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- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 1 week ago:
Eugenicists everywhere.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 1 week ago:
Not buying it, unless there’s smoke involved at the end.
- Comment on The End of the Internet As We Know It 2 weeks ago:
There was a core flaw in the whole CPM model. This means the web has to find a different way to fund itself.
Sadly, it will cause a lot of pain, and it’s not clear what will be next.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat 2 weeks ago:
Briar is Android-only and BitChat is iOS-only.
A quick search shows a few other cross-platform candidates: geckoandfly.com/…/chat-without-internet-connectio…
- Comment on Cloudflare’s New Tool Lets Sites Charge AI Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
I have friends working on related tech.
We shouldn’t go all knee-jerk on this one. It’s a solid first pass at allowing copyright owners to assert control over their own creations and getting paid for their work.
- Comment on BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal sedan with nearly 1,200 miles of range 4 weeks ago:
Charging to 80% in 12 minutes with regular chargers or special ones? If it requires upgrading chargers, adoption may be slow.
- Comment on Amid AI Plagiarism, More Professors Turn to Handwritten Work 5 weeks ago:
I’m all for it.
When the data centers force widespread blackouts, people will still be able to hand-write their complaints. Should also bring back the wax seal and the signet ring for two-factor authentication.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s seed, using existing RISC IP. They can tape out an early prototype, or even just a simulated design, then use the performance numbers to raise the next round.
If anything, Intel proved that nobody in their right mind should ever go vertical and pay to build a fab again. TSMC in Arizona will happily take the job.
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 2 months ago:
L.I.D.A.R.: Laser iPhone Death & Android Ruin
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 months ago:
Google is in an interesting predicament. Their ad service brings in so much revenue, but it’s based on search sending traffic to places where those ads are consumed.
Boost search through Overviews and you’re limiting the effectiveness and reach of your ad service. And to top it off, your search needs content to ingest and remain relevant. But if the ad revenue drops off to websites, they go out of business, so search has less stuff to ingest.
It’s like a reverse flywheel, where each part is working to harm the other part. People have been pointing this out for the last couple of years, but Google search just keeps adding more to Overviews and choking off the flow.
And before you say “good, I hate ads,” most of the internet today and its services are paid by ad revenue changing hands. That includes ISPs that host the Fediverse, networking and storage gear makers, pretty much everything to do with open source, and so many jobs that exist to keep the whole thing humming so we can enjoy cat memes.
If Google (or someone like Cloudflare) doesn’t figure out a way to keep the money flowing, we may be watching a sea shift in how the internet has worked in the last 30 years.
- Comment on Wyze gets $255K tariff bill for $167K worth of floodlights 2 months ago:
Wyze devices are known for being lower cost than most other IoT/home security devices, but have a name brand, and decent app/assistant support. They’re way above no-name low-end ones, but cheaper than brands like Arlo, Ring, or Nest.
Having low manufacturing costs is how they pull it off. If they get forced to add tariffs to their cost, their only hope is if everyone else ends up increasing their prices, otherwise their big advantage goes away. It’s too bad. They make pretty decent gear.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 2 months ago:
To be fair, they’re targeting people who WANT to be tracked, in return for personalized ads. If that’s not you (or me), just ignore their entire platform.
Bold move. Let’s see how it pans out.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 3 months ago:
Looks like the negative publicity worked. CVEs are back on the menu: bleepingcomputer.com/…/cisa-extends-funding-to-en…
- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 3 months ago:
We could be heading into daily (or hourly) cert auto-renewals. Clients will have to catch up. But one day, can see it all being hands-free.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant: California’s Diablo Canyon. 3 months ago:
Relax.
It’s just to help lookup information in their document archives. It needs beefy hardware since it’s all running on-prem, so the data doesn’t leak out.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Thank you for the note. I’d love to chat, and the technology is dead center of what I’m interested in, especially wrt free speech.
Thing is, I’m halfway through my HRT process, going through M2F transition. Was wondering if this was covered by xAI insurance? My current company’s DEI policy fully covers it. FWIW, I disagree with where they stand on this.
Regards.”
