I’ve always been surprised by cost numbers mentioned in services and donation requests.

I run my own cheap server which has game servers running in the past, and some other services. I’ve not run any busy services though or fediverse content so I never felt like I could make a reasonable assessment. Just be surprised.

It does show that it can be a useful tool, though.

Here, the security researcher was evaluating it and stumbled upon a previously undiscovered security bug. Obviously, they didn’t let the AI create the bug report without understanding it. They verified the answer and took action themselves, presumably analyzing, verifying, and reporting in a professional and respectful way.

The cURL AI spam is an issue at the opposite side of that. But doesn’t really tell us anything about capabilities. It tells us more about people. In my eyes, at least.

Should posts like this have [Satire] added to the title?

I’d prefer them to be obvious. Just like we title posts to describe them, and put them into communities, mark them nsfw or not, whether it’s satire or not is an important differentiator.

Given uBlock Origin and Firefox native privacy functionality, what do you install and use Privacy Badger for? Isn’t there nothing left for it to do?

There’s a public petition - separate from the employee petition

Microsoft continues to provide the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI services that are crucial in empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal efforts targeting Palestinians.

via petition text

https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-google-microsoft/

‘Order from Amazon’: How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel’s war

The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, while procuring further AI tools from Google and Microsoft for military purposes, an investigation reveals.

https://scribe.rip/@notechforapartheid/a-marriage-made-in-hell-an-introduction-to-microsofts-complicity-in-apartheid-and-genocide-d7dfad65a196

Is every single Israeli resident complicit in what their government is doing? None of them should be allowed to use Windows?

This is not about Israeli citizens using Windows. This is about Microsoft’s contracts with the Israeli military and government.

When he died he called it…? I assume before he died?

Seems like that would be the engineered high effort version that I don’t think spammers would invest.

Is there a need to manipulate moderators? I don’t think so. Unless you have a specific target and don’t mind the effort.

Otherwise, I suspect simple spam works well enough, with lower effort.

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily.

What’s the discovery replacement they are referring to here?

My local game store had Starflight for Sega Genesis for $80 in 1991 when I was just out of high school working minimum wage at an ice cream parlor in Pismo Beach and I found a way to make it happen.

What is 80$ in 1991 worth today? calculateme says 190$ adjusted for inflation (in 2025).

What about the minimum wage? dol.gov says $4.25, or $10.08 adjusted for inflation. Since 2009 it’s $7.25.

7.25/10.08 = 0,72 or 10.08/7.25 = ~1,40

80/60 = 1.33

So we have a decrease in minimum wage by 30%, but an increase of product price by 30%.

Is this correct? Does that make it 60% more expensive than his personal analogy from 1991?

Man, the two-sided percent reference point is confusing.

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a user pretending to espouse paranoid delusions received reinforcement from GPT-4o, which praised their supposed clarity and self-trust

This may be the next big sabotage of society.

Algo-driven unregulated social media pushed negative views, division, misinformation, while opening the platforms to manipulative content producers and connecting positive as well as negative influences (like finding communities of extremism).

If unregulated AI interfaces get pushed to people, they will not critically verify, but be confirmed in their own and the AIs biases, without any obvious indicators that this is happening.

Good thing we see some kinds of positive regulation. Like them pulling this model, interfaces adding disclosures of AI and uncertainty, and regulation by law.

Both are valid considerations, but I find the large shift to time spent on social media apps a much more compelling argument.

Indie games are part of the industry too, so I don’t think they’d be losses in accumulated industry revenue. The small and niche indies probably don’t have much of an impact on the market as a whole.

I also think the big titles largely marketed towards the general people and casual gamer. And I have to assume that still works the same way. They buy the popular marketed title, or on their console digital store. They don’t care as much about classics or indies [outside of the store’s popular titles].

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Sometimes a different approach or technology changes extrapolation limitations.

I was interested but a quick search did not reveal how they implement it.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/byd-confirms-1000v-super-e-platform-fast-charging-400km-5-minutes/ at least has a little more technical information; “unveiled its new 1,000V Super E-Platform, capable of charging 1MW+ (1,000 kW) rates”

The first kid test they did with both auto-pilot and self-driving (or whatever you call that). Was that different for the later tests?

and even with that he apparently manually disengaged it before impact

Source?

also

Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, “You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.”

Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.

So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you’re (probably) good to go.

poly means many

so if both mono and poly are in monopoly, why do you only pick mono, or why does only mono matter here?