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The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever [video]

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2 points·by tempfile·7 mesi fa·0 comments

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tempfile
·l’altro ieri·discuss
They didn't attribute any fault to these patterns, just said the pattern itself is concerning. It is bad for the EU to be mistreated by the US!
tempfile
·l’altro ieri·discuss
What is this supposed to be? The title is gibberish.
tempfile
·3 giorni fa·discuss
Does this federate with anything, like Matrix or XMPP? If it is locked into a single software, I fear nobody will ever switch to it (I have too many chat apps already!)
tempfile
·11 giorni fa·discuss
oh, of course. How did I not think of that!
tempfile
·11 giorni fa·discuss
> The family member got the sack.

Isn't this classic wrongful termination?
tempfile
·11 giorni fa·discuss
If you can't actually substantiate these claims (they probably can't prove it, even if it's true) then this could be a very expensive claim to make.
tempfile
·11 giorni fa·discuss
I don't know where you are, and I'm not an expert, but a job requiring specific technology typically means it is your employer's responsibility to provide that technology. So if they signed a contract that mandates you have a smartphone, you can use your own if you like, but I think they are legally required to provide you with one if you choose not to buy one. In fact in most cases, I think they should prefer that (since the security of your personal device is very much none of their business).

I think this is kind of a ticking time bomb with a lot of companies depending on personal devices for 2FA.
tempfile
·23 giorni fa·discuss
I've been trying emacs for a while. People keep saying it's self-discovering and I have no idea what they mean. Am I missing part of the manual? I google stuff when I don't understand, like any other piece of software. I've never managed to successfully use the help system to find anything.
tempfile
·23 giorni fa·discuss
Huh? You don't have to come up with an interpretation. The brief says it "looks a lot like today's MRIs but at nearly a hundred times the speed". They don't explain why having a hundred times as many MRI images would lead to better diagnostic outcomes. It is not like ultrasound scanning is a new idea, and they don't give any particular reason why this suggestion was not used before (other than "...data?")
tempfile
·23 giorni fa·discuss
I always forget this, because it makes no sense. Fair enough!
tempfile
·23 giorni fa·discuss
I know, but neither GET nor QUERY may have side effects.
tempfile
·24 giorni fa·discuss
Depends whether your form submission should expect side effects or not. Most forms submissions have side effects. If the effect is truly idempotent, wouldn't PUT be a better verb? That is also supposed to be idempotent.
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
Public-facing LLMs are a horrible liability.
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
It is not exactly an outlandish suggestion that this may happen.
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
What are you smoking? The median house price in London is 500k. At 750k you can afford 77% of houses and at a million you are in the top 10%. 50k per year is also a preposterously high expenditure. Rent will be your leading expense by probably a factor of 10. You could put aside 3k a month for rent (again, totally preposterous number) and not touch the sides.

The only thing I can think of that would even come close to making a difference is having children. Then all bets are off, they can cost as much as you like.
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
That is an extremely high salary, and very far from the minimum required to buy, even on your own. A dual £350k income is truly astonishing. You could buy most houses in London in cash after saving for 5 years.
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
What are you talking about? Why is "liking" something mutually exclusive with conveying information? I like lots of things precisely because they convey information!
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
same shit new day, I'm guessing
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
Not sure what you're getting at here. Would you be happier if he was trading on the arguments he's making, introducing an incentive to lie?
tempfile
·mese scorso·discuss
Obligatory: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be...