Now technically it would be illegal for the grocery stores to collude in price fixing like that, but they'll hide behind the fact that all of them will buy their surveillance pricing data from Google [1].

Google will tell all of the competitors exactly how much they can charge you for your eggs, and you'll get the same price everywhere.

[1] https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-...

It was probably broken by design, allowing the politicians to brag about how they're doing something, while the lobbyists managed to carve out such large loopholes for themselves that it will in likelihood never be a real deterrent.

For example: surveillance pricing is allowed if users opt-in so consider how many times you've clicked "I agree" on websites recently to get past some legalese wall of text blocking you from the content.

Another thing is you can't sue a grocery store, but you can petition the AG to sue them, which they will do only if they feel like it.

Not to mention that it applies only to grocery stores, not hotels and airlines and other industries which are inclined to do surveillance pricing

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/

I've had it on every Windows computer I used at work since forever now, and it is extremely useful to be able to use things like `sed` and `gawk` (and even `make`) from the command prompt

[1] https://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

It became a bit of a meme in the years since.

http://grafx2.chez.com/

The appeals to people in Southeast Asia being scammed reminds me of a blog by Cory Doctorow last year: Every complex ecosystem has parasites [1]

The gist of it is that technology can be useful, but that usefulness comes with a price: sometimes bad actors are going to commit fraud or other undesirable actions.

As an example, you can reduce the amount of banking app scams to 0% by simply denying any banking apps on phones. But because of banking apps' usefulness we're not going to do that, so there will be some non-zero risk that you will get scammed.

As a technical user I chose Android for its usefulness, accepting that there may be a (minute) chance that I get scammed, but it is a risk I am willing to take, and Google will unilaterally take this choice away from me.

Still, I don't believe Google's security concerns are sincere, so I think I just wasted my time typing all of this

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/

"I couldn't be bothered to write a proper README, so I had the AI do it"

Code is the expression of knowledge and can be protected by copyright.

A lot of the popular licenses on GitHub (like MIT) permits you to use a piece of code on the condition that you credit the original author. If an LLM outputs code from such a project (or remixes code from several such projects) then it needs to credit the original authors or be in violation.

If Disney's intellectual property can be stolen and needs to be protected for 95+ years by copyright then surely the bedroom programmers' labor deserves the same protections.

And in practice, tools like NPM makes sure to output all of the libraries' licenses.

For example: MIT license states has this clause "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

It stands to reason that if an LLM outputs something based on MIT-licensed code then that output should at least contain that copyright because it's what the original author wished.

And I saw a comment below arguing that knowledge cannot be copyrighted, but the code is an expression of that knowledge and that most certainly can be protected by copyright.

"I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format. It's 100x faster than CBZ."

It has some charts, notes and comments

Here's the old.reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qi64pr/i_got_i...

[1]: https://research.swtch.com/qart [2] https://research.swtch.com/field

You write your markdown file, but add the code snippet at the bottom of yor document and save it with a .md.html extension. Then when you double-click it it opens and renders in your browser.

I save my notes in a Google Drive, and it's now replaced all the note taking apps I've tried over the years

[1] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

> My son tried something like this and now he speaks in JSON whenever he gets excited. Is there a factory reset?

>> Hold a strong magnet to his left ear for 10 seconds. Note: he will lose all memories from the last 24 hours.

Unfortunately, when I try to open it, it gives me a NS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_HOST when it tries to download the page's .js and CSS from a head.protondb.pages.dev domain.

I tried to add that to my /etc/hosts file, but then I got an error about a certificate.

Most strange, and the only clue I found online was this YouTube video[1] that suggests accessing it through Tor...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DY3snvH9Xc

And don't call me Shirley

I'm also afraid it will make it easier for Google to bend to authoritarian regimes and ban developers whose apps are not government approved.

Think it can't happen? Think different:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/apple-bends-to-t...