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My guess would be video encoding/decoding and rendering.

Looks nice! Reminds me of a similar program (a bbs door, really) named ‘yogurt’ by @sedatk — I remember using it to improve my fast-typing around 2002-2003. This brings back memories :)

“Time it needs time to win back your love again”

1. I’ll give you one guess why that is.

2. It is possible, and you better believe it. They haven’t updated it, because there is no need for it.

Signal is simply not interested in your messages. It’s also not interested in your metadata, because it’s not an ad platform or a SIGINT front masquerading as a free messaging service.

If all this sounds hard to believe, you should donate.

(I’m not affiliated)

Even 15% would probably have been universally accepted.

Useful as a for-profit cryptocurrency? I think zero chance.

The only way I see anything like that incorporated is a folding@home kind of thing that could help humanity as a whole.

Of course, if someone makes it work like you suggested, and it catches on, I will personally haunt your dreams forever. Don't give them any ideas.

To me it’s just another decision rooted in greed, to take away more Agency from the User Agent.

I think you mean that he is mainly a linguist.

About as accurate as Google Search AI.

I have always denied Instagram access to my camera, microphone, photos, and location, on top of disabling background refresh. Sometimes, upon switching to the app, I get this screen: https://i.imgur.com/Sj8Dikg.png

This has always struck me as odd, because it means the app would have started both the camera and microphone if it had permissions, without me clicking the right buttons to get to it.

I'm too lazy right now to see if I can trigger the screen, and whether iOS would show the microphone/camera activity icons, but maybe there's a bug that's actively being exploited by Meta. I don't know how active the microphone stays if it has permissions, but I wouldn't put it past them to send all the data captured by the sensors even if I'm not posting a story. They did it with "status updates" on Facebook back then, when they gathered the data even if I deleted whatever I wrote without posting.

</faraday cage hat>

Depending on the flavour of the linguist, they could say "as long as the correct meaning is conveyed, go wild" :)

So that they can sell a service?

I'm still waiting for the damn iPhone to be the gaming platform they promised over a decade ago.

They have a different definition of gaming than we do. The games they're interested in are the ones with in-app purchases.

Except the design department, "good enough" is their motto for everything. "iPhone is the most popular gaming device" and "iPhone is the most popular camera" are two technically correct statements that don't sit right with me, but that's just me.

Wayland? Sure does. I have been using sway for a while with three monitors; two of them 1080p, one 1440p.

I'm talking about the difference between making money off a good product, and being on a quest to enrich yourself at all costs, even if it's detrimental to virtually everyone on the planet, and the company in the long term.

I thought it was a very good description. The person mentioned is responsible for turning one of the most important pieces of software used by billions, into user-hostile experiences that's better for only a few, including himself, just for profits.

I bought a Transcend ESD310C specifically because of this. Really performant, too!

It feels like some people don't imagine these companies to be ready for compliance. As if they don't have all the knobs ready to turn on a per-region/country/state basis as soon as the law changes and it becomes possible to lose even the smallest amount in stock value.

Google didn't 'fully' move out of China; it still has offices there, doing some business as usual.

And you thought this would be a meaningful contribution to this post?

Maybe you missed the last link in the post?

Many people have, if I remember correctly. The most recent one is at https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/

I don't think believing why the most valuable company in the world with the highest and thickest walls around its garden, and a track record of not playing nice with others, is doing this, requires much explanation except that they want to kill the possibility of anyone bypassing the toll gate to the said garden.

I think any other interpretation is extremely naive.

I'm not trying to discredit GDP; I don't think it is a useless metric. Lawmakers around the world—some that are paid handsomely—care about it and obviously quite a bit can be inferred from it, but in this case we would be better served utilising a multi-dimensional lens, so to say, in these tangential topics. I'm just against hearing about it as the most important economic metric of a country. It's very often used as a single data point to come to all kinds of conclusions. There are some top-comments in this thread where people are almost forecasting Japan's doom, which is of course a ridiculous view. That's the general direction my comment was aimed at.

At the risk of being out of my depth: You only need a few seconds to look at the per-capita list before finding yourself asking "wait, why is THAT country so high up?". Again, useful info can be inferred, but it doesn't put the country above others in other important lists, which is what people usually imply and use it for, on topics not strictly related to economy statistics.

Maybe what we should question is the relevance and importance of such metrics.

Seems to be a function available in high quality cooktops? Here, called ProfessionalMode: https://www.vzug.com/ch/en/products/kitchen/cooktops/inducti...

I thought he was just joking, a reference to the a16z article "It's Time to Build" :D

If a friend of mine had written this article as a joke, I'd laugh my ass off because it's that funny.

Yeah, the academia. You know, where one tries to explore all possible avenues to research everything to find value.

Interesting to see lines drawn around academic value.