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Comment · 4 days ago
I mean, China regularly executes its CEOs. The only sweet summer child here is you not understanding how Chinese politics works.
Comment · 4 days ago
wiretaping an ISP is vastly different from say, ordering and forcing Anthropic or OpenAI to put malicious weights into their models. Not once in my reply did I ever imply the U.S. doesn't perform espionage. Look up Five Eyes.
Comment · 4 days ago
People buy these instead of mac minis because of the pretty design. That's it. Consumers are a lot more irrational than most people give them credit for.
Comment · 4 days ago
The vast majority of tailnets are just hobbyists on the generous free tier and probably don't use tailscale ssh, but rather ssh over a tailnet. Usually it's either just one person or a family sharing access to the tailnet. But for corporate accounts where ACLs are used for SSH yeah this is big.
Comment · 5 days ago
> Anthropic is even considered security risk by the US.

You and everyone reading this knows that was a political statement, not a technical assessment because a certain SecDef who played fast and loose with Signal chats didn't like that anthropic refused to let them use their models with weapon systems.

Comment · 5 days ago
It's much easier for the Chinese government to tell Alibaba they must perform espionage using their models than the US Government. Even if every last engineer there joined the company just for "AI Research and Development", they might be under scrutiny or forced to shutdown if they don't work with the CCP. Power is shared between corporations and the government in the west, the government is the power in China.
Comment · 5 days ago
Are you proposing putting the RAM or CPU on the server side and keeping GPU client side? I don't see how that would work because you need extremely low latency to coordinate all of these things, and a network barrier is the highest form of latency.
Comment · 5 days ago
I play BF6 on GeForce NOW (got the game before I made the full time switch to Linux) and the latency isn't perceptible at all. I suppose living in a country with extensive fibre optical links and a dedicated nvidia data center helps, so yes this isn't a solution for everyone, but I think it's better than the dilemma of letting cheaters proliferate or destroying privacy.
Comment · 5 days ago
Heavily depends on what your site is trying to accomplish. Marketing sites aren't supposed to be printable because we're very visual creatures. We see before we read, and so something like the iPhone product page shouldn't be printable, but something like arXiv where I'm trying to read something, not see it should.
Comment · 17 days ago
The more comments I read on HN attempting to rationalize this as "normal behaviour" by banks, the more I believe that this is a massive bubble getting ready to pop
Comment · 17 days ago
You're right that these two goals are fundamentally incompatible, which means the only possible solution is to remove the clients' hardware from the equation for online competitive games.

For as much hate as cloud gaming gets (the whole "you will own nothing and be happy" schtick) I see it as the perfect solution to online competitive games:

- Even if you own physical media, you don't own the servers or data necessary to run the game.

- Games can be run by an accountable third party who runs signed kernels and hardware with attestation.

- None of your personal information ever touches this hardware.

There is a middle ground where instead of playing all of your games remotely, you only play the online competitive ones remotely in order to protect your data and ensure a fair environment. Too many companies have become rent-seekers to the detriment of their customers that this won't be seen as a viable solution because of the negative connotations.

Do not mistake this for complacency. I will gladly pick up a torch or pitchfork the moment NVIDIA suggests I rent their servers to play Minecraft or Stardew Valley, but for games like Battlefield 6 I think this solution works perfectly.

Comment · 17 days ago
>I've worked at places where we use a password manager to manage lots of passwords for random services that we subscribe to. The engineering manager always says "you can put your own passwords in for free" and I say "no thanks, they're going to get hacked" and then six months later... they get hacked.

There is heaps of context missing from this. Did the password manager itself get hacked, or did an employee leak a password for a single site that didn't use 2FA ?? The former strongly solidifies your point, the latter undermines it, and to be clear I don't think it's a good idea to use an employer sponsored password vault either.

Comment · 18 days ago
Browser diversity is merely an after-effect of Apple having complete control over iOS, if it was profitable to let Google coup the entire web, they would do it in a heartbeat.

It's obvious Apple isn't doing this to "protect the open web" because if that was true, they wouldn't have stopped developing Safari for Windows.

Comment · 18 days ago
> Apple is kicking off a new campaign today to promote Safari’s benefits over Chrome. With a new “Switch to Safari” page on its website and a pair of new YouTube videos.

The irony of using a Google platform to promote ditching another Google platform lol.

Comment · 18 days ago
pick your poison. Splitting repositories multiplies CICD maintenance exponentially and even moreso if you're trying to share private ones that need secret keys to access. I know from experience. No single approach in this industry is flawless. Everything has tradeoffs.

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