I think California recently passed the Digital Age Assurance Act, which was backed by Google,Meta, and OpenAI. I think it goes into effect in 2027.

I find it detrimental to my productivity when integrated into an editor/IDE. I’ve found the “autocomplete” causes subtle bugs that I end up overlooking because I’m trying to go fast and putting too much trust in the generated lines/snippets. Tracing down these bugs becomes a huge time-sink. I do use chatbots in the browser for various things; mostly as a kind of “search” for alternative ways of doing things, frameworks, libraries, and algorithms. Agentic vibe-coding is ok for small one-off tools/scripts you wouldn’t need to maintain, IMO.

Indeed, and I give them credit. China is unironically leading the world in scientific progress. I wouldn’t recommend using their services though, for privacy reasons (same with the US).

If you’re not paying, you’re the product. Even on Chinese services. Alibaba does train my favorite local models though (Qwen).

There’s an intersection like that near me (android auto always drops). I haven’t figured out what’s causing it though. Haven’t spotted a Flock camera there. There’s some down the road, but none that I’ve noticed at the intersection. There are what look like the normal traffic cams there. I too wonder if it’s something that’s purposely forcing disconnections so devices start broadcasting SSIDs/MAC info or something like that.

OpenAI just bought the raw wafers? WTF.

I think the RAM manufacturers were found to be guilty of colluding/price-fixing in that case (maybe this case too).

I could be wrong, but I think Linux would be horrible for the kind of security you’d want in a smartphone. At least that’s what I read from the GrapheneOS folks…

Not really. TSMC has a near monopoly on the advanced fabrication, and ASML has a near monopoly on the lithographic machines TSMC uses. Nvidia is a fab-less designer. Google has its TPUs, and Amazon has some kind of custom chip too.

I’ve seen many projects like this over the years, they never seem to take off for some reason. Freedombox seemed pretty interesting to me back in the day, but I already had some old hardware and didn’t mind learning how to set things up myself. I think Sandstorm is/was another option. And I think Nextcloud is also a framework of sorts (idk, I don’t use it). To an extent TrueNAS is also a kind of an all-in-one solution that has one-click installs of most of these apps.

I think Rust applications requires lower developer effort than C. C is a simpler language, but that means more work for developers to build their applications on it. The “rewrite everything in Rust” thing does seem weird though. I personally like the more elegant languages like Haskell, but I guess those aren’t really systems programming languages.

It is much easier to maintain software with static type checking.

Debatable

I always just considered AI as a CS field that included things like planning, pathfinding, logic and symbolic reasoning, and ML, of course. Most of it is built on optimization and constraint satisfaction algorithms.

I was thinking about this earlier. The password manager browser plugin I use (Proton Pass) defaults to staying unlocked for the entire browser session. If someone physically gained access to my PC while my password manager was unlocked, they’d be able to access absolutely every password I have. I changed the behavior to auto-lock and ask for a 6-digit PIN, but I’m guessing it wouldn’t take an impractical amount of time to brute-force a 6-digit PIN.

Before I started use a password manager, I’d use maybe 3-4 passwords for different “risks,” (bank, email, shopping, stupid shit that made me sign up, etc). Not really sure if a password manager is better (guess it depends on the “threat” you’re worried about).

Edit: Also on my phone, it just unlocks with a fingerprint, and I think law enforcement are allowed to force you to biometrically unlock stuff (or can unlock with fingerprints they have on file).

IDK. Tech companies are bringing in more revenue than ever. The trend seems to be companies reporting great revenue growth, then laying off shortly after, to which the investors seem to reward. In the past, layoffs would usually bring stock prices down, since they have less human capital to generate profit from.

Interesting, didn’t know that’s how modern browsers worked. Guess my understanding was outdated from the HTTP/1 standard.

Is it just the HTML that should be under 14kb? I think script, CSS, and image (except embedded SVGs) are separate requests? So these should individually be under 14kb to get the benefit?

I believe these cars drive on the same roads all day, whereas people are likely to be driving in and out of areas these systems are not familiar with. I suppose a good comparison would be of a taxi driver that only operates in the same area as the driverless cars, if that exists.

His company bought puts. They are less risky, because you don’t need to maintain margin. What you pay to buy them is all you can lose.

Hmm, I’ve never seen performing oral sex as being submissive, necessarily. It can be a quite active act; aggressive even.