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potency··on Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
But I don't wanna be the show. :(
potency··on World Wide Web (1991)
Because expectations have increased since the early 90's and servers cost money.
potency··on Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data
I remember OneDrive doing this too, where photos of parents' children taking a bath etc. were flagged as child porn. Unfortunately unless you encrypt your data locally, privacy is one of the tradeoffs in using these services.
potency··on Google no longer offers new domain registrations
Because Google's shareholders demand it.
potency··on InternLM – new open source 7B LLM
I don't know anything about what you're talking about. Where do I start to learn some of the AI terminology, models, benefits and drawbacks of each, etc?
potency··on Supreme Court Opinion on Student Loan Forgiveness [pdf]
It doesn't, because 6 justices agreed with the majority opinion rather than her interpretation.
potency··on Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google
`I pity the foo that doesn't take a right at the second exit in the upcoming round-about`

It feels like a lot of the 'fun' in apps has been removed over the years.

potency··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
The US has privacy enshrined in the highest law of the land, the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. The problem is that the courts have eroded the meaning and allowed loopholes in the name of "national security", which itself is a term that has been perverted.
potency··on Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations [pdf]
Maybe I'm cynical, but in leaving so many critical information points out, Docker appears to be fear mongering organizations into paying for a subscription. If they provided answers to all these points, then orgs would be able to make a logical decision. By leaving these questions unanswered, orgs are incentivized to move to paid just to avoid any unknown consequences.
potency··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
He's also restored countless accounts that were banned under previous ownership. While banning ElonJet flys in the face of being a "free speech absolutist", he's certainly demonstrated that he's generally in favor of freer speech.
potency··on FTX US Donated $1M to a Super-Pac Aligned with Mitch McConnell in October
He was second only to George Soros for donations made to Democrats this election cycle. Would you like to revise your statement?
potency··on GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
Careful, if too many people start thinking like this reddit's entire business model built on free labor collapses.
potency··on Tell HN: Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s account
So practically speaking, what will happen if Twitter ignores Iranian law and allows IPs from that country to use their platform anyway? I don't think the US govt will enforce Iranian law for them...
potency··on Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making
Curious as to what has kept you motivated to continue working on the project this long? So many open source developers don't last nearly as long or jump to something new once the novelty of the project wears off.
potency··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
Politicians with donors and special interests to please keep pushing our foreign interventionism. The actual people here in the US don't really want to fight in any wars or instigate conflicts. But a representative democracy is not what we really have here any more.
potency··on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
Who are you using now?
potency··on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
That's amazing. When so many companies go in the opposite direction, it's incredibly refreshing to see a company make strides toward reducing their customer's identifiable data footprint.
potency··on Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password
I tried this move but I really missed the way LastPass asks you to save a new password created on a new service. On Bitwarden I felt like I had to save the account first before progressing to actually creating the account. LastPass "just knew" and would prompt me after going to the next screen. Has this changed it all since I last tried it a year or so ago?
potency··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
Glad it wasn't just me. I was trying to get a repeatable issue with a particular site resolved, and support was beyond useless, i.e. unresponsive for up to two weeks, repeating the same scripted BS they had sent me previously, etc. Despite my pleading I was never able to get to a level 2 where someone could actually look at my problem.
potency··on Abstract Clojure
What is Clojure's main selling point?
potency··on The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000%
Nuclear. We need to renew our investment into nuclear. Carbon-free and reliable in all the ways that renewables are not.
potency··on Latest Mozilla VPN features
Interesting! Gave me something to look into, thanks.
potency··on Latest Mozilla VPN features
I would love to use Mullvad, but I need split tunneling on a per-process basis (Windows), since there is the occasional website that hates VPN-based servers. I have a special browser installation I use for such occasions, but few VPN providers offer per-process VPN exceptions. Any chance Mullvad is considering this feature?
potency··on Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook
I'd argue that this has been creeping for a while. At first it's used to ban blatantly illegal posts and obvious spam. However the power to moderate is easily abused. Big Tech is now effectively punishing wrong-think, and it doesn't even have to happen on the platform in question.
potency··on GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
Are there any good alternatives to the big three? I'm looking to build out a platform with as little dependence on Google/MSFT/Amazon as possible.
potency··on My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
Is there a place where people interested in this kind of tech gather and discuss possibilities/code? I'd love to participate in something like this.
potency··on NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars
That's incredible, thanks for sharing.
potency··on You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
> The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired.

Oh come on. Surely a company with the resources of Adobe can figure out a way to keep an activation server running. In fact I'll bet you could find one competent sysadmin to keep it running indefinitely. I hate when companies spew out obvious utter B.S. like this.

potency··on Late Aaron Swartz is omitted from the founders page of Reddit
Probably for the best, considering how Steve Huffman and company have turned what Aaron Swartz envisioned as an open platform resistant to censorship into a publisher that will not hesitate to delete entire communities because they don't like their politics.
potency··on Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke to CNBC upon banning Daily Stormer: “We were worried that people would say, ‘We won’t work with you anymore,’” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told CNBC.

“We had to have the conversation now because at some point we’ll be a public company. We had to prompt that discussion,” said Prince, who added “we want to be ready internally by July 2018,” for a possible stock offering.

CNBC Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/24/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-princ...

Editorials discussing the event: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-to-draw-the-li...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-...

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