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Re:Product Managers aren't safe either on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:32PM (#50310429)
... until the LLM-PM wades into some lethal trifecta via a customer or some other party.
That is 50 in the US, not in some 3rd world country.
So the AI is already auto-shunning itself from the math community.
Re:Websites are closing their doors to AI agents on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:21PM (#50143153)
The world doesn't care. They've got China firewalled away anyway.
Re:Websites are closing their doors to AI agents on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:19PM (#50143136)
Public only as accessible by government issued identity.
Re:Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:31PM (#50094697)
To remove it from the spec you would need to get enought votes in the FIDO alliance workgroups and board and whatnot. That's just politics.
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead on Saturday September 26, 2026 @10:35AM (#49856996)
Correct code is not cheap. And some places you need a very correct code. Like in mission critical systems.
For the normie guy who used google search just to get to facebook, ELIZA is much cheaper to run than a fully fledged GPT. It's just sensible business wise. Trash the brain of the already poorly educated user to use cheaper AI on him.
Re:Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks' on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:59AM (#49479558)
The HTTP protocol and HTML fromat that Tim Berners Lee created, were meant for sharing documentation and information which foster collaboration via internet. It wasn't really meant for doing business in trusted environments.

The WWW acronym should stand for Worldwide Wild West.

Re:How to disable or avoid intrusive AI on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @03:45AM (#49342675)
This reminds me of the ole days of cleaning up preinstalled Windows of bloatware. Some clean Linux distro on desktop is the only path open to human-first tech.
Chat apps have already replaced socialapps like FB long ago and the companies know it. Meta has FB Messenger and WhatsApp.
Re:The last Romans are still around on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:39AM (#48686544)
Because of the allusion to British Empire?
Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.
The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free Software movement with redefining it as "open source" while the Internet was booming. And all of that is now being reaped by the corporations the "tech-hippies" themselves helped to create.
Re:Bible as RAG Database on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:45AM (#48670236)
Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.
Re:A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias on Sunday January 05, 2025 @04:07AM (#42600614)
The more the behemoth of bureaucracy and total control will grind and (o)press the societies to atomized individuals, the more lone wolfs will crop up.
Passkeys deployment reminds me of a cartel agreement among FAANG without the actual coordination. It's too good of a new tech frontier not to colonize.
Re:Cleaning up after WWII (2017) on Thursday August 29, 2024 @01:34AM (#41387681)
Imagine then having a forest fire in zone rouge: https://www.businessinsider.com/slovenia-wildfires-set-off-h...
Re:Cleaning up after WWII (2017) on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:50AM (#41378123)
WWII??? We haven't managed yet to clean up after WWI! For example, nearly every day unexploded munitions are found on the former Isonzo frontline.
Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:39AM (#41378070)
Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.
Re:A Gentle Introduction to SAML on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @04:24PM (#41050415)
Ha, just found out you already posted the spec. Still, even if it gets published, IMO multilateral federations will migrate veeeery sloooooowly.
Re:A Gentle Introduction to SAML on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @04:20PM (#41050383)
Even higher-ed&research will deploy OpenID federations. The spec is WIP: https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html
Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:30AM (#40842800)
Because programming is essentially about receiving the input data, transforming it through a process and in the end outputting it in some other form?
All tank commanders are perfect fit for next Napoleon.
DeltaChat.
An their law.
Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet on Saturday April 20, 2024 @04:41PM (#40100845)
> they say, "yeah, ok, whatever, 24/7 surveillance is fine as long as it catches bad people too."

So you should continue the discussion like this: those bad people after 24/7 surveillance have no other option to infiltrate the surveillance caste. That's where things will get really hellish.

Re:Long-term nuclear waste warning messages on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:57AM (#39917558)
The pharaoh's tombs had a lot of warnings and curses against opening them up. Didn't help much not long after and even millennia after that.
Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:13AM (#39915067)
Not necessarily. You might end up just building things on top of things spiral which reduces the ability to think clearly.
Electric vehicles are currently on a good path to become gentrification of mobility.

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