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select1··on An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
I have no issue with this. Bambu makes good products, the AGPL does not give you a license to access someone else's cloud servers.
select1··on hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
Totally normal. March of progress. Old stuff goes away.
select1··on Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
That says more about your tasks than anything else.
select1··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Making a throwaway account to post something utterly thoughtless is certainty a choice.
select1··on Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
As basically every subject matter expert has stated again and again, benchmarks do not tell reveal anything meaningful and have effectively no relation to the model's actual capabilities.
select1··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
This is deeply disappointing.
select1··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
No one is breaking into cars to pay for Facebook, but they absolutely are with regards to heroin.
select1··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
I draw the line at physical compulsion, but everyone is different.
select1··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
"By the early 1960s, however, Philip Morris scientists had discovered that ammonia could also be used to increase the free nicotine in cigarette smoke, providing a more powerful nicotine kick than the milder low-pH tobaccos traditionally used in American-blend cigarettes."

They referred to it as 'crack nicotine' internally. It was an entire, giant scandal. They made a movie about it.

This product that kills the users of it with remarkably high rates and has effectively no positive use is fundamentally different from light and sound.

select1··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
Physical compulsion is a pretty big difference.
select1··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
The ownership check you are referring to is a local check. There is another check (involving EncryptedAppTickets) which is not local, but far fewer games use that.

CEG is long dead/was broken immediately in a pragmatic, automatable way.

select1··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
When it's a problem, you should both expect to be unemployed fairly rapidly. Progress isn't going to stop solely because you want to pick 'excessively long comments' as a hill to die on.
select1··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
And he has bosses. And are they okay with some whatever being an obstacle to work getting done? Probably not.