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Let's assume model output can be claimed by copyright or some form IP. You can't really patent it, as the output isn't a novel idea or process, much like you don't patent a book or a movie. But for arguments sake, let's agree it is some kind of IP.

Who are you saying owns that IP? The people who trained the model? The people who ran the model? The people who wrote the prompt? The person who paid for all of that to happen?

If the model output is owned by the person prompting it and paying for the tokens, what's the problem here?

If the model output is owned by the trainer of the model, that's a big nasty can of worms.

I agree the US has torched a lot of international goodwill.

Once again how does this relate to passkeys? You don't have to use US companies to use passkeys. There are European providers of authenticators. What country is Yubico based out of again? Just picking one example, there are others.

If a service wanted to do that they could already do that, you even point to an example with a platform requiring their specific app to use the account. I've had banks which required me to have their own time-based code physical security tokens to log in, isn't that in the end the same?

This thing you're talking about isn't inherently a thing about passkeys. If a service wants to remove your ability to log in to their service they can do it in a million different ways.

Also, the above poster said:

deplatform you with a single click across all your accounts

"They" could do it across all your accounts with a single click. If service A decides to require attestation, how is that now affecting all my accounts?

I use this feature a bunch across dozens of different Windows and Mac devices from various device vendors with multiple Android phones and seemingly never had an issue.

But I'm also a person who generally never experiences the issues some people have with Bluetooth in general. If I ever have an issue with Bluetooth on a computer, I swap out the wireless chipset with an actually good one. Its almost always just bad hardware. I've only had to do that a few times in the last decade though, more modern WiFi/BT chipsets are generally pretty OK. Its the old ones that are near worthless.

Although I will say most of the time I just plug in my USB authenticator. I normally only fall back to the QR code if I don't have my keys on me.

And as an edit, I wasn't aware fully that the QR code is to help assist the BT handshake, I had assumed it was posting a signed request back to the service. My bad, my above comment isn't completely correct. Thanks for cluing me in to the BT requirement for the QR code path.

I made this comment a little bit ago, I'll share it again:

I think the biggest change in public sentiment in datacenters is a reaction to the extreme scale they're being deployed at these days. They're really vastly unlike datacenters of the past. The power densities are so much higher, they're so much larger, and they're getting vastly more environmental waivers and tax subsidies than ever before.

A quiet, average-sized warehouse-like building in an industrial area with a big power substation next to it often didn't bother a lot of people. A giant monster of a building being built in what was previously people's backyards with howling on-site power generation that got installed without any kind of air quality reviews because they're allegedly "temporary" and starts sucking the groudwater dry is a whole different story.

This is a datacenter: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pzSsUHXPaUuLGaDa9 I doubt many people even know its a datacenter. Its pretty much any other office building.

This is also a datacenter. I imagine just about everyone living nearby knows its a datacenter. https://maps.app.goo.gl/wR4NgcWQVhJAy5Gy6

Now, don't get me wrong, I do agree there's a lot of social media frenzy in reaction to all datacenters. There are a lot of datacenters around me, and it seems like roughly nobody cared when they were built. They've been there for years, some have been operational for decades. Suddenly now, lots of people have a problem with all of them.

Passkey on an iPhone, logging into a public-ish terminal by scanning a QR code? Yes.

In fact, if you have your Apple Passwords app set to sync through iCloud, you can:

- Make a passkey on your Mac for a site in the Passwords app

- Go to a different computer (a friend's or whatever)

- Attempt to log in, choose use another device, it'll show the QR code

- Use your iPhone to scan that QR code and sign in, as the iPhone has the passkey synced through iCloud

Note, the same kind of thing is also possible with other password managers as well.

But you still have all the negatives/limitations of passwords, of which there are tons.

If I'm on someone else's computer and I want to use a passkey on my phone, the computer will display a QR code. I scan the QR code with my phone, the phone signs the login request and posts it to the service's callback. Then I'm logged in on that new device.

If my phone's camera is broken but both devices have bluetooth, it can do the handshake over bluetooth.

If I'm on someone else's computer and I want to use a passkey on my authenticator on my keychain, I'll just plug it in and then tap the button on the authenticator.

Meanwhile, if I logged in with the password and the account only has a password then they have a full copy of my entire authenticator to the account. With the passkey, once the session is invalidated the access is gone.

Passkeys basically MITM the 2FA process so that they can track and deplatform you with a single click across all your accounts.

I use passkeys with a physical authenticator. How do "they" track and deplatform me with a single click? Can you explain?

KEGL, The Eagle ROCKS! Back on the air again after a failed attempt to make it yet another sports talk station.

They also had an ad-free (or at least low as, I don't think I've heard any) version of The Edge on their HD2 stream.

Ah, that could be it. I saw that "Other Google apps" and didn't think that would mean Spotify, but I guess its Android Auto or Google Assistant stuff. I'll give that a try, thanks for the tip.

As someone who's been using Workspace as a personal email account for over a decade this has been such a struggle forever. Just lots of odd limitations to feature sets all over the place.

When they swapped Google Assistant for Gemini as the default voice provider in Android Auto it was so annoying. My wife's non-work space account can get Gemini to do the normal things like play music and what not, but my Workspace one can't do much of anything at all. I can talk about nearly any random topic with it, but getting it to change the playlist, nah, can't help you there.

It's no surprise to me to see them fumble actually supporting a lot of the consumer features of Gemini into Workspace.

The south and mid atlantic was always a huge share of the population.

The population share of the South and West regions of the US have grown while the population share of the Northeast and Midwest have shrunk.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/data_tables.php?component=gr...

What are the fastest growing metro areas in the US these days? DFW, Austin, Houston, Phoenix, Orlando, Atlanta, Raleigh, Tampa, Nashville. Which ones are in the cooler parts of the country?

I agree overall its not like half the population moved to the Sun Belt, but a pretty large amount of the population growth in the US has been focused on the hotter parts of the country.

You're pointing to days over 85 as days you need AC. To me that's pretty warm, but not unbearable. Days where it never goes below 80F for a week or more at a time, or places with extreme humidity mixed with such high temperatures, now that's a place where you need AC.

In some ways I actually liked the moving every few years aspect of renting. Every move made me really re-evaluate all the junk I had and if it was really worth it to hold on to. Do I really want to have to move this thing I didn't even really use to yet another place? I got to live in a lot of different places, have some different lifestyles, have some different roommates, and live a pretty different kind of life every now and then.

Living in the same place now for years makes it too easy to just hold on to junk, it makes it too easy to just fall into the same routine.

There's some pros and cons each way. It really depends on what you're wanting in life at the moment.

What percentage of white collar work these days requires doctorate level thinking all the time?

I can only speak for what I've seen, and my state has banned phones during school.

Before the ban, students would just openly use devices during class. Teachers were essentially powerless to do anything. Kids would be openly playing games, watching videos, etc with practically no recourse.

Now with the state law actually forcing it, enforcement is mugh higher. If phones are caught out the administration takes the devices and requires a parent to come into the school to sign off and release the device.

Does some usage still happen? Sure. Is it far less than before and considerably less during actual classtime? Absolutely.

It's like you're arguing murder still happens even though it's illegal so what's the point of making it a crime.

They probably use Claude and Codex for their actual development, but for the products they actually build and deliver to customers I imagine a lot use open-weight models.

If you're putting a lot of your money and time into a business, do you really want it built on a service only hosted by one company that will turn it off eventually and you have no recourse?

If you build something against an open model you can take that and run it anywhere. If your favorite model provider stops hosting it, you can go elsewhere, you can go rent GPU instances, you can even shell out and buy hardware to run it yourself if you've got the capital and it makes economic sense. Change some API keys, update a URL in your config, and you move on.

If the government decides that proprietary model is too good and so it gets shut off, what do you do? If a proprietary provider decides it's not worth it for them to continue hosting that model, what do you do? If that provider silently updates the proprietary model and it makes your app broken, what do you do?

If it gets used a good bit, I wonder if the on/off cycles are even more impactful to the local wildlife than constant but more optimized lighting was in place.

I know if I was trying to sleep a constant source of light is easier to get used to than a randomly flashing source of light. And for nocturnal animals I'd imagine randomly losing the cover of darkness from time to time is probably a lot more stressful than just avoiding the brighter areas.

I'd be interested in seeing data. I really wonder which is better.

It's a story I've seen a lot. Proper care for those people in such situations is a hard full-time job on its own, and something we in society are mostly undervaluing.

We really suck at late stage life planning and discussions.

I'm sorry for all the difficult times you've experienced so far and the hard times to come. It's a lot to give. Be sure to look for what benefits you/they quality for. Be sure to still spend time to ensure you stay mentally healthy as well.

They control the In and the Out? What other options does the competition have?

How deep does this rabbit hole go?

Clearly Apple and McDonalds has had a deep level of market collusion on Macs, the FTC should really get involved here and break up this Mac cartel.

McDonald's is the exclusive supplier of Big Macs and McNuggets. They're a monopoly.

I like this guy's series on building out a collection of SunRay thin clients connecting back to his SPARC server.

https://youtu.be/9BW-mbC7Xag

Prompt: investigate new ways to fund additional AI datacenters.

It's a car. There's already a big payment upfront. You're already shelling out $40,000+ on average in the US these days. Is that not already a big upfront payment?

I've had map update packages brick head units before, yes. Largely because they also shipped some software updates in that map update package.

Not only that, if you're a single boomer with a living parent and neither of you have much other incomes its probably better to cohabitate in that old family house that was paid off in the 90s and share what little benefits you both receive.

You're not just throwing them out though, those responses do have input. Their input is just weighted.

https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2018/01/26/how-different...

I've got college-age extended family members who don't have any memory of a desktop PC like thing being in their home. Parents might have brought home a work laptop from time to time, but outside of that by the time they were like five the family machine had already been scrapped.

The "big family computer" became an iPad.