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But enterprises may negotiate not to use (and pay) Copilot, can't they? Or go with another provider if it's such a big deal. Plus it being enabled by default in every VS Code (I haven't checked this, last I remember you need to sign in with GitHub) gets you on the free tier where you make zero revenue for Microsoft and some expense (not too much, probably).

Fellow european here, the problem is they need to prove both than the statements are false ("legacy media lies" probably means you need to prove you haven't ever lied) plus show actual malice (intent to harm the plaintiff, in this case, Gizmodo, or acting with reckless disregard for the truth).

You can fetch a user's PGP public key via their HKPS endpoint, for example https://mail-api.proton.me/pks/lookup?op=get&search=username.... The one who apparently doesn't support PGP at all is Tuta.

Ideally, you'd be able to provide the service your key directly (you can do it in Sourcehut for example, IIRC), and they use that key without relying on a third-party server. Maybe using something like WebFinger could be a solution too, for automatic key discovery from a "trusted" party (the recipient's email server).

Wait until you see Azure. Apparently you need to create either an "Azure OpenAI" or a "Microsoft Foundry", where AFAIK (got an email last week) Foundry now includes everything AI including "Azure OpenAI", the former "Cognitive Services" (for speech, computer vision and other stuff) and inference on non-OpenAI models. But wait, because once you create that, you are told to go to another portal (ai.azure.com) where you get an "old" foundry experience and anew one that can't be enabled for every project. Oh, wait, did I mention there apparently used to be a "Foundry" and a "Foundry Project"? Oh, and all those apparently work with a single API key, unless (I guess) you set up authentication with the Azure SDK, which makes you go back to Azure Portal (or maybe Entra ID?).

All of that while trying to explain to your non-technical boss how he can browse the voices available at "the Azure thingy" to pick his favourites to then pick and use in the project due relatively soon. Since, of course, you told him the original Cognitive Speech Services (or Speech Services, or Cognitive Services-Speech, or whatever they decided to call it on that specific page) semi-public URL where he could browse the gallery was "speech.microsoft.com" which is now semi-dead with awful loading times that seem some server issue and has been happenning for a few months now. Or tell them to go to the "new foundry" where he might not be able to find the resource or might not have stuff in the regions you were using up until then, or whatever crap this 3.56 trillion-dollar company decides to throw at you to prevent you from using their services.

And all of this is the exploration phase, where you just use the GUIs and copy things around until they work. Then you need to figure out what you did (and more importantly, where) to be able to write some Terraform/OpenTofu or Bicep or similars to try and keep the environment replicable to avoid the excruciating pain of repeating every single step you followed to get it on a working state.

At the very least, Google was nice enough to launch Vertex AI inside GCP for enterprises that have figured that out, and then Google AI Studio as an almost completely separate thing that only is bound to Google Cloud for billing purposes, similar to how Firebase is integrated too.

I'd say Bedrock is the easiest since you just log into your AWS account, get an AWS credential in the same way you would for any other service (if you're on EC2 it's even easier) and call the endpoints from the SDK. Azure though...

That's how democracy works, a majority of people voted those MPs. Still doesn't make the entire process illegitimate.

We the europeans voted a group of MEPs, who voted to approve such regulation. Or do you also vote every single law your country passes?

Or a new, opt-in "Do-Track" that means consent to tracking, and anything else means tracking is not allowed. Why should it opt-out?

Plus adblocking usually works by blocking network requests, right? Or at most, modifying the DOM itself in the browser, not even the HTML received from the site.

And even if it was a "friendly MitM" that altered the HTML before being parsed by the DOM, it would (hopefully) be considered a private copy you're entitled to use however you please (except against the copyright by sharing it, for example)

I disagree. We write left to right, so it makes sense when the URL is essentially two parts ("external" and "internal" in regards to "place on the network", "location on the server") they are written left to right and then separated in the middle.

Plus it would make using autocomplete way harder, since I can write "news.y" and get already suggested this site, or "red" and get reddit. If you were to change that, you'd need to type _at least_ "com.yc" to maybe get HN, unless you create your own shortcuts.

Conveniently enough, my browser displays the URL omitting the protocol (assuming HTTPS) and only shows host and port in black, and path+query+fragment

Actually, there was technically a Minecraft 2.0 release, but it was an april fools prank in 2013.

Relevant wiki link: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_2.0

Plus exclusivity, probably. Music abides by the same copyright laws yet you don't need to subscribe to Spotify to listen to certain artists, or pay YT Music Premium for someone else. I'm not including podcasts here, since they are more of a "production" itself rather than just owning the rights.

Representatives from multiple parties are there, and there is at least a police officer nearby in case something happens. The people doing the intimidation could be kindly asked to leave, or not-so-kindly made to leave.

Maybe the solution is to have no software at all. Software can't be really audited at scale, human actions can

Same in Spain. In fact if any count is challenged, the electoral authorities hold public recounts of the ballots a couple of days after the election

They are until you need to verify them and ensure nobody owns multiple identities. The following must be true:

- We should know whether you may vote (you are a citizen, over the legal voting age, and haven't been taken away that right because of a crime, etc.) - We should know whether you did or didn't cast a vote (to prevent you from voting twice) - We should NOT know who you voted for - You should be able to know the votes are counted towards the party intended

You can't solve that with crypto, since you need a way of proving your identity, while at the same time making the payload anonymous and not traceable back to you.

But they aren't abusing their market power, are they? I mean, they are too big and should definitely be regulated but I don't think you can argue they are much of a monopoly when others, at the very least Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Cloudflare (depending on the specific services you want) and smaller providers can offer you the same service and many times with better pricing. Same way we need to regulate companies like Cloudflare essentially being a MITM for ~20% of internet websites, per their 2024 report.

No, the client is the one trying to connect to the non-existing server. You just redirect them, for example with a 301 saying "go here instead", and when they try to go there, they will find an invalid IP

How would you classify VPS and dedicated servers though? Aren't those considered infra?

SSH fingerprints can also be provided via DNS with the SSHFP[0] DNS record, which coupled with DNSSEC and supposing you trust the DNS root and intermediate entities (whether that's IANA/ICANN, or alternatives like OpenNIC or Namecoin) allows you to check the SSH server fingerprints without HTTPS. At some point you probably need to trust someone anyway.

Or you can always get the fingerprint out of band. If it's some friend granting you SSH access to their server, or a vendor, or whatever, you can ask them to write the fingerprint on a piece of paper and give it to you, with you checking the paper comes from them and then checking them.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4255

What if you made it generate a URL with each character-position instead of just the character? For example, instead of making `hacked` be `0.0.0.0/h`, `0.0.0.0/a` and so on; it invokes `0.0.0.0/1-h`, `0.0.0.0/2-a`... that way you can sort them and delete any duplicate calls

I don't think that's correct. The MTOW (Maximum Take-Off Weight) of an A320ceo is 78,000 kg, while the max fuel capacity is approximately 24,210 litres. Using Jet A-1's density of roughly 0.804 kg/L, that's about 19,460 kg of fuel, which represents only 25% of the take-off weight. The OEW (Operating Empty Weight) for that aircraft is approximately 42,600 kg, which means you'd need the fuel to weigh around 35,400 kg for your "half the take-off weight is fuel" claim to be true—nearly double the actual fuel capacity.

Even for a long-range aircraft like the A350-900, with an MTOW of 280,000 kg and a fuel capacity of approximately 138,000 litres (roughly 111,000 kg at 0.804 kg/L), fuel represents about 40% of the take-off weight. The OEW is approximately 155,000 kg, meaning even a completely empty plane (except for crew) loaded with maximum fuel still wouldn't reach your claimed 50% fuel fraction.

I believe the idea is not to provide any interest rate, precisely so people will be inclined to hold their savings in a "regular" bank, and only use the digital euro as a "wallet" with amount limits and no interest, similar to holding the cash yourself.

SWIFT is a communication layer, but banks still settle money via separate channels. Plus in many instances, international transfers may end up going through a US entity because of the USD's huge liquidity and volumes for FX exchanges; plus the largest banks being USAmerican.

Failing to diversify is the fund managers' problem. Pension funds shouldn't have all their investment in a single countries' stock market (doesn't matter that most, if not all, of those companies operate worldwide, they are still from the US), not even in equity markets. A wiser investment manager (or individual investor) would put a chunk in different kind of equities, and diversify into fixed rate, precious metals, perhaps real estate... Not bet it all to the volatile S&P 500. "Past performance does not guarantee future results.".

That's strange, my experience with GitHub and GH Copilot have been great, unlike with other Microsoft products that have their billing integrated in the Microsoft account or MS365, or Entra or whatever they call the "company accounts" today.

Plus for 10$ a month (~8.50 EUR last month) I get more-than-enough-for-me access to Gemini, Claude and OpenAI models from my code editor. I wouldn't pay double for Claude Code or Cursor, so I feel like it's a good enough deal.

So Microsoft did with .NET what they now do with Copilot, right? GitHub Copilot (AI-assisted code completion and chat), Microsoft 365 Copilot (the suite), Microsoft Copilot (the chat thingy), Windows Copilot (the chat thingy, but directly on Windows), Copilot for Azure (LLM doing RAG), Copilot for Dynamics 365 (I assume something similar)...

> This is factually wrong already. In summer, London is not UTC+0.

Yeah, the "regular" time is UTC+0, with it changing in the summer. I'm aware it's a really poor implementation, but it is there as a separate option from "UTC" itself preserving the same offset (0) all year.

> The problem is that it has a very US-centric view of what DST is. You can mostly ignore it in the US when calculating time zones because the entire country changes DST at the same time. This is not the case internationally.

Probably the reason they, for some reason, split the setting for "Amsterdam, Bern, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna" and "Brussels, Copenhaguen, Madrid, Paris" even though they all follow the same timezone and change simultaneously.

> It is the only sensible system in our ecosystem. It certainly beats Outlook which still wrongly insists that my timezone is GMT just because I live in the UK and still confuses everyone (it isn't during the summer; we use BST over the summer, not GMT).

I went to both Outlook and Teams to check and I have the option to select both "(UTC) Universal Coordinated Time" and "(UTC+0) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London", with the later adapting to changes in the summer; but I do agree it's clunkier than the Olson database, combining multiple regions in a single option while splitting regions with the same timezone rules into different ones.

Would you volunteer if, instead of a charity, it was a corporation? Would you go work at any tech company for free while they make thousands of millions off that work?