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high_5··on Product Managers aren't safe either
... until the LLM-PM wades into some lethal trifecta via a customer or some other party.
high_5··on Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
That is 50 in the US, not in some 3rd world country.
high_5··on Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
So the AI is already auto-shunning itself from the math community.
high_5··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
The world doesn't care. They've got China firewalled away anyway.
high_5··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Public only as accessible by government issued identity.
high_5··on Passkeys are a trap
To remove it from the spec you would need to get enought votes in the FIDO alliance workgroups and board and whatnot. That's just politics.
high_5··on Plan mode is dead
Correct code is not cheap. And some places you need a very correct code. Like in mission critical systems.
high_5··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
For the normie guy who used google search just to get to facebook, ELIZA is much cheaper to run than a fully fledged GPT. It's just sensible business wise. Trash the brain of the already poorly educated user to use cheaper AI on him.
high_5··on Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'
The HTTP protocol and HTML fromat that Tim Berners Lee created, were meant for sharing documentation and information which foster collaboration via internet. It wasn't really meant for doing business in trusted environments.

The WWW acronym should stand for Worldwide Wild West.

high_5··on How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
This reminds me of the ole days of cleaning up preinstalled Windows of bloatware. Some clean Linux distro on desktop is the only path open to human-first tech.
high_5··on The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use
Chat apps have already replaced socialapps like FB long ago and the companies know it. Meta has FB Messenger and WhatsApp.
high_5··on The last Romans are still around
Because of the allusion to British Empire?
high_5··on We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together
Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.
high_5··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free Software movement with redefining it as "open source" while the Internet was booming. And all of that is now being reaped by the corporations the "tech-hippies" themselves helped to create.
high_5··on Bible as RAG Database
Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.
high_5··on A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias
The more the behemoth of bureaucracy and total control will grind and (o)press the societies to atomized individuals, the more lone wolfs will crop up.
high_5··on Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security
Passkeys deployment reminds me of a cartel agreement among FAANG without the actual coordination. It's too good of a new tech frontier not to colonize.
high_5··on Cleaning up after WWII (2017)
Imagine then having a forest fire in zone rouge: https://www.businessinsider.com/slovenia-wildfires-set-off-h...
high_5··on Cleaning up after WWII (2017)
WWII??? We haven't managed yet to clean up after WWI! For example, nearly every day unexploded munitions are found on the former Isonzo frontline.
high_5··on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.
high_5··on A Gentle Introduction to SAML
Ha, just found out you already posted the spec. Still, even if it gets published, IMO multilateral federations will migrate veeeery sloooooowly.
high_5··on A Gentle Introduction to SAML
Even higher-ed&research will deploy OpenID federations. The spec is WIP: https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html
high_5··on Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes
Because programming is essentially about receiving the input data, transforming it through a process and in the end outputting it in some other form?
high_5··on OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board
All tank commanders are perfect fit for next Napoleon.
high_5··on Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees
DeltaChat.
high_5··on Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees
An their law.
high_5··on The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
> they say, "yeah, ok, whatever, 24/7 surveillance is fine as long as it catches bad people too."

So you should continue the discussion like this: those bad people after 24/7 surveillance have no other option to infiltrate the surveillance caste. That's where things will get really hellish.

high_5··on Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
The pharaoh's tombs had a lot of warnings and curses against opening them up. Didn't help much not long after and even millennia after that.
high_5··on Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
Not necessarily. You might end up just building things on top of things spiral which reduces the ability to think clearly.
high_5··on Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars
Electric vehicles are currently on a good path to become gentrification of mobility.
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