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tokai··on FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control
You could call it histrionic.
tokai··on University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk
In what world is 11k searches a lot? The story here is that AI bots are exposing University Libraries bad setups. I haven't heard any institution here in northern europe having any trouble.
tokai··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Even better than salary disclosure is collective bargaining. Then its doesn't matter if they disclose anything, you'll get the industry agreed salary matching your seniority - and then you can negotiate from there.
tokai··on Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
This kind of outrage takes away from things that are actually distasteful and cynical. Conflating unproblematic things with actual harmful things is a you problem. Policing tone, while people are actually dying out there, is more cynical that this game. The only outcome here is there you guys feel better about yourself.
tokai··on Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
You are overreacting. Its not cynical.
tokai··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
GLM does this too. Had it pick my email from my git user, and send to Crossref and Openalex. Just seem like good behavior following the guidelines for API usage.
tokai··on Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active
If you ever bring any suits or equipment inside, you have the dust inside. No matter the cleaning you do first.
tokai··on Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
But will there be any bluray drives available in the future?
tokai··on Life with Down Syndrome
A personality disorder have nothing to do with Downs. One is a genetic disorder and the other is a maladaptive pattern of affect.
tokai··on Private Jet plane crashes in Florida
The private jet carries up to 3.5 tons of fuel and weighs over 10 tons at take off. A Kalibr cruise missile is maximum 500kg of explosives and the heaviest variant is 2.3 tons over all.

Its not surprising at all that the jet makes a huge hole in the ground. Jet fuel is more energetic than RDX, while converting that energy slower. So both the chemical and kinetic energy is much higher with the jet then with a russian cruise missile. If anything the crater is surprisingly small.

tokai··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Maybe? Its impossible to tell. I'm not going to create a user in the hope that there is a subscription service in there somewhere.
tokai··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Unrelated to Large 4, but why is it so hard to give money to Mistral? Now they finally have a model that might be worth using, but I cannot for my life figure out how to give them money and be allowed to use their model. Its really shouldn't take more than a couple of clicks to get to a payment option.

edit: I can see that I'm alone in thinking a company should communicate their business offers publicly, sorry for the question.

tokai··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
This headline has been relevant since 2001.
tokai··on AI is ruining haunted houses
Yes, easily.
tokai··on Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
I remember a lot of critique of clipart and the general atrocious amateur graphic design of the time (funeral invitations in comic sans and such). Tufte said PowerPoint Is Evil in 2005 and there was a whole public discussion of the ills of the ms office tools and their negative impact on communication.
tokai··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
Maybe the Greenland deal had secret provisions on sticking with microsoft /s
tokai··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
Its an old classic using an election to kill off or stall projects in ministries or public institutions. I bet some bureaucrat or Statens It doesn't want the trouble of this moving along.
tokai··on Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site
That one gets my blood boiling every time.
tokai··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
Was it two years ago, or even longer, that Akhmat troops claimed Ukrainian drones tried to abduct their men in the field? Who knows, it might end up actually happen one day. Wild.
tokai··on Firefox Enterprise
If its first concern why would you use a browser that has ben caught injecting affiliate codes?
tokai··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
+15 years later and it still doesn't do anything but provide idiots a way to lose their money. It really is impressive.
tokai··on Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
"Across Europe" and then it is in one corner of Europe.
tokai··on Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school
He almost hit Popper with a fire poker! Allegedly.
tokai··on Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Pretty naughty by Lund University. Sure they took part in this research (a single author). But its primarily driven and financed by a danish foundation, the danish Copenhagen University, and danish museums.

Guess that is good work from the Lund communication team.

tokai··on Bot traffic from Yandex
People like you are so dicusting.
tokai··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
You people keep thinking this kind of reasoning is some kind of gotcha. It really isn't. All citizens of the US carry responsibility for the crimes you did over the last half century.
tokai··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Russian air defence equipment bad, organised even worse, and has been severely degraded over 4 years now.
tokai··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
Yeah that is a pretty weird opinion. Who cares about if he gets fired. He should be charged with criminal negligence and face prison time. Everyone is responsible for their own actions and its always possible to quit.
tokai··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
Just because a task is hard it should never absolve anything. Guy could just have quit if he didn't want the responsibility.
tokai··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
Its interesting, while private companies just blast our data out there, I cannot install the software I need to do my work because the state IT provider blocks it on security grounds. Its all very tiresome.
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