It makes me so happy to see my favorite characters make the cut.

I buy an index fund, I’m forcibly bought into scams. I stay in cash, and the government steals the value by printing more cash. Sometimes it feels like everything‘s a scam except possibly for hard assets.

I’m happy for you. Sadly, my employer retirement plan does not allow me to select my investments. Only target date funds which track the total world stock market. At least it’s diversified.

BOMBSHELL reporting right there

Extremely lame work by Google. Infeasible? Why? This is absolutely a security vulnerability. Any ad SDK on any app on your phone can use it to associate your VPN activity.

It’s a grift. You bribe me to get an exception. That’s how they get so rich so fast.

Ubuntu just added that feature. Not my distro of choice, but it’s coming up.

A single person used AI to help write a port for macOS. It’s not exactly a community effort even though the developer bills it as such. It’s unofficial and unaffiliated with the project.

I really hope you’re right. My employer is using it as a crutch. I don’t think they can stop using AI because they just don’t have enough skilled employees to deliver on their commitments. They would pay nearly any price, and I’m sure they’re not alone.

This is fallout of the broader problem of ultra-extreme centralization and shortsightedness in pursuit of line go up. We eagerly run into a climate catastrophe for the same underlying reason. It’s not a matter of understanding the problem, but a matter of willingness to solve it.

Collectively, we are not willing to solve problems that might require a measure of compromise today.

Tale as old as time. Corpos try to get you dependent and then give your business an atomic wedgie.

Apple was saving notifications on the device storage, which provides a way for forensics to extract some of the past messages.

It’s an accurate name. The company has explicitly told us that they are a slop-first cloud company.

And now for your local on the 8s.

This is what I call junk open source. They use the open source label, but it’s not really open source in spirit. The license is restrictive and I’d recommend against using any such software in favor of something that’s actually, properly open source. If you’re bothering to self host, I feel like this freedom is important to most users.

Also, I think this is an advertisement and should be removed.

Perhaps it’s a fallback plan in case the universal Internet ID thing doesn’t work out. Gotta keep the masses stupid and uncoordinated.

Say anything that pops into your mind to keep the hype train going, huh Sam?

Is it really because of the AI or because we’re going into a quiet recession?

They’re not alone, either. I had to downgrade my Visio just to use the features that it shipped with. I’m sure this is illegal, but no one cares unless you’re rich.

Definitely share your initial concern. Without strong review processes to ensure that every line of code follows the intent of the human developer, there’s no way of knowing what exactly is in there and the implications for the human users. And I’m not just talking about bugs.

They say it’s reviewed, but the temptation to blindly trust is there. In this case, developer appears to have taken some care.

The code was written by Cursor and Claude, but reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks by me. I created comparison documents, went through all queries multiple times and reviewed the logic over and over again. I also did load tests and manual regression tests, which took lots of evenings.

Let us hope so. Handle with care to ensure responsibility is not offloaded to a machine instead of a person.