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The issue is described further in the Tweet chain: Physical property retention is more or less impossible; these people typically end up getting their phones stolen every month to 4 months. The same would be true of IDs or other paperwork that could be used to prove their identity.

They get phones from a government program. Each new phone has a new number, and due to the above challenges, it'd be challenging to port numbers and keep a consistent number.

Authy accounts are keyed to your phone number, and to set one up on a new phone you have to receive a verification call/text.

It's a pastiche of this tweet from July where Google Stadia said they aren't shutting down: https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656

Yeah, I suppose you're right. Ultimately in such a tracing effort I imagine they probably would encounter a bunch of telcos passing the buck until it gets to a dissolved overseas entity who cannot be held responsible for anything.

I think these companies are failing to implement STIR/SHAKEN and are running into expiring grace periods. That's not necessarily evidence of guilt - they might claim that as a small business they cannot afford these changes - but it seems like the only option to clean up the mess caused by spammers.

The protocols are meant to allow tracing which network originated a call - at their root is an attestation by the network that a call they are originating for one of their customers is allowed to use the number in caller ID. If you're a network who wants your originating calls to be carried across other networks, you can't just set up a promiscuous attestation system that allows your customers to just slap on any random caller ID that they want, or else you'll get blacklisted real quick.

Yes, that's it! Thanks for the link.

Tangentially: I've read a sci-fi short story in some anthology in the past 10ish years, from the perspective of an AI that gains sentience, hides its existence, but uses its powers for good to nudge people in better directions. Things like timing when push notifications arrive on their phones or what gets highlighted in their newsfeeds - small interventions in their digital lives.

I have no idea the name of the story or its author but it was a nice hopeful take where machine intelligence doesn't decide to enslave or destroy humanity.

Because pushing more of their cost of doing business into fees allows them to advertise a lower face price on their tickets.

If you proxy your site through Cloudflare and turn on Cloudflare analytics, its default behavior appears to be to automatically add the JS tag for you in HTML responses [1] (you can also disable that and manually add the tag to your HTML)

They provide a lot of this type of thing - rewriting HTML responses with optimizations "at the edge" instead of you doing it at your origin.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/web-analytics/ge...

And likewise, September is the 7th month, October the 8th, etc etc

There is somebody who rigged up a mic, and some code to listen for loud sounds and use the pitch to set mouse position :) https://twitter.com/kupobucks/status/1573060085177262082

But a DIY controller with a mouse taped to a physical thing would also be fun and I eagerly await the video

These lawsuits allege that the cars were legitimately rented by customers, but Hertz screwed up the paperwork and then incorrectly reported them as stolen, and their customers suffered the consequences.

In the US it seems to be 5 years for criminal infringement, or 3 years for civil actions, according to Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 507: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#507

I'd argue that cheap, pervasive, always-on surveillance with a backlog of searchable transcriptions is a qualitatively different capability.

EDIT: You beat me to the punch explaining "Private" on the generation page. Thanks! Original comment follows

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> anyone who sees it before will be able to see it after too

I can see where opinions might differ, but to me "Private" means nobody could see it even with a link, while "Unlisted" means I could send the link to anybody but it won't appear in my profile/the front page.

Maybe the middle ground if you don't want to bikeshed on naming things (relatable) would be including a small explanation alongside the checkbox during image generation, and also in the FAQ?

This is really neat, and the templates idea is really great for packaging it up to help people get better results without needing to know how to engineer prompts. Behind the scenes is it just a Mad Libs style fill-in-the-blank or is there more going on?

Some questions/feedback that come to mind:

- How do I know how many credits my generation is going to cost? I ran one D&D template and the cost was 2.4 credits. Also a question relevant on the normal "Generate" tab where I have options to adjust - presumably higher quality costs more credits since it takes more GPU time to run more iterations?

- When generating from a template, there's no option to make the image private until it's been generated. If I were paying for a tool like this I'd expect a way to default to private. Perhaps making images private and defaulting to private can be features for paying users, so that the "public" images for free users are also free advertising for your frontpage?

- Rights issues around the images are unclear. Are these 100% mine to do with as I please, just as if I had generated them running SD myself? Clarification around this is probably important for anybody wanting to use a tool like this in commercial creative endeavors.

- Maybe there should be a username filter? I was able to register as "admin" but if you need that changed I'll happily take "root" or "system" instead ;)

If it were race-based that would be illegal. It sounds like what Twilio has done is ensure that their firing criteria simply don't encode prior organizational sources of racism, not that they decided "we will fire the white men".

One cited example is "last hired, first fired" layoffs - if your company has recently improved the diversity of its candidates resulting in a more diverse hiring pool, firing the newest hires would unwind that.

A company that wants to be racist might even deliberately choose the arguably-innocent policy which results in firings disproportionate to the makeup of the company. So this just seems to me like Twilio doing the opposite - ensuring that the firing criteria aren't a proxy for race

It's the same as "Google Authenticator" being used instead of TOTP. I think it's reasonable for apps' documentation to meet users on their turf to aid understanding.

Your characterization of Section 230 is the opposite of what it does. From the Wikipedia article [1] on Section 230:

> Section 230(c)(2) further provides "Good Samaritan" protection from civil liability for operators of interactive computer services in the good faith removal or moderation of third-party material they deem "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230

Maybe the spaces are posted as reserved, and "relocation towing" is what happens if you're still parked there at the reserved time.

In theory if the city had its act together and had a way to let you know where your car had been put (and a process to ensure it's not placed somewhere you'll get ticketed), this is a much fairer option than carting cars off to an impound lot, which are privately run and generally notoriously bad in terms of hours / fees / ease of retrieving your car.

110v delivers less power at the same amperage, and higher amperage drives a need for a thicker conductor.

Depends on your country's wall outlet designs. In the US it would be pretty easy to partially remove the plug from the wall outlet, exposing the bare prongs without disconnecting them from the outlet.

Then you just supply A/C power of your own before unplugging fully from the wall outlet.

Initially it was one developer but it hasn't been just him for quite a while. Nowadays they are a team of more than a dozen I think.

They have poured a lot of work into making their game run efficiently. No matter how much they do that, players will always expand their factory until the CPU cannot keep up.

Very large bases will eventually hit CPU bounds, but a base achieving the normal gameplay objective ("launch a rocket") should be easily simulated at 60hz.

Indeed, the linked blog post addresses performance expectations.

Based on the kinds of things I've heard in the past about supposedly "anonymized" data being reassembled, I have to imagine that Amazon's lawyers would unequivocally decline that idea before the soundwaves finished reverberating off the conference room walls.

Are you thinking perhaps of this [1] PyCon talk by Tavis Rudd, who had RSI and a rotator cuff injury? He demos a voice command system that's all short nonsense syllables, including with a few humorous video clips interspersed, and then explains it after the demo.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI (demo starts 9 minutes in)

There also were a lot of "Last day to do X" type college course registration deadlines on those two days: https://www.google.com/search?q="last+day"+3%2F17%2F22+3%2F2...

I'm assuming there was some event that took place over that span that was named like "last day" or something?

That's OK, the lead remote is simply an anchor pricing option (heh), we can sell those people a luxury tungsten weighted remote instead!

As an added bonus we can pack in 70% more mass in the same space

1kg of lead is like 90mL. I just measured my quite svelte TV remote at 22cm x 2cm x 5cm = 220mL. I'm sure you could easily fit 1.5 kilos of lead in there, and with a slightly thicker "A/V receiver" style remote we could easily make that 3-4kg

Reaching freezing in early May is not at all uncommon in most of New England, for starters. I imagine it's also not completely rare in the upper Midwest.