xoggy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trap Naughty Web Crawlers In Digestive Juices With Nepenthes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Generate endless markov nonsense for LLM crawlers to choke on. Basically the young kids (LLMs) being forced to listen to grandpa Markov’s senile babbling over an excruciatingly slow dinner…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even setting up a vlan doesn’t work half the time because the mobile apps don’t talk directly with the appliance but phone home to a cloud service. A cloud service that will eventually go offline and leave the appliances orphaned. That’s how GE’s thermostats work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Orders Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to Halt All AI Chip Shipments to China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re underestimating how impossible a task it is for China to hit a moving target. Even so, their move towards isolationism is at odds with an industry that has the most complex and globally integrated supply chain in existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason I first read the title as “journalists take to archiving their own hands” and thought this was some morbid kind of protest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Industry is like a triangle and if you move towards one corner you have to move away from another:

        cost-effective
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  ethical /__\ green