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douglasg14b

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  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • Yeah it's a catch 22.

    They either fail to get a big enough use base because their core users are not enough and they fail from a lack of funding.

    Or they try to follow trends to increase their appeal and user base, and annoy their core users.

    Most users don't realize that Mozilla is doing what Google is doing with Chrome with an engineering team 1/4 the size of the chrome team. And that the grand majority of their costs are engineering related.

    Browsers are expensive, and Mozilla needs to find revenue streams to pay for it.

  • Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

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  • Contact centers, software development, automation, images and video analysis, data analysis, semantic search, entity recognition, advertising, misinformation campaigns, social media, security scanning & automation...etc

    Many of these are cross-cutting across many sectors, some of these are sectors you don't think of as they are driven by government entities.

    And many of these have boring quiet tools and integrations that you don't hear about because they "just work".

    You only hear about the shit that doesn't work. Not the shit that does work.

    Edit: inb4 a reply of a narrow use case or shitty implementation that, obviously, doesn't work, which I already called out as a bias.

  • Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up

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  • To be clear, it only wildly fails to meet expectations in sectors that you hear about.

    It's most definitely medium expectations in sectors you don't hear about because news and social media have a huge negativity bias because that gets views and engagement.

    If we want to fight this scourge, we need to be more informed about it.

  • UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully

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  • You can thank walled gardens like Discord for that.

  • Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

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  • Police are to society like HR is to workers.

    They are not there for you, they are there to serve and protect their masters and enforce their masters will against the rest of us.

  • Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

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  • When in fact the crime was actually just not being rich

  • Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

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  • We combat this with, funny enough, AI code review.

    Much MUCH stricter structural, consistency, quality, and discovery standards on code through rules and docs. Well defined expectations, stricter testing standards...etc Then let some agents loose on PR review and they catch all sorts of problems. Especially with other AI slop.

    Coincidentally, the process of doing all this actually reduces the sloppiness of the slop that we receive, as the AI tools writing this code consume these rules before generating code.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • Guaranteed the software in many of these printers is going to require an always online connection and is going to be baked with DRM in the near future.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • It's not about firearms.

    It's about controlling what you can 3D print.

    When your 3D printer has to connect to a third party service to check if it's allowed to print what you just sent it. That's a clear vector for companies to enforce IPs.

    Printing a replacement part for your appliance? Sorry, they're blocked.

    Printing parts to repair part of your vehicle or snap something back on? Sorry, that's banned.

    Printing something that resembles the intellectual property of any other company? Sorry, that's banned.

    Can't have you cutting into the profits of corporations by self-servicing and self-repairing.

    Also a mass surveillance device to produce surveillance of what people are 3D printing and report it to a central authority.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • Here's the thing. This isn't about banning weapons. It's about controlling access to IPs and preventing right to repair.

    A forcibly Internet connected online. Only 3D printer that has to first check a public database to see if it's allowed to print the thing you just sent is most definitely going to be used to block you from printing parts to fix your appliances or devices.

    And definitely going to be used to provide copyright protection and blocking to IPS of large corporations and companies.

  • Is Windows FOSS now?

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  • Sure they can. Because what are you going to do financially ruin yourself in a lawsuit you're going to lose against Microsoft or some other mega Corp who doesn't give a shit about GPL licencing?

    If it's not enforced with teeth then it doesn't matter anymore.

  • Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online

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  • Speaking the truth about the fascists in power.

    Laws don't matter anymore, there is no more order. They are not being followed, and the ones used to hard you are being made up.

  • Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.

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  • Dude, my team members put out code that's like this or worse on a regular basis that gets caught in PR review without using AI tooling...

    I've supported legacy projects that of course were built without tooling that didn't exist. That are structured and written in ways that are far far worse than this.

    Nothing here screams vibe coated.

  • Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.

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  • Completely agree. If this is a skilled Dev who's built products like this before and you can build something like this in your afternoons and weekends in like 6 months without LLM tool assistance.

    With basic assistance you can definitely cut that time down to 4 months or less easily.

    And if this is a full-time project, you can probably get it out the door in 1 to 2 months with llm assistance. (Not vibe coding, two very different things)

  • Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.

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  • I've built projects of the size in 5-7 months before we had LLM or ML coding tools.

    With tabbed completion (Which most devs enjoy), and before full LLM code gen, 4-6 months.

    With llm assistance, not vibe coding, it's possible to build projects like this in 1 to 2 months without sacrificing quality or safety. If you are an experienced engineer and have built projects like this before. A lot of these are boring, boilerplate, stuff.

    So the time spent doesn't necessarily say that it's vibe coded but if this is an inexperienced engineer then it very well might be and may be full of holes and issues.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • This is misinformation.

    You can self host it, for free.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • Trash guide to be fair.

    Discord has more functionality than all of these, that's why it's in the position it's in today, yet it gets ranked lower than... Rocket chat??

    If we're objectively finding alternatives then we need to be objective, this guide seems sus AF.

  • Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”

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  • It's not just license plate readers anymore. They have cameras that perform facial recognition and other identifying recognition.

    Your car is in many ways uniquely identifiable by its markings and its model that vehicle with many pictures of it and that license plate are already in a database. If you have stickers, if you have big dents or additions and changes from the base model of your vehicle than you are quite identifiable within a particular geographical area depending on the urban density.

  • Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”

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  • It's always projection with them isn't it?