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  1. Poor Jepsen.
  2. The app is unusable. I have a subscription available to me. I try to use it from time to time. The app is unusable.
  3. I am not sure what your point is. Is it that no CS is valuable or that only certain CS degrees are valuable?
  4. Fujitsu has never been served justice for Horizon.
  5. This is a joy.
  6. Berkeley, for disambiguation.
  7. Google incentivizes takedown vote abuse. 1. 3 Strikes rules for channels 2. Automatic takedown systems based on votes 3. Incentivizing competing channels with ads 4. No verification/limits/punishment of bogus takedown voters and vote bots 5. Lack of democritized, universal takedowns of equivalent content

    Does Microsoft unfairly benefit from Google's takedown tirefire? I do not know.

    But if I were designing a voting system for takedowns it would be: 1. 1 non-DMCA takedown vote per user per year 2. No takedown votes for accounts less than 1 year old 3. Takedown all equivalent content when a video is voted down. 4. Verification of DMCA ownership before taking down DMCA-protected content.

  8. It is not a mandatory feature.
  9. Microsoft denied a bug for a decade that harmed 100% of users every month in an obvious way.

    It is the denial that is so very Microsoft.

  10. Finite, but sufficiently abundant for any human to be clothed, housed, fed, taught, married, and succeeded by offspring as well-protected as they.
  11. It is hard to see it as anything else.
  12. I wish them success. I would like more of my vendors to operate their pricing this clearly.
  13. Are there any workarounds?
  14. "The idea that we would evade our legal obligations to the US government as a US company, or in any other country, is categorically wrong,"

    I can imagine that this Alphabet General Counsel-approved language could be challenged in court.

  15. Keep Android open.
  16. I agree strongly.

    I drink things that taste bad. No, not always. But when an option exists that I think might taste bad, I always choose it. Someone has determined that it is a worthy drink and unless I explore their thinking, I will never know whether or not I agree. Once explored, I have some data that I can use to compare with other implementations of such an horrific recipe. At once, I am a connoisseur of this awful thing.

    Let me know if you are interested in the worst place to get a bean-paste mojito with a cactus apple sidecar. I still search for the best.

  17. NBA stopped being an interesting sports entertainment product to me by the year 2004. It has generated a handful of interesting narratives since, but not really enough to keep me engaged in the face of its enshitification.
  18. Well said. There is a large number of inexpensive, long-batteried, powerful devices with lovely designs, good keyboards and trackpads that Asahi Linux has enabled to run Linux on beautifully.

    There are a 1st gen M1 Air wedge and M1 Macbook Pro 14 in my home that belong to other family members. I look forward to running Asahi on them when the users eventually upgrade.

  19. Not at all.

    Superintendent approved a system that they 100% knew would hallucinate guns on students. You assert that if the superintendent required human-in-the-loop before calling the police that the superintendent is absolved from deploying that system on students.

    You are wrong. The superintendent is the person who decided to deploy a system that would lead to swatting kids and they knew it before they spent taxpayer dollars on that system.

    The superintendent also knew that there is no way a school administrator is going to reliably NOT dial SWAT when the AI hallucinates a gun. No administrator is going to err on the side of "I did not see an actual firearm so everything is great even though the AI warned me that it exists." Human-in-the-loop is completely useless in this scenario. And the superintendent knows that too.

    In your lifetime, there will be more dead kids from bad AI/police combinations than <some cause of death we all think is too high>. We are not close to safely betting lives on it, but people will do it immediately anyway.

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