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Accidentally?

Wondering why it's not renamed AI news, yet.

Oh this one is so easy: nobody cares, especially investors.

"What is not a question is that a criminal investigation is now open." Good. These companies deserve each and every stone thrown at them, and much more.

And a little thought to Aaron. We still miss you.

Instead of focusing on sabotaging his employees life outside work for the sake of "prototypes", he should focus on fixing bugs in his apps.

1) Non-automated reporting (e.g., timesheets) 2) Incompetent sales team 3) CEO who doesn't understand the business

Yes, I can agree with you, did not think of that and it seems to be a perfectly valid motive.

Still, I wonder: who would fall in the "highly susceptible" category? Wouldn't these people need to be tested prior to actually knowing they should be tested? (what would push someone to be tested for susceptibility of birthing malformed children before being tested?)

Okay. Let's assume your top priority is to test for genetic health issues, I will also assume that you either plan on reducing the risk of future complications or you are factoring this information into account when deciding to get children (otherwise, why would you want this information?).

In the first case (reducing risk factors), chances that you will at least check positive for one thing are almost 1 (certain) and you don't need a test to know that. In almost all cases, limiting the risk will involve a) eating well b) stopping alcohol / smoking c) regular physical activity d) taking some Aspirin for the remainder of your life. You don't need the test results to start doing this. Either you sincerely want to live longer and shouldn't wait for genetic screening to take your matters into your own hands, or you think that test results will suddenly turn you into a monk. News flash: won't happen.

In the second case (whether or not to procreate): any decision you make on the hypothesis that your children will inherit it and that science will not have solved it in the next 50 years will very likely be a bad reason to not have children (there are many good reasons to not have children, though, but having a rare genetic conditions is not a good reason).

The only people who should not have kids are bad parents and people who don't want kids. Guess what? These two groups that probably have the highest amount of kids on Earth.

Why not start with your threat model? What are you actually worried about, then let us look into the options.

The mental cost of going there is just too high. For the first time in twenty+ years, I won't be attending any of the regular conferences in the US this year. Funny note: we just hired two Americans (unrelated) back to back, they will be moving here with their family. Reason given: "had to go live somewhere else".

Having a foreign and hostile both economic and military adversary fully controlling an app that is installed on 18 million smartphones in UK is a national security issue. Not cat videos. Too bad this concept has become too difficult to understand for most European "leaders" (and journalists...).

Lesson 4: mediocrity has become the most effective path to fame in a modern (and mediocre) world.

What's next? An article that explains why the bill stacks up when you log all denied fw packets?

Funny. As I started reading your comment, I reacted with a big "wow, Facebook would actually offer that option?"

Then I reached your "but it doesn't work".

Happy everything became normal again :)

TLDR: serverless is interesting to whoever won't pull out an Excel spreadsheet and compare costs.

Which is a good thing. Why reward stealers? YouTube is not a free service and they have all the right to engage into aggressive practice once you decide to unlawfully bypass their ads.

Let's not confuse things here:

- deceptive UI/UX to encourage users to surrender their privacy

- profiling paid or unpaid users

- displaying ads

Only two of the above are issues.

Many people who self-host email do so to avoid having years of all their personal email communications logs centralized at one third-party company with ether lax security or lax privacy.

It seems to me that you are proposing exactly this: routing all emails through one of these companies. How can this be a solution to "self-hosting"?

I don't understand why it is so hard for people to understand the difference between open source and free software.

I don't mind at all paying for open source software, and I don't see why I shouldn't. My expectations/preference for open source software is purely motivated by resilience (enabling continuity of service in the case the original editor goes bankrupt or stops innovating its product) and security (enabling the community by offering access to the inner functioning of the product).

The article title and intro (seems to be removed now) seem to try shaming Google for charging for Android. Android as a ton of issues but I don't think not being available for free is the issue.

A bit late to the party, but in case you track replies, I can recommend the Avantree "Audikast Plus" device. Negligible weight, it gives you Bluetooth capability for two simultaneous headphones as long as you can plug it into a 3.5mm jack. I have been carrying it in my travel bag for years (the current model looks identical but is Bluetooth 5.0 compatible) and it makes our flights and hotel trips a delight (sound experience, I meant).

"The PUT method is used to update a resource on the server. It is idempotent because sending the same request multiple times will result in the same resource state as if the request had only been sent once."

That's where I stopped reading.

Writing all of this and concluding with a recommendation to use static analyzers feels like a joke. So we shouldn't use a tool that scans for known bad vectors but use a tool that...scans for known bad vectors instead?

Yeah, sure.

I do not think this is a small business issue, but rather a dishonest small business owner working for disrespectful customers issue.

A few months ago, I had to get a screen replacement and straight upfront asked the repair guy how much it would really (emphasized) cost me to get the screen replaced after he gave me a quote indicating that either the screen would cost nothing, or the work hours cost almost nothing.

He smiled and admitted getting the original replacement unit would almost double the quote he had just given me, plus I'd have to wait a week until the unit arrives. I told him that's what I wanted.

Eventually, the repair cost me a bit more than double what he asked first. But I am satisfied, I noticed no defaults at all on my phone since the repair, it feels exactly like the original model. He cleaned it, and installed a screen protector on it (offered).

This is clearly a case of "theory built on one single personal experience", I agree. But honestly, I don't know anyone around me who would agree to pay a bit more just to get better service and I think that's the core issue.

In my case, a very high value comes from the ability to search for posts. Mastodon isn't good at this (euphemism).

From my very limited knowledge in software engineering, I guess this is the killer feature that separates a low-cost initiative, that mostly involves keeping the server patched and running, from a highly expensive operation, that would require more expensive hardware, advanced knowledge in hosting infrastructures and experience in software engineering in order to handle all the complexity that will derive from the search capability.

For this reason only I can't use Mastodon at the moment.

Same here.

I actually enjoy watching people boarding planes, I find that relaxing. The trick is to only have a backpack and nothing else on you: from the moment you're not relying on getting overhead space, you can completely skip the boarding stress, stay seated while everyone is stressing out and walk into the plane last.

I do recognize that many passengers have financial difficulties and this only works if you can afford a registered luggage.

There is also this frenzy about feeling the need to leave the airport at flash speed. I don't mind waiting a few minutes at the belt, it usually gives me time to reply to a few emails and make 1 or 2 calls. Again, this assumes you're not flying the last plane of the day, which is often cheaper, but delays May expose you to missing a public transport connection.

Yeah. Sure. No scandal. Just give it a few weeks so that the avatar gets reacquired by deepfake artists and they will see if it can't be involved in scandals.

Should that happen, their only defense will be to emphasize on the fact that it is a fake person, and half the population of the country (those who couldn't tell it wasn't a human) will have a negative affect about that company.

Edit: grammar.

Not that surprising. What is surprising is that they are discovering this after leaving Twitter, which indicates their analytics is failing.

I watched it a week ago. I was frankly not expecting much from it but I had watched the first one, I love the universe and I actually appreciate Rodriguez's and Pine's acting styles.

The movie ended up being an excellent surprise. It felt enjoyable, fun, beautiful visually and the actors seemed to be enjoying themselves along the ride. I noticed the quality of the costumes and effects, too. Definitely recommended.

I had the exact same feelings/thoughts reading his post, and I genuinely hope I am wrong about them because, if I am right, his only way out is to start again from the bottom or launch a new company.

I wouldn't call it "guess", the author is being too nice with the people described in the essay.

Many people choose to consciously engage in toxic or illegal behaviors on the premise that, if the "victim" wants it to stop, it has to signify clearly its desire. Until then, they are free to continue whatever they choose to do.

I think this behavior is very far from genuinely guessing someone's attitude or wishes without consciously putting the same person into discomfort, distress or suffering.

As such, I wouldn't call this "asking vs. guessing" but rather "asking vs. forcing others".

With increasing rampant xenophobia and anti-foreigner sentiment, this can only mean good news.