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I'm unsure if non-profit funds can be used in that way for a (technically) private inquiry.

Yes, and there is currently talks if this also means NGOs like FragDenStaat or media outlets could no longer request information.

Any PR will get the same quality review. It's just that they now have a fast lane so they don't have to invest that much time to review a PR they won't fix properly and/or support.

Seems like the failsafe also failed today.

At least I (living in the EU) received an email at work on the 18th that had this section under "What has changed":

2. Verification Data. As part of our efforts to ensure the security of our services, we may ask you to verify your age or identity. We have described what information we collect and how we collect it.

Maybe it is because it is still in development, but building and running the Hello World example just gives me a blank terminal and a white window that is not responding.

This argument is used again and again and I wonder: Why do "people with money" stay where they are when there are countries, islands, even just states where there is less taxes to pay?

I think every aspect within their opposition is sound and generally to keep the web open and predictable (unlike other oppositions like the Filesystem API).

I just wonder how a highly non-deterministic API like the Prompt API can work in a system that heavily focuses on interop between new and old websites.

What's going to happen is that people build stuff with the current iteration and a few years later a model update will work entirely differently and break the existing implementations. I understand that every once in a while OpenAI also shuts off older models through API but that's a central process.

What if I have Firefox 150 users that haven't updated yet and Firefox 155 users that have different models, while Chrome 160 and Chrome 170 users also exist and have different models. Is it expected that I build entirely different implementations for every browser version out there? Don't the work groups try to prevent exactly that within HTML & CSS through feature gating?

Yeah I wonder, who says I can't build a "cryptominer like" script that injects into many websites and just uses this local LLM api, performs a request from a queue and sends the response to a server, practically creating my very own LLM botnet?

I know you're probably joking, but I was curious how hard it would be.

const cToF = c => c * 9/5 + 32; const a = cToF(31);

A blank cheque to restrict access to any website they want.

I actually did have to manually disable this from Germany, so it might be a different reason you don't have it?

So this effectively means, if you buy a new phone and want to set it up, you'll have to do it tomorrow, because of an arbitrary flow Google created to save their play store percentages...

Is this really the state of AI in 2026?

It takes over your entire browser to center a div... and then fails to do so?

I usually would post it in our dev slack chat and rant for a message or two how many hours were lost "reverse-engineering" bad documentation. But I probably wouldn't post about it on here/BlueSky.

You are assuming: A) That everyone who saw this would go as far as post publicly about it (and not just chuckle / send it their peers privately) and B) Any post about this would reach you/HN and not potentially be lost in the sea of new content.

Which is basically what the US also wants.

I'm glad this happened with this particular non-disabled-organization. Because if this by chance had happened with the other non-disabled-organization that also provides such tools... then I would be out of e-mail, photos, documents, and phone OS.

This... sounds highly concerning

A while ago they changed their TOS from something along the lines of "We will never sell your data" to "Your data is safe"

Feels like I've been hearing "Update X makes Y worse" or "Update X destroys hardware Y" a lot more this year with Windows. Seems like they are fully embracing AI at Microsoft.

Given the horrible stability of Windows this year, it seems like Microsoft went all in on that

Isn't it odd? All those tech CEOs tell us that we won't be able to live in a world without AI, how AI will be within every single app, service or codebase eventually...

And then they constantly try to shove it into their products, with no way to disable it. I'm assuming the user data would show that quite a lot of people would turn it off, so to not ruin your own statistics for the next shareholder/investor meeting, you need to force them

From the pinned comment:

Jimmy Wales left the studio after the first question. He had introduced himself as the “founder of Wikipedia.” On Wikipedia itself, he is referred to as the “co-founder.” Of course, there is a factual difference between being the sole founder of a company and founding it together with others. Jimmy Wales called this question “the stupidest question he had ever heard,” saying it had nothing to do with facts, which is why he was ending the interview. In fact, however, the question was in line with Wikipedia's claims of factual accuracy, which Wales did not want to fulfill in relation to himself. We regret that he ended the interview after 50 seconds—journalistically, this question was completely correct.

Yeah I still remember when you had to manually patch your minecraft.jar with mods. Always remove the META-INF directory so it works. Back then, when you installed two mods that were incompatible with each other, you had to throw away the whole minecraft.jar and start again.

This already changed A LOT when Forge and later Fabric came out, with a simple patch system akin to BepinEx and a mods folder.

I thought the same but let's not pretend Windows is a holy grail for compatibility anymore. Especially when it comes to older games, this facade / image breaks down fast.

I once tried to play Trackmania Nations (not Forever or United Forever, the ESWC one) because that was the first entry of this series I played. I still have all the files from back then so I thought it would be as simple as installing it and running it. Other games such as Trackmania Sunrise came with the nasty SecureROM DRM that will break your current installs, but ESWC was always free to play and without DRM.

Well, after install, I played a lot in my first sitting. A few days later, my Windows install was broken. I used a restore point before installing Trackmania, everything was back to stable. A few weeks later I tried again, same situation, a day or two after install, my Windows would break.

I thought it was a general system instability, maybe some weird configuration and the game only triggers that specific bug. So I did a full clean reinstall. And installed the game a few days later. Who would've thought, my Windows breaks yet again.

What I'm trying to say is: I've been running Fedora on my main PC for 2 years now and the game has been installed via Proton for 1 year. It never broke, it always just worked.

According to recent events of this US administration, there are two things that could follow after a court decides in favor of the PSF:

* They will ignore it and still claw back the money, with force if needed

* They go higher and higher through the courts until it lands on the table of the supreme court that conveniently sides with the administration.

You can't win a fight in the system. Law is broken and not reliable anymore.

I think there is a difference between "I can audit the code, it's encrypted, I want to run this and want to use this" and "Microsoft installs it, it's not encrypted and wants to turn it on by default, potentially sharing data to them soon(tm)"

At this point in time? Both

Every meow and then