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stainablesteel··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
there's a difference between an individual family changing its composition because it has an interracial marriage, and an entire country needing to do so just because they've taken in immigrants
stainablesteel··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
or if you just care about your race, which is a normal thing to do

it's an extended family of sorts

stainablesteel··on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
this seems like it should fall within a right to repair context
stainablesteel··on 11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey
"riding" and "leopard" are doing a lot of work here

he might be standing and holding it, but that's a nice find

stainablesteel··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
these videos were disappointing and underwhelming
stainablesteel··on Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
it's incredibly hard to identify microbes like these, this is not a simple task, especially if you're not aware they exist or that they can occur in this way.. if they did, which i'm skeptical of
stainablesteel··on OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber
or accidentally hand the information over to someone who will
stainablesteel··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
they don't need to use the whole humanoid, they can take the legs or abdomen alone and use them as is

the human frame is just an experimental proxy for functionality, which turned out to be promising

two arms alone is the purpose-built robot you're referencing

stainablesteel··on Court Records Should Be Free
there was a website for this

https://courtwatch.us/

stainablesteel··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
microsoft is an amazing study in managed decline

that people still buy this, businesses still rely on their infrastructure, and their stock is somehow world-class is outstanding for the fact that its operating system can't do what middle school level coders can accomplish

stainablesteel··on U.S. science is in chaos
it's more like skin color, ethnicity, and religion
stainablesteel··on U.S. science is in chaos
yeah most people are normal human beings, im saying the discrimination happens in getting admitted into the program
stainablesteel··on U.S. science is in chaos
im referring to the admissions process, and this discrimination has been present for decades
stainablesteel··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
the attempted takeover of the gaming industry has been the biggest blowback to western political establishments everywhere

video games would normally distract people who would otherwise remain politically inactive

when these establishments attempt to insert their propaganda and control mechanisms into these industries, it infuriates millions of people who just want to be left alone

stainablesteel··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
the entire internet is just phishing at this point
stainablesteel··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
this is among the same kind of problem that people have with facebook and google, and these "login with your ___ account" problems

if so much of your life is centralized through a few accounts, then these companies shouldn't have a legal right to ban you from using it

stainablesteel··on [dead]
not surprising, european political elites seem to do whatever they want regardless of whether it's good for their countries
stainablesteel··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
they would kill their own product if they did this

it would be like if tsmc started designing their own chips to compete with the people they sell their services to, they have more to gain by limiting their participation to a specific corner

stainablesteel··on DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
imo there are two major kinds of models

there are models you can speak with, that respond to what you say

and there are models that just make lists, that list everything, include weird formats and add asteriks everywhere.

deepseek, to me, will always be the latter, and i can't stand it, you can't ask it a coherent question and get a coherent response.

stainablesteel··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
it's fair, especially because if people want to contribute to something so badly, they can make their own fork or version of it

they can vibe-code their own browser, there's no need for the public to access every single open-source project anymore, you need to find people you can actually trust

stainablesteel··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
If this was 200k of anything else I don't think I'd care as much. I'm not sure why childish objects are worthy of more vitriol than anything else, but I definitely feel that way.
stainablesteel··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
sanity isn't his job
stainablesteel··on Claude Opus 4.8
i'm beginning to find it comical how every model release always presents itself as superior to every other model on the market, but they always leave just one test where some other model was modestly better, just in case.
stainablesteel··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
initially, not a lot of people were using gemini

google pushed it into their other products to attract people to AI

there was and still are a decent number of people who haven't really used it, as crazy as that sounds

stainablesteel··on SpaceX S-1
elon has a great wall of china's worth of plaques with comments exactly like this, and his companies are still worth more than their combined weight in gold
stainablesteel··on SpaceX S-1
putting tesla robots on the moon ran by LLMs seems to be a pretty coherent overall plan, I don't think it's different
stainablesteel··on Googlebook
man, even google product videos show a "watch this video on youtube". can't link anything anymore
stainablesteel··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
it's either blue, or it's green. pick a side, coward
stainablesteel··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
our use of platinum has been limited by its scarcity, having tons of it would completely change the things we could build. saturation isn't a real downstream effect of economics, it would instead be transformative
stainablesteel··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
launching things via a mass driver from the moon to the earth requires a lot less fuel, is faster, and cheaper than shipping across the ocean
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