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halsafaron US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

Ah because cultures never remember this kind of stuff. It's all individualized right? Lol.

There are cultures on earth that have hated each other for centuries.

To quote something I just read. Keep living the dream and maybe one day you'll learn the workings of life.

Not all internet usage would be deemed public.

Social media sure.

What about what you watch on PornHub? Should that be tied directly to your government ID?

I know that's an easy one to cherry pick but just consider all you use the internet for and how an adversarial governmenft could use some of that info.

Personally I'd love to see all social media corps required to verify ID but leave the rest of the internet alone.

halsafaron Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work

Very simply put it's an advertisement for OpenAI.

Just like their "oops we hacked hugging face".

Everything OpenAI does is to drive hype. They aren't honest or a good actor but they sure have good hype.

halsafaron You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting

Yup! Our biggest vote in life is where we put our feet and where we spend our money. It has always been this way but it is more important than ever that people learn to think this way.

halsafaron Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

Who would have thought banning something would make it attractive to kids. Radical.

halsafaron AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

Can you get the exact text back out with a prompt or not? Having or not having a book isn't fuzzy.

halsafaron OpenLogi

Soft eng for 20+ years.

Happy have LLM code for me.

I won't let them speak for me though. I think people who let AI speak for them in places other humans read probably couldn't speak for themselves pre-LLM. It's sad.

halsafaron “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

Take a step into the business side of software. Code is definitely not the hard part. You wouldn't say wood is hard part (heh) of wood working. It is planning and architecting. When to use the right tools. Just because a ruler has hash marks that doesn't mean measuring is hard it means the ruler doesn't work without it.

halsafaron Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

Maybe to someone who is new to the world.

halsafaron Is America becoming a gerontocracy?

Which given life expectancy 2000 years ago that would probably be equivalent to today's 60+.

halsafaron The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy

Social media was dying amongst that demographic.

Now that they are being told it's banned that demographic will be all over social media again.