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I don't remember advocating digital detox anywhere. Are you mistaking me for someone else?

But I do advocate pretty strongly for open phones because they are becoming indispensable for leading a normal life without becoming a digital hermit.

They should be either open and indispensable or closed and dispensable, not indispensable and closed at the same time.

Copyright laws are real for the purpose of calculating cost because humans and other non AI business are still bound and limited by them.

Is it actually proven that TVs are sold below cost or is it just a conjecture to justify the ads.

Without an account, they don't even allow installs from galaxy store. So their default apps and their security updates are probably contingent on having an account now.

Not much different from playstore but that is also a problem.

The note taking genre of opensource apps is saturated with many options but most of them are electron based.

I was hoping that someone with enough motivation and money for tokens would come up with a non-electron option that is similar to onenote, with free form note placement and handwritten notes.

Basically I wish there is an opensource app having good feature parity with OneNote. Thats a good benchmark to have.

> AI is taking jobs, tipping toeing around it isn't the best thing. It needs to be said, and then what next needs to be figured out

If we think about it, AI can be seen as dumping cheap products below cost and disrupting the domestic market.

I mean the real cost of production is unknown due to skirting of copyright laws in many cases and even if we discount that, it is well known that AI is being pushed far below the actual costs for providers. There are disruptive technologies, yes but this is not the same if the real cost is hidden or deferred and it doesn't compare with horses/cars or whatever analogy that comes up often.

In the physical world, this is called dumping isn't it? Just because tech is involved it doesn't change the fact. Countries already have anti dumping laws.

Don't we primarily rely on trickle down economics.

What percentage of the earnings of influencers flows back into the economy as part of production costs instead of small percentage as spending or sitting as wealth in banks.

The need for you to do banking, and employees do MFA on a phone and thinking that doing requires a secure and closed phone is again a spillover of offloading costs to users.

We did have hardware tokens for corporate logins and banking needs.

There is no real reason why an open phone cannot be secure for sensitive applications.

> I don’t trust myself to secure an open phone and I do this kind of thing for a living

> Not everyone’s life is your life. Not everyone living not your life is doing it wrong.

The irony.

IIRC, Samsung OneUI updates for the past one year have been removing the unlock option even from the devices that supported it.

Lumping consumer devices with the need for secure business devices and often offloading that to personal devices is the problem.

I wish they stop finding ways to lock down the device in the name of security and/or release different SKUs for the more secure use cases, provided by the organizations themselves if they deem it necessary.

With ad served malware, this wouldn't be the first time though :)

If the data was not "stolen", then asking them to delete is also not "recovery".

Not necessarily the accounts or posts. They can be made to delete all the profiling data that they've collected over the years and be barred from inferring anything from user submitted past data and new data for a few years.

Basically they shouldn't be able to monetize that data in any form directly or indirectly, even if they don't delete it.

> While the full amount of the penalty against Meta, based on thousands of violations of state law, was calculated as $219bn, Judge Mathew reduced the penalty to the $25bn fine.

umm when a thief steals and gets caught, we don't just punish them. We also recover what was stolen.

They should also be made to delete all user data collected during the period, and pause similar data collection for x months/years even the ones that fall under their service terms. The price of wrong doing should be high, and for meta deleting historical user data is the highest form of punishment .

Otherwise it's just cost of business.

I wish.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

> Can they be abused? Probably, but so can just about anything. Passkeys do, on the other hand, offer some real tangible benefits that other mainstream solutions do not.

Let the usecases that need passkeys use it.

Why can't there be a parallel standard with similar features that doesn't have the parts that can potentially be abused. If the difference between abuse and non-abuse is a vague promise and the good graces of corporate structures, it is better to err on the side of caution and demand solutions that make it impossible.

> The people don't care enough to bother, and that's fine - it's not your (or my) place to force other people to do anything.

Yeah it wasn't your place or anyone else's. How can you or I force anyone. Not sure why that even came up.

Debate is how we evolve new and alternate solutions. Handwaving by saying not your place or mine is not how we affect change if needed.

> such as Linux

Before anybody thinks "surely they can't ban all linux users", they don't need to. The systemd folks are also working on a startup that is building verifiable computing into Linux via systemd. So, we have no choice on the matter anyway. It could become of choice of approved distro vs non approved distro.

> So the bad timeline is the one in which the industry gradually transitions to

We have been on that timeline for every other tech transgression. There are no signs that this will be a different timeline.

> If the service does something inappropriate, you can stop using it and, if necessary, build a competing service that is not abusive.

Like how everyone stopped using Google/Gmail, Facebook/Instagram and Windows/Office365 and flocked to alternatives?

Let's flip your suggestion. What if someone says if you need "high security" build a competing service that enforces it, no one is forcing you to use a "low security" service ?

> It would probably have been safer for the author to explicitly point out that this is true for them specifically

It's ironic but you should have started with "In my opinion", "I think" or something to that effect. Now you never hear the end of it!

You should atleast give it a thought if the same hammer refuses to hit certain people's thumb but will happily hit yours.

Amazon didn't have to build a hosted db, queue, mail or anything else that is value add as long as it provides basic hosted compute, storage and network.

But it still does and can only claim having those after building them.

Their customers have been asking for that hard cap feature for a long long time, not building that feature while saying customers have all the tools to build it themselves is just a deliberate misdirection at this point.

> The impactor would have caused a luminous explosion comparable to one made by 15,500 tons of TNT.

The crater is small enough that it is probably not obvious to spot visually.

But I'm surprised that we missed noticing an impact event of that size when it happened, or even the space object that caused it.

If a dog bites, we don't wait to take action until we figure out a way of teaching the dog the experience of guilt or punishment.

The liability lies with the owner and the punishment(monetary or other) should strongly incentivize the owner to reduce the incidence of bites.

If it's "learning" is to be seen in the same context as a human, then the punishment/ repercussion for hacking and causing real harm should also be similar to what a human might recieve.

It cannot opportunistically morph between a human for benefits and a machine for liability.

In Hyderabad, India the govt loses around 2 million kWh per day(roughly 50-60 million USD per year) in theft and unpaid electricity bills every year particularly the old city area where residents refuse to pay the bills.

Bill collectors are openly threatened by local elected leaders even in the presence of police.

The state chief minister(similar to a governor) acknowledged the problem and is planning to handover bill collection to a private firm specifically for that part of the city. The opposition is against the move as the area represents a major voting bloc.

Sometimes, policy based solutions work but political will is also necessary to enforce those policies.

Yeah, surely atleast 12 of those engineers tested their SDK thoroughly for a minimum of 14 continuous days[1]. /s

1. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

I think Hanlon's razor or rather a variation of it applies here, in geopolitics and life in general.

Never mistake for bonhomie that which is adequately explained by money and self-interest

> They have disk space, because most people don’t use terabytes of space, and Macs come with, historically speaking, tons of storage now.

A Mac mini base model comes with 256G. It is manageable but barely unless used with an external disk.

22.8G as quoted in the article is about 10% of the available space and it is something that cannot be offloaded to external disk.

Many people including myself are going to be furious when their Mac is upgraded.

Ads don't have to be the primary deciding factor but it does make the rest of the process in the sales pipeline easy.

Whether we realize or not subconsciously our minds will associate the product and ad. When that association is reinforced by the salesman, a strategic placement on the shelf, or discount offers it is easier to convert it to sale.