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> The bot proceeded to join two confidential meetings on my behalf and record the whole thing, then email every member an absurd, inaccurate "outline" after.

Can you explain how it was able to do this, apparently without people noticing? From what I understand it joins the meeting as a participant, which would be pretty obvious?

That's a confusing change. It doesn't work on Wayland, so let's also remove it for X11?

From the paper[1]:

> The family of CODEGEN models is trained sequentially on three datasets: THEPILE, BIGQUERY, and BIGPYTHON.

> The natural language dataset THEPILE is an 825.18 GiB English text corpus collected by Gao et al. (2020) for language modeling. The dataset is constructed from 22 diverse high-quality subsets, one of which is programming language data collected from GitHub repositories with >100 stars that constitute 7.6% of the dataset.

> The multi-lingual dataset BIGQUERY is a subset of Google’s publicly available BigQuery dataset, which consists of code in multiple programming languages such as C, Python, Ruby. For the multi-lingual training, the following 6 programming languages are chosen: C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, and Python.

> The mono-lingual dataset BIGPYTHON contains a large amount of data in the programming language, Python. We have compiled public, non-personal information from GitHub consisting of permissively licensed Python code in October 2021.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13474

You can still sort by controversial on reddit. In my experience the comments it bubbles to the top aren't very interesting, but mostly cheap shots. Like everything else about reddit, this probably depends on the subreddit.

> For all we know the entire DAU drop could be from Ukraine and Russia alone.

The DAU drop happened before the war, in the quarter up to December 2021.

It's a remake that contains the entire original, as well as a lot of new content. As the creators put it:

> The script for this new content is longer than the script for the entire original game.

If you don't want more content you don't have to buy the remake. The original works fine.

> Not sure if this is still done there though.

It's not[1], and there is risk of track buckles in the Netherlands as well. ProRail does extra monitoring during heatwaves[2]. I don't remember ever hearing news about this being a notable problem, but it probably does happen.

[1]: https://www.prorail.nl/veelgestelde-vragen/hoe-vangt-prorail... [2]: https://www.prorail.nl/nieuws/maatregelen-tegen-de-hitte

The banks are already committed to their part of the financing. The rest has to come from Musk, and the court could force him to come up with it.

> Elon could full-well just settle the $1B offer cancellation fee out of spite and Twitter wouldn't see a dime.

This is not true. He can't just decide to pay $1B to get rid of it all.

This is generally because of DRM. They only support higher definitions on stricter levels of Widevine DRM, which need both software and hardware support.

My experience with Gogs is now a few years out of date, but after using it for a few months we ended up switching to GitLab. Gogs was amazingly fast and required few resources, but with moderately-sized repositories or even slightly large pull requests it slowed to a crawl. At some point it screwed up some on-disk repository state causing pull request merges to trigger server errors, which required manual cleanup. Meanwhile GitLab (omnibus), with a few users on a VPS with 4GB memory, remains consistently fast and entirely problem-free.

And depending on what you care about, this gets even more complicated. Some of the territories in the Carribean are part of the country of the Netherlands that you linked to (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba), while there are others that are separate countries part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten). Some things are matters of the kingdom, while others are matters of the country.

For example, those other countries are not part of the European Union, but their citizens are citizens of the European Union since that's a matter of the Kingdom.

Bunny.net is a CDN company with paying customers. This is a free service provided by that company.

There's no conflict there. Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation are separate entities, Corporation being owned by Foundation. Thunderbird is no longer developed by Corporation. It does still receive support from Foundation.

It's tiring to see this discussion topic pop up again and again and again, but: the Duende software is decidedly not open source. You can read the code, but that's it. They don't seem to be making such claims themselves either.

> 14 years for pirating a stream?

I think the sentence is way too extreme, but we're talking about a bit more than "pirating a stream". They ran a for-profit piracy operation for over 10 years, selling subscriptions to "more than 1,000 pubs, clubs and homes throughout England and Wales".

They removed those endpoints last year[1], to help combat abuse.

[1]: https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/deprecation-of-create-and-de...

> Wondering why anyone is still using ip-based geolocation

I don't think there's a reasonable alternative. If you ask users for their location they can just lie, if you use the JS geolocation API they can trivially deny or spoof it. If you base it on billing address you're locking out people who are traveling, which seems unwanted (especially for long-term travel).

So instead they end up playing a cat and mouse game to try to block VPNs.

> unlike when I used DDG, it's rare that I feel the need to fall back to Google.

Same here. I have now been using Kagi for about 6 weeks. While using DDG for many years (at least 9, probably over 10) I built up an automatic response: When the results aren't what I want and it doesn't seem to be a problem with my query, I add !g and expect better results on the other side. A week or two ago, while doing exactly that, I realized that my expectation for better results has disappeared. I'm now slowly learning not to do it at all.

> ...or ABC is the local broadcaster for Australia.

Just a note here: The Eurovision local broadcaster for Australia is SBS[1]. SBS is also mostly publicly funded.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service

The core is not too bad in the sense that it's stable, well-maintained, and mostly well-documented. The online code reference is also pretty great. The quality of the code is otherwise atrocious. Nobody should look at WordPress for any sort of guidance on what good code looks like.

> Nobody knew in the beginning that Facebook would become a Frankenstein monster that devoured user data and spat out dirty money.

That's a weird statement to make when talking about a sale that happened 10 years after "the beginning". Facebook didn't change between 2014 and now. To everyone paying attention it was clear that Facebook was making empty promises while providing 20 billion counterarguments.

As someone who uses PHP nearly every working day, this RFC is the first time I've ever seen the ${var} syntax in PHP. It only gets a very brief mention and a single use in an example snippet in the documentation[1]. I don't think I've ever seen it in production code, and would have flagged it as a typo if I found it during code review.

Removing {$var}, on the other hand, would have broken practically every string interpolation I've ever written, and probably about 50% of all uses of string interpolation in the ecosystem.

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#lang...

> * Form factor is quite a bit more bulky than its competitors, even considering the fact parts are removable.

The Dell you link is half a mm thinner. Half a mm hardly seems "quite a bit more bulky".

> * Price is quite a bit more expensive for what you get, compared to its competitors.

The price difference also doesn't seem all that large? It's hard to compare due to the differences, but seems to be up to maybe 10%.

Did you ever get to the new content?

That model doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Google Scanned Objects dataset.

There's two (relevant) kinds of consumers here: Those who want access and those who want ownership.

Netflix was on a path to successfully serve the first kind, the only remaining problems being region locking and an incomplete catalog. Demand for piracy went down. Then the industry got greedy, made one of those remaining problems much, much worse, and now the demand for piracy is on the rise again.

The industry spends a lot of resources making life worse for the second kind, in a misguided attempt to both satisfy them and fully prevent the possibility of piracy. Instead they fail at both. The result is an increased demand for piracy.

> You're directly responsible for sucking the quality of life away from people who make your entertainment and reducing the desire to make things you enjoy. You're going to end up with shows that are AI generated CGI sponsored by Mt. Dew and Chevy trucks.

So here's the problem: The only way I can spend money to encourage the production of content I want is to buy a terrible, abusive product I don't want. It only plays in 720p, it's only available through a shitty app, it may disappear from the platform it's on any time.

All of it is just a wrapper for content. Please sell me the content. Whatever file comes out at the end of the production process, sell it to me.

Instead I spend my money in other places. Streamers on Twitch want it. YouTubers want it. People on Patreon want it. Developers want it. Somehow they manage not to abuse the people willing to give them money.

It's a very country-specific thing. In the Netherlands approximately everyone switched to WhatsApp long before unlimited SMS became the norm. WhatsApp was ubiquitous for years before Facebook bought them in 2014, but even 5 or so years ago my cheap monthly plan did not include unlimited SMS.

The page you link doesn't exactly give a good impression. The logo in the top left links to bulma.io, The templates list links to one called "Very Cool", but there's no way to get back to the original template (except of course the back button). There's no link back to pretzelbox.cc. The landing page there is much better, but then one of the testimonials is for a service called Moogle. The only connection between Moogle and PretzelBox seems to be your Twitter account.

You're off by a few orders of magnitude for WD-40 (WDFC). They had 488 million in revenue for 2021.