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Yeah, companies have abused that to release buggy, incomplete products faster and only make the software stable and feature complete if they make a good profit.

No it’s a bit complex. The transmissions are sent constantly at regular intervals and are a very specific size and are then combined later. So it’s not “instant” messaging. It’s closer to email.

I hate that this is turning out to be an issue that the lawyers are just not doing their jobs in multiple court cases across the industry rather than solving the legal issue. I don’t know if it’s ignorance or corruption, but big corporations getting away with stealing from artists is not a new thing. Sad that it’s now come to a point where they can produce so much garbage that it drowns out the work of the original artists. Soon there will be so little content for the LLMs to steal from that everything will be derivative and we’ll end up in a new dark age.

Uggghhh, I bet this means there will be even more people walking around wearing fragrances using the crappy industrial ingredients that give me headaches. They already got into the cosmetic products, now high-end perfumes, too?

Not only that, but every app will constantly appear to be sending messages, so real messages are greatly obfuscated. That’s honestly the real innovative part of the product IMHO.

“Solved” is a pretty strong word for this even at the time. The fact that it moves back to a half device sized screen means it’s unlikely to be very popular as originally designed.

If they can make the whole device a screen as usual, and have the keyboard fold down and change the screen size to only use the visible half of the screen. Then if the user detaches the keyboard completely the other half would activate and resize the screen to be like usual, that might be better. This would require innovation around how to attach the keyboard and charge it and likely would require at least a small strip of the device at the bottom and/or top to be without screen, but edge to edge screen is overrated and makes phones require a case which means they never get to show off the style anyway. Make the device a little thicker and easier to grip so a case isn’t needed and this concept becomes even more plausible. The other option is to make this an add-on that is a case for the phone with the keyboard attaching to the case rather than the phone itself and having a pass-through USB port to allow for power and connection. But let’s get rid of the horrible cases and make a device that is functional as it is rather than just pretty.

I’m hoping someone will come up with some standard language that deals with the issue until laws are made. Even if it’s not effective currently, it may become effective retroactively once laws catch up. But if you have no mention of it, it might not apply to you properly because it’s likely companies will pressure the laws to be opt out rather than opt in.

There are tons of wallets out there with RF blocking and it’s also very simple to add to an existing wallet using some aluminum foil or similar. As for the phone, you really should always require entering your pin or biometrics authentication before accessing your sensitive data like credit cards in addition to the phone needing to be unlocked. This should be done even with current tech because the scanners that thieves use have had much longer range for a long time. They don’t care about following standards or RF interference laws.

Wish that was possible. Unfortunately, at least in the US, most industries are consolidated into a small handful of giant corporations with tons of money so unions, much less co-ops, are impossible. I mean, even Ben and Jerry with all their money weren’t able to hold off the hostile takeover of their company and slow transitioning into a crappy, overpriced product. So sad about that one since it was one of the last remaining grocery store icecream brands that didn’t fall prey to shrinkflation of smaller “pints” and whipping.

It could totally be used effectively if and only if they do the work to train the LLM on only very specific content. But since they think the LLM shouldn’t require people to train it, and seem to believe that more content is better no matter what, this will never happen.

But of course the other issue is that either way, the LLM will still be biased based on the content provided to it for training data. If it’s trained with religious content included, or some other set of content that some group believes is “wholesome” or “kid friendly”, it might still end up saying some pretty messed up stuff. Like if religious content is used, telling very young girls they are property owned by men (their fathers or husbands) and need to give their body freely to them, maybe not directly, but it will be implied in much of the advice it would give since that is a pretty deeply seeded belief in most current monotheistic religions and implied in many of the texts, even if it’s no longer openly practiced or legal in mainstream western societies.

If they wanted to pretend it’s about adding value then having a percentage pricing doesn’t exactly support that. If they were actually adding value, then people would be willing to spend more and artists could charge more and the existing percentages would mean more income. Increasing percentages means the are providing less value and need to increase their cut of that decreased revenue to continue to increase profit margins.

It’s AI generated slop. Creating a product that checks all the boxes that people want without any basis in reality. There was obviously no engineer involved and the mockup images are obviously a mashup of existing products just made gold and with different text on it. I mean just look at the fingerprint scanner. There’s no border between it and the screen like say an iPhone 6 had, but if it’s a fingerprint scanner behind the screen, why is it showing? And either way, why is the color not smooth inside the circle but is outside and it’s obviously not a pixilation issue of the current image. It’s because the source images were either pixelated or multiple mixed together and ended up not getting the gold color applied the same to each source image.

Not really. It’s not a real time message and there will be no status or read notification or any other realtime feedback that I would call a chat app. It can’t be realtime because the messages have to be split into chunks and those chunks are sent at regular intervals not all at once. The idea is that it there will be a constant flow of messages going to the news organization and only some of the will contain chunks of actual messages. And if the chunks are configured to be small and/or the frequency of messages is low, then if the message is large it could take a while for the full message to be transmitted. It’s closer to an encrypted email system than to a chat system TBH.

This is a significantly different use case than a secure chat application that most in these comments are discussing. This system is more interesting for the obfuscation of the data, not the secure communication itself which is just x25519 public key encrypted messages. It’s the fact that intercepting the relevant messages from actual whistleblowers and informants is made very difficult. It’s not a chat application.

Yeah, and it was a one off restore, so others who are mentioning self hosting will still be taken down as long as that policy remains.

It means the same as it meant for X and Facebook. Allowing hate speech against minorities currently being targeted by the American government (mostly Latin immigrants and LGBTQ+, especially trans, people as well as racism and sexism in general), in exchange for dropping investigations against them. They’ll lose a small percentage of users, but get to maintain their monopoly powers, privacy violations, and other illegal activities.

Yeah one thing I find these kinds of tools good for is warranty tracking I’d something breaks and insurance claims if there’s a fire or robbery or something.

Personally, I find Traefik much simpler than Nginx, especially with Kubernetes, but even with pure docker, but it’s definitely not as performant. That’s balanced by the fact that it does a lot of automatic detection and has dynamic config loading so I don’t have to break other services when changing configurations.

No surprise. Same with Amazon’s experimental drone delivery robots and likely all the other automated delivery systems.

This sounds like the same complaints math teachers had when pocket sized books or calculators or web search or many other technologies started becoming ubiquitous. And the same answer is true, these are tools they will have in the real world. It’s just as useful to learn to use tools as it is to learn to do the thing without tools. Test them without the tools available for those things they need to know from memory and with the tools for everything else. Make the tests, essays, etc. so the tools aren’t able to do the entire set of work in the test.

Wasn’t as big of a problem when text books helped with this like making lots of math problems that calculators couldn’t solve in a dongle step. The real issue is that textbook manufacturing consolidation has made text books fairly useless, so teachers are left to craft their own lessons if they want them to be worthwhile. And they don’t have time to create their own lessons from scratch because of some aspects of our education systems that are too much to go into here.