Phelinofist

It is a very good talk and he makes some really great points, but alas the EU will never have the balls to do this (I'm a EU citizen :'-( )

The Asahi talk was good, but the video switched waaaayyyyy too often between slide only -> slide + speaker -> stage -> only speaker. Made me kinda uncomfortable.

Uuurgh flashbacks to Day 7 of AoC, part B was really hard

Can you give examples of the little freedom of speech?

Yes, that is what I meant - thanks for actually expressing my thoughts better than me.

I know nothing about Rust. But why is unsafe needed? Kinda sounds a lock would make this safe?

> hostile towards corporations and surveillance capitalism

... they said. Not against users.

> This leads to authors having to re-explain their thinking in detail, covering points that they’d omitted for brevity or because they are obvious to those with a good understanding of the problem.

IMHO there should be no gaps like that. If you already thought hard and long about these problems, why not just write all your knowledge down, so other people can benefit from that? Also, this makes your work a lot more accessible to those who came after you. Of course, you have to assume a certain baseline of knowledge. But if you already have a good understanding of the problem, why not formulate that as part of the RFC?

I use NoScript and only got them after enabling JS for the blog page

Pretty subject to personal taste. Half of that list is garbage IMHO

> By creating a chock point at the hardware level, OpenAI can prevent the competition from increasing their reach because of the lack of hardware

I already hate OpenAI, you don't have to convince me

Not quite - I'm German :P

But as a sibling has said, the "super nice question homie" texts are not coming (as much) in Gemini as in ChatGPT (for me). I know that you can tune ChatGPTs persona, but that changed also the answer quality for me for the worse.

IMHO Gemini surpassed ChatGPT by quite a bit - I switched. Gemini is faster, the thinking mode gives me reliably better answers and it has a more "business like" conversation attitude which is refreshing in comparison to the over-the-top informal ChatGPT default.

> What I'd love for these sites to do is help me understand where I am distributionally. How unique am I? On what? Help me understand what needs to be fixed and what my threat vector is.

This EFF tool does this https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

> was sold to a German company... So, it’s not really surprising that it stagnated

As a German I _really_ feel this

I'm pretty sure no one outside of the US thought of the USA in that way, ever.

Random unrelated reminder that GitHub still doesn't support IPv6 yet.

But if another Firefox user comes they are indistinguishable from each other, while every Chrome user is uniquely identifiable, are they not?

What a plot twist

Sure, it is a Linux box after all

Germanys ID has the technical means to allow something like that (age verification without disclosing identity), but knowing the German Gov and their absolute stasis something like this will never happen. It is absolutely necessary to do something like this, because social media has a net negative influence on society.

A lot of kids in my daughters class (~7yo's) are consuming brain rot content already. They shout "SIGMA BOY" or "SKIBIDI TOILET" like little retards during lessons. Yeah memes are cool and all, but not at this age.

While at it, ban lootboxes.

Yeah and then we let it die

Is there an update on the malicious compliance from Apple in the EU?

This might attract a certain type of people

Germany also wants to sell the 6Ghz frequencies to MNOs

My comment was actually tongue in cheek that the newest Python incarnation looks like the 20+ year old thing from Java, i.e. Python finally going in the right direction.

I agree that the EU needs to reform into something stronger, because the different nations of the EU are not really acting in union. However, while I sympathize with some stances of the AfD they are generally pretty anti EU. So I'm not sure I agree that they have a real action plan.

I know it sounds insane but I wish Germany had such a stable government that actually DOES something. For as long as I can remember German govs have been absolute dogshit. Not to say the CN gov hasn't done no wrong. But they are moving with incredible speed in the right direction.

   [project]
   name = "my_project"
   version = "1.0.0"
   requires-python = ">=3.9,<3.13"
   dependencies = [
     "astropy>=5.0.0",
     "pandas>=1.0.0,<2.0",
   ]

looks like a POM file

While I totally get the sentiment that is quite the environmental pollution, if (more) useless GPU/CPU power is wasted