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This will just gut funding to fix exploits

Features that don't exist don't have exploits.

Yea, so instead people make native apps which pown your machine. Great progress!

Those at least have to be downloaded and installed by the user, which indicates a high level of intent/consent and is difficult to do accidentally. In the browser environment, malicious content can be navigated to without any user intent or consent whatsoever, which when combined with holes punched in browser sandboxes for the sake of fancy features makes for danger with a dramatically larger scope.

Right now, most untrusted code runs in the browser's sandbox, and that's great - outside of the realm of fancy 0 days, the damage is limited.

But if downloading apps becomes the norm again (like every online store asking you to get their app and an extra app for a discount program), I expect that socially engineering less technical users into downloading malware will become much easier.


Yes. Native apps are 9000x prefferrable to the browser having to be a shitty os.

I guess Linux Desktop will die off then.

Maybe it should if in 30 years it has not reliably solved native apps.

Been using them for 30 years already. I suspect if I heard whatever your definition of "solved" is, I would find it silly.

funny, it seems to me that a great many native apps exist, and works fine

Honestly, the end of everything being a chrome-based app and people making actual native desktop apps that run at 10x the speed with 1/10th the energy usage would be excellent. I really hope that does happen.

"that run at 10x the speed with 1/10th the energy usage"

How many current developers optimize their products for speed and energy usage?

I can see the very opposite happening: half-baked apps, whose massive portions were written using free-tier AI output, hogging gigabytes of RAM and four processor cores while the cursor is idly spinning and the laptop is becoming hot.

Compared to the past (and my memory goes back to Netscape Navigator 3, old person that I am), modern browsers seem to be technologically fine.


I'd say it's really hard to write a native app, however unoptimized, to be a bigger memory hog than Electron apps.

it will also gut funding for the production of vulnerable code, in what ratio things will go is what it all depends on

And one child deported without cancer meds. At that point you are just trying to kill people

I don't think it's intentional, but rather collateral damage from trying to do deportations quickly and at the "millions" scale

It's intentional. The cruelty is the point.

The moment people in power to just stop learn of the circumstances and don't stop, it becomes intentional.

It is intentional to discourage others and to make people afraid. It is even openly intentional.

These aren't rules made by bureaucrats. They are laws written by Congress, a coequal branch of government, in response to the Nixon administration's abuse of executive power

And in some cases FDR's abuse of executive power. If we manage to get... Someone, I don't know who which is depressing, elected that is interested in preserving democracy above all the other current issues, I'm sure there will be a lot more laws to safeguard this happening again. Personal recommendations, nox the filibuster it creates incentive, use federal money to get all the states to switch to ranked choice voting for all federal positions. And MMP for house and electoral college. Maybe nix the filibuster as the last item of business so that the first Congress without it will have more than two parties (due to those electoral changes which lead to 4-8 parties usually).

I just wish they more reliably covered SF. Outside of the Richmond and Sunset districts coverage is spotty at best


When the biggest criticism someone can level at a company is "I wish they had more coverage", they're doing it right :)


Hallucination in extreme weather warnings could get people killed. I'd rather have something more reliable used.


Depending on the language, personally, I haven't seen a great deal of hallucination with the models I use (llama 3.1 often). I wouldn't expect, say Spanish, to be a problem. I think you'll find more potential issues when it comes to more ___domain-specific terminology.


There is very little good reason to have this setup if you are in the same building as it.


The reason is to never allow anyone (even the editors) to have actual access to the show's files/images. Remote software can prohibit copy/paste, file transfers, and screenshots. I worked in a post facility with 100s of people all remoting in to a server rack down the hall.


What? On prem multi user remote desktop servers used by on prem users are extremely common.


Most of those people aren't gambling with other people's money that they have a fiduciary obligation with.


It's an extern c interface. That's not any different than dealing with a c library


That is good to know.


They used this with the IVs mucked with: https://www.gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt/index.html


Only two years? They operated hydrogen buses from 2006 to 2010 and then got some more in 2011 and 2019. There are budget line items for new buses in 2023 and 2024 that I assume got bought


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