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by squigz | 2025-08-26 01:35:01+00:00
Are those "other options" going to be "sitting here and dying naturally, maybe drowning in your own vomit, maybe dying of starvation"?

I have a hard time believe things are going down like, "You have cancer. We can treat it and you'd be fine, but you know what you should do instead? Kill yourself"

On the other hand, I do believe (and want) doctors to be like, "You have cancer. We can treat it and you might get a few more months with very poor quality of life. You may wish to consider these other options"
by unsignedint | 2025-08-26 01:35:32+00:00
I get the distinction you’re drawing, but that just brings us back to the same fork: if decades of FCC involvement haven’t produced a trustworthy caller identity system, then the reliance on regulation isn’t solving the structural weakness, it’s just propping it up.

At that point, we’re repeating the same values clash — you see regulation as a workable fix, I see it as evidence of fragility. I don’t think continuing this line is going to get us any further.
by bri3d | 2025-08-26 01:35:41+00:00
One of the biggest problems with water cooling, especially on boards that weren’t designed for it, can be passive components which don’t usually have a heatsink and therefore don’t offer a good surface for a water block, but end up in a thermal design which requires airflow - resistors and FETs are common culprits here. Commodity assemblies are also a big problem, with SFPs being a huge pain point in designs I’ve seen.

The problem is often exacerbated on PCBs designed for air cooling where the clearance between water cooled and air cooled components is not high enough to fit a water block. Usually the solution when design allows is to segment these components into a separate air cooled portion of the design, which is what Google look to have done on these TPU sleds (the last ~third of the assembly looks like it’s actively air cooled by the usual array of rackmount fans).
by myth2018 | 2025-08-26 01:36:18+00:00
> mandate weird Brazilian Android games on the phone I bought in Brazil.

Uhm, this sounds more like something from the Ministry of Culture, maybe some tax incentive for manufacturers promoting local productions.

I could be wrong though. Curious to know if Anatel has issued any ordinance in this regard, just did a quick search but could find nothing so far.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-08-26 01:37:38+00:00
> To actually free yourself requires both commitment on your end and work on other people's end, those people who help facilitate alternatives and guide others to having more freedom and privacy. We need more of that work.

Such people both lead by example, and try to inspire others towards following their example/lifestyle. The problem rather is that most people want a different lifestyle (in the particular example of privacy and freedom "one with less radical consequences", which I consider to be rather contradictory, but this discussion shall be off topic).

To give an analogue: many vegetarians both lead by example, and inspire others to become vegetarians. But many people nevertheless don't want to become vegetarians.
by bigiain | 2025-08-26 01:38:07+00:00
I'm currently using an iPhone 13 from late 2021, so almost 4 years old. It's showing 79% Maximum Capacity in Battery Health, and I only occasionally use more then 75% of battery over a days use.

I still have the iPhone XR I upgraded from, so a 7 year old 2018 phone, that still holds a whole day's charge too (but doesn't get much use, and doesn't have a SIM in it right now so I'd guess it's powered down the cellular radios?)

I have an iPod Touch from a bit before Covid, so 6 years old from 2019-ish - it stopped getting daily use when Covid and WFH hit, so it's battery is old, but still in reasonable condition. (Pity newer iOS won't run on it...)
by Lockal | 2025-08-26 01:38:36+00:00
Not even that.

"Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent" - my first thought was: obviously they did not fit any model to that size! They probably just wrote an http client, right? Wrong, they... call curl! Not even use curl API. Well, at least it handles encryption.

Bonus: command injection

OR_KEY="abc' ; rm -rf / ;" ./agent-c
by ryandrake | 2025-08-26 01:39:21+00:00
When developing anything (including games, but really anything that accepts user-generated content), the developer MUST ask and address in their design: “What possible ways will this be used to make spam?” Humans suck, and always eventually turn every unmoderated resource on the Internet into spam. I wish we could edit this shitty gene out of human nature, but we can’t.
by michaelmrose | 2025-08-26 01:41:47+00:00
It's a probabilistic simulation of the kind of things a person would say. It has no ability to introspect an interior life it does not possess and thus has no access to. You are in effect asking it to speculate whether a person given the entire body of preceding text would be likely to say that their choices reflect preferences.

It would be like asking an AI with no access to data beyond a fixed past cutoff point what the weather feels like to it. If the prompt data, which you cannot read, specified that it was a talking animated rabbit rather than an AI assistant then it would tell you what the sunshine felt like on its imaginary ears.
by PlunderBunny | 2025-08-26 01:41:48+00:00
Decades ago when we made a version of our Win32 desktop app for the USA, we changed the icon on our settings button from a wrench to something else (I can't remember what) because we were told that - for Americans - a wrench signified that something was broken and needed to be fixed. I guess it was about as good as all the other advice we got!
by tsol | 2025-08-26 01:41:58+00:00
Really? I'm surprised, many secular people on the left are against it because they see it as the state running it badly. Take this video someone posted higher up; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3AJ3W_sbI A paraathelete get injured and it's suggested MAID. Insulting and ridiculous. It only takes a few of these before people decide even if they like the idea the government botches the execution and there's little recourse if they go too far.
by drgo | 2025-08-26 01:42:35+00:00
As a physician, I can tell you that euthanasia has been always around in every society and at all times. MAID just made the arrangement formal. Before MAID, it was implemented by withdrawing life-saving treatments (usually due to side-effects), rising doses of narcotics (for painful conditions) or even "terminal sedation" (the most explicit form of euthanasia before MAID-like laws).(And of course, patients always had the option of taking their own lives). In any healthcare system, there has to come a point where patients (and their families) and their doctors decide to terminate efforts aimed at extending life. In most cases, MAID is just a way to shorten the unpleasant interval between that decision and death. Given all that, it is not that surprising that 5-7% of deaths are attributed to MAID. The debate about MAID is another example where a lot of otherwise rational people fall prey to misguided sloganeering.
by dogcomplex | 2025-08-26 01:42:42+00:00
For those watching this stuff, there are two other promising paths using ZK-proofs which might disarm the tradeoff situation we've been stuck in. Banking apps etc aren't willing to eat the liability of devices that are rooted or running alternate OSes, and Google's been banking on the exclusivity that brings from being both hardware and security provider.

Path 1: a ZK-proof attestation certificate marketplace implemented by GrapheneOS (or similar) to prove safety in a privacy-securing way enough for 3rd party liability insurance markets to buy in. Banks etc can be indifferent, and wouldn't ignore the market if it got big enough. This would mean we could root any device with aggressive hacking and then apologize for it with ZK-proof certs that prove it's still in good hands - and banking apps don't need to care. No need for hard chains of custody like the Google security model.

Path 2: Don't even worry too hard about 3rd party devices or full OSes, we just need to make the option viable enough to shame Google into adopting the same ZK certificate schemes defensively. If they're reading all user data through ZK-proof certs instead of just downloading EVERYTHING then they're significantly neutered as a Big Brother force and for once we're able to actually trust them. They'd still have app marketplace centrality, but if and when phones are being subdivided with ZK-proof security it would make 3rd party monitoring of the dynamics of how those decisions get made very public (we'd see the same things google sees), so we could similarly shame them via alternatives into adopting reasonable default behaviors. Similar to Linux/Windows - Windows woulda been a lot more evil without the alternative next door.

Longer discussion (opinion not sourced from AI though): https://chatgpt.com/share/68ad1084-eb74-8003-8f10-ca324b5ea8...
by bigiain | 2025-08-26 01:44:18+00:00
I think it's charge/discharge cycles more than time that gets to batteries. I've heard that a decent rule of thumb for LiPo batteries is that they'll drop to around 80% of "new capacity" in around 1000 cycles. So around 3 years to drop to 80% capacity if they're fully charged/discharged daily, or around 5 years if they're only discharged to 30-40% and topped up daily. If you only charge them once every week or month (like my Kindle), the battery will probably still be fine after 20 years. And on the other hand if you're the sort of person who talks on your ophoine for several hours a day (like my boss) or streams YouTube all day - and need to recharge your phone in the middle of the day, you'r battery could drop below 80% in a yeah and a half.
by jkool702 | 2025-08-26 01:44:21+00:00
the LINENO is (mostly) reliable, so long as the code that is running comes from a file somewhere. timep runs the code that you want profiled by generating a script file that:

1. declares all the variables timep uses to track state and things like that 2. initializes all the extra stuff needed to make the instrumentation work (initial values for some variables, defining instrumented traps, setting `set -T`, etc.) 3. runs the code to be profiled. for scripts the script content is added here. For raw commands the commands are added. For functions the function is defined and then called as a function.

this is saved as a script in the timep tmpdir (by default a unique directory under /dev/shm/.timep), made executable, and then it is run. The setup is done like this for a few reasons, but the biggest of those is "to get correct LINENOs.

This makes it so that LINENO gives a correct result, only it is shifted by however many lines it takes to do steps 1 and 2.so the code records the lineno just before the "code to be profiled" starts running, so it can shift it back the right amount when it records it.

That said, timep has a handful of very minor bugs (4 to be precise) - one of them is that fir functions that call a subshell the lineno is wrong (it is shifted forward by a few hundred lines). So it isnt quite 100% perfect, but is pretty close.

(side note: the other 3 bugs have to do with command grouping in the output being ever so slightly off for deeply nested subshell + background fork sequences).

timep also includes a function that I wrote that tries to get the original function code (instead of the version that `declare -f` outputs), so that the lineno's on functions match up better with the original function definition source code.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-08-26 01:44:43+00:00
Well see I've been part of this conversation longer than maid has been a thing. And it used to be "oh that won't happen, it'll only be for terminally ill people and with a high level of medical and psychological oversight." And so my position was that maid shouldn't become a thing until eg "providing wheelchairs" is fully accomplished.

And now here we are. Maid is a thing, and people are being encouraged to do it while not being provided the alternatives they are asking for. And the numbers for how many are totally illegible but also somehow too low for you to be concerned with.

My activism has long been more focused on getting people the care they need than opposing maid. But regardless people still don't always get the care they need and we have maid for them instead. We said it would be like this and it is like this.
by aceofspades19 | 2025-08-26 01:44:51+00:00
Here is the procedure for MAID: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...

You have to have 2 independent medical assessments at a minimum as well as written consent that is witnessed. So its not like you can just say you want to do it and then they just off you right there. She could have had all sorts of reasons for not telling anyone including her sisters. There's nothing in your anecdote that disputes she could have planned it long in advance and just not told anyone.
by amlib | 2025-08-26 01:45:35+00:00
I wonder if you could keep your "snitch" android phone home by instrumentalizing it, enabling you to access it remotely on your main linux/degoogled android phone. It might not even be that outrageous of an idea since there are tons of botfarms that are essentially stacks and stacks of legit phones being remotely controlled... the tech might be there already, just need to adapt if for something good...
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-26 01:45:57+00:00
Mapping mouse events to key shortcuts might be the only way forward that could realistically work. Something like moving the mouse where the cursor/selection is, and sending scrolling events from there.

The lenovo keyboard with its trackpoint and mouse buttons is a kind of solution to this, but IME scrolling is still a PITA as it needs two inputs (switching to scroll mode while moving the trackpoint)
by tsol | 2025-08-26 01:47:41+00:00
It's not always the way you imagine it will be. I've posted this in this thread already but it seems most people haven't seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3AJ3W_sbI This veteran seeks help and isn't able to get what she needs. What she is offered is MAID. That's the reality; sick people who aren't getting medical care are offered the comparatively cheaper option of death and it's very insulting for them.
by AddLightness | 2025-08-26 01:47:44+00:00
I'm sure this will be unpopular but a large majority of these recent negative practices are a result of consumer behavior. Things like microtransactions, dealer markups on cars, clickbait, are all so prominent because they _work_. We have the power to reject them, yet people don't. The algorithm driven feeds with engagement bait and rage bait work.

And many other situations are damned if you do damned if you don't. Journalism websites have paywalls and people complain. They have ads and people complain. One way or another these people have to get paid. It's the same with shrinkflation. If costs increase, then either the product gets smaller, or the price gets higher. Either way, people complain.
by sn0wf1re | 2025-08-26 01:47:58+00:00
According to StatsCan it is actually a bit more, but varying year-to-year. Pre-Covid it looks like it was closer to 27% or 28%, now closer to 26%. So a lot of room to grow, if we made the assumption that all those dying of cancer would prefer to choose their date of passing. Personally, I think the more immediate source of growth in the number of MAID administrations should come from those who died after requesting MAID but before MAID was able to be administered, which would give an increase of 19% in administrations.

Statistics Canada. Table 13-10-0392-01 Deaths and age-specific mortality rates, by selected grouped causes https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=131003...

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications...
by petermcneeley | 2025-08-26 01:48:26+00:00
This is completely dismissive. People are choosing to kill themselves and the government is helping them do it. The question is why?

"We should use a different measure for how to improve healthcare, and not falsely correlate MAID as a failure metric." No this is actually a perfectly legitimate question. Are people choosing to kill themselves due to a lack of available healthcare?

Is the government using assisted suicide as a mechanism to relive a overburdened medical system? Legit questions. Dont dismiss them.
by int_19h | 2025-08-26 01:49:29+00:00
I kinda wish someone would take SQLite and make something like Access on top of it.

Many years ago, there was a project that tried to do just that using Tcl/Tk, which seems like a fine choice - Tcl is very simple and easy to understand even for on-programmers while its deficiencies aren't really important in this niche, and Tk is one of the easiest UI frameworks around to use. Unfortunately it petered out and I can't even remember the name anymore...
by echelon | 2025-08-26 01:49:33+00:00
Just give me P2P social media and put me in the swarm. BitTorrent for Reddit and Twitter.

It shouldn't matter what servers are anywhere. It should all be eventually consistent for some agglomerated cluster sampling of the world. Make the content immutable and ephemeral. People that care to archive it will.

Federation is silly and is part of the problem. Plus it creates more little fiefdoms.

I'll subscribe to my own filters if I care, and my agent will handle the rest.
by MiddleEndian | 2025-08-26 01:49:57+00:00
>I know quite some people who live this way, and are very willing to overcome inconvenient hurdles to avoid having to use such a spying device.

This is kind of a lazy approach, and it's a good thing Stallman did not have that attitude towards personal computers.

But it's a bummer that there's no real equivalent for mobile devices. I use an Android device and I already consider it to be more locked down than Windows. Generally more irritating than Windows as well (maybe not Windows 11)

I also use it as little as possible (unfortunately more and more things require it) and try to get the smallest functional (for me) Android devices.
by opdahl | 2025-08-26 01:50:08+00:00
Isn’t this supposed to be a short technical blog? Why does it seem like they’re a salesman and it’s a sales pitch?

> "We are generating more code than ever. With LLMs like Claude already writing most of Anthropic’s code, the challenge is no longer producing code, it is understanding it."

The first sentence already is obviously AI generated, and reading through it it, it is obviously completely written by AI to the point of it being distracting.

I understand the author probably feels that AI is better at writing than they are, but I would heavily recommend they use their own voice.

I’ve personally started to try to think about the points someone prompted an AI to generate some text (the actual thoughts of the author) so that I can more easily skim past the AI generated slop such as: "… you’ll get the env setup, required services, and dependency graph with citations to README, Dockerfile, and scripts, so you can hit the ground running".
by Daub | 2025-08-26 01:51:15+00:00
> up there with "Eskimos have a thousand words for snow".

Bad example. It seems that there is still a lot of disagreement on this matter, much of it rooted in what constitutes a word.

A well-balanced article on the subject here:

https://linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/inuit-words-for-snow/

Edit…

Also, from that article, a fascinating study: ‘Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination’

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0701644104
by dankwizard | 2025-08-26 01:51:29+00:00
Not bot in the traditional sense of the game's AI, but bots as in accounts loaded up with the bare basics to join games and AFK - They level the account, get the steam free drops, and then sell that drop + the account eventually.

There is decent money in it. Back in CSGO I had a VM running two full bot servers at a run cost of ~$3.xx per week to earn ~$30 fully automated.
by nikolay | 2025-08-26 01:51:40+00:00
The vast majority of these seizures are benign. If your child had a febrile seizure, then there's a 30% chance of having it again, so, then you have some excuse to keep their fever under control (hopefully not with Tylenol as there are other antipyretics, too). Here's a nice summary by Gemini:

Key Takeaways

- No Lasting Damage: Simple febrile seizures do not cause long-term brain damage, intellectual impairment, or learning disabilities.

- Benign Nature: Despite how terrifying they are to witness, febrile seizures are considered benign events in the vast majority of cases.

- Focus on Reassurance: The primary goal for healthcare providers is to reassure parents and caregivers, providing them with the knowledge and tools to manage a fever and understand the low risk of lasting effects.
by clipsy | 2025-08-26 01:51:52+00:00
> And so my position was that maid shouldn't become a thing until eg "providing wheelchairs" is fully accomplished.

Without having actual data, this is nothing more than an excuse to eliminate MAID indefinitely pending an imaginary system in which no one slips through the cracks; in the meantime, you will force countless more to suffer months or years of needless agony on the off chance that one of them might be one of your anecdotes.

> And now here we are. Maid is a thing, and people are being encouraged to do it while not being provided the alternatives they are asking for. And the numbers for how many are totally illegible but also somehow too low for you to be concerned with.

The only "numbers" I get from anyone like you are a handful of anecdotes that add up to a tiny fraction of a percent of people who elect MAID, and a vanishingly small percent of people eligible for MAID. If you genuinely mean well, I want you to understand: you are being manipulated by people who will do nothing to help those in need, and on their behalf you are campaigning to immiserate thousands upon thousands every single year.
by rocing | 2025-08-26 01:53:21+00:00
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by rstuart4133 | 2025-08-26 01:53:37+00:00
I've always used AI as an editor, which is to say I give it the my efforts and ask it to highlight mistakes. They invariably find a few. They occasionally miss a few too, so they aren't particularly reliable editors.

They aren't reliable at anything I guess, but for English I have nothing else, and they are better than nothing. I do wish they would use a more effective way of highlighting their suggested changes, such as italics for new text and strikeout for deleted text.

Unless you are paid by the word, I struggling to think of why you would use an AI to create new text. The facts will be wrong, the tone won't be yours. "If I had more time, this would be shorter" is a truism here - AI can spit out an enormous amount of text in a very short time, text could be cut down to a fraction of the size with a bit of effort.
by skybrian | 2025-08-26 01:53:38+00:00
I wonder how they came up with two million Blacksky users. Who counts as a user? Do they host that many users' accounts? Is it any Bluesky user who subscribed to their feeds? Something else?

Edit:

> Feed subscribers + moderation service subscribers

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millio...
by 7jjjjjjj | 2025-08-26 01:54:48+00:00
Planes are the worst way to watch a movie. Even with good noise cancelling headphones you can barely hear the dialogue. The screen is a 10 year old el cheapo LCD, and the video is 480p compressed to hell. On top of that, it has unskippable ads and the film is muted whenever the PA is on.