We plan to be a wildly successful company, but if we get it wrong, that’s on us.

That’s incorrect. If OpenAI get this wrong, they won’t (be able to) make investor whole. People would loose part of their savings if they’re exposed to OpenAI through direct or indirect investments.

Even if they get it right, everyone suffers from the pollution caused by AI datacenters, and from the opportunity cost since investors are pouring resources in this hyped technology rather than more reponsible things like renewables, energy efficiency, …

Trump is a pretty good return on investment for Putin

Cory Doctorow is an international treasure

Of course cooking is preferable, but it’s not possible everyday for everyone. Everyone’s situation is different.

Food to go is a good option on days when cooking is not convenient/possible. You can order by calling the restaurant directly over the phone, go pick it up and see the restaurant and its owner/employee face to face, so you’ll see if that’s a chain. There’s no delivery nor app fee. It encourage walking and support nearby restaurants.

Vibe update

Another day, another I-can’t-believe-the-USA-elected-this-moron news story.

He’s so unstable and chaotic I wonder if it’s even possible to engage in diplomacy with the USA. I assume most diplomats’ strategy is to have endless talks to delay, win some time until orange mussolini is out of office and no longer relevant.

I only kill spiders without opposable thumbs

:)

I need a new random looking password. Could you generate one for me please?

The first and only thing I ask when a company does this is: how can I ask a question to a human representative?

Pull the plug on datacenters that depend on polluting energy sources.

It doesn’t end on the last installation screen. Then it takes lots of time and digging to scrub bloatware, and to change many settings to make Windows less invasive since the defaults are bad.

The original presentation is german speaking. There’s human-produced english translation in a separate audio channel, thanks to volunteers aka angels.

Use the video settings, ie gear icon, to select the language.

Right below this headline on the Irish Times website, there are links to share on Facebook, X, Whatsapp, all owned by US companies.

There’s a long way to go toward digital independance. There should be buttons to share via Mastodon, Email, … shown before those US walled gardens.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is making 400 million PCs obsolete by ending Win10 and setting arbitrary requirements for Win11. This is causing perfectly fine hardware (and RAM) to end-up as e-waste, so that it can be replace by new, more expensive Win11 compatible hardware.

Now is a good time to buy second-hand hardware and abandon Windows.

Cloudflare drafted the Content Signals Policy which complement licenses.

The Content-Signal directive works by signaling your preference of either allowing (yes) or disallowing (no) certain categories of AI actions

It references existing EU law, ie the DSA. It’s good to set clear policy and terms of use scrappers can parse. It’s new so I suspect most don’t honor this yet. But once they get caught, the website could argue this violate term of use.

# ANY RESTRICTIONS
# EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT
# SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS
# RESERVATIONS OF RIGHTS
# UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE
# EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE
# 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT AND
# RELATED RIGHTS IN THE
# DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

IANAL, consult with a law profesionnal for advice on how to enforce this legally.

The extension remains live and featured as of this writing.

The Chrome Web Store should be avoided for security. Google keeps failing at moderaring their store, at the same time kneecaping legitimate adblockers with manifest v3 in the name of security, and failing to remove actual malicious extension after both manual review and dislosure of its behaviour by outsiders.

Running Chrome without any extension isn’t ideal either, it would leave people without protection from malvertising and tracking. So better avoid Chrome altogether, use Firefox or Zen Browser or Tor Browser.

No distilled water?

In 10-20 years Microsoft may finally reach a point Windows finally gets a package manager with a well-defined package format, auto update, atomic transactions, just a few decades after Linux.

If they sell 2 variants of the Steam Machine, they could remove HDMI from one , and just put it in the more expensive variant, to reflect the extra headaches and cost that comes from HDMI.

That’d encourage people to get screens with DisplayPort. Many computer screens have DP.