Probably would have been cheaper to license everything you stole, eh, Anthropic?

So kneecapping one of the most promising fields in the pharmaceutical industry domestically?

Another weird open goal for some European companies then

Is it just his accent and he’s been saying MEGA the whole time?

Do you think these people surreptitiously submitting articles written by AI are gonna be capable of validating what they’re submitting is even true? Particularly if the (presumably effective) Wikipedia defense for this is detecting made up citations?

This kind of thing makes something valuable to everyone, like Wikipedia, ultimately a less valuable resource, and should be resisted and rejected by anyone with their head screwed on

Oh for fuck’s sake…

I’d not considered this was happening (people submitting AI wiki articles)

For anyone that doesn’t somehow already know, SOS is pretty simple to learn

It’s just three threes of dots dashes dots.

. . . - - - . . .

Sentences finish with a full stop (or period if you’re American), so you can remember it’s the dots last (and therefore first)

Hopefully you never need to use it, but better to know it and not need it than the alternative

A usb-c port would be a large percentage of the volume of your standard wearable. Percentage that could be used for battery

Most wearable chargers are a few flat contacts or a tiny qi charger coil

I didn’t have the US becoming a banana republic on my bingo card tbf

Who taught you sex is a drug? As long as words mean their definitions, it’s categorically not. Plus it’s probably kinda harmful to pile on the stigma already surrounding sex by conflating it with drugs and all the stigma that comes with that.

Hopefully I’m wrong, but it’s kinda giving a nofap pseudoscience red flag to me.

Parents definitely should be teaching their kids about this stuff at the appropriate time, but they should stick to the facts.

Oh really? I always liked Brussels as a typically modern European city: a nice combo of old and new, friendly locals plus it’s nice and walkable and has a decent variety of food options, though Bruges has them beat on walkability.

Plus they have a lot of great beer and the mitreillette, what’s not to like?

I’ve definitely been a few places I’d rank lower anyway

They think they’re more than a money pipe.

A competitor to MasterCard and Visa could show up with double their combined budget and do what they do to massively disrupt this particular industry. The average Joe would not give half a shit and continue paying for stuff with whatever card their bank gave them just like they always have.

The specific brand of payment processor a card uses is just not a thing people care about unless they have an Amex and that’s essentially because places don’t always take it.

Wow Belgium, I thought you were a bit cooler than that

Well obviously, it would be pretty bad if a therapist was triggering psychosis in some users

Why do you want people to see through your walls?

A lot of the response I’ve seen to this post has been “this was unnecessarily complicated”.

This makes me incredibly sad.

Who the hell is reading a tinkerer blog and complaining about an elaborate hack?

It’s like going to a book club and complaining the story isn’t boring enough.

I love this kind of explorative reverse engineering bodge job stuff the best of any kind of engineering tbh

Wrong bogeyman here, the more worrying problem is the CEO endorsing the US republicans, seemingly (and charitably) due to the ostensibly pro-privacy policy position, ignoring all the other policy advocation attached to endorsing them or their track record of doublespeak particularly around things like privacy.

It shouldn’t be, no. But one of the big problems with phones currently is that the radio firmware is almost always a closed-source binary blob.

Airplane mode is probably better understood as the OS asking the radio nicely to not attempt to communicate with the outside world. The antenna is still there able to receive signals, and the radio technically doesn’t have to listen to the OS if it doesn’t want to.

It’s incredibly unlikely (researchers look for this kind of thing), so make sure your tin foil is on tight, but not impossible that a radio could store cell tower identifiers it has seen whilst on airplane mode and do something with them when it is allowed to communicate again. There’s also the possibility there’s some secret signal that can be sent to force a phone in airplane mode to respond.

Unless you’re up to some Edward Snowdon level stuff though, even if that last one exists, it’s probably not being used on you.

The radios are the parts of your phone that communicate wirelessly. Most phones will only turn the cell radio off entirely during airplane mode, disabling mobile data does not typically turn that radio off.

Airplane mode should turn everything off (unless you re-enable things like WiFi, but that should still keep the cell radio off)

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons