I feel this can be bypassed the same way remote interviews have been passed, you have a talented dude A actually trained to pass whatever verification is needed, and whenever there’s privacy, it switches to dude B, while dude A moves to another recruitment process. I think I have heard about this kind of dude A offering his services online for anyone ready to pay.
Anyone else has never seen the face of one of their full remote colleague? I have one in my team, he does a good job though, however many they may be behind him.

Can it survive if Firefox goes down?

Ladybird is an open-source web browser developed by the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on development of the browser.[1] It is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.[2] An alpha release is planned in 2026,[3][4] beta release is expected in 2027, and a stable release for general public in 2028.[5] Originally a component of SerenityOS, it is now being developed as a standalone project.[6] The initiative is funded entirely through donations, with Cloudflare, FUTO, Shopify, and 37signals among its sponsors. Ladybird uses a new browser engine called LibWeb that is being created from scratch by the development team. Unlike SerenityOS, it will also use other open source libraries for development.[2] An ad blocking feature is planned.[7] Unlike most new web browsers, Ladybird does not rely on Chromium or Firefox and uses its own rendering engine and JavaScript engine.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_(web_browser)

I think they always have used this tactic, there’s “socialist” in Nazi, they are just highly specific with who they want to socialize with.

There’s also a lot of manual human labor to build LLMs, I was surprised. From exploited African data labelers who have to shift through the most horrific things the web has to offer and remain traumatized for life, to highly paid domain experts who work on improving final results so it ends up looking like a simulation of themselves.

I work in data, there’s 0 need for Oracle, there’s a ton of more performant FOSS tools for all needs at all scales. They just live from a bunch of predatory mega contracts thanks to their sales and legal teams preying on unneducated management.

What does a crow gulag looks like?

I am confused, why not just use an ad blocker?

Maybe it predicted your future man boobs.

There was already a lot of ML bullshit from the big data bubble ~ 2010 and before ChatGPT, together with all of the fuss about data scientists. But now it’s a 100 times worse.

The link doesn’t work for me.

Even if the initial intention is positive, I think this degree of dependency on external services is not realistic even if mega corps were not as bad as they are currently.

Waiting for the milk

Could be that the unusual characters make the comment less readable.

Most gamers don’t want to get involved with PC building and just want something as convenient as a console to play their Steam games with good performance on a big screen. This can be priced quite above what a nerd would be able to build by himself with PCPartPicker.

There are conventional definitions of the poverty line. In France, it is defined by the national institute of statistics as:

The poverty threshold is conventionally set at 60% of the population’s median standard of living. It corresponds to a disposable income of €1,288 per month for a single person and €2,705 for a couple with two children under 14 years old. https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/5759045

Guild Wars 1 has a very interesting team based PvP with a deck of skills among hundreds you have to pick beforehand, it generated a lot of team creativity, metas, counter metas, updates breakings metas and generating news ones etc. It’s in my opinion way more interesting than the generic 5v5 with fixed skills per character that has dominated skill based PvP games since then (including League of Legends and Guild Wars 2, at least on release), probably because it’s more accessible for the mass.

I had a good experience with the refurbished electronics market place Back Market in France (sound bar, ipad, keyboard, mouse, cooking robot, laptop). I haven’t used it in a while as I moved outside of EU.

What is the source of energy to produce the hydrogen? The carbon footprint of hydrogen is pretty bad unless you have abundent renewable energy.

This Wikipedia page agrees with this comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation. It lists University of Bologna as the oldest one in continuous operation from 1180–1190.

This is part of the legend of the fight between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro, supposedly the top Japanese swordsmen of their time, Kojira died. It’s an illustration of the difference between bujutsu (martial technique/art) and budo (martial way). Bujutsu is only concerned with winning whatever the cost, regardless of honor or fairness, budo is about becoming a better person, so honor matters.
Judo (founder popularized this budo concept at the end of the 19th century), kendo, karatedo, aikido etc are budos, that’s why those often appear as not being adapted to modern combat sports, their main goal is not winning combats.
Modern day bujutsu is basically western military training, learning to actually kill people with modern weapons and whatever dirty strategy you can employ, for example drones.