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Some publishers such as Tor will occasionally publish DRM free ebooks.
I have very little respect for DRM, though. Personally, if the author has a patreon, I suggest donating the $20 to the Patreon and pirating the book
Awareness is the first step, but very far from the final one. (I am sure the author knows this, but worth reiterating.)
Surveillance Capitalism is fueled by large institutions with vast depths of wealth and implemented by world-class supercomputers and algorithms. Fighting surveillance capitalism by individual action is like fighting climate change by drinking through paper straws and bringing totebags to the supermarket.
Will it be able to understand my English with an Indian accent?
it is accurate and interesting, do you care who wrote it?
Yes, because I have an interest in traces and mechanisms of human connections being preserved.
The main difference is that the core API is public infrastructure (run by a government authority). The apps are run by different companies but the backbone is interoperable by design
They have an youtube channel as well, which might stream better: https://www.youtube.com/@ergo_org
A while ago, we wrote a paper about finding regexes which match the same way in both the greedy semantics and the leftmost maximal semantics.
Selfish LLM usage: A situation in which someone uses an LLM to save their own time at the expense of other people’s time, resulting in a net productivity loss.
Brilliant. I would like to expand this definition slightly in order to include other problematic LLM usage.
Selfish LLM usage: A situation in which someone uses an LLM to generate text or media which elicits or demands other people's emotional, cognitive or temporal input with the aim of saving similar resources for themselves, resulting in an unfair social exchange.
does this help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGA6Tj9_lSg
How about kellenok.github.io/cure-script/
But actually, I prefer the app "human japanese"
It's not discouraging at all. Japanese concepts do not have a 1-1 mapping with English concepts, so there is a lot of debate about how it can be taught. I find it fascinating.
Many Japanese English speaksers instinctively pronounce si as shi. They say shistem for system, bashic for basic, shix for six, etc
Finally some good news in 2026
Perfect. That is exactly what I needed to know
Are people migrating to alternative hosting?
Yes, are they? Where are the alternative hosting that do the same thing as Bluesky?
Which are the fun games? Any suggestions?
What source material are you talking about?
Are any of these games fun to play?
Which arm of the "US government"? What legal framework allows them to issue such a directive?
See also: cofixpoints of co-algebras
generate large streams of random numbers; you would select an index at random, share that private key with somebody, and then the subsequent text could be used as a one-time-pad.
This is what stream ciphers are
Great post! Seems like a very fun problem
which is actually a notification that your child made it to school safely
Thank you for the comment. I did notice that it was a notification, though.
It is an useful feature, but I don't think this is a good trade-off. Some Erica's might skip school and do some dumb and unsafe things, but I think this bit of privacy and autonomy is actually necessary for a good life
I get how it can feel horrifying, but I don't think we should make this decision based on gut-reactions.
Bad things can and do happen to children, but nearly not as much to warrant tracking them. Even if it were, I'd be reluctant to say that this is okay
The response to "Where's Erica?" should not be to put a tracking wristband on Erica. Perhaps you won't know where Erica is. Perhaps she is doing something dangerous. The oblivion and ambiguity are part of what constitutes acknowledging Erica's personhood.
For me, it was GitHub Copilot in 2021. It could autocomplete my Haskell code based on my comments.
Agreed. Not gonna lie, I am upset and angry to see small companies disappear and be eaten up by larger ones. But I praise them for not building in any vendor lock-in. And I also appreciate them for open-sourcing their toolchain
This is the most important thing about AI, that the policymakers and AI companies need to discuss more. If AI is making us, as a race, more productive, who is reaping the benefits of that productivity?
It means data that was downloaded from our servers.
They are not claiming that the data was their intellectual property. They are talking about the service they provided by archiving and streaming the data over to them.
(I can't decide whether you are pro-LLM companies or being the devil's advocate)
This is such an incredible and inspiring episode!
This is a bit of a strawman. When people say "writing code", they don't necessarily mean [pressing the keys on the keyboard that produces the necessary bytes in a text file].