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As allegedly Stalin replied to a group of writers complaining that ordinary people do not understand culture, "I have no other people for you".

Yes Americans do not understand how lucky they are.

It might be anti-bot feature, i.e. verifying that those likes are not from bots. YT delays views counter update for similar reasons.

You should be using open-source firmware without any "untrusted" zones.

I suppose it would be relatively slow and how too little memory to be usable for programming, for example.

If you have to take a loan to buy food or medicine, you are already at the bottom. Because you need to repay the loan with an interest next month, and you will have even less money left.

But if Facebook made feed less addictive, would not it become more boring and hard-working Joe would not be able to have a rest after a working day?

To place an advertisement you probably need to identify yourself and use a card or bank account for payment. It would be extremely stupid to use illegal materials in advertising, but if it is true, why the suspect is not caught and instead Meta is sued? Did Meta do anything to make it easier to use such materials in advertisement?

I read about New Mexico decision and the court ordered to implement age verification. Addiction is just an excuse.

Nobody forces the user to use the app. And from the screenshots I see online, Meta's app, Threads is used mostly by adult people to post dating stories and jokes. Do not consider this dangerous. Instagram is also used mostly by adults. As for Facebook, I do not know who uses it.

To be fair, addiction is the problem of the users which have nothing better to do than scroll the app.

To protect teens, Apple, Google and Microsoft must implement one-click "child mode" and block installing or accessing social network in this mode. It is stupid to blame Meta for what is parents and OS developers responsibility. An app should not require selfie and a passport to use it.

UPD: Indeed the subject is selfies and passports, let me quote [1]:

> As part of the case, Torrez was seeking to force Meta to overhaul its apps by implementing features like effective age-verification technologies, altering recommendation algorithms that don’t compromise child well-being and making other modifications that result in “fundamentally restructuring how Meta is allowed to do business in the state,” the AG said at a press briefing before the second phase of the trial began.

> In addition to the abatement fund, Thursday’s order requires Meta to continue improving “age assurance models and tools in New Mexico” using AI, and to attempt “to develop, within two years, a dedicated under-13-years-of-age prediction model.”

First, children should not be on Facebook, second, there should be no selfies (which is what states want) but instead a one-click "child mode" set up by parents without any selfies.

Also note how journalists hide the main issue deep in the text so that by seeing the header you do not get the real issue and be deceived. Typical propaganda trick.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/meta-to-pay-into-567-million...

There should be an array of arguments instead of space-separated string.

Watermarks are garbage because they may embed account id, IP address and deanonimize you. That's why we should be using open-weights LLM whenever possible.

Find traffic lights for me. If it required an app, I would close the page.

I disagree with some points in "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better".

For example, author claims that saving and restoring all registers in interrupt handler takes too long. But this can be solved alternatively, for example: split register set for use in interrupt and normal code. Or simply add two register banks and allow switching between them (assuming interrupts are not re-enterable). But author claims that ARM is better because it has a "store multiple registers" instruction. It wouldn't help because storing multiple registers still requires multiple bus cycles, and microcontroller probably has a 32-bit bus and no cache, so saving N registers requires N memory cycles - no matter, is it done with a single instruction (ARM), or with multiple (RISC-V). And implementing this ARM instruction makes the core more complicated with little benefit.

As for 3 instructions for array access, in a simple loop a compiler can convert index access to pointer increment.

The real weak points of RISC-V are:

- no trap on integer overflow and invalid FP results . Overflows cause vulnerabilities

- no optimizations for fast context switch, which is required for dumping legacy unsafe monolithic kernels, especially in age of AI actively searching for vulns

- weird vector extensions

It seems to simulate only the membrane, and not the body of the drum, so no bass drum, no snare and no hi-hats?

Yes, but if you write your own extension maybe you want to read and modify the data. For example, patch fingerprinting script so that it gets the wrong result.

Furthermore, malicious extension can read the data from the DOM, from forms (for example, password or credit card fields), and in some cases, from JS variables. They can insert fake information into the page. So preventing extensions from reading network data still leaves a lot of options for a malicious extension.

As I remember, generic DRM interface allows only writing to a framebuffer and not reading from someone's else framebuffer. Do they use some vendor-specific APIs?

What if a son of a senator or a president had drugs, would he be bombed too?

The court documents are supposed to be read by a human, not by AI so hiding a prompt invisible to human to discourage AI usage is absolutely fair. But it seems that the judge has different view on what is fair and assumes that it is ok not to read the documents manually and just give them to a computer.

Bread doesn't need a refrigerator and you can sell it directly from a truck.

Russia is 9th world economy by nominal GDP [1]. Larger than many European and Asian countries.

Also I am surprised that China is so close to US (20 Trillion vs 31 Trillion). The gap is less than 2x now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...

Not years.

Are you thinking that there are no wars and power plants do not get destroyed? If you live in a non-nuclear country the chances are non-zero and it is not smart to depend on large, centralized, easy to destroy power plants. It actually dumb to build those large plants instead of decentralized smaller plants.

For example, a president of a certain country threatened to make a "power plant day" in another certain country.

Gasoline is much easier to store (you can keep a reserve in your cellar) and much easier to carry and trade than electricity.

If you used cash as a reasonable person you would not even notice that cards aren't working.

You can buy it on a black market unlike electricity.

What's good in electric cars? If a large power plant is destroyed how are you going to charge your electric car to escape?

Indeed it doesn't make sense to require sports achievements from someone wanting to study math.

Usually 4-bit 200B model is better than 8-bit 90B. But if you go below 4 bits, I am not sure what is better.