felindev

My work experience with trying to access AI models from GCP has been rather spotty. Gemini works great for work we need it to do, but dynamic usage limits are hitting us hard. And while we tried to use Anthropic models on there, we could not get them fully enabled, for one reason or another.

As the saying goes "optimal amount of fraud is non zero"

> We’ll trade away the last scraps of online anonymity and build a legally required censorship machine, all for a promise of safety that's always just out of reach.

Good example would be EU's proposed "chat control" regulation. Wiretapping every (even encrypted) channel for off chance illegal material might be shared.

While it is annoying, reddit at lest gives you option to see original text.

This change has really been annoying me and as far as I tested, no extension worked. Quick look through network activity and it confirmed that it was done server side, no original titles were supplied anywhere. Only option was display language and titles were pre-translated to it. Just give me option to see original content, that is why I'm here

One very important factor is creators. Unless you got people to create on your platform, it isn't going anywhere. As far as I know, Youtube has best ad-revenue split of all platforms

While people might attempt that, it's going to be an arms race, just like ads vs adblocks. There's already multiple crawlers that present fake user-agent when their original one is blocked. Temptation of more data is just to irresistible to them

> the company launched an official eBay store that sells refurbished drives. [...] However, this store only sells in the US

One could make a joke that seagate did start selling refurbs in EU, just without telling anyone. Why is it always seagate when there's something wrong with HDDs?