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One problem with Kaiser (probably not only Kaiser) when it comes to specialists like mental health workers is that at least in California there was a policy of not allowing specialists to refuse new patients. So over time, specialists' backlogs get bigger and bigger and they are juggling more and more patients and it becomes harder for the specialist to keep track of what's going on. Meanwhile the wait for a new appointment becomes longer as a result - typically months. As a Kaiser patient I personally had multiple specialists quit Kaiser to work elsewhere and at least one cited this as the reason when they told me they were leaving.

It seems really nasty to pair this with reductions in triage staff and the use of algorithmic triage. Their people are already overworked.

If you weren't aware, YouTube kind of has a version of this signal, which is to go into your history and remove the video you just watched. Supposedly this removes its influence on further recommendations. And then if that video or one like it appears again in recommendations, you can tap the ... next to the video and suppress recommendations for it by picking 'not interested'.

In my experience at least cultivating recommendations this way has worked really well for me on YT, I get consistently recommended a mix of stuff I want to watch and stuff that is at least theoretically interesting to me even if I don't want to watch it.

I wish other social services had the same mechanism (and wish it was more ergonomic on YT).

Apple and Microsoft have speed-dial access to the relevant legal departments to get their apps put back online

It's not immediate restoration, there's a delay.

If someone is opposed to Communism they should oppose Communism, not anti-fascism. Seems pretty straightforward

Oddly the US is very cozy with some modern Communists!

> Further, what about all the trades jobs around data center development?

Those only last as long as data centers are being built. Do you think we're going to keep building more data centers forever?

You still use TP, you can just use a lot less and you end up cleaner than with TP alone as a bonus.

Maybe they're referring to defederation? It's quite common on Mastodon as I understand it, due to disagreements on things like moderation between server operators.

Even if it's not inevitable, if your employer tells you "use AI or get fired", well, take your pick. A lot of the resentment I see is a result of those sorts of mandates.

Among other manufacturers Spigen has cases that protect the hinge. I've owned a foldable for 3 years and never had anything get into the hinge thanks to that, though some amount of dust did gather inside the hinge cover over time.

But I would be nervous about spending that much on a phone if you expect to be dropping it a lot, honestly.

You would need some sort of hardware serial number system for PCs and a whole security infrastructure to verify that the serial number being used for the unlock wasn't faked. Then you could do per-PC unlocks. I'm not aware of anything like that being widespread back in the Quake days, though these days every computing device you own probably has a unique ID burned into ROM somewhere.

I wonder if this is necessary for Firefox users to get past Cloudflare's various bot/scraping protections?

I experienced this periodically on my gmail and always assumed that it was just a typo on the part of the sender, adding a period where there shouldn't be one. But there were cases that kind of defied plausibility, like when a recruiter (sharing my name but not my gmail address) sent out a mass cold email and I got the angry replies. I never figured out how that one happened, maybe they misconfigured their mailer software's replyto?

I never once considered that a gmail bug or intentional design decision could be at work there. TIL that they decided to cut down on the confusion by normalizing addresses.

This ignores the time cost of having to find the right private company to file your taxes (everyone loves price shopping!) and manually funnel all your data into it, data the government probably already has. Tax prep costs me at least an entire day of my time every year.

P.S. When citing that you had AI do a basic analysis of something, specifying what you analyzed and which AI you used would be nice so other people can reproduce it or dig deeper.

The funding climate for indie games is the worst it's been in a long time and it's been bad for over a year. Lots of publishers have stopped signing deals or are only funding small amounts with really bad terms.

Lots of people did complain or actively take steps to punish them for lawbreaking, yeah?

The imbalance is profound. I once tried to find a lawyer who could handle getting accommodations for a visually impaired person I knew. In practice, we probably just needed them to draft a sufficiently stern letter notifying the operator of their responsibilities under the ADA and it would have eventually gotten handled.

I spent a while trying to find law firms that specialized in this. If you do this kind of search 99% of the results are for law firms that specialize instead in defending companies against ADA suits and helping them evade their responsibilities.

I eventually was able to find exactly one law firm via contacting the bar. They weren't interested in talking to me - they said the person with the disability would need to contact them directly and pay out of their own pocket.

Years later that website still isn't accessible.

If you're concerned about this, as a defense-in-depth measure you should also avoid using AI inside of browser tabs containing sensitive information. i.e. typing a prompt into Gemini inside your gmail tab could potentially exfiltrate data from your mail since your mail is accessible to any JS running inside that tab (or accessible to Gemini most likely, for that matter).

If you hand me two sheets of paper, one of them containing instructions and another containing data, I'll have a pretty easy time keeping them separate, and I think most humans wouldn't struggle with that problem either.

I don't think this is true? I remember successfully using OpenGL and Direct3D acceleration in windowed mode on 9x devices.

Are you thinking of the add-on 3D accelerator cards that did VGA pass-through from your 2D accelerator? It might've been true for them...

They also pirated the books

> It (3d asset creation) practially hasn't changed much since ~1995.

I don't think this is strictly true, not only are there new approaches to modeling like mudbox and such, but the nature of the assets people are creating is meaningfully different in 2026 than it was in 1995. The polycounts are orders of magnitude higher, the way you texture and shade the models is different, etc.

And then the actual hardware being used to render the finished assets is very different - it's much faster, it has dedicated acceleration for rasterization and ray/path tracing, etc. Fewer compromises are necessary to deliver your 3D assets to the viewer than back in 1995 and it's cheaper to deliver them.

It's true that a lot of the fundamentals haven't changed though. I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

My personal experience was that I saw AI adopters opening and merging more PRs but I also spent more of my day reviewing PRs than I did in the past, in order to keep up with the flood of new stuff. Reconcile that with MSFT's repeated layoffs however you like.

Read up on herd immunity. The problem isn't specifically 'foreigners' but the general question of whether enough people are vaccinated to prevent the disease from roaring back when it inevitably - it is not possible to stop people from bringing diseases into the country - reoccurs.

As a person with memory issues, this is a recipe for me writing a password down where somebody else can probably find it.

The people currently in power want every single byte of data they can get on people who reside in this country so they can divide them up by arbitrary criteria and do with those groups as they please. Depending on the person, that might mean imprisonment, it might mean deportation, it might mean something worse.

A problem you'd probably run into here is that it would be rather difficult to prove that no real CSAM was involved in the process of making the somehow-okay fake CSAM. Image generation models require training sets, after all. Do the companies training these models have the necessary data and evidence to prove every individual in every training image was over 18? Is generating fake CSAM okay if you trained the model on non-CSAM photos of real kids? I don't think so.

There are of course situations where being aggressive about this can hinder people's freedoms - like an adult who looks 'too young' having their freedoms curtailed because any photos or videos would Look Like CSAM - but I don't think they're common enough harms to justify holding back on regulation here.

I would hope we can agree that aggressive policing of anime and cartoons is a bad thing without denying the real existence of CSAM - the actual thing - or denying the bad things that have to occur for it to exist

It may make you uncomfortable to learn this but fascists - actual ones - are currently active in politics! My hair isn't dyed, for what it's worth.

We could argue over the definition of fascism and which politicians fit it which might be more productive than accusing posters of being depressed.

What the world needs is more new and innovative invasive species that were cooked up in a lab to look cool :)