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Comment · 3 days ago
While they both fall under DHS, you're confusing CBP with ICE.

CBP's job is to protect the border and stop drug and people trafficking entering, whereas ICE's original purpose was to enforce immigration law within the US.

While not "everything" ICE was tasked with was immigration, that was their bread and butter. Where the vast majority of their workforce and spend went.

Comment · 3 days ago
But why is ICE, specifically, investigating that? The Federal government has multiple criminal divisions - why are ICE now a US Citizen criminal investigatory branch too? Seems far outside of their remit.
Comment · 4 days ago
Commonly that isn't a software issue though, that's a hardware problem being [correctly] indicated by software. With three notable exceptions:

- Windows 1.0 through ME era: Legitimately an unstable OS due to dangerous memory model/lack of memory isolation.

- Windows NT through XP: Before KPP was added, software was monkey-patching the kernel, and it was causing instability (particularly multiple trying to over-patch each other). For example during that era it wasn't UNCOMMON for antivirus to do so as a matter of course.

- Windows Vista Specific: They made significant changes to the driver model of several popular device types, and manufacturers weren't ready. So a lot of driver-related failures.

But since then, it has mostly be smooth sailing. If you see a BSOD, you can trace it down, and more often than not the source will be underlying hardware failure which is why BSOD exists and isn't a software bug or problem.

Comment · 5 days ago
That's definitely a problem too.

But minor credit to Anthropic, at least they've mostly stuck to their four model names (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable). You mostly know where a model is MEANT to be positioned from the name alone. OpenAI cannot keep it consistent from release to release.

But, yes, currently Opus Vs. Fable has the same issue as Sol-6.1 Vs. Astra.

Comment · 5 days ago
I'm very confused about their model market position/naming schema.

First we had:

> Luna (Small), Terra (Medium), Sol (Big).

Which was fairly smooth after you got used to their planets.

But then they added Astra as the "Bigger," which was mostly still self-coherent:

> Luna (Small), Terra (Medium), Sol (Big), Astra (Bigger)

But then things go confusing, they released Sol-6.1 which sometimes is superior to Astra, and discontinued Terra which made it look like this:

> Luna (Small), Sol-6.1 == Astra

But with Sol-6.1 costing the old Terra-6.0 price, while, as I said performing as good as the old "Bigger" model in many non-3D/UI situations.

Now they're re-introduced Terra, as a 6.1 release, making this even more confusing.

Did Microsoft's chief branding officer move over to OpenAI?

Comment · 6 days ago
Cloudflare has automatic exploit mitigation. Which I feel like would somewhat defeat the point.
Comment · 17 days ago
It is Schrodinger's Bob - Both technically literate enough to know how to do that, while also not being technically literate enough to spot the phish or determine why autofill isn't working/the password manager isn't matching.

This is where Passkeys shine, in an edge-case user that is neither of the two most common user types. Basically a unicorn situation.

Comment · 17 days ago
So they do, in fact, do that and you have a workaround? They won't autofill on a phishing site, thus the copy/paste bypass.

It is a pretty big red-flag.

Comment · 17 days ago
> There is nothing to prevent you from entering your super secure u quiet password on the wrong site if you get phished.

You replied to someone talking about password managers, which objectively do exactly that.

> Unique strong passwords, TOTP, 2FA, one time sign in emails, none of those offer this stuff.

And Passkeys don't offer portability, user choice, or user control.

Cryptography may be a solution, passkeys are one technical implementation that at is core is designed around smartphone-first, vendor-first, brand-loyality-first thinking.

Comment · 18 days ago
Solar is great. I'm highly skeptical that a battery + inverter (w/o solar), using time-of-use for payback would ever make pure financial sense.

In fact, if it DID make financial sense, wouldn't companies already be buying up empty/cheap space and then turning a profit after the payback period? Why aren't they?

There are other reasons to do this, but purely on the financial side, I'd want to see the numbers on this one. Again, this isn't about solar, the claim was about battery + inverter + time-of-use paying for itself.

Comment · 19 days ago
The LLM should have suggested where you find the browser setting to disable it - they all have one. Can you explain why you're leaving the setting enabled, and using a user-script to disable it instead? Most browsers even offer per-site permissions.
Comment · 22 days ago
Can you explain your thinking?

Flock, at the core, isn't a public entity. They aren't a government. So they're a private entity, just like an individual, tracking who they want, when they want.

This person is doing the exact same thing as Flock, and suddenly it is a problem? Seems like a double-standard.

Comment · 25 days ago
So the expected flow of this is:

- Scroll

- Read either the left OR right (but we're going to switch)

- Mouse-over 3D shapes(???) to actually read percentages

- Click "Dig Deeper" to see the most useful part of the survey which is a slide-in only taking up 2/3 of the screen...

- Most of the "deep dive" page though is niche exporting tools instead of, you know, content.

- Then there are sub-pages that seemingly have more data, but I have to click "Dig Deeper" -> Subpage -> Full Data over and over again?

- No navigational anchors, no real layout overview of this thing...

Like this whole thing should win all the awards for one of the worst and most hostile visual designs I've seen. It should genuinely be taught in web-development classes because it so well represents all the antipatterns of UI, UX, navigation, and data presentation. Honestly, the only antipattern they managed NOT to shove in here is scrolljacking.

I gave up trying to read it after about my third trip through the rabbit hole of trying to see a data area. And, I know, site layout/design should NOT be on-topic for this. But it is actually a legitimate blocker in this case, people aren't going to read this because of how horrible this is.

I'd blame AI, but both Codex and Claude produce better experiences than this today.

Comment · 1 month ago
I understand your point; but I disagree - Unlimited is possible.

It gets into a "define unlimited" discussion. You could give "unlimited" usage, but still "limit" both concurrency and throttle speed. Even if you run 24/7, they still have knobs they can twist.

Comment · 1 month ago
Have they solved GPT5.6 SOL's propensity to over-engineer and over-complicate? You'd ask SOL to do something relatively simple, and find four single-use methods, an interface, and a factory-factory.

I actually preferred 5.6-Terra not because it is technically superior (it isn't) but because it had better instincts to NOT do this stuff.

PS - Speaking of better instincts, have they closed the UI-design gap at all? I keep a Claude subscription just because /design produces significantly higher quality UI design/UI feedback/UI refinement than anything I've seen from OpenAI.

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