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The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade

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The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect

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Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat

We have to stop ignoring AI's scat problem

Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet

We have to stop ignoring AI's skibidi toilet problem

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Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

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We'll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors

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AI can't count the number of letters in a word

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If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS

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List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: https://capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?sort=latestQuote.marketCap

Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM's chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips

I imagine you wouldn't object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government

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If I were to rank HashiCorp's products by importance, Nomad would not be at the top

Of course, if I had ranked Red Hat's products by importance at the time of acquisition, OpenShift would not have been at the top, so I am not a reliable ranker

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Why don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same?

They already did that. TikTok is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Los Angeles. The bill of attainder is post-that

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If France passes a law requiring Google to sell Google France to a French company, would Google pulling out instead of selling mean their core drive in France wasn't money?

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Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that's compatible with all of them

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IBM owns Red Hat

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Signal has better defaults and a less compromised origin

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"Mommy, they are going to take my thumbs. Please pay the ransom. It's $10k in Amazon giftcards. Mommy, please!"

Why, OpenAI? Why are you trying to destroy the world? We have no defences against voice impersonation

‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)

A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...

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You may be sued for damages if you sell those nude paintings of Rihanna at a large enough scale that Rihanna notices

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People who have Wikipedia articles have less of an expectation of privacy than normal people

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El Salvador Will Keep Putting $71,000 into the President's Swiss Bank Account Daily

FTFY

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Ransoms gotta get paid

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.

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They aren't going to catch the typo or order of operations error they made on their calculator if they don't understand the math

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Yes, yes, keep my labour in high demand and my salary high

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

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Oh no, not racial impurity in my Nazi fanart generator! /s

Maybe you shouldn't use a plagiarism engine to generate Nazi fanart. Thanks

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Their own Facebook App Store would have to pay the same fees to Apple as the Apple App Store under Apple's generous terms. Losing the web app escape hatch is a 30% revenue loss

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This is probably motivated by the EU decision that since no uses iMessage in the EU, Apple is not legally a "gatekeeper". Perhaps no one (i.e. fewer than 40 million people) uses web apps in the EU, therefore they are gambling that they are allowed to legally gatekeep in that market

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Now consider the number of normal people in the world who do not have a server rack in their closet, and how much they are about to be defrauded and blackmailed

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