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by toyg 3d ago
This was a targeted attack towards specific individuals, probably carried out by a state actor or someone after data of very valuable individuals. Unless you're one of those (oligarch, etc), you're probably fine.
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by toyg 5d ago
If more action is even more meddling with Middle East countries, at this point no-action might be the right thing to do...
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by toyg 5d ago
Nobody cares about everyday Americans, it's about American corporations . Exxon and friends are printing money.
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by toyg 6d ago
The most specialized standard wins, so in this case I'd say HDMI.
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by toyg 6d ago
They always do. The price of plastic crack has always gone up and up. This happened even before they had videogames.
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by toyg 6d ago
The Wordpress community got so big, that inevitably it attracted leeches. Unfortunately, Matt chose to address a home-infestation problem with a firethrower.
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by toyg 7d ago
> The iMac had a design unlike any desktop computer before it. Debatable, but it was still just a personal computer - sure, refined in exterior, but inside it was still just a workstation. > AirPort was the first affordable, mass-m
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by toyg 7d ago
Is there, though? The last few iOS releases have been pretty classless and inconsistent, imho.
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by toyg 7d ago
> the "new" Apple where the innovation comes from fine-tuning That's actually the old Apple. Before the iPhone (and after Jobs' return) it was their standard operation procedure: the iMac was a refined workstation,
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by toyg 8d ago
That's uncharitable. Defense companies do play the game (like anyone in the enterprise space), but they also do ship stuff that is uniquely set up to satisfy the use-case. I don't think an unmodified iPhone would do great in a war
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by toyg 9d ago
Italy, UK... Yep.
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by toyg 9d ago
Hijacking a bit, sorry: I already built the space, but I just filled it with old, mismatched, clunky furniture. Is there some sort of designer site where I could play with furniture, apart from Ikea?
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by toyg 9d ago
Somewhat sadly, the reason a lot of the ancestors of those 13 millions moved there was that they wanted an unpaved paradise. Unfortunately, humans do not know restraint.
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by toyg 9d ago
One's "underdeveloped wasteland" is someone else's untouched paradise. Particularly someone like Joni Mitchell.
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by toyg 9d ago
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
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by toyg 11d ago
It depends what that static content is. If it advocates for BDS in universities, for example...
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by toyg 13d ago
I was not the one who brought personal qualifications into a public argument, Jon. I guess you don't like it when your lack of specialized knowledge becomes evident. As I said, I already know what AI is doing - I already use it just fi
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by toyg 13d ago
Have you any idea of how many businesses need a financial consolidation tool, out of the total number of businesses out there? No, of course you don't, you write email servers. Sure, your local garage will now do their accounting in vi
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by toyg 13d ago
That's great to know, Jon. I suspect non-US governments have a different opinion. Heck, even the US government likely has a different opinion. Not to mention Google competitors in any other sector.
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by toyg 13d ago
That's like saying Google offering GMail ended webmail - there are still plenty of webmail services around: some better, some worse, some more specialised. The same will be true of most sectors. AI is another tool in the toolbox, not m
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by toyg 13d ago
Spoken with the true arrogance of someone who has no idea about the real world of finance. When your software has to produce legal documents, satisfy auditors, and certify a bunch of things to shareholders and governments, I'm sorry bu
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by toyg 13d ago
> you don't need a $5m/yr salesforce / servicenow contract when you understand the business model I'm sure many people will think that; and I'm also fairly confident that 5 years later they'll take their obs
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by toyg 13d ago
The purpose of the law is to apply shared societal values to individuals as impartially as possible. Bad people should be "hurt" only as much as it's necessary for society to peacefully uphold those values. Imagining the law
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by toyg 13d ago
The truth is that the current government is part of the international right-wing info-complex, and desperate to buddy up with Trump, so they are fundamentally unwilling to burn political capital for such a move. If they lose the next round
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by toyg 13d ago
Technically William was invited...
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by toyg 14d ago
I don't think I've seen a worse whataboutist post in the last 5 years.
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by toyg 14d ago
Ironically, this is what could actually push them to adopt more opaque financial tools, making it harder to track for actual law enforcement.
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by toyg 14d ago
But that's the challenge: a true belief in the principles of law must include defending "bad guys" when they are targeted with illegal or immoral means. Miranda was a bad guy; going all the way back, Cain was a bad guy. Pre
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by toyg 14d ago
This is why building serious financial infrastructure alternatives should be n.1 on the EU agenda. From payment processors to clearing, Europe must wrangle control of their own money from the US.
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by toyg 14d ago
At some point, someone must be held to account for "just following order". We know what happens otherwise.

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