Is this a troll? What could an application do with Flash in 2005 that we can't do with a modern web application today (excluding the obvious answer of runtime vulnerabilities that allowed apps to escape the sandbox)?

Businesses can lose a lot traffic by not being present on Facebook and Instagram, so being unjustifiably banned is doing measurable financial harm in many cases.

Even as an individual it can be a huge pain to not have Facebook. The local individual sales market (e.g. classified ads) is dominated by Facebook Marketplace now, for example, and not having access to that market makes it difficult to sell things.

Meta has a responsibility to the community because of their position as the de facto platform for many activities. They've even intentionally positioned themselves to dominate. Having laws requiring them to act responsibly is totally justifiable.

My anecdotal experience is my Facebook account was compromised several years ago after TOTP 2FA was disabled. Didn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy about Facebook security policies at the time, and this new attack just reaffirms that.

I recently hit the same wall trying to directly my garage door opener's API (MyQ).

I'd be amazed if Google enabling this behavior doesn't violate some EU competition laws.

I have done quite a bit of painting and caulking for a guy who's not in the profession. I despise both with a passion, though, especially caulking, and I have never once been satisfied with a single paint or caulk job I've done. I feel like I'm the embodiment of "be bad at this for a long time," although I'm objectively probably halfway decent at it.

That is to say I think Ira Glass' quote of "You've just gotta fight your way through" to get where you want to be seems especially meaningful in the context of something like painting, where most everyone _can_ do it (or writing / storytelling in Ira's case), but very few are actually good at it.

The prompt allowed for exactly four valid outputs and explicitly disallowed explanations and qualifiers.

> Output exactly one label: True, > Mostly True, Misleading, or False. > No explanations, no qualifiers.

How is that a nuanced response?

> These types of experiments prove to me that there is no real "reasoning" happening and "reasoning/thinking"

My suggestion is that five presumably reasoning and thinking humans would also have variation in their responses to the exact same prompt.

I think you could come up with a reasonable argument for any of the responses, hence the problem with the methodology.

It's even weirder to suggest that the disagreement is indicative of a problem. If you asked five very knowledgeable humans on this subject to select the correct answer on a multiple-choice questionnaire, they would almost certainly vary significantly more than these 5 LLMs.

Not to say that hallucination isn't a problem, but this is a lousy way to test it.

They are coerced in the same way as any other gambling: the false allure of easy money in a society built on financial struggle.

https://scout.yahoo.com/chat/share/019e50d7-01fc-7db7-b6fa-9...

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/83ef441f-215f-4ae5-9b0f-e15...

Blocking archiving in a flailing attempt to keep AIs away is extremely shortsighted. Archiving is important for keeping historical context, especially when it comes to news and journalism.

Sincerely, A real human

I occasionally try switching editors, most recently to vscode, but between the near flawless vim emulation, refactor functionality, and multi-language support I always come crawling back to JetBrains, despite the memory bloat and occasional buggy release.

Maybe that'll change someday, and I honestly hope something better comes along, but for now it just works better for my workflows and is worth the cost of admission.

Once every year or so I get annoyed with a bugged JetBalrains update or memory leaks. IdeaVim has been one of the main things pulling me back to JetBrains for a while now, although the neovim extension in vscode is also very good these days.

What's the argument for a massive AI datacenter that employs very few people, strains infrastructure, and has the stated purpose of doing work that people had been doing, presumably reducing employment?

Incidentally, that same $3.3 billion could build around 10,000 accessory dwellings in Baton Rouge.

Going on a bit of a tangent, but deep packet inspection can identify packets routed using NAT, so if the phone is operating as a typical hotspot it would be identifiable by your carrier. Carriers in the USA used to block / denylist / charge extra for tethering using this exact approach.