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absentmoon··on Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'
Your comment is definitive but your reference is to a Wikipedia section labelled as "speculation".
absentmoon··on Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust
What counts as a project in your case? Would you oppose the idea of modules within a project mixing languages? I believe curl is over 500,000 lines of code so in the case of forks a progressive rewrite, module by module seems a lot more achievable than porting everything all at once
absentmoon··on They stole my voice with AI
I strongly disagree. I don't know the rights around one's own voice, but the idea that you suddenly lose ownership of something because you shared it online is the exact thing that many people take issue with when it is written in the terms of service for social networks, creator tools (adobe), etc.
absentmoon··on Attacking journalists as terrorists
Potential abuse of such powers should not be tolerated regardless of whether one is part of a protected group or not.
absentmoon··on NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
Cool, now I can name my internal packages keygen to avoid dependency confusion /s
absentmoon··on I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
I assume the bandwidth was too costly. It seems to be archived on Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20230509042606/https://worthdoin...
absentmoon··on Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI
Did you fill in the form with super compelling use case or something?
absentmoon··on An Update on the Lock Icon
They updated it but as soon as you click it the old icon and UX is there?
absentmoon··on CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers With Conditional Computation
That would be nice but at least they published their research
absentmoon··on Our production servers were suspended by Google Cloud
Reading this makes me wonder if there is room for something similar to "The Global Chubby Planned Outage". In addition to good comms, they could gradually degrade your service up until suspension as a way of getting your attention.
absentmoon··on Custom Embeddings: Why going viral caused us to rip out everything in a weekend
Embeddings are often used as features for these LLMs so before they were paying to generate embeddings and doing inference with these large models. Now they pay to generate embeddings, fine-tune them and do semantic search (probably approximate k-nearest neighbors). The hardware requirements for most LLMs make them much more expensive than approximate KNN with a vector database.
absentmoon··on Scheduled Messages in Microsoft Teams
It looks like the feature was released in September last year but has not been well publicized.
absentmoon··on Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group
"any and all testing?". Are you aware of the flat earth movement? For some of their members, no amount of evidence is enough. The goal posts always move. I suspect the same applies here.
absentmoon··on Javice and the data science professor create fake customers
Imagine JPMC paying off your debts as part of merger when those debts include the cost of generating fake customers
absentmoon··on The 5% Rule
I'm inclined to agree with the premise of this article but I'm skeptical of the numbers.
absentmoon··on Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift
Not saying one is better than the other but there were other costs too. Like the people displaced from their homes, the environmental clean up costs, etc.
absentmoon··on Waymo expands its rider-only territories
Pressumably things will start to snowball if these smaller scale trials demonstrate adaquate safety
absentmoon··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
Playing devil's advocate in Twitter's defense:

Is there any public information about how twitter handled the two examples you provided at the end there? Do we know for sure they actively chose not to take any actions?

If not, I'm not sure it is fair to claim they completely ignored them. They may have limited their reach via some kind of shadow banning. Action like that is harder to notice than an account ban.

Also, since your examples predate the particular ban we are discussing, do we know for sure there weren't policy changes in between. Perhaps even because of examples like the ones you list.

Personally, I wonder if Twitter might have a more American-centric view of the world and a higher sense of urgency for "events at home", so to speak. That could go some way to explaining what seems to be selective enforcement of their terms of service.

absentmoon··on [dead]
A less sensational take is also provided by https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2303
absentmoon··on Get in zoomer, we're saving React
So unnecessary too. Having experience in the domain, like teaching react, lends more creditability than "trust me, I am old".
absentmoon··on Apple can terminate developer account without a reason by mistake
With the upcoming Apple event, I wonder if this is another case of crushing the competition before Apple releases its own app?