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It was possible to just donate money with no strings attached actually, and one of the two companies that helped did just that. And positive press was also involved.

I remember when the maintainer of an open source XML library contacted dozens of companies for support to fix a critical vulnerability, and most of them didn't even respond and aside from two the rest went basically "not our problem, get lost".

A handful of companies probably care a bit but most won't bother to pay even a penny.

What is not bloat about creating a hidden file for every file in every visited directory? It clutters up outputs, causes needless work for various tools, and deleting them is pointless as the system will just instantly recreate them.

Given the "endless options to change it" as you said, where is the option to turn that off?

> because it would be doing so without having access to the source

I find it unlikely that photopea was never scraped for AI training considering they are looking so hard for new material they started buying up and scanning old books.

Somehow people already had time with their kids before Claude. And before computers. Enjoying life is not a technology problem.

No, it wouldn't. Countries with such a law exist, all you need is reasonable exceptions. With some blurring even Google Streetview is not an issue.

That future is avoidable, but not with this self-fulfilling prophecy mindset.

I don't want to navigate a dark pattern to avoid accidentally deleting a downloaded program, followed by opening settings and entering my password just to run it.

And if there is a way to stop Mac OS from spamming hidden dot-underscore files everywhere, I haven't found it yet.

Chasing maximum productivity in an attempt to outrun time sounds a lot worse if you ask me.

> The EU abolished the €22 VAT exemption on low-value imports

Because it was abused by countless vendors that just wrote a random value below 22 Euros on the label no matter how much it cost.

> The EU introduced rules requiring consent for many non-essential cookies, helping turn everyday web browsing into an endless series of cookie banners

Not sure why you're blaming the messenger. Either way this can be solved by installing a browser plugin.

> Store your Really Important Info in a Google Drive/iCloud synced VeraCrypt volume

There is no way I would entrust Google or Apple with keeping important data. Google being infamous for account issues with absolutely no support and Apple already borked my account in a way that makes my iPad unusable the moment I turn on backup sync.

Which makes the often repeated excuse "Closed loop datacenters exist" to refute water use concerns a bit nonsensical.

So a system to recirculate the same 24 gallons per minute would be more expensive than $100k per year for water?

Sure the water is still somewhere, but its location is important for future use. US water reservoirs are at problematically low levels already.

> Most data centers are closed loop systems, they circulate the water over and over again.

The linked article talks about >500 million gallons used by one large Google AI datacenter in a year. It's nice that most are closed loop systems, but if it's such a common thing to do then why isn't it done by default with all those AI datacenters? How cheap is water for Google that recirculating it is not a no-brainer?

Asynchronous writing basically lets me circumvent all problems I have with communication.

I am still terrible at real-time conversations in person, having a weird speech impairment on top is not helpful either.

Same condition maybe, but circumstances? Doesn't sound like it.

> The people who really have these issues/conditions seem to notice themselves in childhood before they even know what they are or what they're called

Yes. But when you don't know what it is you may start to believe that it's just you being lazy, stupid, slow, difficult, etc. Especially when everyone around you including teachers use these labels and you literally have no other information to base your views on. A mix of living with that for decades and being unable to know how life feels for other people can make you gaslight yourself very thoroughly.

A diagnosis is an acknowledgment of an authority on the subject that you are in fact not crazy and don't have to blame everything that happened on yourself.

> Leaving the reaction for the diagnosed to be mostly nothing in that they already know

I am glad for everyone who experienced it like that, but that's not a reason to diminish the significant effect for many others.

Autism has so many possible symptoms and associated problems that it's unlikely someone affected checks all the boxes.

One of the first signs I noticed in my childhood was that I was asking myself why everyone treated me differently for no apparent reason, and I would say that is a pretty clear indicator for autism as it stems from neurotypical social interactions being more or less a foreign language, and both sides subconsciously recognize that.

> Mostly he's aggressive, low patience, disobedient AF, requires a ton of attention.

I happened to be friends with someone who'd fit that description, the way he behaved at home with his parents was genuinely crazy. But then turned out shockingly normal years later. Sometimes it really is just a phase I guess.

Reminds me of a study[0] I saw recently which concluded that antisocial behaviour from drunk people seems to stem mostly from antisocial people consuming alcohol.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/43/2/204/122225?logi...

YouTube's goals are not aligned with what is best for the majority of users. They are optimizing for maximum time spent watching ads, hence they are working against user interests.

> Oh, and how much are you paying for that service...?

I paid YT Premium once. It unlocked a playback queue in the app. That queue had 5 separate bugs I found within an hour. It's literally a simple playlist and yet not a single feature (adding, removing, reordering etc) worked reliably. The playback queue also randomly emptied itself sometimes. Meanwhile I get a superior version of this in the browser by simply opening a video in another tab, for free.

Why should I pay for that while they only have AI support designed to never solve any issues, do nothing against bots, and then warn you that you may get banned when you report too many bots?

> This seems contrary to so many other complaints we see all the time, that companies push changes out without taking into account what users actually want

Are you not aware how unpopular practically all recent changes on YT are among its users? Almost none of the changes done on YT in the last 5+ years would have happened if they took into account what users & creators want. So how exactly does telemetry and A/B testing help when it either tells them the opposite of reality or they simply interpret the data however they like anyway?

That lifetime of prep is completely disconnected from actual job & life experience. The kids are shown all the doors but have to choose without first opening any. Aside from the occasional internship they might have done by that point or a glimpse into what their parents are doing, which is very hit or miss.

As long as students ask the teacher what they're going to need understanding of maths for they are not prepared adequately.

Long before LLMs the couple of actually good teachers I had gave very little (if any) homework. Instead their lessons were more dense and exhausting, but once it was over it was over and we otherwise mostly had to prepare for exams.

The education systems were already hopeless before LLMs and now they got caught with their pants down. Of course some problems were unavoidable, but this overreliance on homework was always a problem in my eyes.

Both are reasonable, but the recent hype around all the cyberattacks seems far more aggressive and specifically them arguing that they need to slow down for safety sounds very suspiciously like trying to come up with a reason for slowing progress.

Nowadays it's not expected that a website loads paywalled content. This one is an exception, I managed to get the full text by entering reading mode and reloading (firefox)

The headline doesn't imply those two groups are the same. And I never had the impression tech bro refers to everyone working in tech, it's more of a personality trait.

Except for all the eating disorders that make people eat too little.

A relative recently bought an electric Renault. When you open the door and sit in it you are greeted by an annoying voice assistant talking to you (can be disabled at least). It's also got sound effects for everything, but you cannot throttle its charging speed and the charging status shown in the app is often delayed by hours.

I also remember an incident where a rental car refused to start the engine because the driver made the mistake of parking it in an area without reception and it wouldn't start without phoning home to a server.