Genuine question, from someone that won’t upgrade from their M1 Air: what difference does it make for most users? Where would that extra 50GB/s be felt?
I’m not sure about these specific platforms, but we consume a lot of APIs at work for which we must agree to specific conditions of these APIs. That seems reasonable, otherwise the TOS cannot be enforced (because they can be ignored).
I’m not a fan of Stallman by any measure — his posture has often put people off some licenses and made GPL a bit problematic —, but even I think you’re engaging in unreasonable doublespeak.
The web is full of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript you can see the source for; and for which you can be sued by copying for your own commercial gain. By your definition, websites are open source; and yet, they are proprietary work. Something having its source open doesn’t make it Open Source.
This kind of doublespeak reeks of Reddit-grade corporate astroturfing.
The Open Source licenses are defined and protected in a certain way. You can’t just say “oh, me and my friends don’t think of it like that” and expect to be correct. I can’t build an app scamming people out of currency by abusing ISO 4217, and then excuse myself under “me and the people I know disagree with ISO”. OSI protects the licenses, the Vegan Society certifies what ‘vegan’ means, ISO does ISO things, and so on.
It’s okay to admit we’re wrong or ignorant, so I won’t pretend I’m an expert in this area. I also wouldn’t call anyone Stallman just because they are defending a term that deserves protection. “Source available” but not under the terms of an OSI license is NOT compliant with the term.
I think the problem is that they aren’t mind-blowing, but an improvement.
I resent some LLM implementations on principle, but decided to give these code helpers a try. What I found was they’re reasonably bad, and I kept telling them the solution doesn’t work, only to be presented with a little tweak.
So I don’t see the point of outsourcing my thinking, I’d rather remain intelligent and do the search/try/tweak on my own, instead of pretending a half-assed LLM is genius.
That doesn’t mean they don’t have good use cases, or aren’t an improvement on previous tech. But we definitely should stop calling them mind-blowing. Jaron Lanier had long ago predicted we’d willingly downplay human intelligence to pretend AI was… I.
I agree, but first we’d need vanilla Linux working very well on laptops. If we can’t fix that, I don’t see how phones will fare better, what with their crazy amount of components and non-OSS compatible vendors.
Technically speaking (I enforce GDPR on a technical level, not legal), you’re right on both counts. The interstitial isn’t forcing anyone to accept the cookies, and isn’t preventing the experience.
But… in real-life UX, we all know the users will just hit the most obvious CTA to accept all cookies because their experience is being effectively blocked.
The implementation is technically okay, but reminds me of r/MaliciousCompliance.
It’s also a remarkably stupid implementation. If you follow the rules [1] in a strict way, the website should be usable if the user denied consent to non-essential cookie usage. You don’t need consent for strictly necessary cookies.
So a bunch of websites don’t actually need a cookie banner, as long as they’re not using non-essential cookies. You could easily get consent for marketing/tracking cookies in an unobtrusive way.
Instead, a lot of websites must have seen a drop in conversion because no one wants to interact with these awful cookie popups that have a hundred toggles.
AFAIK the page-blocking cookie banners don’t just convert worse, they’re actually not permitted (you can’t block the experience to force consent).
On my end: unless your website is very important to me, I’ll just refuse the cookies or hit the back button and load the next search result.
‘Developer Hegemony’ — which should be called ‘Information Worker Hegemony’ — makes the case for engineers being involved in planning and strategy. Most developers I’ve worked with were amazing self-starters that can get tons of stuff done by themselves. It’s the micro-managing and lack of vision that seems to have the greatest negative effect on their productivity.
As an engineer-turned-manager, I am fascinated by how poorly other departments handle planning (at our company). Devs are just amazing at getting things done when left alone, provided they know why feature X is important.
That doesn’t seem very logical. Why would they buy the stupidly expensive power from the market instead of running their own and selling to neighboring countries?
It’s also high time the anti-nuclear crowd goes back to school to learn about statistics. I’m sure coal and gas closing at 1k€ are much better for the planet and the citizens of France /s
You don’t need to either/or these 2 concepts. Societies always have some amount of negative and positive freedoms. In Germany it’s illegal to do the Nazi salute in public, which is a form of ideological censorship, but there’s a valid, widely accepted reason for that. On the other hand, privacy is a Human Right, so there’s also wide consensus as to its value. Violating the privacy of the masses, in order to sell more products, is not exactly something that is very defensible because we collectively seem to find it unethical.
During the Nazi regime, written records of people’s religious affiliation were used to target and detain Jewish individuals. I know it’s far-fetched in the current world, but there is little defensible reason for corporations (or governments!) to hold that much information about individuals.
It’s also been documented that lack of privacy has a chilling effect in public discourse, whistleblowing, and other activities where you’d expect a reasonable level of privacy.
It’s not 100% privacy vs. none, but at the moment Facebook and Google are both very, very close to ultimate knowledge about an individual.