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That should 100% be illegal everywhere.

It doesn’t matter what the app does today it can be made to do anything they want after the fact. Monitor speech, location, contacts, content, preserve evidence for prosecution, inspection your dinner choices or your sexual habits.

This is on the far end of the spectrum of bad.

It also includes traveling to the United States where gun ownership is legal, and posting a picture of yourself holding a gun.

Anything waterproof or grease-proof, or fire retardant can only do so because of forever chemicals.

Paper coffee cups, grease-proof paper for takeout or bbq. Children’s pajamas are required to be flame retardant. The only way that can be done is with forever chemicals.

Avoiding exposure to forever chemicals really can’t be done at the consumer level. It must be done at the government level. The science is clear that they cause organ failure and that they accumulate in our bodies at a rate far above safe levels. It’s madness that they haven’t been banned. The FDA approved a forever chemical based pesticide last week.

But escaping windows is a pretty great reason.

Gunna go get that Nobel peace prize no matter who he has to blow up to find it.

This is sarcasm right? It’s often difficult to tell sarcasm from honest idiocy.

Do the before and after pictures, lot diagrams, floor plans, photo-forensic analysis of flammable materials, and satellite imagery not count as Visual?

I’ll take em.

Is there anything we can do about it short of avoiding new cars? Our legislators have proven unwilling to pass real privacy laws.

I’m not going to allow “Nazi salutes” to be downgraded to “politics”. It’s still too soon to be a Nazi. Hopefully it will always be.

It took me entirely too long to realize this was written by Neal himself.

The snippet appears to be constructed by a LLM. I don’t have any evidence of that, just some turns of phrase that a human wouldn’t use when discussing his works.

I love the theory that the LLM might think that his books are fragmented is due to the fragmentation of his corpus by spammers of a certain era.

Except you don’t build a data center, you add a GPU to an individual starlink node. If you can do that a couple hundred or thousand times you’ve got a lot of compute in space. The next question is how would you redesign compute around your distributed power and cooling profiles? The article doesn’t talk about the actual engineering challenges. (Such as scaling down the radiative cooling design, matching compute node to the maximum feasible power profile, etc)

I’m not arguing it’ll be easy or will ultimately work, but articles like this are unhelpful because they don’t address the fundamental insight being proposed.

That seems like a very shortsighted thing to do. Does he not understand the limitations of LLM generated code?

Heroku when you just want your app to work forever without having to think about it.

Digital ocean! They make those awesome blog posts about how to do easy tech stuff I should really have memorized and really don’t want to admit I have to look up.

I like AWS because they charge too much.

I like GCP because they overcomplicate everything. (That api is not available because 1. You have to activate it 2. Your permissions don’t allow it 3. Your quota is exceeded 4. It is deprecated 5. It is in alpha 6. All of the above)

I like azure because it’s just like AWS but with a bunch of unwanted windows support that will actively make everything worse.

Hetzner was cool, but they do some insane routing things.

OVH seems like they came to the party a decade late even though they were here day one.

That’s all I know.

lol, that’s their defense? Good luck with that. I should join polymarket just so I can bet bigly that if this goes to trial they’ll lose. I’m sure their lawyers know that too though. Settlement inbound.

Never buy any product from any company who does this.

There is a time to put your foot down and that time is now.

Bread is an ultra-processed food.

I think this is a legitimate concern and criticism.

But the current administration is antivax so…

Animals living on a farm are a far cry from modern factory farming.

There’s a business model where distributed solar production and storage is the norm and central grid based generation and delivery is the minority.

Such a model is extremely resistant and there’s less system infrastructure necessary. It’s quite feasible to redesign the system around a “distributed first” model.

They’re just working to take us to the point where healthcare is so inaccessible and untenable for so many Americans that we all rise up and (peacefully) overthrow the status quo. I salute their tireless efforts!

Take a look at what happened to people deported and sent to prison in El Salvador without due process. (Torture, check, starvation check, held indefinitely without conviction of a crime, check) Pretty damned close to how Jews were treated in WW2. I guess short of the end part where they were gassed and their corpses shoveled into ovens.

Sounds like maybe we shouldn’t build and deploy those things.

“more than 120 (hostages) died from the effects of the chemical agents and an undetermined number suffered long-term damage or died prematurely.“

Sign me up. Where do I turn it off?

Rooftop solar doesn’t get more expensive over time.

The news? You could search for things like “scientists show how climate change is leading to an increase in extreme weather”