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Interesting, but it leaves me wondering - why ActivityPub, which IIRC is the Mastodon/Lemmy protocol, rather than, say, Matrix? Wouldn't a protocol designed for private messaging generally be preferable?

Was just thinking the same, this is effectively branch prediction/precalculation.

Good question. I'm at a 75% win/loss ratio by picking rock every single time. Doesn't appear to be learning in this session, anyway.

I don't get it - isn't this blatant copyright infringement? Seems like they're just running some kind of cracked Minecraft build with a JVM-in-JS layer or some such trickery?

I had a lot of love for cPanel back in the 2000s, when the days of shared hosting and self-installed PHP scripts were in their heyday. Nowadays, though, isn't this just a relic of an earlier time? Who/why would use it for anything today, versus deploying on some PaaS, or Lambda, or.. what have you? Particularly at the prices they're charging.

I can appreciate the technical aspect of a translation layer, but I struggle to understand the use case for a tool like this. If your data is inherently relational, then you should be using a relational store anyway. And if it isn't, trying to hammer it on-demand into something that looks relational is going to eat you with performance implications. Unless I'm missing something.

Traffic lights are out across Iberia apparently, better stay home.

Hello from Portugal. Local news is indeed reporting that power is out across all of Iberia.

Not a lawyer, but this sure seems to open a legal and ethical can of worms.

Image generation models capable of generating this type of content would necessarily need to be trained on the real thing, the possession of which is inarguably illegal and immoral.

So how could the model be legally or ethically trained? And if they _cannot_ be legally or ethically trained, then how can the _use_ of those models be okay?

What will be the implications of this in cases where _real_ CSAM was produced or possessed? Certainly this opens the door to a whole plethora of new "it's AI art, I swear!" defenses. After all, how can one definitely prove that CSAM is authentic or not, unless the chain of production is verified?

From the article: > ...If purely private possession of AI-CSAM is constitutionally protected under current caselaw but production is not, then using AI models (even locally-hosted ones) to generate child obscenity in one’s own home is not wholly insulated from criminal prosecution. Subsequently transmitting it to someone else, especially someone underage, is also grounds for liability...

Can of worms, ye be released!

Interestingly, Ireland is not a NATO member, so it's somewhat surprising Russia is poking around there. Although they're still EU, so maybe that's why.

Man, nothing makes you appreciate EU labour protections like reading the HN comments.

Potential explanation: https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/silicon-shield-2-0-a-taiwan-...

Howdy, neighbor! Am also an American expat living in Portugal. We've been living in Lisbon for about a year, and so far I really love it here. People are friendly, the vibe is relaxed, and life is peaceful with a glass of inexpensive wine never far away. Highly recommend anyone looking for an exit plan to consider sunny Portugal.

So far, there are no indications of the far-right gaining any amount of power with which they could govern. In a broader sense there have been a number of rightwing victories across Europe, but thus far Portugal (and Spain next door) don't look poised to join that trend.

This is the best take on the generative AI fad I've yet seen. I wish I could upvote this twice.

Rather embarrassingly, these chips are actually produced by TSMC :-)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2355435/intels-lunar-lake-is...

Given the audience on HN, I think we can presume any readers of my comment are not trying to execute completely random untrusted binaries. There are legitimate cases when you need to do this to run a binary you trust, but the system doesn't.

This super unhelpful error is sometimes the result of trying to run an unsigned or developer signed binary on Apple Silicon. Try `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine program.app`, then open it by right clicking on the app, and selecting 'Open' while holding option + command.

I believe the poster means, it isn't allowed by Apple's guidelines, ergo your app will be rejected because of it. Nothing to do with the law itself.

The difficulty you'll face for mobile is users man-in-the-middling their own device to find your developer's API key, and then making their own POST requests to increment their credit balance. This is why platforms like the App Store offer the ability to validate receipts of transactions [1].

Probably something you'll need to grow support for if you want this to be a drop-in solution for mobile devs.

[1] https://medium.com/@ronaldmannak/how-to-validate-ios-and-mac...

True, although the Fermi Paradox still sort of applies here, e.g., even if the galaxy were teeming with aliens zipping all over the galaxy in their warp-capable spacecraft, the odds of them charting a course right past our fairly uninteresting solar system seem low.

This is likely not helped by the fact that we are more than halfway out to the edge of the galaxy, in one of the Milky Way's spiral arms; since we're not near the galactic centre, there are less possible travel paths that pass by us (if we just assume arbitrary random travel between any two points.)

So even if it is happening right now in abundance, and even if we can detect its occurrence, are any of those paths close enough to us to be detected?

Yes, it wasn't a thing in the US, but basically all televisions in Europe had a text mode for this, and it was very popular when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.

I take it this is mostly useful for compute workloads, neural networks, LLM and the like -- not for actual graphics rendering?

Can you expand these acronyms for those of us not familiar with the ins and outs of California real estate?

Well, except that AppLovin is a (non-malware) ad tech company. So I mean, at least there's that.

But the play is more consolidation that anything. A large swath of mobile games use Unity, and a large swath of free games monetise using AppLovin. The Venn Diagram of these two is nearly a single circle.

It's the largest player in the mobile ad space behind Google. Not a household name perhaps, but a name well known to engineer and biz dev alike, within the mobile space.

Depressed, scared and yet optimistic over the long (5+ year) term.

I am really enjoying Canary mail, on macOS/iOS. It's an indie app, but feels super platform native (near Apple experiences), while boasting some nice features like email templates and actually good integrated PGP support (complete with a ProtonMail-style send-secure-emails-as-webpages-to-non-users feature).

This presents some interesting thought experiments around digital preservation and emulation. Will there be "software archeologists" in the future, pouring over ancient programming languages and attempting to execute or emulate these environments? It's kind of amusing to imagine a museum centuries in the future, trying to understand how to execute JVM bytecode, let alone how computers of the day worked. The Rosetta Stone of 2500? Hello World.

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Intel has indeed confirmed plans to act as a fab/foundry for other companies [1]. So this new capacity is likely aiming beyond their own chips and ISA.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/23/intel-is-spending-20-billion...

What citizenship status do Palestianians have by default, if not Israeli? Given that Israel doesn't recognise Palestine as a state, doesn't that obligate them to confer Israeli citizenship to the residents, as they would otherwise be stateless?