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This is a somewhat unpopular opinion but I find it depressing that this is what the so-called elite FAANG engineers are able to come up with.

Or maybe even more sad, this is what a FAANG product manager is able to pass through layers of "are you mad"

haha i sure hope it's the newest Windows which is the most <good thing>

This reads as lip service for investors with no real life value. "Remember guys, we are still AI frontier material!"

"Your browser appears suspicious because it looks like you are trying to hide your identity"

Another case of the much predicted downfall of freedom due to "people who hide themselves must have something to hide, so they are automatically suspicious"

Oh yeah definitely, if he went in for doing software he would make millions for free.

Now waiting for some VC-backed AI company to pick up PewDiePie like they did with the OpenClaw guy.

For some context, this Norwegian cartoon by a group that used to make satire for the government run news agency is a pretty decent summary of how things were discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mkuP6kQwNs.

The old man is a caricature of Jens Stoltenberg (who seems to be running the Norwegian economic machine rather well nowadays, controversial or not)

Of course, some back-and-forwards is healthy.

In a good system both sides fight for their interests, and the outcome is some middle road compromise that optimizes for everyone's benefit.

In Norway the oil fund are actively arguing against boycotting these kinds of companies saying, and I paraphrase: "but our job is to earn money and we can't do that if you hippies keep standing in the way with your morals"

Good to see it isn't necessarily the case.

I think this is part of it. I have heard some people turn to prostitution to afford working for the mickey mouse company in Tokyo. Second hand accounts. People go to insane lengths just to work at their dream place.

Yep its basically the same in Norway. I live 20 min by train from the capitol - we used to have multiple bank offices in the downtown area. They are all closed now. My now retired father got a shock when he, not really keen on dealing with technology, was unable to find a physical office to visit.

The other part of the problem not discussed in this article is that many services now require digital ID. Banks don't really have many physical locations any more, etc. So not having a digital ID is seriously impractical, and it didn't have to be this way. That is IMO a big factor for why digital ID is receiving so much flac: "Digital ID isn't something everyone can have, and for the corner-case people, the alternatives are drying up due to over-digitalization"

To be fair a part of the problem here is that BankID is so common it has become the "Jacuzzi of EID" or the "Google of EID" or whatever your poison is. So all EID-related discussion in public is now "Why aren't we just adding BankID".

Sure, some policymaker will probably interpret this as "introduce EID" but it does color public debate.

I think it's a shame MinID doesn't have the same level of security as BankID, we are really missing out on a great opportunity. But something tells me the powers that are in Norway's socialite community doesn't want it. In Norway we don't have that much monetary corruption, but we have a lot of "kompistjeneste"

Insane evaluation - Anthropic being around 50% of the Norwegian oil fund.

Same. 4.7 has done some incredibly stupid things.

The Gathering used to be a demoscene event! Even hosted the scene.org awards in 2011. Looking at pouet.net, quite a lot of famous demos were released there, such as:

* desert dream by kefrens in 1993

* tint by TBL(!) in 1996

* rupture by ASD in 2009

* numb res by carillon & cyberiad and fairlight

Here is a TV report from the first event in 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SACVynerMhA

Also shoutout to ODD's world domination, which is somewhat of a meme in the Norwegian demoscene community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnBi6PuA5M

Today, the demoscene still lives in Norway albeit arguably on life support. Those that are still interested usually go to "proper demoparties". Solskogen, the old demoparty, had its last event during COVID. Black Valley is a replacement and it seems to be doing well. I was at Solskogen '17 and it was a great collection of hacker-minded people. There was also plenty of alcohol, I can understand why demosceners - an aging population, would prefer their own party to the alcohol-free The Gathering.

The Gathering currently has a mix of creative and e-sport events. I feel like the end of creative has loomed over our heads for 10 years, at least we definitely felt like a minority when I was crew back in the first half of the 2010s. But it still lives, and people still participate in the competitions!

It's an uncomfortable truth that even TG is failing to pull in participants lately, but LANs don't have the critical role in nerd culture they had in the 2000s. I'm happy it still exists and the board seem to be making some decent attempts at revitalising it for a modern crowd

Recently, every time there's a discussion about single CEOs and/or private equity ruining good things, co-operatives seem to come up. Maybe they aren't such a bad idea. Certainly, for starting a company or org, it seems like a decent option.

Why do orgs like Wikipedia and Mozilla keep hiring corporate CEOs thinking it will bring them anything else than toxic work culture

That car, just like the SUV, is more for people who want to brag they own a Ferrari than for people who want a good car. It isn't as ugly as the Nissan leaf (still my favorite practical car!), but it isn't winning any beauty contests any time soon.

I didn't initially believe these numbers, but if you look at some real life stats, you are probably right.

Nominal SECO for the last starship mission was at ~8 minutes and it took ~20 minutes from deceleration started (well, from air resistance outweighed the forces of acceleration) to landing. So basically 30 minutes of flight is just the "getting up to speed" and "slowing down" part. Both account for some distance traveled, but still. ~45 minutes is probably a good bet.

Do note however that you may have to go around the world "the wrong way" to get some places due to launch constraints. But living in a world where going around the world "the wrong way" is the easier path is interesting. Imagine that.

As a Norwegian I have never needed a Norwegian language model. Doing most things in Norwegian puts you at a disadvantage internationally anyways. Maybe this has value in schools, but wouldn't it just give kids more trust in relying on LLM's? My friends who work in education report that group work has become insufferable because many do not think critically and ask LLM to verify everything. I really don't see a benefit, but maybe they will find one - that is what research is for.

I am reminded that we recently concluded our experiment of forcing things to be digital on school was considered a flop. These things have a cost if we are wrong.

The fact that Samsung is kind of famous for just entering new industries left and right, and continuing to produce mediocre products while gaining enough experience to become industry leaders comes to mind. I feel like the blog post could apply to many countries

I think geohot is somewhat of a clown but I think he is speaking reason here and I'm happy to see voices address this. Most seniors I work with agree.

In hacker culture I think there's a pretty clear culture that proving you aren't interested in the inner circle's identities (and therefore proving you are a mature person who understands what is at stake) is one of the ways you earn access to the inner circle.

The lemma is that people who actively want to be friends with and know people of the inner circle are usually marked as untrustable and (somewhat regrattably) made fun of and excluded. That is, prove you are here for the game, not for rubbing shoulders with powerful people, and you shall become one.

I have seen this in warez-related circles, seems like social mechanic that appears naturally to protect those that matter.

One would've thought they had learned from their supposed driver superiority over Nvidia due to embracing Linux users with OSS drivers

You are right. I just wish we didn't need victims to get change :(

Why are people so obsessed with finding him? As others have pointed out wrt the New York Times article, it will just put him in danger.

This makes me think of "The homer" from the Simpsons[1]. The scope creep is insane. But in this case, I think I may be homer. I may buy this, and feel like a glutton for doing so.

Living in Japan I've avoided Flipper Zero due to the law basically saying "It is illegal to own tools primarily used for crime" (think lockpicks, etc). With Flipper Zero primarily being a RFID hacking tool, you are one officer knowing what it is and considering it a tool for crime away from being locked up - at least for the 21 days they get while they investigate you.

Now Flipper One seems like something probably legal.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPc-VEqBPHI

To be fair, I made a few searches today and most of the results are AI generated "blogs". Getting real information is hard. I'd also give up on the Web if i was Google. It's just a shame their solution is just monopolizing further.