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*Still, as the first day of I/O wound down, it was hard to escape the feeling that the web as we know it is entering a kind of managed decline. Over the past two and a half decades, Google extended itself into so many different parts of the web that it became synonymous with it. And now that LLMs promise to let users understand all that the web contains in real time, Google at last has what it needs to finish the job: replacing the web, in so many of the ways that matter, with itself. *

I had actually read this article the day it came out, but I didn’t think too much of that paragraph until a couple days later at a dinner full of folks working on decentralization. Someone brought up that quote, though paraphrased it slightly differently, claiming Casey was saying that Google was actively putting* the web into managed decline*.

Whether or not that’s very different (and maybe it’s not), both should spark people to realize that this is a problem.

Our bots have sucked up everyone’s sites, so screw your web we got it all at the Evil Store.

Is . . SpaceX unwilling to do this by themselves?

Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov said that Russian troops have been communicating over the Starlink system “for quite a long time” and acquired the terminals from private Russian firms that purchased them from intermediaries.

The company did not respond to an email earlier this week asking whether it could categorically rule out the system’s use by Russian troops in Ukraine.

You want a photocopy of the check? Cause you’re right, that’s not in the article.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-using-thousands-spacex-starlink-terminals-ukraine-wsj-says-2024-02-15/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68495708

No word on how much they paid. I’m just guessing.

Yeah, but 2 billion of that is Putin paying for backdoors on the Ukrainian military.

flashbulb handshake

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

Yep. Almost like the mind-altering power of television should have been taken seriously instead of laughed off and supercharged into an always-on ubiquitous device we mostly equate with our actual personhood.

We could actually address it now. No time like the present, eh.

For the battery issue there appears to be a good source & various answers at this stackexchange thread.

If you send me an image by email and I display it on a website without permission, I am violating your copyright.

Unless the image is already copyrighted, it takes publishing to provide a claim of copyright. Is email publishing? What if it’s a listserv with 300 recipients?

Bruh

Sa-lute!

The new Micro$oft standard, which, as always, is bullremoved and should be avoided and ignored at all times.

To be fair, Winsock was a kludgy mess for the better part of a decade itself.

Dude.

Lots of aficionados maybe

That’s the universe telling you to put an 8GB flash drive on your holiday wish list.

So you’re running your own instance, and that instance had 131 people/week login? Or did you login 131 times?

OP is here bringing up how they implicitly don’t care about how their stuff works. We’re not gatekeeping removed except the obvious answers to the stupid questions that will inevitably arise.

Be ignorant! Go! Run! But if you want to complain about it, well then we have a problem.

Disagree. With an erratic fascist at the helm, they need to wait.