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blks··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
And in many others they’re small czars of their own kingdoms. However it’s always nice to refresh parliaments with new educated people, with new progressive political movements, shatter old alliances and practices.
blks··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
For me it didn’t find a file on GitHub with exact file name, but found it via llm summary.
blks··on Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain
What’s it based on now?
blks··on Root shell on Samsung TV
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/does-opting-out-of-s...

There have been countless reports of various malicious activity from these TVs (and not just Samsung).

blks··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Well, person didn’t have a dog and then they suddenly do, and that will be noted by the device. I don’t understand the downplaying here, even though it’s correct that these people not necessarily know what they’re doing. The device does collect information about you and does listen (all while costing thousands of dollars). And these spy features they announce are not a product for common users but for data companies.
blks··on This I Believe (1952)
Social media enables unseen before levels of fear mongering, misinformation and astroturfing. There are so many “issues” that were created and inflated to rile up voters it’s insane.
blks··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
Funny that this linked website has shit ton of ads every single paragraph. It’s like the worst kind of cooking website.
blks··on Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash
Airbnb charges a cleaning fee.
blks··on The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO
This indicates engineering culture where no one reads or checks PR and just merges as long as tests are passed.
blks··on Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
I’m not arguing with “the most powerful”, that’s correct at the moment; the ICC and similar international law enforcement were not established specifically to target USA hegemony.
blks··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
The earned income/purchase paid tax only once, while the housing needs infrastructure to be maintained all the time. So some way to collect these (rising) fees is needed.
blks··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
I’m not from the States, and I always wondered in discussions like this, why are the HOA fees so massive? What are they paying for? Like rough estimate these HOAs have multi million yearly budgets; is it just to care for common property? Private roads? Security and maintenance of gated community? Playgrounds? I don’t imagine HOA maintaining stuff like some hobby/club houses, regular events for kids/eldery?
blks··on Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
> an initiative of some Western states trying to get the most powerful state to play by their rules

That’s a bit of a americacentric view

blks··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
How easy it’s to see a certain speaking point being launched into the media, it’s chilling.
blks··on OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
Yet to see, as a few big sweeps he did (with various problems), are still sitting unmerged after 2-3 months, with a dev from another project reviewing them and a hardware lead reviewing the idea.
blks··on OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
My company hired a junior dev that was helping a senior one, then after layoffs and financial issues senior was fired, and junior left to pick mission critical code with a stick and codex.
blks··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
IIRC it had something to do with the type of fuel that was in use. There are aircrafts that reach pretty high temperatures during flight and they usually don’t leak fuel that much on the ground. Do correct me if I’m wrong.
blks··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Hopefully it won’t be leaking fuel anymore with modern engines
blks··on It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
People are people, LLMs are a commercial product. IP in question wasn’t not used according to its license, while researchers in general access it within licensing agreement terms.

Here we have a commercial product that is produced using IP against its licensing agreement, contains said IP within it, and can (closely) reproduce this IP.

blks··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
Doesn’t mean we have to eat people or murdering animals. A rare person beats himself up for eating salad, but I promise you majority of people around you have various reservations about murdering and hurting animals and people. Growing up in some cultures and being fed abstract clean pieces of flesh just allows people to compartmentalize.
blks··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
We got? We didn’t get anything last time I checked, we are offered to pay rent to access this intelligence, at a discount
blks··on EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Do what? Customer searching for a physical book will do print-on-demand or what do you mean? Most customers will go with a cheap and convenient option
blks··on A note on subscription prices from LWN
I’m occasional lwn reader and I had no idea there are subscriptions there!
blks··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
Why not? It’s the same as everywhere else, it has men. Just knowing that places like Kiwi Farms exists is enough evidence of good number of garbage people
blks··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
Really depends if company has some spyware installed. My work MacBook was just given me as plain new MacBook that I installed everything myself. Personal iCloud, work OneDrive, no corporate spyware
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Don’t be mistaken, climate refugees will be white as well
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
I imagine huge fake monoculture forests are partially to blame, besides climate change
blks··on EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Removing copyright will benefit parasites and big players more than small artists and businesses. Big businesses won’t have to eg obtain any licensing to publish someone else’s novel or technical book.
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
This reads like a very good dramatic catastrophy movie. This is very alarming.
blks··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
How much water usually cost in dryer regions of USA?
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