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_ink_··on Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts
It's super annoying, because it's normally also a path for account recovery. So if you need to change your number, good luck remembering where you have signed up with it.
_ink_··on Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors
This would be awesome. Imagine you would need to build excellent products, that advertise through word of mouth. And all that slot machines that only exist to force ads onto you would actually need to provide real value that people want to pay for.
_ink_··on I let an AI run my startup for a week
Not sure what grok bit exactly offers, but OpenClaw or Hermes Agent seem similar.
_ink_··on Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

By chaining several devices

_ink_··on Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
Sounds great! Any interest in open sourcing your approach?
_ink_··on Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
But I can also invest in companies? If the population keeps growing, because less people die, the economy might just keep growing. Also if you can get 500 you might want to get more kids. So it will be exponential growth. What could go possible wrong?
_ink_··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
Or, maybe, it's because they actually care and take their responsibility serious. The next generations will grow up using these tools. It's ok to say, we don't teach them that talking like a dick is acceptable, even towards machines. Use grok if you want to raise personalities like Musk or Trump.
_ink_··on Lobbying Is Corruption
The German left party has the stand that billionaires shouldn't exist. At first I thought this is a bit far fetched. But nowadays I think the sentence should go billionaires shouldn't exist in a democracy. Because obviously money is power, for example through lobbying. And these people accumulated a lot of power, which is completely undemocratic.
_ink_··on US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams
The true definition of AGI: when bots are accepted as consumers and their clicks on ads are as valuable as human clicks.
_ink_··on US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams
Because you as a user don't distribute your $15. It's not like if you listen to one artist only, that artist gets your $15. Instead they throw it all into one pot and distribute it in accordance to the total plays. This is why Taylor Swift gets most of your money even when you didn't listen to her. I wish it was different.
_ink_··on Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
Which leaves Bitcoin between a rock and a hard place. The Satoshi funds are probably worth an attack. At the same time they cannot move to post quantum cryptography, because that would also require to move funds.
_ink_··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
> Importantly, Anthropic models are more expensive (not even talking about Fable here as it is a special case) as seen in usage metrics.

Not sure where you see that. The API prices of Opus are cheaper than Astra and there was a study suggesting that the Anthropic abos are offering more bang for the buck:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975345

_ink_··on Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings
If you feel comfortable with sharing, I'd be interested in what medis you are on / work for you best.
_ink_··on Dots: Always-on agents
I want that, but running on my own hardware with the models I choose. Does it exist?
_ink_··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
I agree platforms are not neutral anymore. They decide what people see. They are entirely responsible for the feed. They should be liable accordingly.
_ink_··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The supreme court, I guess. What makes you think they would allow that as long as Trump cronies have the majority there?
_ink_··on Goodbye Google
Believing the message and being able to act on it are two pairs of shoes. There is nothing we can do. The box of pandora has been opened.

The companies have no tools for this, because there is a chance that the company who solves AI will eat the entire cake. And countries cannot do something about it, because clearly it gives an advantage in warfare. When it comes to weapons everything that is possible will be done, which means everybody needs to do it to not be defense less.

There is nothing we can do anymore. We can only hope that LeCun is right and that LLMs are a dead end and that everyone trying to solve AGI with then is essentially wasting money.

_ink_··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
So, make it a punishable offence? Maybe get a slap on the wrist the first time and go to jail the second time. That will get people thinking if it's worth it. And it will definitely stop the flood of weirdos that randomly film people to put them on their instatok.
_ink_··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Are you filming? - Can't you see the light?

Case closed. People that are very familiar with these glasses need to ask. These devices need to get banned.

_ink_··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
That feels unnecessary judgemental. If you enjoy a thing, I think that's a great way to spent your time.
_ink_··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
I was surprised, too, and looked it up. WCA officially doesn't differentiate. The human World Record is 3.51 currently held by a Yiheng Wang (male). So there is quite a gap to the new record by Lian Yunzh. But if she continues like that, I think we will find out soon whether there are any biologic reasons for the gap or if it is just because there are many more males into that kind of thing.
_ink_··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
Unless somebody steps in and prohibits it they will do it, because somehow that's most cost efficient.
_ink_··on How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?
Can those not be bought?
_ink_··on How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?
Interestingly the fake shop is blocked by my nextdns.io setup.
_ink_··on What to Know About JavaScript in 2026
So is Angular dead? Or why doesn't it deserve any mention?
_ink_··on What AI-Native Looks Like
> I've recently found tests written by Fable that don't actually do anything in a very large codebase.

tbf, I've seen these kind of tests as well at $dayjob, written by humans before gpt was a thing. That doesn't invalid your point. But it's still funny that we expect the machine to be perfect, before it can do something for us.

_ink_··on Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC
Yeah, it's good that it is progressing. But my hopes are really on the digital Euro. I hope the EU doesn't fall for the lobbying against it by the (Wero) banks.
_ink_··on Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC
Fully agree. EU needs to get their act together and start getting independent. It's absurd that I cannot pay cashless without using American companies. Or that people lose their bank account because someone in America does something.

Edit: They also need to force banks to make a decision. Do you want to do business in the EU? Then you must not close accounts bank accounts because someone in US puts someone on a list. If that means you lose business in the US, so be it. Make a decision which market you want to operate in. If you want to leave EU, do it. Others will take your place.

_ink_··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Nevermind. I just need to remove my SIM card and use a VPN to Spain to get updates. wtf
_ink_··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
And here I am with my 26 Signature, still on Android 16 with Patch Level from January and the phone reporting happily, Looking Good! Everything up to date!

Get your update process working @Motorola!

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