In his blog post, Tan defended the subscription-only licensing model, calling it “the industry standard.”

“Industry standard” my ass.

If Adobe hadn’t started the trend by lusting after Blizzard’s subscription model and ultimately emulating it, we’d all be a lot better off.

Not to mention our wallets being eternally thankful.

Yet another reason that odious orange toad should be denied a second term.

TL;DR? > The problem is strictly speaking not even in curl code. It comes with the version of LibreSSL that Apple ships and builds curl to use on their platforms.

But because they’re Apple (right next to the Pope, for infallibility), they know best; same old story, rinse’n’repeat.

Really liked their stuff back in the day. Now? It’s another walled garden they scrabble to maintain.

…researchers from NTU were working on Masterkey, an automated method of using the power of one LLM to jailbreak another.

Or: welcome to where AI becomes an arms race.

Nobody wants to play together anymore.

This.

Was in both front and back of the house positions, in the service industry in the US and while yeah, it may be allowing employers to skate a little longer on paying their people a REAL wage, that’s their karma accruing.

I’ll help the person in front of me.

Free speech my ass.

Yeah…also coincides with said corps throwing ads on everything. Think they’d learn.

Oooo…Trump’s gonna be pissed; he’ll never beat that with a pair of shoes.

Dogma over duty will be the death of us yet.

I pray there comes a time when the people decide what their taxes are spent on. Could be done using a simple form, with a dozen or so broad categories to choose from, submitted with your tax return.

I bet the results would shock the shit out of the politicians.

I wonder if there will be any unintended consequences to this action.

When they say, “It’s for the children”, you can rest assured, it’s not.

dck 🤣

Assistive technology has been focused on this for a while.

My brother had severe cerebral palsy and for years (80s-90s) communicated via analog technology, a literal alpha/iconography communication board, which he could tap on with a head wand. By 2000 he had a digital voice, but still had to use a wand.

Stephen Hawking demonstrated eye sensing technology almost as soon as it was invented and that’s been over a decade ago.

In most cases, there is a definite aspect of “bespokeness” to implementing assistive consumer communication technology, but the barriers implementing the same for an able audience would appear much lower.

Fucking revisionist, fantasy bullshit, call it out for what it is and QUIT GIVING IT THE OXYGEN OF MEDIA ATTENTION.

That’s how ya starve the beast.

TIL: About RMI, or, the Rocky Mountain Institute. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMI_(energy_organization) So the kinda “Huh?” headline makes sense.

One of their focuses is changing energy usage patterns by changing demand.

In several sections, with minimal numbers and many helpful charts, the article takes us thru how evolving battery technology will lead to lessened fossil fuel demand.

She’s hoping she’s next, obviously. /s

Parasites and control freaks endorse “child safety “ bill, what could possibly go wrong?

The power of lobbyists, on full display. K Street is a plague on the people of the US.