Sorry. The techbros will get bailouts. Its the pensioners that will starve.

This time the conservative will give us all low taxes and new high paying jobs without wrecking services and infrastructure, I promise ;)

As much as I would want to cry foul, this sound like a typical red team exercise.

This time the conservatives will give us freedoms and low taxes without wrecking public services, I promise. ;)

Also the other history notr: we literally did win against cigarettes with public health interventions.

Then we defunded public health and for some reason aslo took a decade to start treating vaping as smoking.

Most of those free dns settups use subdomains already. Unless you cant, for a temporary domain name, I recommend just creating an account at a mainstream/reputable dns provider and buying whatever is on sale for a dollar or two per year. Dont plan on renewing because those ones shoot up.

Hopefully the .self tld becomes a thing because it is supposed to be free: https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centered-top-level-domain/

Yes. Choose those only for temporary projects.

Stupid on its face. The whole compromise was that search engines were just indexes and so not necissarily responsible for what they link users too (within limits), and websites encourage their bot because it sends them traffic.

Then they blow that all up with a "summary" no one asked for.

They are trying to get restrictions put on small, open models because that scares tbd shit out of them.

They are not as small as would be required to do this, but they want everyone clammoring to put restrictions on small open-weight models nonetheless.

The big downsides are:

1. Yet another Internet tax on the poor
2. Everyone gets worse internet
3. Most people are woefully unprepared to shop for a VPN from a reputable provider, meaning most people are going to end up subjected to even more surveillance and potentially attacks on their devices.
4. Most people also are not prepared to manage when to and not-to use it, so will get slower internet all of the time.
5. This will create lists of VPN users at both the ISPs and the VPN companies that will be usable by later christo-fascist governments.
6. This will ultimately get laws passed against consumer-facing VPN services, making it harder for people to protect themselves from other attacks.
7. More honey-pot VPN services will start up to support that list-gathering for future christo-fascist governments looking to build dossiers on as many people as possible.

I could go on and on. And nothing about the above has anything to do with porn.

Clickwrap should have been made illegal when they started doing it a quarter century ago. If I put a tracker on your car, I'm a criminal, but if every automaker drops a clause into the "user terms" on their vehicle sales, then every car you buy gets tracked forever, perfectly legally.

According to the article, this is mainly for grouping tabs with a suggested name. Talk about backwards. Use AI to process the top websites on the Internet and create groups and/or logic to group them by keywords (cluster analysis), then save the small data structure in Firefox so it can group most websites instantly, using kilobytes of ram in the process; don't try to do this on everyone's device ffs.

Besides the heat and battery problem, this also means that the GUI is going to be non-deterministic, suggesting groups differently day-to-day based on the slight differences of input and the whims of the LLM. Burn it with fire.

Even if you stay on GitHub, definitely mirror to another host. Git is designed to be distributed, why not make use of that capability!

It’s about the information vacuum. Now every service will get your ID or photo, giving them both age and a whole sort of other metrics to build a profile on you. And yes, Lemmy.ca doesn’t know that about me.

That bubble is starting to make funny noises and develop patterns on its surface. Wonder what’s next?

Besides the anti-woke bullshit, it's just a bad idea to accept. It is absolutely not normal for a grant to have stipulations that if you violate some vaguely defined criteria somewhere in your organization, it can be clawed back at a later time. That's a huge liability for an organization to take on that they may suddenly owe a million dollars some time in the future.

When even the LAPD are too embarrassed to be using your shit.

They do archive sites against the owners wishes when they consider it an important site for public archiving, like some news sites. They are in no obligation to delete the archives and hope they don’t.

The ICC is one of those orgs where not having their data sitting on silicon valley servers is a big friggin' deal, and they should have probably thought of that years ago.

Data scientist here; there simply are not enough murders to model this, so they will need to use proxies for “likely” murderers (like any sort of violent crime). That means the model will very strongly target people who are over-policed (minorities) and those more likely to actually get caught and charged for things, and thus be in the training data set (poor people). It will also fail spectacularly for this purpose because even a highly accurate model will produce almost 100% false positives -again, because actual murders are so vanishingly rare. The math just doesn’t work.