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I thought that part was unclear, too. This seems to be a particularly big issue on Amazon in Europe. So much so that certain NAS communities, like r/synology recommend to avoid Amazon for HDD purchases.

Isn't it starting to feel like no one actually wants to buy TikTok?

Needs a "(2012)" in the title.

I remember liking this a lot when the design was first released, especially with the chaos of what would become known as the "Frutiger Aero" aesthetic period. It demonstrated just how fragmented Microsoft's brand had become, and how little visual consistency across their products and UI there was.

But looking again a decade later, I do not believe the "slate" would've stood the test of time. It's hard to make timeless brands, and often brands just make large shifts counter to the current direction, people follow suit, and it becomes outdated quickly. I'm not sure what Microsoft is doing now is much better than where we were 10 years ago, but I do think the simple four squares "Windows" adaption is a nice place to end up.

I've used Google's Cloud Vision API to detect explicit content, and found it quite effective at flagging all kinds of risky stuff. (And a unique challenge for testers on how to exactly to safely test for such content.)

I believe the pricing changes remain in effect even if you disable the Gemini features in your Workspace admin, as they are now bundled and not a separate add-on: https://support.google.com/a/answer/15400543

I actually think that they do — tourists to the US have free speech protections. There are many foreign-owned press outlets operating in the US (Forbes, Al Jazeera, RT, CGTN etc.) that are also protected by the first amendment.

Not suprising to see the common interpretation of wokeness being "performative" and "unfair" instead of, people en masse, demanding equal treatment, equal rights, and safety, against individuals and organisations with amassed power and influence.

"Moralism" is a trap — it somehow argues that equal rights and faireness for women against sexual assualt, or people of colour from physical abuse, et al. are subjective issues. And that some degree of sexual assault, some degree of physical abuse, is and should be acceptable and any attempts to prevent it are just morals run amok.

It's not "aggressively performative moralism," this is just another rich man angry that all his wealth and power doesn't award him protection and admiration against the proletariat.

Largely, improve the data quality from contributions.

I guess @scope > :scope would help you know what the CSS is doing even if you don't know where the CSS is being inserted... but I can't imagine that being a problem in practice.

That's interesting to know... and quite a trap. Interesting to watch and see how they scale this across communities.

Out of curiosity, how does weirdgloop pay for wiki hosting? The amount of traffic certainly wouldn't be low... what is stopping them from having to abandon these wikis in the future due to cost pressure?

The Monkey in Android development?

> Because TikTok’s “algorithm curates and recommends a tailored compilation of videos for a user’s FYP based on a variety of factors, including the user’s age and other demographics, online interactions, and other metadata,” it becomes TikTok’s own speech.

This is fascinating and raises some interesting questions about where the liability starts and stops i.e. is "trending/top right now/posts from following" the same as a tailored algorithm per user? Does Amazon become culpable for products on their marketplace? etc.

For good or for bad, this century's Silicon Valley was built on Section 230 and I don't foresee it disappearing any time soon. If anything, I suspect it will be supported by future/refined by legislation instead of removed. No one wants to be the person who legisliate away all online services...

Coming at this from a professional services angle — Client interest in NFTs/Blockchain/Metaverse is entirely dead. But AI is still top of the list for most organisations, even if there are some real issues with the current economics of it all. I think there's still another 6-12 months on that train.

But it’s a good question — the cycle is getting faster and faster. We're barely out of the dip on one hype-cycle before the next starts. I think the cycle stops after AI and things will get very tough for many organisations... at least for a little while. Many many more layoffs to come.

(I'm not sure whether Cloud was ever "hype," or if the hype was more "Big Data", but both have graduated into "just a thing everyone does now." Neither topic is going away...)

It wasn't a court case so they're were no judges, per se. The WRC is a state agency who presides over industrial relations.

levels.fyi contains salary information for comparison.

Take a Google L4 - $280K US, $190K UK, $160K DE.

But when you include the regulatory protections and benefits, the differences in living standards, etc. the US salary is probably still higher but these salaries are certainly nothing to balk at.

"Barring medical conductions which complicate social interaction" was the part you edited out? It's right there in the original comment...

It helped me to recognise that every corporation is a dysfunctional chaotic mess in its own way and held together by hope, process, and power. And that through convergence, the chaos occasionally materialises as something of value.

If the corporation is successful, whatever you think is not working is not important enough to stop what is working. Identifying and understanding how the corporation works is the first step, then determine how you can make that work for your own goals is the second. Conversely, establish your goals, and then evaluate if the corporation works towards them.

There are many frameworks/techniques for goal-setting and resolution which may be helpful, and if you can't accomplish that goal within your environment, change environments.

I disagree — Cancer is something happens to you. Being socially inept is, barring medical conductions which complicate social interaction, entirely something within your control. "Chronic social cancer" does not exist.

This kind of nitpicking is what the Kvetching Order avoids.

This won't lead to the Streisand effect, not at all...

I really wish editorial-style reporting would stop doing this particular style of article. It's very hard to browse and and jump between visual landmarks, whilst the dynatism offers very little for making the subject-matter more compelling.

I guess they're applying the same test you would expect with libel; would the layman expect the speech to be truth or intentionally misrepresentative — i.e. would the image be construed as real.

Otherwise, parody and criticism using AI would be limited.

robots.txt has always been a gentleman's agreement and for such a large site to abuse it in that way is ridiculous, and possibly, anti-competitive.

I think you answered your own question — they're not buying capability, they're buying enterprise customers.

I'd love to read the full text of the judgement, as the news articles and press releases are vague as to how the ruling was reached.

My assumption is that the issue was not about automation/scraping, but rather, the way in which booking.com engaged in scraping amounted to some kind of fraud.

I set up my samba config to veto .DS_Store files, which also seems to work (although not sure if it creates more overhead as MacOS tries to recreate it each time...)

Fujitsu should be blacklisted for all government contracts for the next decade and the Post Office executives should be criminally tried. Anything close to that would would be justice rendered.

Anecdotal, just observations/predictions.

For the applications I see clients wanting to buy, no. Both the maturity and cost-saving potential of GenAI are greatly over-hyped.

From a non-tech business perspective, I expect the interest in GenAI to decline by years end. It's just not materialising the value stakeholders are expecting to see for the exorbitant investment.

I visited Hong Kong recently, fourth time, and met a sommelier who moved over prior to the protests. He lamented that in the last few years, following the reduction of the Covid restrictions, many young Hong Kong citizens left. Taking advantage of their BN(O) passports to resettle in the UK, or join family in Australia or the States. Left in place is an aging demographic -- without investment, high-skilled foreign workers, and wealth, the hospitality industry started to slowly collapse.

If you've visited pre-Covid, you'll immediately sense it too. There's still exceptional restaurants and bars, old and new alike, but struggling with fewer customers and more uncertain outlook.

On the flip side, I'm excited to see how the influx of a new generations of HK/Cantonese culture is going to change the London.