It starts with “they are giving up the shares voluntarily,” then three months later Mike Johnson introduces the Artificial Intelligence Secure from Terrorism United Patriotic Information Delivery bill (AI-STUPID) that authorizes the emergency purchase of 16 Trillion US Dollars of AI shares on taxpayer dime. 14 go to the AI companies, 2 will water the swamp.
The White House Ballroom is the blueprint, and itself it is the brain child of the Mexican Safety and Security Border Wall.
I sense that all started with the stupid GDPR popups. If so, then sincere apologies from Europe.
I think the thought process from the site’s perspective is simple: most of the attempts to hack into an account come from devices they have never seen, from places the user has never been. All a passkey does is tie your account to a “logical place,” a device (whether a browser, a phone, or a specific hardware key).
The passkey itself doesn’t tell the server anything it doesn’t know already, it just confirms it, so there really isn’t a whole lot of privacy implication beyond general concerns.
The big problem, and it’s a more universal problem, comes when you are trying to log in from a device that has no passkey. Maybe you forgot your phone, or you bought a new computer, or something else. The “forgot password” flow, and the related “I am on a new device” flow are some of the weakest spots for computer security, because they presume that something happened that automatically lowers security credentials.
What I like about one-time codes like GAuth is that you can transfer the keys from device to device yourself. You are very rarely going to be in a position where you can’t access the keys, and as a result it’s fine to put you through extraordinary measures to reset your security. The issue with passkeys is that it’s pretty common that you’ll be using a new device, and as such you can’t be forced to go through hoops every time you need to register a new one.
Fun story: I was in my teens and my aunts came to visit from abroad. They had gone to the local video store and asked the clerk to give them something for their nephews. The clerk asked a few questions about my brothers and me, and told my aunts to come back the next day.
They came to visit and proudly handed us the video tape. We put it into the machine and it played and incredibly horribly terrible sci-fi. It was so B-movie quality, the laser rays zapped off in a totally different direction than the guns were pointing.
Aunts leave a few days later, disappointed that the movie was so bad. A week later, my mother says, the tape was bidirectional (Video 2000, the German standard of the time), we should see if there was something on the other side. We put it back in and, lo and behold, there was a movie.
It started odd. A mansion, a lady entering an expensive car. She hands her little Maltese on a leash to the butler and drives off. As soon as she’s gone, the butler kicks the dog into the giant fountain in front of the mansion and goes inside. There, he and the maids get naked and into bed.
At this point, even 15-year-old me knows what’s going on, and the entire family starts staring at my mother, who started the whole thing. She was intently looking at the screen, saying things like, “Oh, it must be so relaxing when your boss is gone and you can just rest in bed!” or “Well, staff in this mansion, they are really friendly with each other!”
Then there was silence. Then she said, “Turn off this filth!”
And we never spoke of that Sunday afternoon again.
There is something really weird going on right now. On one side, hardware manufacturers sell their wares with ever brighter screens and higher color gradients and accuracy - on the other, interfaces have become dark, low contrast, monochrome, and stylized.
When I look at my KDE bar, there are only two icons with any color or line thickness at all. The other ones are all dark gray on light gray and line-based. I have to look three times to decide whether something is the WiFi indicator or the volume control; the clipboard and the wallet icons look too similar to tell which is which.
I don’t want the garish world of manufacturer ads, showing off how much brightness and color their devices are capable, but please don’t give me the exact opposite, and indistinguishable mess where everything looks the same even though you have the ability to distinguish it all. Life is already gray enough, show me something that cheers me up, please.
Imagine you are so dumb, you decide to rename your company for its biggest failure, and then you get to fire everybody else because they are redundant. Facebook renaming itself Meta is like Tesla changing its name to Cybertruck Inc.
I can’t wait until the AI bubble is over and drags the worst people under.
Absolutely. But the founders are heavyweights in the field and I had hope. I guess it’s cold fusion two, too good to be true 😭
American population: about 400 million. Cost of the war in Iran: about 20 billion per day. 20 billion divided by 400 million: about 50 dollars a day.
Every single person in America spent the equivalent of this Trump phone in ten days of this war that has lasted more than six times as long. How the man is still America’s President, I don’t know. But the saga of the $500 cult vaporphone sure explains a lot.
The part about TAE is devastating, as a lot of people had high hopes they would come up with a fusion reactor. Them being sold to TMTG probably means it was BS all along.
Not really, not a big gamer. As a (new) user of the site, I would expect games of outstanding quality and emulators to show up. Say SuperTuxkart and ScummVM.
Great site - easy to navigate, great service, big thank you!
Am I just braindead or is there no category for games?
Having worked Silicon Valley through two boom-and-bust cycles, my impression is that these people hurt because they don’t understand their success. What I mean is that the Internet is a random multiplier: if you have the right idea at the right time and the right structure, you become almost infinitely rich. If you lack anything in the combination, you get nothing.
Take Facebook: the idea had been floating around for a while, but successive implementations suffered from technical, then legal issues. Then Zuck comes along, steals the idea, implements it successfully and boom, you have an infinillionaire. But when the same guy comes up with the next idea, it fails. Then the next one fails. Then the Metaverse happens and the failure is astounding.
It’s basically a lottery, where your startup is the ticket. One person wins, a million plays for nothing. The winner is selected at random.
But people hate that idea, so they come up with stupid “logic” justifying why Zuck won and Yang (Yahoo!) failed. You can’t imagine how many people in Silicon Valley devour Ayn Rand’s ideology, how many believe in genetic racial superiority, and other fairy tales. I was always surprised they didn’t go for divine intervention, but they are largely agnostic.
I was actually expecting the opposite: that there would be lots of bans because Blahaj is such a visible target for trolls and haters.
I am very happy that the communities there are peaceful. Y’all deserve to flourish and grow and be your best selves, and the rest of us doesn’t do enough to deserve you.
Pseudocode:
for individual in users:
if individual.net_worth > 1_000_000:
skip
Music is a weird art form, because something sounding familiar is very important to our ear. Many people have a really hard time liking music that is too foreign to their taste and end up sticking with only a select few genres.
Where familiarity is important, AI can deliver easily. I would think as much as we hate the idea, there is a pretty significant market for AI-generated music, specifically because it’s so predictable and follows convention to a tee.
That’s how it all started for me: I had Netflix and Spotify from ages before, and then Netflix did their, “ads or double the price” thing and Spotify gave me more and more corporate music instead of what I wanted, so I dropped them both and switched to YouTube Premium for both music and video content.
I think the key here is to get used to react immediately, because the immediate reaction causes a reversal of the action. We don’t have to live with the increased cost and decreased service forever, because an immediate negative reaction means the service is restored to what it was before, with any luck. So everybody skips a downgrade or price increase at the same time, and until CEOs figure out the trick, it’s bye bye enshittification.
Okay, fine, I am ready to come out of the closet: I’ve been a YouTube Premium subscriber for two years. Lynch me if you like. I thought it hypocritical to crucify YouTube and have a Spotify or Netflix or Hulu subscription, and I found the cost acceptable.
Three price increases and a worsening of service later, I cancelled my subscription as soon as I received the email about a price increase.
Incidentally, I think that’s the thing to do: you get a price increase, there is no tangible benefit to the increase, you immediately drop the service. None of that “Whatchagonnado?” stuff. The only thing these services react to is an instant drop of revenue. You can live for a month without Spotify (or YouTube Premium), they can’t live for a quarter without subscribers.
We always have to remember that the short-term focus of modern capitalism is their weakness: a stupid mistake, a sudden drop in revenue, and the CEOs are flying out the window faster than Putin’s generals.
A’right, this is disgusting, but it’s really not Reddit’s fault if a Grand Jury requests evidence.
___Especially because the Grand Jury hasn’t even requested anything yet, I guess?
I swear I haven’t bought anything Sony since that happened. There are just betrayals that go too far to ever be forgiven.