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Comment · 28 days ago
Everything is prompt injection now
Comment · 3 months ago
Private equity firms are buying profitable local businesses all over the US, including HVAC, plumbing, auto techs, storage, etc. So it’s possible that this case of enshittification actually WAS caused private equity in your example.
Comment · 3 months ago
I was just reminiscing about an old Pieter Hintjens post with my kids yesterday. They still hold up. RIP

(Needs a 2016 in the title)

Comment · 4 months ago
This is presented as an official position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormons) on AI, similar to the canon presented by the Pope recently regarding the Catholic Church’s position on AI.
Comment · 5 months ago
Weirdly enough I was wondering what Tavis Ormandy has been up to recently, as I haven't seen his name associated with any global show-stopping vulnerabilities from the Project Zero team for a while.

I miss uMatrix, too. Thank you for working on this!

Comment · 7 months ago
How much of this could attributed to simply having less artificial hormonal support for not overeating after discontinuing treatment, and falling back into old habits? I’d love to see more research focused on these mechanisms.
Comment · 9 months ago
As a European project the foundation is likely pursuing funding from EU sources using the fact that it isn’t US tech as a selling point.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
My favorite manual discovery/social was Napster, for that moment that you could view other user’s entire shared music folder and use the chat function to talk to them about their tastes!
Comment · 1 year ago
This headline BADLY buries the lede! The real scary stuff is the massive future costs of the blatant vendor lock-in that ALL the big tech firms, including Microsoft, are banking on with “free to the government for a year, undisclosed terms for later” contracts.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ahhh, So THESE are the “Moonies” I’ve heard cult-y references to in pop culture for decades…
Comment · 1 year ago
With all due respect: the author states in the FIRST paragraph that while recession is NOT most analyst’s base case for 2025 he was going to stick to his contrarian reputation and lay out his case for a recession prediction. RTFA then comment?
Comment · 2 years ago
>imagine an alternate universe where the founders of GitHub decided instead to found HgHub.

I'm reading this as "HugHub" and audibly laughing!

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