In other words, you wouldn’t want a small business buying a hundred of these, slapping Windows Enterprise on them, and using them as the cheapest computer in the market. Because that’s something you can just do to these, which isn’t so easy with locked-down consoles.

Apparently a legitimate server gets to issue tokens to you that verify you’re a real person and not just a spambot approximating one. How this works in practice is apparently cryptographic magic (which I won’t question here, but IIRC can be easier to pinpoint your identity on its own if a smaller group of people receive these tokens). But the magic isn’t as big of an issue as the people issuing those assurances, and how centralized they are. Which is a bit frightening in its own right.

One thing’s for sure: Google, in concert with two browser manufacturers dependent on Google for their existence, cannot convince me they have created something cryptographically secure on their own. (And the article makes it clear that this won’t replace identity tracing for any website or ad network that’s realized that “unethical” and “profitable” are nearly synonymous).

It’s not, if we wanted AI’s opinion we could ask ourselves. Please delete

Previous discussion and better article than ycombinator

https://lemmy.world/post/48555584

He wouldn’t be the first person begging Elon Musk for attention, though. Anybody remember Elon Goat Token?

Even if he doesn’t secure Elon as an investor, the simping does not look good.

Amusingly, Commodore’s statement says the [high prices were] triggered by an “explosion of new technologies” but stops short of specifying exactly what those technologies were. That perhaps shouldn’t be surprising given Simpson’s love of GenAI and its use in Commodore’s promotional material thus far, but it’s somewhat ironic that one of the reasons for the high price is, in Commodore’s case, self-inflicted to a degree.)

I’m starting to dislike this CEO

This reminds me of when Telegram announced they had reinvented the concept of end-to-end encryption. Something stinks, and I can’t put my finger on it because I’m not a cryptography expert.

But I’m not going to be thrilled until somebody I trust is able to validate it one way or the other first.

The CAT S22 is $150. It doesn’t have the same hardware, but I don’t see $250 worth of upgrades between that one and this.

Definitely closer than asking $350 more, though. And it’s not like Sailfish functionality is worth nothing.

I appreciate you comparing like with like, but I have the feeling “tiny weiner trucks” imply a certain engine type, minimum size, and visibility requirements

Bezos was one investor, not the owner

The Slate is 3600 pounds, which is 800 pounds less than the average car or truck in 2024, and a whole ton less than the F-250

He was then briefly unbanned, and then again indefinitely banned once 72 hours had elapsed

What else were they supposed to do? Give him a get-out-of-jail-free card for a procedural mistake that they already rectified?

Hmm I wonder if Sanger knew better. I wonder if there was any smoking gun posted online that would prove this.

“Wikipedians are now debating whether my proposed WikiProject Intellectual Diversity should be permitted to become an official WikiProject (club/group of editors),” Sanger said on X on Friday and linked to the Wikipedia talk page about the issue. “Lots opposed. Also lots in favor.”

“Can I still join the movement?” one person replied to Sanger on X.

“Let’s just say that if I answer that question one way or another, the playground moms who rule Wikipedia might block me,” Sanger responded.

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Part of Larry Sanger’s statement

“In the kangaroo court in which a mob ousted me, Wikipedia’s administrators showed that they don’t appear to value details like formal charges, a designated prosecutor, basic decorum, distinction between prosecution and judge…”

Does this guy think Wikipedia is run like a country

I’ve seen bowl cuts before, but this is the first plate cut I’ve seen.

We can all take turns with the Death Note

The first word of this article says the company with the data is in Virginia…

A website advertising the rallies lists what it sees as the dangers of data centers: secrecy, water use, air pollution, national security, energy, land use and noise.

This sounds great!

If you go to their website and see some more valid concerns mixed with these valid ones. Noise pollution. Children being driven to suicide. But wait, there’s some weird stuff.

if we lose control of superintelligent AI…
[ellipsis theirs]

And then you look at their call to action, and it features nothing about water, air, noise, energy, land pollution, child abuse, suicide. The only part left is the wacky stuff, warning AI will become super powerful and begging for strict regulation and testing that would squeeze out anybody but the biggest AI companies.

This project is a fucking bait and switch.