It's also perfectly legitimate to legally require business to slow the fuck down and consider how the thing will be used or abused, to make the product not crash for even just basic usages, and to put real safeguards in place against problematic scenarios.

But no, move fast and break things wins the day every day in the US.

It's best not to use Microsoft products.

No. Interoperability doesn't require Apple relax their privacy and security postures. It could instead require third parties to improve theirs.

Yeah that needs to stop. This is kinda why the DMA was created in the first place...

Skipping the EU makes sense if the company doesn't want to comply with regulations aimed directly at it.

> complying with the DMA from the outset could mean having to launch a year later everywhere.

Oh no! Anyway...

Once upon a time, companies delayed launches specifically so they'd launch a better product. That seems to be gone these days and end-users have garbage products as a result.

I could almost feel sympathy if it were something to do with some contract that Apple signed with their AI provider. Who's that, Google?

Ahh, a "competitor"? Yeah... cry me a river.

I have a personal project: who's winning the race at 3 AM?

You see, I don't sleep well. I live in a busy city, with a busy freeway about a half mile away. Sometimes at 3 AM there are some very loud cars racing on the freeway. That's illegal for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that the noise pollution wakes people up from their precious sleep and causes knock-on affects to the population.

Anyway, now that I'm woken up, my only question is: who's winning the race?

I used this question as a way to explore a hyptothetical tech stack, with each part of the tech stack useful in some way to my work as a software engineer who's interested in robotics.

- run raspberry pis with microphones, collect audio data

- run a k8s cluster for audio collection and processing

- calculate and triangulate individual points, and give estimations of velocity based on position changes over time, and adjust for doppler shift

- estimate (poorly, but doable) engine power based on amplitude

- run a webserver in the k8s cluster showing an animation of the racers with color fields representing estimation error radiating from the position estimate, with arrow representing velocity

Great project, actually. It was really thought-provoking. I had this working in late 2018.

Since there was a lot of hype around this new "AI", I thought how smart could it be?

I threw the scenario to chat GPT. I did have to break the problem set into smaller parts for context window purposes. But the solution it came up with solved about 80% of the project correctly (and very close to solutions I already came up with), about 15% of the project remained "open until we have more data", with maybe about 5% of the project would have been incorrectly solved.

That was very much an "oh shit, AI is closer than the 20 years away that I've been telling people. It's more like 5 years away"

Here we are three, almost four, years later...

Not 2 minutes later, a coworker sent a message saying they got a message: their repository messages couldn't be sent, because the user is no longer authorized. The coworker was worried that they might be fired.

Alas, this economy is a terrible time for one business's fuckups to cause worry about people being fired. That's a lot of stress, man!

If only it were measurable in dollars, then we could sue Microsoft for damages. Maybe then Microsoft might stop producing slop. Ahh, wait. Who am I kidding? No, of course that won't cause Microsoft to stop producing slop.

Resistance is one definition, I guess. A very loose definition.

I'd call it what it was. Career sociopaths decided to put a career sociopath on the ballot instead of someone the left's citizens would actually like.

No? You've obviously never been ostracized from your friends, family, or coworkers due to not using Facebook or Instagram or whatever the latest vapid social network is.

My i7 920 is still running fine. Or, it was when I decommissioned it in 2017. I don't imagine any reason it shouldn't, except perhaps bitrot of spinning rust (spinning rust rotting is no joke, especially after ~20 years) and maybe aging of thermal paste.

My i7 6950X is still running fine, in use since 2017 even today to write this message.

Legal requirements are useless without enforcement.

You might want to ask most contractors, or contract lawyers, about that.

"I was just following orders" for basic property damage typically doesn't hold up in court for them either.

It's... both.

Scope Violation: `ls ~/Documents`

Buddy, my `${HOME}` is committed to a repository. It includes `.bashrc` and `Documents` directory. These are not scope violations if I'm having the LLM work on them!

Have you encountered a "marketing email" that you didn't sign up for? That's called phishing.

Have you clicked on links in phishing emails? That's called getting pwned.

What glorious universe do you live in where email is respected enough to have transactions separate from marketing, and that this is not only required by law but also enforced?