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It seems like if ChatGPT had literally any other way to turn a profit, they would have done it before resorting to this. Kind of fees like this is their last ditch effort to show investors that they can somehow become profitable.
Glad to see my sense of humor lines up directly with 18th century dock workers
Yes in that case there would be no data transmitted, and no risk.
Another example: if the user turns off "Turn on when Windows starts up" or whatever equivalent, this would also be a non-issue.
The Alaska Mint is the only link I clicked that still worked
Is the idea that hackers can review the source for vulnerabilities?
I would imagine any internet-facing application would not have any issues with a source code "leak" like this, as all inter-app communication is based on short-lived credentials.
Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does.
This is exactly why we have AI assistants in the first place.
The typical person wants the damn phone / computer / tablet out of their life, they just want to say "Siri, make my dentist appointment for 9:30 Monday morning" or "Copilot, find all the pictures of my dad and put them together in a collage for his birthday".
The biggest problem with AI assistants and this thought process in general is that they do not work.
As the article states, if the AI assistants actually did things we wanted, these companies wouldn't need to shove them down our throats so much. We would just... use them.
Agree on it being AI, but what really screamed "AI slop" to me was the emojis. I don't know any tech bloggers who use emojis, but everything that ChatGPT or Gemini generates always has too many emojis.
public WhatsApp API
There is no public WhatsApp API. You need to sign up for "WhatsApp Business Platform" to be able to use an API to interact with WhatsApp.
If there was a real API for WhatsApp, this probably wouldn't have happened.
I've used [batch editing in GIMP before](https://github.com/alessandrofrancesconi/gimp-plugin-bimp), to resize a folder of images, so the feature is there. Granted it is a plugin, not a built-in feature.
I do agree though, even the revamped UI does not have a great look and feel, but I'm used to it so I don't mind.
Despite Linux, llvm and Blender proving that open source can beat closed source, GIMP has failed for a very long time.
As a GIMP / Inkscape user who hasn't used photoshop / illustrator, what is so much better about Adobe's offerings?
Consent and convenience. When I use google maps, I am trading my privacy for accurate directions and traffic times. When I buy a car that sells my location, and I get nothing in return, I feel like the deal is inequitable.
I don't know how anyone has enough patience to use Stack Overflow in 2025. Any LLM, even the one in Google Search, will give you a better answer than some stack overflow user that didn't read or understand your question fully.
Robots still work: Your Neato robot will continue to function manually. Simply press the button once to launch a full house run.
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As a dev currently working at a company where getting an access request fulfilled can sometimes take weeks, I feel this author's pain.
But it seems like an enormous security hole, even with a codeword "password". The author didn't mention it, but I hope they're using whatever version of their company's E2E email encryption is for these messages.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03206-7
This suggests that chronically elevated arousal in AnxDs may increase neurometabolic demand for choline compounds without a proportionate increase in brain uptake, leading to reduced tCho levels. Reduced cortical NAA suggests compromised neuronal function in AnxDs. Future studies may clarify the clinical significance of reduced cortical tCho and the possibility that appropriate choline supplementation could have therapeutic benefit in anxiety disorders.
Engineering is all tradeoffs.
For this guy who spent thousands per month on AWS, using AWS makes no sense.
For a guy like me whose AWS bill was 38 cents last month, AWS makes a lot of sense. Currently I have a small KaiOS app with about 1000 unique visitors per month hosted on AWS. I used to self-host on an old laptop, but it costs less money to host on AWS (1 kwh cost me 19.89 cents and my laptop uses about 4.5kwh per month). Not to mention the convenience of not having to restart my server for software updates, or update my own certs every 3 months, or fuddling with nginx configurations.
And my AWS bill ever starts climbing, I will just self host once again.
I think a transformer wrote this article, seeing a suspicious number of em dashes in the last section
I'm not an artist but I am decent with the pen tool, and for graphic design stuff I typically use AI art to give me a thing I can trace in illustrator with the pen tool, and fix any errors or imperfections I deem worthy of fixing.
I would imagine this kind of tool would allow someone who is not gifted at art (e.g. how do I translate a 2d sprite I made into a forward facing running animation?) the same kind of thing: a pathway to potentially "trace" the generated image, making it better than the original and removing any undesired aspects.
I now have another reason to dislike Tailwind.
Alternative headline: Psychotherapist wastes more than 8 weeks talking to ChatGPT for literally no reason.
As someone who has used an Intel mac, then moved up to a M3, please god no. Intel macs were some of the worst things Apple has ever made.
For example, homebrew will auto-update your formulae by default. If you install it with homebrew, you may not have ran `brew pin hugo` and it gets auto-updated.
The orange website is filled with tech-savvy people who understand all this. To play devils advocate, google is trying to protect the lower-half of the IQ distribution: examples given in the article are the folks who were *told by their bank they were being scammed, and still sent money anyway*. There is no amount of prompts that can protect a user from their own stupidity.
This person feels entitled to quality customer service. Maybe 30 years ago that was an expectation. Nowadays, if you want good customer service, you need to pick business that deliberately prioritize it, which often means paying more.
Consumer Cellular is a great example of a company that prioritizes customer service and costs a bit more. Compare their cellular service to a company like Mint, which gives you basically the exact same product, but for half the price due to having literally zero customer service.
For running shoes to use one of their examples, REI is a great store to get a human to show you where things are and to give their opinion on what the right shoe for you would be. If you go into a Macy's or a WalMart you'll pay a lot less, but you won't have anyone there to help you.
Every self checkout I've been at has always had an employee willing to help, in fact more often than not the person manning the self checkouts at Costco just ends up gunning all my items when they see I have an infant strapped to me, and I typically don't have to lift a finger. Of course, you can't get into Costco without purchasing an annual membership and you can't get out of Costco without spending at least $100.
You can get cheap stuff, and you can get less cheap stuff with good customer service. Peoples' time and energy is not free, and you should be willing to pay for it if you expect it. Feeling entitled to good customer service when you purchase bargain-barrel products lacks a certain awareness of how much an employee deserves to be paid.
On desktop you can delete the div with id="particle-bg", its what I did to read the article before checking the comments
Meanwhile, all the wealthy business owners are fascinated with it cause they can get things done without having to hire.
I think you need to add the word potentially in front of "get things done". The venn diagram of what current LLMs can do, and what wealthy business owners think LLMs can do, has the smallest of overlaps.
Should Harry [open AI's therapist LLM] have been programmed to report the danger “he” was learning about to someone who could have intervened?
In December, two months before her death, Sophie broke her pact with Harry and told us she was suicidal, describing a riptide of dark feelings. Her first priority was reassuring her shocked family: “Mom and Dad, you don’t have to worry.”
Sophie represented her crisis as transitory; she said she was committed to living. ChatGPT helped her build a black box that made it harder for those around her to appreciate the severity of her distress. Because she had no history of mental illness, the presentable Sophie was plausible to her family, doctors and therapists.
As a former mother, I know there are Sophies all around us. Everywhere, people are struggling, and many want no one to know. I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)
Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note, to help her find something that could minimize our pain and let her disappear with the smallest possible ripple.
In that, Harry failed. This failure wasn’t the fault of his programmers, of course. The best-written letter in the history of the English language couldn’t do that.
The most insulting thing about LED lightbulbs that the author touches on is the claim that "they last at least 10 years", when in practice about 50% of them in my experience go bad within 2 years. Granted I should probably buy better quality bulbs, but given my experience, I am hesitant to drop more money on a potential failure.
Renting only makes sense on a fixed income if you can ensure your rent does not increase. If in 15 years your rent is double what it once was, you will probably not be able to afford it.