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To be honest, I feel vastly indifferent towards the current whole DMA conflict on who is gonna get what profits from microtransactions out of addicting games (often targeting minors), and I think it is nothing alike the issues the monopolistic position of microsoft was causing in the 90s-00s.

But otherwise yeah, this is how any corporation this size behaves always.

It can also work for SMSs with some changes in the applescript. We made a very similar tool that use to send automated SMSs to experiment participants 2 times per day. The setup is similar and there is a bash script that is called using cron twice per day and calls a matlab script (similar to the python script here) that calls an applescript. This is the applescript that, in practice, sends iMessage to those with iphone and SMS to those without

https://github.com/earlychildcog/automate_sms_to_participant...

The problem is that tourism often appears to be the only industry because it creates very bad conditions for any other business or industry to exist in places where it takes hold. It tends to increase cost of living, and has so high margins that other businesses are hard to compete for space etc. It makes the living conditions hard to unlivable to workers that are not linked to the tourist business, even essential workers like teachers, nurses etc. Maybe in some places they can put more control over it and minimise this impact.

In a country level, it is even worse as it makes a country totally dependent on tourists as an external flow of money, it usually ends up with most services been owned by big capital (local or foreign) in the expense of local businesses and it halts most forms and potentialities of actual development for other industries. Tourism can be some easy money at best, it is very often harmful for any other forms of activities and business in the long run.

Totally agree, but imo airbnb is an accelerator making the profit out of housing investment more lucrative, increasing short term profit margins (instead of let's say owning buildings and maintaining them for long term renters producing gradual but steady profit). It has also accelerated the concentration of real estate to fewer companies. The problem is that now the market is like this, even if airbnb just disappeared.

Well in places in the middle of economic crisis and where people become poorer with decreased salaries and increased unemployment, it has happened actually, because the alternative would be the landlord to have to pay maintenance and taxes anyway. But probably not right now in the west.

Tourism is a plague for local populations. The same exact thing was happening long before Airbnb in more touristic locations. Airbnb has acted as an accelerator of the same phenomenon to bigger cities.

It is not just about "supply and demand". We are talking about different markets. When you profit more from real estate by renting it to tourists vs renting it to long terms residents you are gonna throw residents out and get into the tourist business. In this, supply is largely irrelevant due to the huge difference in margins. Unless the tourist business becomes oversaturated you always profit more from tourists. And outsupplying the tourist demand is extremely hard.

> Just because someone else is bad doesn't mean being bad in response is good.

Difference is, nobody forces you read an article and what a random article says has negligible impact on your quality of life. You can choose to ignore it. Situation like this at work, while it is true that it is better if one minimises the level of being affected by them, are impossible to not affect one at all in some way.

When did the term "leadership" get this so widespread use in such contexts? I have studied and worked in universities, and I used to know the head of the department as the head of the department. Now in my last department the head of the department is "the leadership" and the bunch of managers and admin people around them is "the leadership team" and this is how they go around, introduce themselves and sign their emails. They radiate all the madness and narcissistic vibes that the author describes. And the talk has become all this corporate blah blah void of real content stuff, with all that jargon as if they forgot how to talk like actual people and as we have all forgotten what we actually do. It is all madness. I have heard similar from other departments, so I do not think we are the only ones.

So, anyway, when has the word "leadership" started becoming more widely used to describe essentially "management"?

This sounds more like QA testing. Preventing situations that could hurt the public image of the company, or similar.

Me too, after the first couple of "is it down" websites I tried failed to load.

HN never fails us when a big website is down.

I was also almost ready to reset my password.

Last year we received an email with title

> ACTION REQUIRED - New certificate authority for slack-edge.com

Capitalised letters telling you MUST do sth (check; plus "as soon as possible" in the body). Bad/incosistent email layout (check). Unknown urls (slack-edge.com, slackhq.com) that resemble the services's standard url slack.com (check). A bunch of links obfuscated behind "slackhq" redirects, check. Even a link that reads "slack.com" and points to that slackhq redirect thing. The majority thought it was scam, of course. I only suspected it may not have been scam because a scammer would have done a better job explaining what one had to actually do (and in the end there was nothing we needed to do anyway).

Add to this the different varieties of their apps. The whole MS thing is a mess imo also because it cannot decide if it is for enterprise or for personal use. Some colleagues had to reinstall outlook, and after that things did not work properly. What actually happened was that they had googled and downloaded "outlook" from microsoft's website, instead of installing the m365 suite version. Which is basically a different application or version or whatever, but sharing the same name and app icon.

> Guess the average strength of an employee password!

It is interesting how sometimes creating "more secure" measures results on less security. Our IT department decided that using 2fa for vpn is not enough, we should also extra 2fa for connecting to the webmail even through intranet or vpn. Guess who stopped using the vpn.

Meanwhile, one can set up and use our email through any email client app on desktop or mobile without any 2fa at any step. Go figure.

Phind is great. I hope now they release their latest 34b finetune weights as they did with one of the first versions.

The second one was definitely saying phind 70b on me. Now it is all messed up though.

In the link it says "Phind-70B", how do we know if it switched to 34B?

> I've been searching for a laptop that stays cool, even when pushed

That would be an intentionally throttled laptop, which is not what most people would want. Because if the laptop "stays cool even when pushed", it means it could have been pushed more.

However, if low thermal output is what you want to optimise for, then an M1 macbook air always running on low power mode is a very good candidate, and abundant in second hand market for very good prices. Or any M1/M2/M3 laptop as long as you run it on low power mode.

It depends whether whatsapp or viber or messenger dominates, but not whether iMessage is widely used or not.

This. And makes the laptop smaller. I have a notchless M1 13" air and it is almost the same size as my 14" M3 mac, albeit with bigger screen.

Yeah I have heard the legends and even met one person once. I do not think that one needs to be in the excel gang, though, to be disturbed by such interference patterns while looking at a spreadsheet in VisionPro.

I like the following quote from an old greek rock singer, from those old times that musicians produced music in the form of actual material work (vinyls, cds etc) and deleting content was not a thing as it is now:

> [...] a work, when it leaves the hands of its creator, acquires its own personality, its own identity, according to which its course is drawn and it is the irrevocable right of the work to follow an autonomous way which, in the name of any paternity, you have no right to stop, otherwise the state has the same right in the form of censorship.

> excel gang

Inspecting data on a spreadsheet does not define any that special type of human, and it can be done in different software. Spreadsheet is a common way of storing data.

There is a difference between a standard and a monopoly, though.

I used them to extract data from relatively unstructured reports into structured csv format. For privacy/gdpr reasons it was not something I could use an online model for. Saved me from a lot of manual work, and it did not hallucinate stuff as far as I could see.

These are not necessary for social media, you can be in social media without these (it sometimes requires browser extensions but not necessarily).

Nice, I really like it. A quiet nice way to bring meditation during my work time actually.

> It's hard enough stopping child pornography when there are real children used to make it...

But real children _were_ harmed in order to train the AI.

Is it even possible to distinguish between such deepfakes and real footage at this point? Maybe they do that also so that there is no defensive line over claiming CSAM videos found are deepfakes and thus not a crime?

Moreover even AI generated CSAM has to trained somewhere. It is not certain at all that an increase in AI generated CSAM market would necessarily mean less child abuse.

Maybe in some colleges somewhere in the US they are gonna try that.

I do not see the contradiction. It is not so different rationale, considering that the point of purchasing a gpt3.5 license is privacy-related, as was the ban. But Italy is much bigger and less inclined towards social-spending than norway also, so yeah you would not expect it to buy such a license, especially back then.