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I don't understand these people. Agent instructions in markdown is barely a suggestion. I have one which says "All code in this repository is executed in docker containers, run the services with `docker compose run --rm php-cli "$@"`. Gemini and Claude more often than not refuse to abide and will try to execute the environment using /opt/homebrew/bin/php on my host…

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Exactly as many as the USA has founding fathers, give or take a few. Which is to say less than in the Fathers of Mercy.

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2 days agodiscuss

And: What are the externalities of this? The current 10700 satellites are expected to have a lifespan of about five years. So, averaging these burning up in the upper atmosphere there will be one deorbit ever four hour.

If I were to ask my relevant government regulator if I were allowed to burn the equivalent of a few electric cars every day without capturing/scrubbing the pollution they would laugh me out of the room.

But ”in space” nobody can hold you accountable, so burning an order of magnitude more like this is somehow on the table.

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4 days agodiscuss

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4 days agodiscuss

I see a significant distinction between these two things. And I see chat control as a significant intrusion in my personal life.

Laws and democracy is a constant fight, no democracy was complete and perfect the day it was announced.

We lost a battle now. And unlike people like you who only resort to insults I am not willing to give up just because of this setback. I will continue to fight for these rights.

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4 days agodiscuss

Multiple things can be true at the same time.

There can exist strong consumer protections against misuse of their personal data by various entities.

And there can simultaneously also exist governmental overreach against citizens private data.

The world is complex, few things are truly binary.

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5 days agodiscuss

One hour is great for spearphishing attacks, once the victim has been infected their IT department will have no trace of the source.

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5 days agodiscuss

> At some point widespread desalination is probably inevitable, but that requires a lot of energy.

This might be true, but desalination is not without it's own externalities (not counting energy usage). The primary one I am thinking of is the increase in salinity and heat in the local area killing sea life. These issues may be possible to avoid with limited use of desalination today, but a significant increase in volume may reach a point where things like dilution and cooling by mixing does not have the desired effect.

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7 days agodiscuss

It’s equal parts funny and frustrating to see how deep into the ”a few hypothetical percent of profits for corporations matters more than customer rights and less e-waste” some are.

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8 days agodiscuss

Go on with what? Asking you again to answer what you repeatedly avoid to answer?

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9 days agodiscuss

I don’t think parent commenter says so, he only claims one thing for himself, that pardon power is always a miscarriage of justice. Then he asks another thing of us, which is explicitly excluding himself, indicating that he thinks all laws and all applications of law and justice is fair.

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9 days agodiscuss

I can. Let’s say for example that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was used to prosecute you for downloading JSTOR documents which you had already access to. And you are facing the cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, personal asset forfeiture. Now, would a pardon from the highest executive office be a miscarriage when the prosecution should never have happened in the first place? I don’t think so, I don’t think all laws are neutral (eg Patriot Act) or all prosecutions are equally valid, therefore a pardon may indeed be a way to tipping the scales to a more fair society.

That said, I have never seen the current administration do that.

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9 days agodiscuss

I did not flag you, but I certainly see why someone might.

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9 days agodiscuss

Which, again, is not meaningfully different. Yet it seems you insinuated so. Can you explain in detail?

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9 days agodiscuss

> Ephemeral transit layer owned by third-parties constantly

This is a good description of SMS and RCS.

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10 days agodiscuss

If Apple can store the sms/iMessage, and email history, and health/journal history, and my Wallet payment history, in a safe manner I would think Apple can store notification history in a safe manner. How would notifications be meaningfully different from these?

I think the proof of Apple’s level of care is in their lack of attention to this issue.

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11 days agodiscuss

Privacy is a facet of freedom.

It gives the ability to speak and communicate without fear of being censored or surveillance (edit to add: and when there is censorship & surveillance it gives helps regain some of said freedom). It supports other freedoms like voting and freedom of association. It reduces the ability of others to harass or threaten or stalk you, making your daily life easier. It allows for whistleblowing against illegal acts of companies or government entities. Journalists and their sources often need it as part of their ability to freely do their jobs.

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11 days agodiscuss

For the company I work at, it’s primarily inertia. We started using containers with Docker. And then it just continued. We are two out of 20+ developers who would like to use Podman, but the rest is just ”eh, why bother?”. And I don’t fully fault them for holding that position, Docker generally works. Why switch to something which may or may not provide some benefit (most which will be indirect such as better security and setup)? I still continue to mention Podman regularly though …

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15 days agodiscuss

CrowdStrike (15)

EU equal of similar age and employment: SAP (31) or Darktrace (13)

AppLovin (14)

EU equal of similar age and employment: Delivery Hero (15), Infineon (27) or Evolution (20)

Uber (17)

EU equal of similar age and employment: Klarna (20) or Bolt (12)

ServiceNow (22)

EU equal of similar age and employment: Mistral (2)

Robinhood (13)

EU equal of similar age and employment: Revolut (10) or eToro (19)

AirBNB (18)

EU equal of similar age and employment: Booking.com (30), Amadeus (29)

Snowflake (13)

EU equal of similar age and employment: OVHcloud (26), Arm (29), or ASML (38)

Edit, okay those last ones are a bit old. But they are truly big and high technology.

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15 days agodiscuss

Past couple of decades, how many exactly? I mean Apple (48), Microsoft (51), Amazon (32), Nvidia (33), Oracle (49), Adobe (44), Cisco (42), Intel (58), Google (28) aren’t exactly young.

With the exception of Tesla (23) and Meta (22), USA is not brimming with large new tech companies from the past decades either.

I mean King, Spotify, and Klarna are not trillion dollar companies. But at least they are younger than Google.

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