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Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:09PM (#48518598)
Does anyone actually believe this crap?

You think the census is what the government would use to mass identify and imprison people, not the NSA database(s)?

You think homeland security, or the FBI, or any other alphabet agency doesn't already have access to a giant list of people?

Think about what meta knows about everyone, or Google. You do realize that the US gov has read access to their core databases right?

"The census" has absolutely no bearing on any of that which you're worried about.

It's just shocking the level of ignorance that gets upvoted in the comments here now.

Re:US Government releases first batch of UAP documents on Friday May 08, 2026 @08:11PM (#48070340)
Mick West is not credible. Most of his "debunks" are easily dismissed by those with experience using the systems that capture these anomalies.
>the year is 2028 >5M of your 10M context window is the system prompt
>because the human writing the blog understands

Bold assumption

Portland?
Re:GPT‑5.3 Instant on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @05:28PM (#47239998)
The bias comes from the training data.

Since so much of that training data is Reddit, and Reddit mods are some of the most degenerate scum on the internet, the models bake their biases in.

I'll post some inside baseball:

Almost everyone in ecom is running every ad network integration they can, no matter the source of traffic.

So if you click a Facebook ad, load a website, enter your information/checkout ALL of your information goes to every other network they integrate with.

You might never use TikTok, you might have every Facebook domain blacklisted, but when you clicked on a Google search "result" (ad) and checked out everything about your order was sent to meta/tiktok/applovin/400 other "networks" via S2S APIs.

Until this is made illegal, the incentive structure will ALWAYS push marketing departments to do this.

Re:Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:26PM (#45923517)
It quite literally is a race.

A space race.

Re:Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:24PM (#45923501)
>200 tons to LEO

*In fully reusable first AND second stage configuration.

An expendable starship would double the tonnage.

Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:01PM (#45739125)
Insurance companies get a lot of (deserved) hate, but the doctor cartel seems to skate on by in the eyes of the public.

The white coats are far from blameless here.

Re:The scariest "user support" email I've ever received on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:57PM (#45652325)
I get 3-4 fake Docusign emails a week.
Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:40PM (#45652223)
Honest answer? The outage would need to last about a week.
Re:Sora 2 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:22PM (#45433301)
We live in an absurd era where "AI Safety" means "AI that doesn't listen to the human telling it what to do".

It'll all be rather funny in retrospect.

Re:Bcachefs Removed from the Mainline Kernel on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:37PM (#45427719)
Synology exclusively uses BTRFS afaik, and there aren't widespread stories of data loss with their products.
Re:Digital Foundry Leaves IGN, Now Independent on Monday August 11, 2025 @12:56AM (#44860839)
Have you been tested for lead poisoning?

If I suddenly found 14fps enjoyable I would immediately suspect a neurological issue.

I'm not being snarky something might be wrong.

Re:Webflow Down for >31 Hours on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:57PM (#44729223)
As a former webflow customer I can assure you performance was always an afterthought.
Re:Webflow Down for >31 Hours on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @06:55PM (#44729207)
We moved away from webflow because it was slow (got the nickname web-slow internally).

Plus, despite marketing begging for the WYSIWYG interface they actually weren't creative enough to generate new content at a pace that required it.

We massively increased conversion rates by going full native and having 1 Engineer churn out parts kits/kitbash LPs from said kits.

Scale for reference: ~$10M/month

It was there 6 months ago, because when I moved and had to switch to comcast in 2021 I found out about the cap after ~5TB/mo
Re:Have I Been Pwned 2.0 is Now Live on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:51PM (#44045797)
>The EU solution meaningfully changes the offending company's behavior

How are those cookie consent popups working out?

>We have an opportunity here to set rules that cars should yield to rapid transit public buses,

Absolutely freakin not.

Everything happens on X now.

Even when I’m forced to go back to Reddit, all the niche subs I follow just post back to X links where the actual discussion is happening.

For those OOTL about that last part, a common meme/troll of the moderators/jannies is

“They do it for free”

People would post rule breaking content and say “clean it up janny”

Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:18AM (#43681614)
Meanwhile my grandfather went through hell with them when they lost a $250k check they demanded since he had to pay quarterly.

He eventually won but they were threatening him with huge penalties for nonpayment and he had to get a lawyer.

Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:16AM (#43681585)
>Since we don't live in a totalitarian society where the govt knows everything about you.

But… we do?

Posts like these reverse cause and effect.
Re:Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water on Saturday March 29, 2025 @10:08PM (#43520605)
All the positive studies are from topical application as a byproduct of ingestion.

It’s akin to measuring the reduction in lip skin cancer from drinking sunscreen.

It sounds like… you did get caught?
Re:Ozempic is causing trouble on Savile Row on Friday January 31, 2025 @12:55PM (#42889860)
I don’t understand the bizarre haters that show up in every GLP-1 thread.

America is fat, and the health consequences of that make COVID look like a regular Tuesday.

“If people just X” clearly isn’t working, we need results and we need results fast. The state with the lowest obesity rate in 2025 is higher than the state with the highest obesity rate from 1990.

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:05AM (#42540017)
I always say no to all analytics/improvement prompts.

Both the search and photos settings were on for me in both iOS and MacOs. Completely unacceptable Apple

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:04AM (#42540010)
It’s funny how the wordsmiths come out to defend Apple here.

Your “photos” aren’t shipped off-device without your knowledge, just an arbitrary blob of ”metadata” that you can’t audit describing everything about that photo. :)

It’s sort of like “I don’t want my WiFi router uploading my house online!” And someone replying “it’s not your physical house, just a map of the house and the real time location of everyone in it! The house never moves!”

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