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A Baseless Copyright Claim Against a Web Host–and Why It Failed

eff.org
5 points·by laurex·25 дней назад·0 comments

Extinction-Level Capitalism

matthewbutterick.com
168 points·by laurex·27 дней назад·96 comments

The Contract for Palantir's Super API for the IRS

404media.co
5 points·by laurex·в прошлом месяце·0 comments

David Suzuki Calls Artimis II a Stunt for SpaceX IPO [video]

cbc.ca
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Not just bad for your lungs; air pollution damages your brain

cbc.ca
3 points·by laurex·в прошлом месяце·1 comments

Linux Compromises, Broken Embargoes, and the Shrinking Patch Window

askbaize.com
1 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·0 comments

Bill C-22 Surveils Ordinary Canadians While Leaving Cartel Networks Untouched

thebureau.news
3 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·0 comments

Minnesota passes the nation's first ban on 'nudification' apps

19thnews.org
18 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·7 comments

Bill C-22's Privacy and Security Risks Will Drive Digital Services Out of Canada

michaelgeist.ca
3 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·0 comments

Canada is about to end private digital conversation

dontsurveil.me
13 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·1 comments

Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages

opencivics-labs.github.io
98 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·28 comments

The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman battle is a distraction

theguardian.com
9 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·1 comments

Listen and learn: you can hear when someone is lying

theguardian.com
1 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·0 comments

'10 minutes of nirvana': 52 writers on the best sandwich of their life

theguardian.com
4 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·0 comments

8 in 10 Chatbots Inclined to Assist Users in Planning Attacks

statista.com
3 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·0 comments

Are you just an .md file?

deathbyclawd.com
3 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·2 comments

AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

arxiv.org
335 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·178 comments

Higher racial diversity in business, law schools linked to higher grad salaries

nature.com
4 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·1 comments

Evaluative AI and Semantic Topology

gsnv.substack.com
2 points·by laurex·2 месяца назад·0 comments

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laurex
·27 дней назад·discuss
Could you do a p2p connection via browser that would still send the message to the person's "inbox"? I suppose not everyone even has an on-device mail client anymore though.
laurex
·3 месяца назад·discuss
https://archive.is/BJeP5
laurex
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I'm excited to see communities of developers working to build things that are meaningful and matter to regular people, which ATProto seems to have more of than some other ecosystems in decent tech land. And where else could you attend an awesome workshop on "Hospicing Social Media?"
laurex
·4 месяца назад·discuss
It's very helpful to understand energy density to evaluate what a shift to renewables actually entails or what is even possible. Vaclav Smil is a good source or for a less dense version Nate Hagens has podcasts about it.
laurex
·4 месяца назад·discuss
https://archive.is/jUcVg
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
This is such a misunderstanding of what "community" means through the lens of technology. These tools are not designed to help people have relationships, and the Google vs. Facebook distinction is quite apt in that both are scale-oriented and relationships are in service of the ends of the business. We're using the word "community" to obfuscate the weird way the technology and its owners attempt to mediate relationships.
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
I love tldraw and am excited to see the many ways the project goes, thanks!
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Given that most commenters do not seem to have read the article perhaps the headline could be more explicit about 'MRIs find "abnormalities" but they seem to have no relationship to actual health problems"
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
I'm excited for a future where the technologist is like the tailor in their community. Scaling software has created a host of 'product traps' and there is no need for that for the vast number of activities people do aided by technology.
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Especially protocols that allow us to get out of the services entirely! (local first, peer-to-peer). This is the frontier tech I'm interested in right now, not AI (though they might be eventually compatible).
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
This argument might have made sense when property rights were assumed to trump all other concerns, but at this point, that isn't logical. We live in a world where "owning" everything has led to complete lack of responsibility for the effects of corporate behaviours serving short-term profit while all living systems are paying the price. At some point we need to introduce more tension between property rights and common welfare if we plan to make it through the next century.
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
While I have had some good experiences with CC, I do use at least double the tokens and probably more like 5x going through fixes / debugging from its initial efforts. I don't think this is always bad, because it helps me to understand some of the more complicated interactions of existing and new code and improves documentation, but it's irritating when it runs out of usage allotments when it has broken something. There are some small things it never has managed to fix that I have to figure out myself, but again, I learn from that. Mapping out a data structure in advance and creating a plan before immediately coding can also help, but at least in our project, sometimes it just takes an incorrect approach and so I don't just let it go off and do things willy-nilly. I can't at all imaging having an agent free to maintain the code at this point, despite the past 2 weeks' hype cycles.
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Remember the old days when journalists would be excommunicated for plagarism and/or making things up? Some of those folks must be like "I was just too early..."
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
For a deeper dive, Douglas Rushkoff wrote about this in Survival of the Richest https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fa...
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
How many OSS projects do devrel on Discord? (and please, let this moment be when it ends!) Feels like instead of indicting these projects and companies we need to actually invest resources in the design research and UX necessary to get FOSS tools to be truly competitive. Hint to developers: it's not feature parity, it's making the important features really good.
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
The Taiwan experiments were pretty interesting! for example https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/27/taiwan-civic-h...
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
If you consider "privacy" to be 'a giant corporation tracks every bit of possible information about you and everyone else'?
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
There are many Discord 'alternatives' but what if instead of trying to replace it with something that (kind of) works the same way, we actually got down to JTBD and first principles? To me, Discord is a hot mess, UX-wise. I've been working on this problem for years and it's so interesting what we think we "need" versus the anti-patterns many of the features come with. Considering holding some UX-focused hackathons to imagine better approaches, look at folk technology dot org.
laurex
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Every post I selected returned a page not found or just got stuck loading so...
laurex
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
And this very news site's settings are "Data processing by advertising providers including personalised advertising with profiling - Consent required for free use," funnily enough