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>Before I buy, can you confirm the bridge is GDPR-compliant, AI-Act-ready, has a digital product passport, and passed its environmental impact assessment?

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TIL 1984-esque is when i can't use my customers data to train bots.
Re:AI Zealotry on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:57PM (#46558468)
Thinking the same thing, nobodies calling the Pope a painter because he paid Michelangelo to paint a chapel.

In b4 someone mentions some famous artists had apprentices under them.

it's for banking apps specifically though.

Anyway it's not like they're the UK and have age ID's for their internet lol

Tbf it's been going on since before 2011
Re:AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:11PM (#46556978)
you haven't contributed much to GitHub since 2022?

*edit unless your commits are elsewhere?

odd they legislate for it, banks usually do this anyway
Re:Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:54PM (#46536117)
> is he stupid?

Well it's ICE, they haven't gotten the real cop training.

> Many people want to buy but cannot put up the initial costs.

This, monthly rent actually costs more here in Ireland than what you would pay monthly for mortgage.

>that will inevitably shrink the supply of rentals

As someone that's renting because buying is impossible i think this would be fantastic. They should do it with Airbnb too.

Not American or in the US, this is problem everywhere now. People thinking they're entrepreneurs for gouging.

People will come up with all kinds of reasoning, its the property tax, it's migrants, its minimum wage, it's millennials, it's inflation ,when ultimately it's just that landlords will charge whatever they think they can get away.

and sometimes they'll try to charge in other ways...

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/02/...

i am in the process of finishing up a role doing annotations for these, for a company i cannot name (basically clicking lots of box hundreds of times a day)

So the endless hosepipe of repetitive , occasionally messed up, requests has probably not helped me endear myself to them.

Anecdotally having chatgpt do some of my CV was ok but i had to go through it and remove some exaggerations. The one thing i think these bots are good at is talking things up..

Re:Two Dead Economists on AI on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:50PM (#46530738)
slop
I know people will say things like "oh see the tax is actually a loss to <country/state>".

But what loss exactly? he was barely paying taxes anyway? How many jobs was his "family office" providing? how many are lost by him changing a postal address to Delaware?

i know, there an inexhaustible amount of human written books to read before i'd be desperate enough to read the Markov chain books.
Why would anyone buy the novel?
>The majority of open source software development is "implementing something that already exists"

I don't think open office/libre office etc have access to the source code for MS office and if they did MS would be on them like a rash.

It cloned one of the many open source ones available is what you mean.
Blogspam.
Re:There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:25PM (#46505940)
a16z.

Same reason this post got flagged and died.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356858

Re:There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:20PM (#46505881)
Of course, because this site is control of Mark Eggman Andrreesen.
>versus vying for attention in a venue where several brands of "aim this at a patron to see them in a bikini" machines are installed.

The CSAM machine is only a recent addition.

Twitter has turned into 4chan with paid accounts.
Re:There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout on Monday January 05, 2026 @04:33PM (#46505291)
Look for the same with Greenland or Canada next :/
Re:All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025) on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:13PM (#46503293)
>Now sit at home and be a good boy, take that UBI, create and be productive

Honestly i prefer that listening marketing bro's on linkedin posting about how AI means X is finished and everyone who learned X needs to pay for their webinar on writing prompts.

Re:A spider web unlike any seen before on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:08PM (#46503219)
>Usually the barn funnel weavers prey on P. vagans, which are smaller.

>“But in the cave, because it’s dark in there, our hypothesis was that they do not see each other,”

Will they start fighting one another now lights are being shone on them?

Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:43PM (#46471897)
Are they still faxing?
i'm sure they profited overall, but this was costing them a little right?
Given the state some of these ships are starting to be in they might just be worth scrap..
I recall they lost a bit on selling the consoles to the USAF that were used as computer cluster. (The consoles afaik sell/sold? at below cost and rely on games to make up the extra cash) So they lose money on consoles that aren't having games bought.

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