin for them, and that they will be seeking employment elsewhere, and others have decided to fast-track their already existing contingency plans in case they were laid off. More have taken to LinkedIn to publically announce they are now looking for work, despite still having a job at the company.
> Ubisoft is going to experience a massive exodus of talent, even without the impending layoffs.
The purpose of life is to spread and thrive.
> A Trump-appointed judge set a hearing about a situation where he was told a US citizen was being deported.
He's quoted as having a "strong suspicion" that a US citizen was deported.
> The same org that is claiming what?
DHS claims it was a voluntary deportation. But DHS also claimed Alex Pretti was an assassin. They're simply not credible.
> They didn't allege in that document that it was coerced.
I directly quoted it. Here it is again:
"When Julia objected, the officer threatened Julia that Jade would be immediately sent to a foster home in the United States if Julia did not write a note stating that Jade would be deported to Honduras with her."
> You think active cases are closed without involving the judge?
Again, "the case was closed without a ruling on the merits".
> Sure, but it didn't fit the criteria.
Given the above, and your other comments on incidents even Trump, Miller, and Noem are walking back their statements on, I'm not certain you're really reading anything.
> Want them to really listen to you? Cancel your accounts
Just loop in your regulators. This costs them far more and properly documents the problem for follow-up in case it becomes a pattern. Possibly more annoying than moving accounts. But far more effective (unless you have nine figures with the firm).
Interesting to see everyone seemingly writing their own browser lately. Ironic to think that AI assistance, from Google itself, might be what ends up breaking their browser monopoly.
(Speaking as someone who also started writing my own long ago, and it's far from complete.)
The EU has already forced WhatsApp to be interoperable. Of course, Meta complied maliciously, making it a setting that you have to enable, but at least it's a start.
I don't see anything wrong with attempting this. A significant number of people mistype/change their e-mail address, and security messages from banks can be important, so anything that catches no-longer-working e-mail addresses is better for everyone involved. And I assume a very small proportion of people try to disable tracking pixels.
But this post is entirely speculation. The author has no evidence they're basing it on tracking pixels. They're literally just guessing.
And I'm dubious that tracking pixels would be a reliable enough signal to be worth it. Doesn't Gmail download images in advance anyways? Plus, I regularly filter predictable emails or just archive them directly from my inbox based on the subject line without opening.
I'd more likely assume they have an e-mail bounce detector that just has a bug in it.
I did that years ago, at the end of Windows 7 and the beginning of the need for a Microsoft account.
I seem to have a much lower tolerance for enshitification than most people. I'm off Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn. Purely because they became annoying.
I'm curious about why they delisted it. When running operations for Blekko (another search engine that would back fill with Yahoo/Bing results when we didn't get a lot of hits in our own index). Of course people like DDG could index it themselves like they do Wikipedia and some other sites.
While Blekko was active there really were one three reasons we could be "forced" to de-index a site, it was being used by a 'bad' country (N. Korea, Iran, Etc.), it was serving up CSAM, or was participating in Ad fraud. Now Microsoft also would delist places that were in the crime underworld so they wouldn't index the <random-string>.ru sites and things like that. They should be able to give you an answer though unless they have an NSL that says they can't talk about it.
That makes me wonder if web sites that have "anti government / anti ICE" content will start getting delisted by US web indexes.
If that's the level of text size you require, you should be using sites on a large tablet, not a phone. A phone screen isn't large enough for your vision period. This is like expecting a website to be usable on an Apple Watch display. Be reasonable here.
At some point you just have to accept that your vision accommodations need to be met with a combination of hardware and software, not just software alone.
LMStudio introducing a command line interface makes things come full circle.
> then the final result is raster-scaled with some sinc/Lanczos algorithm back down to the physical resolution. This shows up as ringing artifacts, which are very obvious with high-contrast, thin regions like text.
I don't think this is true. I use non-integer scaling on my Mac since I like the UX to be just a little bit bigger, and have never observed any kind of ringing or any specific artifacts at all around text, nor have I ever heard this as a complaint before. I assume it's just bilinear or bicubic unless you have evidence otherwise? The only complaint people tend to make is ever-so-slight additional blurriness, which barely matters at Retina resolution.
What are you hitting the Google Books API for?
I would be on the hat side myself, not so much for formality but for environmental control. My wife has better skin than most women her age because she’s always worn a hat. As for me…
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