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Yeah that sounds weird. Certificate pinning and HSTS should protect from that, right?

This conversation been a thing since at least the leftpad event. It's just how the js ecosystem works it seems. The default library is too small perhaps?

I don't know the word but it's similar to arguing morality or public policy from the current status of the law.

I believe the equivalent for international trade is called "dumping" and is somewhat regulated, although that doesn't apply to Uber.

I guess they are made for the common case since a lot of people's first actions is to talk to someone and most cases are common. Since I usually have already gotten through the FAQ, I also rarely am helped by the AI CS.

Yeah, lots of the weaker parts of Wikipedia relate either to political controversy or things that the editor base doesn't care as much about.

Did the teacher teach how to recognize a reliable other site?

The difference is that there are corporate alternatives to OSM, and they're popular. The closest alternative to Wikipedia is asking an LLM to read Wikipedia for you.

The problem has more to do with editors. The theory is that less visits leads to less editors in the long run.

Dismissing individual cases of use of those words is probably wrong, but noticing an uptick in broad popularity is very relevant and clear evidence of LLMs influencing language.

I sincerely was wondering whether it was about the person descriptor or the physics term.

1% of losing my stuff is very high imho, I wouldn't want to put anything actually important through such a risk.

> A similar situation occurred with Minix - to the extent that it's creator Andrew Tannenbaum had no idea it's install base was arguably bigger than Linux until 2017. Intel had put Minix into the Management Engine on their professional grade CPUs for years. The BSD license allowed Intel to put it everywhere without the knowledge of the wider Minix community.

Off topic question, but wasn't that a violation of the BSD license? It does require a copyright notice.

Rust's main toy/experimental OS RedoxOS is already there and has a microkernel.

I also don't see why give so much prominence to the obviously cheating first place. Trying to trigger some envy in us?

The UN is many things. I guess most reports are a product of the secretariat/bureaucracy and the independent agencies more than the UNGA and the UNSC which is where the diplomacy happens. Although as usual the journalists failed to cite the @#*&#@(! report so I could read it myself.

Honest question, is the UN bureaucracy that different from the big international NGOs? They're both large well-meaning bureaucratic organizations staffed by a wide variety of people, a lot of funding by governments, a decent amount of authority to do these reports but not a lot of authority to actually do things.

Pay peas, get independently wealthy part time politicians and filter out anyone lower or middle class.

You really think that there are there isn't a large percentage of the population that wouldn't reject AI connection merely on principle?

Just from the first survey I could find:

> In the Common Sense Media survey, 31% of teens said their conversations with AI companions were “as satisfying or more satisfying” than talking with real friends. Even though half of teens said they distrust AI’s advice, 33% had discussed serious or important issues with AI instead of real people.

Rather unethical experiment for interstellar colonization mission planning.

Serving ads for third-worlders is way less profitable though.

> You'd avoid the friction of having to deal with software that doesn't 'just work' on NixOS

I'm not sure what type of software you're talking about, but Linux native software usually works with 'steam-run', which is really the "pretend to be Ubuntu" command.

Is that appropriate in this case? I would expect lots of vacation homes be owned by people out of state.

There has been some talk of actually internationalising Pix, but from what I understand, those uses that exist now outside of Brazil are a kludge for the benefit of Brazilian tourists.

Isn't it much more likely that a court would order the code published instead of restricting the use of an extremely popular payment system and brake half of the economy?

I mean, they blocked WhatsApp (95+% usage) before so who knows, but it seems unlikely it will actually affect the average person.

This was a whole controversy in Brazil. There was a conspiracy theory that the banks wanted to sabotage the Pix rollout because they would lose out on the fees for using the old transaction systems. In any case, there is a lot more money circulating through the banks now.

Those are for the benefit of Brazilian tourists I guess?

From the comments it seems it supports direct person to person transfers, but how easy is it to use it for payments? Can you use SEPA to pay for your groceries? Or buy something on the Internet?

Cashback is just giving part of the profit margin of the fees charged on the transactions to the customer. I would rather that profit margin gets split between the customer (lower prices) and merchant. Also, didn't the EU eliminate cashbacks by precisely price capping transaction fees?

I've seen merchants giving a discount for payment with Pix. And a few stores refuse credit cards and only accept debit and Pix (and cash?).

Also, isn't the main competitor to CC the debit card? And now in some countries instant payments? Is debit that rare in the US?

Although to be honest I'm not 100% sure if it isn't some tax evasion thing.

This is also true for Pix.

Also theft/robbery.

Not that Pix isn't a risk, being forced to do bank transactions at gunpoint is a thing now, but anyway.