The advantage of credit cards is strong regulation that makes that the banks problem, and the number can change if there’s an issue.

I’m so much less concerned about my CC number being out in the wild than any of the zillion other pieces of PII out there that are unchangeable and require jumping through a million hurdles to fix.

Only ever had my CC info stolen once, and it took 2 clicks on the banks website to dispute and get a new card. Had my identity stolen and it took 10 certified letters, dozens of phone calls, detailed documentation of a year of personal history, and countless emails to lawyers, the credit bureaus, the debt holders, and the collections agencies to resolve it.

Edit: forgot, ID theft also requires a fucking police report

Friendly reminder that LLMs don’t do math, they guess what number should come next, just like words.

It can probably link the image to the words “a photo of a sandwich on a plate”, and interpret the question as “how many calories are in a sandwich” but from there it is just guessing at the syntax of an answer, but not at finding any truth.

It knows sandwiches have calories and those tend to be 3-4 digit numbers, but also all numbers kinda look the same, so what’s to say it’s not 2, 5, or 12 digits?

But then how is your child going to get TigerNinja58@proton.me if you dont reserve their right to the shameful first email address??

Like you don’t research a place before you travel, or you just don’t travel? Do you never research a product before purchasing or do you just work with whatever is available in your local store? If you’re buying a car, is it just whatever is on the side of the road or do you search for expert reviews or reliability data?

I for one am shocked that a company as respected in the AI space as Microslop™ would put a half-baked privacy-invasive program like this on their store.

This seems like the kind of thing they would package straight into the OS with no disclaimer and no means of disabling.

Soooo… Who is going to jail? They just gonna lock the neon sign from the building up or…

Wasn’t saying that was your intent just that most suggestions on here involve running unauthorized software or visiting sketchy websites. There is an alternative though.

When it comes to decisions that could impact your livelihood, $10-ish/mo is a small price to pay.

I hate to break it to you but it may be time to pony up for a subscription to YouTube, Spotify, or whatever music service scratches that itch for you… Probably better than trying to fuck with HIPAA.

can’t install anything, or add extensions, etc.

Can you install user apps (which don’t require admin elevation) or is it truly nothing?

Firefox, for example can be installed as a user by just declining the admin prompt.

Otherwise you can snag a portable version.

May also be worth checking if the company maintains a list of approved software anywhere. Firefox probably won’t even raise an eyebrow, but other software might, depending on your use.

Author: Anna Betts in New York

Y’all just gonna let that one slide?

Forgive me, I’m not a Brave power user, so I don’t recall. Does Brave have anything resembling uBlock’s “Element picker mode” and “User rules” to make it easier to build and test blocking rules?

I maintain my own block list on codeberg and it would be a pain in the ass to have to work outside the browser, push to git, and force sync the browser just to refresh and find out if something worked.

Just for clarification, but do you mean you can automate that stuff?

Yes.

uBlock at its core is really just a scripting system for replacing CSS content using certain rules.

The most common usage is to remove content you don’t like, but really it can manipulate things in a zillion different ways, many of the more advanced features are only available to the user and not larger block lists for security reasons.

At worst, it’s just fine (Mozilla just uses it internally to replace or supplement its old and incomplete Tracker Blocking system, which never gets the same scrutiny).

I think you’re right but I’m sure they can fuck it up a lot worse than that if they really want to. AI ad detection? Sponsored blocking? New RCE pathways?

I think its much more likely than not a step forward, and I welcome the change, but recent Mozilla decisions have me watching closely.

There appears to be no legitimate end to this one, which is wild

As long as DNS blocking stops some subset of users from reaching pirate sites, the court ruled, it’s “proportionate.” Under that line of thinking, any measure that inconveniences even a fraction of would-be pirates is legally justified, no matter how much collateral damage it causes for everyone else.

The court’s core reasoning — that any entity technically capable of blocking must do so, that circumvention doesn’t make blocking disproportionate, and that the “neutral and passive” function of an intermediary is irrelevant — creates a legal framework that can reach basically anything. If a DNS resolver can be conscripted because it’s “in a position to help,” what about browsers? What about operating systems? What about CDNs, or cloud hosting providers, or certificate authorities? The logic has no brake pedal. Every layer of the internet stack is, in some sense, “in a position to help” block access to content. The question the court’s reasoning cannot answer is: where does it end?

Left off their list is hardware, should your router and modem deny IP requests to known servers? Even if they’re on shared hardware? What about the networking card in your PC?

More like 1/3 the size of a zambonie. Or 11/3 the size of two penguins on a foosball table.

IE if it is imported their going to pay a tariff on that

Only when big company is the importer of record.

There are probably many tariffs paid to 3rd parties just like me paying UPS for a package shipped overseas, which just like me, big company can’t claim. Unlike me, however, big company is probably gearing up to send the lawyers to UPS/FedEx instead of Washington, because that’s who is getting some of their tariff dollars.

So it wouldn’t be hard to figure out

You’d be amazed how hard it is to figure something like that out. Hundreds or even thousands of people inputting data means nothing is filed correctly. The total costs are tracked closely because banks, but the below the line tariff amount could be buried in a phone camera photo of a receipt on someone’s computer screen.

Best case scenario you can filter directly for payments made to the government, but even that is prone to failure if they use a separate payment processor (e.g., for things paid via credit card).

Big company guy here. I have no involvement in tariffs, but I suspect:

• no one team paid the tariffs
• tariff related expenses were not consistently cataloged
• no one team has an “official company tariff refunder” role and no one wants the tedious one-time responsibility

Big company = big bureaucracy. Theres probably an intern somewhere combing through hundreds of thousands of documents labeled “tax” and trying to guess what is a border tariff, while their leader feeds the same document into ChatGPT and says “ChatGPT says we’re owed 5 quintillion dollars, can you validate that?”

Either they didn’t pay, they found an exploit, or, more likely, someone at Claude was reviewing their conversations. Take note, any business that cares about IP or confidentiality.

Because it’s not actually reducing any overhead. What you get is fewer high-fidelity “real” frames each second, in exchange for roughly 2x (or more) low-fidelity “fake” frames

So a 60 FPS game before may run at 100 FPS after, which is really only 50 real FPS + 50 fake FPS.

Also some of the frame generation algorithms are tied to upscaling, so textures and everything are loaded in lower res, and an algorithm guesses what’s missing.

The more you let the computer guess what’s supposed to be there the faster it runs but the less accurate it gets.

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