Makes sense. Never pay through Apple if there’s any other option. Can’t fault Google for that.

But even then, $16 per month for Youtube!? An adblocker is cheaper.

The Trump regime loves to be sued by its supporters and then hand out juicy settlement. It’s blatant corruption, but because it’s going through the courts, I doubt it’s possible to undo and punish it.

Or they’ll make apis shittier because they don’t want AI using it.

However, Copilot has made it a lot easier to navigate through Azure’s incomprehensible menu structure.

As long as he opposes genocide. That’s good enough for me. (And it’s ridiculous that that’s where the bar is.)

They campaigned against Biss and I think he said he wants conditions on aid to Israel (which is currently unconditional).

This is not a win in any way for AIPAC, but the loss would have been bigger if Kat had won, which she nearly did, so I guess that’s something?

The signature of the president of the treasury that has always been on the bills had nothing to do with vanity, but with the president of the bank issuing the money guaranteeing the value of the money.

But who is going to trust the value of money guaranteed by Donald Trump?

It already has fields for personal information, though, and they’re every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they’re all optional, and you don’t have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.

But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.

Because AI cannot possibly generate faces.

Exactly. And that’s the part that worries me most: I’m seeing people investigating the guy, shaming him (he wrote a blog about using Claude to write a game in 90 minutes, so clearly he must be evil /s), and the article above is written in such a way to insinuate all sorts of nefarious goings on, but everything I see suggests this is just normal procedure.

I really feat this is going to hurt the community and chase good developers away.

Exactly. There’s a massive thread on Mastodon where everybody is panicking about this, but it’s a nothing burger if ever there was one.

Sure, the timing and comments suggest it’s meant for legal compliance, but if that’s what it does, it does it by keeping full control in the hands of the user, where it should be.

Linux has similar fields for realName, emailAddress, location, timezone and more. But like birthdate, I think they’re all optional.

Was Linux ever used for massive multiuser systems? I thought it had always been primarily home use and internet servers. I think big multiuser systems went out of fashion with Solaris. Well, I suppose corporate workstations need user accounts where some of these are set.

Only in California and Brazil. And I suspect neither has a shortage of people able to add this field.

I would replace “dramatic” with “predictable”. Everybody knew it was bullshit. It was like tulip mania, but without actual tulips.

That’s exactly what I’m saying: more options to be safer.

Choosing between no men or all men is certainly better than having no choice at all, but being able to filter out just the creeps would be even better.

And yes, that does mean you need to detect who the creeps are, but sexual harassment is already happening, and it would be good to use that information to stop it from happening.

I think this rule a massive improvement, but I also think it’s very restrictive. Women can only choose to avoid all men, rather than just the creeps. So female drivers who need more passengers might feel forced to accept all men, and female passengers who can’t find a ride, might be forced to accept a ride from any male driver. Which might still be a creep.

I think it’s better to weed out the creeps. I think that’s ultimately better for everybody. Make it harder for creeps to get a ride or passenger, instead of making it harder for women.

Maybe both should be an option.

Quite the opposite.

I wouldn’t mind if they’d implemented this the opposite way: if a woman, driver or passenger, encounters a creep, they could report that in the app and then the creep would automatically be banned from riding with women. That way decent men aren’t affected and women keep more choice in drivers/passengers, and only the creeps are singled out.

I’m pretty sure it’s much, much worse than you think. In fact, I’m fairly sure it’s much worse than I think. Men don’t experience it, women are reluctant to talk about it because some men react aggressively to claims that men react aggressively.

It’s not just the thumbnail. The photo is in the article, captioned “More Americans than ever are turning to 401(k) withdrawals to make ends meet”.

I don’t think Kasparov was ever naturalised to American, was he? It’s a weirdly misplaced photo.

Yeah, this does not sound like it’s going to make our children any safer.