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aucisson_masque··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
> On Copilot+ PCs, image generation is local but prompt moderation remains remote

Anyone disturbed about that ? It's your computer, running locally, but Microsoft can tell you 'no'.

It's like you want to open a folder and it asks permission to Microsoft.

aucisson_masque··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Apple had been on a steady path of bad decisions since a few years, I'm glad to see they reverted at least on this one.

Now if they could completely remove liquid glass...

aucisson_masque··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
America dominance on the world is ending, it's a fact. East Asia is at least on par, India is china from 25 years ago.

It's becoming more obvious every day. And yeah, people in 1910 watched Europe dominate the world for about 1500 years. Yet it came to an end.

If you want to Speedrun the collapse, vote for trump. He sure is making a good job right now with diplomacy, lack of long term planning and just getting all your allies to hate you.

aucisson_masque··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
I did read your link but it doesn't prove your point at all.

Population in specific places used to eat meat because nothing grows there, but they were an exception to the rule. It's been known that our ancestors were mostly scavengers.

Hunting animals is much more dangerous that picking strawberry, back then a cut may lead to death, a broken bone was death.

aucisson_masque··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
True but the Inuits are the exception, not the rule.

It's been pretty much accepted that out ancestors (a long time ago) were scavengers, then became farmers/Livestock farmers and then industrialization.

It's only with the latest that we did start to produce meat in large quantity.

aucisson_masque··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Openrouter is fragile, one good competitor and they are at risk.

Or if one of the provider suddenly decide to forbid openrouter from using their api. Why would they do that tho ?? Well it's not like execs never take dumb decisions.

In my humble opinion, it's extremely overpriced. But then, it's just the standard with AI currently. Divide every ai company valuation by 1000 and you might get it's real value.

aucisson_masque··on Cornell: Pro Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to US or Lose Funding
Does Chinese universities also have funding for students from foreign countries ?
aucisson_masque··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
You can't trust a code that you didn't audit before. End of story.

What you are asking for is simply impossible, even without any permissions rogue extensions can still do a lot. It's what some developers spend their entire time working on.

If Google couldn't fix it with Android, which has granular permission per applications, why do you think it's going to be even remotely effective on the web browser ?

aucisson_masque··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Could be just because you stopped eating bad food. Things improve dramatically once you limit your intake of industrialized food.
aucisson_masque··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
The crux of the difference is the webRequest API which is only available in Manifest v2. This allows uBlock to strip all tracking data from the requests themselves. So while Chrome w uBlock Lite is hiding almost all the same ads from you, it's not protecting you from tracking

The Lite version also relies solely on filter lists that require you to update the extension itself while the MV2 version can do so dynamically. Additionally, it lacks CNAME Uncloaking which I imagine will become much more commonplace soon enough which will make it impossible to block those ads.

aucisson_masque··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
You can't trust a code that you didn't audit before. End of story.

What you are asking for is simply impossible, even without any permissions rogue extensions can still do a lot. It's what some developers spend their entire time working on.

If Google couldn't fix it with Android, which has granular permission per applications, why do you think it's going to be even remotely effective on the web browser ?

aucisson_masque··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
> Hate to be the one to defend Google here, but the reasons weren't that unreasonable. I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data. The declarative API idea is pretty good.

Don't kid yourself, even with mv3 if you install a rogue extension it's going to have access to a lot more data than you would be comfortable sharing to.

aucisson_masque··on DeepSeek API Pricing Update
That is not at all the case. The Chinese government is even indirectly subsidizing Claude and other platforms like ChatGPT.

If you buy Claude api access through a third party Chinese company, it's cheaper than when you buy directly.

Beside it would go against the Chinese philosophy of just using the right tool for the job. If Claude is better at a task than deepseek, they sure use Claude.

No really I don't get your claim, do you have any proof that you can source ??

aucisson_masque··on Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
I got two dozen of canned sardines at home, selling for 100$ each.
aucisson_masque··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
> i'm playing a bit fast and loose with what lives on the GPU and what lives on the CPU here. On many systems, they share a memory pool anyway. But on systems with discrete GPUs, most of this is gonna be video memory

Yeah this is irrelevant here, windows doesn't share both in 99 of the case.

aucisson_masque··on My server is a phone now
yeah but when the battery fails, you loose your "server".

i'm thinking more about long term.

aucisson_masque··on My server is a phone now
I see the 'battery backed' as an issue.

Keeping it plugged in like that is going to harm the battery.

That and the fact that my Xiaomi 12 runs USB 2.0 ....

I'm stuck running stuff on MacBook at night when I don't use it because of that.

Electronic price need to become reasonable again, a 8gb raspberry pi 5 is about 200€ right now. It's absolutely insane.

My pi 4 did cost me 40€ a few years ago.

aucisson_masque··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
I know it's not supposed to understand but it's just so good at faking it, and being right, that at some point we can claim it's 'underdtanding' it.

Or you'd have to invent a new word.

aucisson_masque··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Play integrity.
aucisson_masque··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Don't need to. There is parental control and much more interesting things to do. The problem with school is that it's boring and it doesn't tire them enough.
aucisson_masque··on Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day
> Maybe Framework is handling things well, but now with their addresses out everyone who talked publicly about their recent orders should be considered at risk of targeted physical theft due to the current prices.

Am I missing something or is this user out of his mind ? This ain't Bitcoin, it's just a damn laptop.

aucisson_masque··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
That's why phone are banned in school in France.

And you can still regulate what your kid does when he's not at school.

aucisson_masque··on Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades
What other choice ? Politics are yet to give a solution after decades of problems.
aucisson_masque··on Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades
Mexico has been like that for decades, I believe it's top 1 priority for most Mexicans yet it's still not fixed. What gives ?

At some point when your government is so corrupt, you got to take weapon and organize yourself. It's sad.

aucisson_masque··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Many banks don't run with Google play services, and even with them on grapheneos some still won't run because of play integrity.

Don't tell me about grapheneos, I have a pixel phone and did run it for a few months with/without play services.

At the end, you're always going to absolutely need that one app that won't run without Gplay.

aucisson_masque··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
What I did read is that a young inexperienced pilot was way too reliant on technology.

Issue was on pilot training and the company that put 2 inexperienced pilot together.

aucisson_masque··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Aosp without Google play services is dead. You need it more and more to run apps.
aucisson_masque··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
When I see Microsoft, I run away.

No one is perfect but Microsoft is really efficient at making me lose my mind.

aucisson_masque··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
> might not be the most efficient way to work with an LLM, but I value comprehension over productivity.

LLM are becoming so good that they are better than us at understanding code. And it's only going to get worst every year.

I think that the job of 'coding' is done, it's dying and will be effectively dead in a decade.

You better find ways to make yourself usable around LLM work but not by doing what LLM already do.

aucisson_masque··on Don't be a meat proxy
I'm not a dev and that's exactly what I do but I also have absolutely no skill in coding, and am not paid...

People doing that will be replaced, in best case scenario, by cheap labor, and worst case by computers.

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