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Co-Founder of Industry Dive. We are a digital media company that publishes business news and original analysis for executives in different industries. industrydive.com

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eli··on New Apple TV 4K
I'm comfortable with the idea that Netflix can collect data about what I watch on Netflix, and that Apple can track what I buy in the Apple app.

I'm not comfortable with my TV or streaming stick manufacturer collecting and mining data about everything that appears on the screen.

eli··on New Apple TV 4K
Unlike their competitors, Apple does not do Automatic Content Recognition (ACR). That matters to me.
eli··on Gemini 4 Argon
ChatGPT does that decently well
eli··on Gemini 4 Argon
SVG is useful for actual tasks, not just looking good in a silly "benchmark"
eli··on Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
I question whether relative change in popular sentiment is a good way to evaluate a prediction.
eli··on My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
It certainly is to the cop. How else could they do a pretext stop?
eli··on My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
I don't see why that should necessarily be true.
eli··on Thinking will become a hobby
Risky move making a point that relies on made-up numbers.

At least in the US, there are roughly the same number of bank branches today as 20 years ago. And I think you would have to compare to hundreds of years ago to find anything like a 99% decline in farm laborers.

eli··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
That would be pretty narrow analytics to not need GDPR consent. No IP addresses or any way to uniquely identify a person.
eli··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
Legitimate interest definition is pretty narrowly scoped. Most of the sneakiness relies on nobody checking or enforcing it.
eli··on Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists
Hard to imagine a less trustworthy source
eli··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
I don’t think the second part is true. Companies work together on safety standards in other industries.
eli··on Claude Haiku 5.5
It uses subscription quota just like before
eli··on Claude Haiku 5.5
The previous note confirming subscription billing has now reappeared
eli··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Or to discourage people from using cheap subscription tokens as part of automated workflows
eli··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Well, it doesn't currently work that way on the latest SDK. If there's a change coming, it hasn't happened yet.
eli··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
I think you would just end up with yet another slopcoded photoshop clone
eli··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
Sure, seems only fair that if you can try to block ads, the app can try to detect ad blockers.
eli··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Yes. Previously the page was all about how they were going to start charging for Agent SDK use with a banner on the top saying that, actually, they weren't going to do that.
eli··on Claude Haiku 5.5
The page does not say anything about changing the way Agent SDK bills. I just tested Agent SDK and nothing has changed (yet).

You might be right and they will change this in the future, but that's speculative

eli··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
Or just visit the real site and use an ad blocker? Re-hosting it would obviously be copyright infringement.
eli··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
This is bad advice. Obfuscated JS qualifies.

1201(a)(3): "As used in this subsection-- to 'circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner"

eli··on California closed the Montana license plate loophole
If we're only doing tax policy that's popular, it's gonna be all corporate and high income household taxes.
eli··on Apple Pass Designer
If you use a gyroscope test app/page does it have the correct orientation?
eli··on One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
It would be a pretty big deal if the average person's car became 50% less energy efficient, no?
eli··on One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
I'm skeptical that the DeepSeek official API actually nets out cheaper right now, but I avoid it anyway because they store and train off of your prompts.

I think NW's profits are mostly between what they pay for electricity and what they charge you for electricity. I don't think there's any need to look to conspiracies to explain billing errors.

eli··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
If it's a PR created by just prompting with the vuln report, I might as well do it myself.
eli··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
So the FBI publicly fueding with Apple over encryption is all just misdirection? I dunno about that
eli··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
That’s not the full story and not really correct.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/can-border-agen...

eli··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
So like you connect it to your computer for the first time and it shuts off?
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