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New comment by railgunmerlin in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

railgunmerlin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:58:37 +0000

curious which overseas country that doesn't fall under the 'west' has cash as king

New comment by railgunmerlin in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

railgunmerlin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:24:38 +0000

Are we pretending this isn't a global phenomenon?

New comment by railgunmerlin in "Project Deal"

railgunmerlin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:58:51 +0000

The dog date at the end was a cute deal. How much of the conclusions can be drawn on the idea that it was a "friendly" market though?

New comment by railgunmerlin in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

railgunmerlin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:55:58 +0000

perhaps the safety filter is wrong instead of the post?

New comment by railgunmerlin in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

railgunmerlin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:25:18 +0000

didn't they just raise last month?

New comment by railgunmerlin in "Take better notes, by hand"

railgunmerlin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:34:42 +0000

anyone try e-ink style tablets (like remarkable?) the form factor/ability to backup is attractive to me but the price tag is a bit nuts...

New comment by railgunmerlin in "The MacBook Neo"

railgunmerlin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:40:10 +0000

your average neo buyer doesn't know what ssh is and would probably like media apps ranging from capcut to lightroom.

New comment by railgunmerlin in "Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams"

railgunmerlin — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:49:56 +0000

can't even really blame Alex for taking the deal, why would Zuckerberg not do more due diligence? Wang has created (a relatively) successful subcontracting operation but that doesn't mean anything about research or new models

New comment by railgunmerlin in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

railgunmerlin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:15:13 +0000

the fear/greed index is a pure market/investing index? Or would you prefer "bear/bull" index?

New comment by railgunmerlin in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

railgunmerlin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:24:17 +0000

Have to wonder if the IPO push for this year is genuine now