I don’t know why, but my guess would be. Everyone involved knows it is bullshit, the people working there, management, etc… but it gives a good loophole to fire anyone that is starting to stir up something, “oh, he/she failed the polygraph.”

The people working there knows it, so they are more likely to stay in line so they can “pass” their annual test.

In his defense, polygraph is just pseudo-science bullshit. You “fail” or “pass” depending on what the one doing it wants you to do. It is just made up.

If they have, then good. Wasn’t sure it was doable with current google’s signing process. Highly unlikely someone hasn’t tampered with them then (far easier to target the site displaying the “correct” fingerprint).

However, my original point still stands. Just because it is open source doesn’t in itself mean that a bad actor can’t tamper with it.

And Signal is open source so, if it did anything weird with private keys, everyone would know

Well, no. At least not by default as you are running a compiled version of it. Someone could inject code you don’t know anything about before compilation that for example leaked your keys.

One way to be more confident no one has, would be to have predictable builds that you can recreate and then compare the file fingerprints. But I do not think that is possible, at least on android, as google holds they signature keys to apps.

Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.

There is a big difference between “normal” SaaS and LLM.

In a normal SaaS you get a lot of benefit of being at scale. Going from 1000 to 10000 users is not that much harder than going from 10000 to 1000000. Once you have your scaling set up you can just add more servers and/or data centers. But most importantly, the cost per user goes waaay down.

With AI it just doesn’t scale at all, the 500000th user will most likely cost as much as the 5th. So doing a netflix/spotify/etc, I don’t think is going to work unless they can somehow make it a lot cheaper per user. OpenAI fails to turn a profit even on their most expensive tiers.

Edit: to clarify, obviously you get some small benefits from being at scale. Better negotiations and already having server racks, etc. But those same benefits a traditionsl SaaS gets as well, and so much more that LLM doesn’t, because the cost per user doesn’t drop.

Semi-casual

Factorio

Are you trying to kill him?

I am still waiting on Fifth Element style sleeping pods! Sadly they can’t do them even if they wanted to due to regulations.

Andersson - Swedish

I would say it is a tie between Andersson and Svensson.

There are even companies selling lists of IPs for all sort of behaviour and characteristics. Just adding one of those is trivial.

Though google has a lot more data and engineers so they could just create a better one themselves.

It is a constant cat and mouse game between VPN providers and other actors. A few IPs get on a list, they try to find others, repeat

The companies doing them have a few hundred million reasons to skirt around the laws, so they will no doubt find a few ways. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make laws

In their defense a very tiny percentage of users even open options and of those an even smaller actually change stuff.

Maybe slighlty different for Firefox as probably more power user use it than other random programs. But basically if something is not enabled by default, it doesn’t exist.

IANAL, but I believe in some places you have to go after any and all forms of it, otherwise you risk losing the whole thing. I think US is one of those places.

There are lots of companies selling data, just one of them is a list of known VPN IP addresses. Updated every X days. Just plug that into your service and it gets a lot harder, but still not impossible, to use with a VPN.

It will just be a few approved sites that you are allowed to visit, and just by chance those sites are the ones that pay the goverment the most! Those sites will have records in the approved DNS, that you can not change. Other DNS requests are blocked, along with everything else that isn’t approved.

I liked the DLCs as well. I know why they don’t do them anymore, as online is a money printing machine. But I really liked them and wished they had done more.

The world exists, so just add a story with a bunch of missions => nice DLC. But since they make such an obscene amount of money from online it makes no sense for them to do any more.

No, but it is a far more complex problem than what the other comment made it sound like. That it is only because they cheap out on server hardware and it could be perfect if they just wasn’t cheap.

Not always, latency is a huge problem especially in action games.

I am just happy that Malta is included for once. It is like the world maps without NZ but for europe

I used (g)Vim on windows back when I used that

Imagine if it did get that kind of funding