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I assume OpenAI’s profit strategy is to hope everyone uses 64bit* numbers and just wrap around from negative to positive.

Ta’da! Profit.

* you already can’t keep track of their losses in a 32b number.

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in reply to Chris Petrilli

Note you basically can’t even keep track of their monthly losses in an unsigned 32b int.

But sure, Jan, this isn’t a bubble and you all aren’t full of shit.

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🏛️ Política e globalismo

“Enquanto muitos acreditam que a política é apenas sobre eleições, na verdade ela é o campo onde interesses globais decidem o futuro de nações inteiras. Quem realmente controla o poder?”
#Política #Brasil #Globalismo #Geopolítica youtube.com/watch?v=cvNL7eutV6…



New App Exposes Hidden Fees, But Auto-Charges 80% of Uncovered Amount as 'Information Disclosure Fee'

A new app called "Fee-Hound" claims to promote financial transparency. When it scans the fine print of contracts, hidden fees jump out of the paper in AR.

alt.andpaper.net/en/articles/2…

#hidden-fees #app #fintech #fees #infinite-loop #ar #meta-fees



"Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!"

Einstein, as told by his friend Alexander Moszkowski.

in reply to David Quintero

Yes, but more of what?

The trouble with this kind of second-hand, context-free quote is that the speaker is not around to stop people twisting their words. I’m not accusing you of doing that, but honestly I hate the whole cottage industry of mining famous people’s utterances and dredging up fragments of speech or writing that they never intended to be treated as epigrams as if they are some kind of distillation of wisdom.

in reply to Greg Egan

@gregeganSF I saw the quote and thought it was curious. That's why I shared it, not with the idea of showing any deep thought or arcane wisdom. As you suggests, Dostoievsky can't give you the same that Gauss can give. I think the quote only shows the passion Einstein had for Dostoievsky, and how intensely he felt that. That's why I shared it.


„Achtung, Reichelt!“: Klimaideologie gehört auf den Müllhaufen der Geschichte pi-news.net/2025/10/achtung-re… #AchtungReichelt #Deutschland #Video

in reply to Nick 🦇🕸️🖤🖖

Nothing screams "butchery" louder than a termination per email. Ugh.
Sorry it happened to you, but I guess not working for Amazon anymore is the moral bright side here?
Good luck!


🏛️ Política e globalismo

“Enquanto muitos acreditam que a política é apenas sobre eleições, na verdade ela é o campo onde interesses globais decidem o futuro de nações inteiras. Quem realmente controla o poder?”
#Política #Brasil #Globalismo #Geopolítica youtube.com/watch?v=QGNX0PuWua…



Deputado de direita e evangélico condena operação no RJ: ‘A finalidade foi executar’



Por Lucas Rocha e Schirlei Alves Após se reunir com moradores e lideranças comunitárias na Central Única das Favelas (CUFA) nesta quinta-feira (30), o deputado federal Otoni de Paula (MDB-RJ) afirmou ao ICL Notícias que há fortes indícios de execuções entre as 121 mortes provocadas pela megaoperação policial nos Complexos do Alemão e da Penha, […]


Ministra de Lula promete perícia independente e diz que operação foi ‘um fracasso’



(Folhapress) – Em reunião com familiares de mortos na operação nos complexos da Penha e do Alemão, no Rio de Janeiro, e representantes da comunidade, a ministra dos Direitos Humanos, Macaé Evaristo, prometeu que o governo vai encomendar uma perícia independente dos corpos dos mortos. “Na nossa visão, a perícia no local está muito prejudicada”, […]


Casos suspeitos de contaminação misteriosa em hospital de Vitória chegam a 88



(Folhapress) – O número de pacientes atingidos por uma contaminação misteriosa — de causa ainda não identificada — no Hospital Santa Rita, em Vitória, subiu para 88 na quarta-feira (29). Os pacientes relatam sintomas como febre, dores no corpo e dificuldade para respirar. De acordo com o último boletim da Secretaria da Saúde do Espírito […]


there is only one business model today:

Enshittification as a Service (EaaS).

Maximum Margins, Minimal Expenses. Global Maxima NPV.

Don't even bother pitching VC / PE if you can't show progress and acceleration enshittifying the market you are in.

If you get to the point where they ask what you need the money for, you tell them straight up: "I'm going to raise prices, make the product crappier, and convince people they love it even more."

#enshittification #SaaS #VentureCapital #Software



☕ Coffee is a liquid hug for your brain. ☕


Moraes determina cumprimento de pena de Cid e retirada de tornozeleira


Mauro Cid pode perder benefícios de delação por omitir plano para matar Lula e Moraes
Por Cézar Feitoza (Folhapress) – O ministro Alexandre de Moraes, do STF (Supremo Tribunal Federal), determinou nesta quinta-feira (30) o início do cumprimento da pena do tenente-coronel Mauro Cid, condenado a dois anos de reclusão, em regime aberto, pela participação na trama golpista de 2022. O militar deve participar de uma audiência no Supremo na […]




🏛️ Política e globalismo

“Enquanto muitos acreditam que a política é apenas sobre eleições, na verdade ela é o campo onde interesses globais decidem o futuro de nações inteiras. Quem realmente controla o poder?”
#Política #Brasil #Globalismo #Geopolítica youtube.com/watch?v=CA24d00bDI…




I got a new phone and I clearly need to disable the Google AI "helper" that is tied to search. @pluralistic has written about #enshittification, and #AI is going to enshittify things faster than ever.

I asked Google to give me the time around the nurburgring for an Audi S6 e-tron. And I got the following response, which is mind-blowing since I drive the damn car.

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in reply to Kierk or gaanks

@Kierkegaanks
That is true, but it didn't say there were no test runs of a model with that name, it said there isn't a model with that name.

It doesn't make any distinction between those two statements other than word frequencies in the context of the training data and prompt. The idea that they *mean* different things and one is true and the other is not just doesn't enter the calculation. There's nowhere for it to go in the calculation.




Poll results: Around 80% of Palestinians in the West Bank want the group’s armed wing to maintain its weapons (~70% of Palestinians in the occupied territory overall).

"Among Palestinians, support for Hamas has increased over the last two years."

The West Bank is governed by the Palestinian Authority, dominated by Hamas’s secular rival, Fatah.

middleeasteye.net/news/overwhe…

#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #WestBank #Hamas #CeasefireDeal #Fatah #PA #Press #News #BDS #palestine @palestine .

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🏛️ Política e globalismo

“Enquanto muitos acreditam que a política é apenas sobre eleições, na verdade ela é o campo onde interesses globais decidem o futuro de nações inteiras. Quem realmente controla o poder?”
#Política #Brasil #Globalismo #Geopolítica youtube.com/watch?v=ihp6izh846…



Belkin has decided to brick a bunch of smart devices their customers thought they owned.

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in reply to Simon Phipps

I mean, are we ready to have tons of electronic waste just like that? As far as I can understand, the EU Directive on the Right to Repair can help, but it does not manages the problem on a large scale. I don't know if larger regulations such as the ESPR are going to fix this... @eupolicy.social
in reply to 🔸Daniele Turra🔸

@RookieNerd
The #CRA will change the expectations as well, but fundamentally closed devices dependent on closed services are a very negative pattern.
@eupolicy.social


There was no way #Canva could resist destroying #Affinity. The scorpion always stings the turtle, and so yet another great piece of software has succumbed to corporate enshitification.

Don't give a dime to #Adobe, or this bullshit 'AI' that none of us wants or needs. Instead give your money to your favorite free (as in liberty) and open source graphics projects. Those projects are the only way we'll ever be free of these idiots!

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As we feared, all previous versions of #Affinity have been deprecated and replaced with a new freemium version— and a funnel to Canva, which acquired developer Serif over a year ago.

Up-sales are AI features, and the functional, pay-once versions have been removed from stores for Apple products. No details on how long the license activation services for V1 and V2 will remain, so even if you bought it, someday you won’t be able to install it.

Was my favorite tool, I’m devastated. 🙁

#art

in reply to EVHaste

Taking license activation servers offline ought to be illegal, or at the very least, doing so should constitute allowing people to reverse engineer and circumvent license action steps.

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in reply to Cassandra is only carbon now

@xgranade I agree. I think companies should be required to update products to not require DRM when it is longer sold and supported.

Or at least that communities should be permitted, legally, to do that work themselves.

It’s effectively abandonware.

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@xgranade

If you are in EU, then I have good news!

Recently there was a StopKillingGames EU petition, that will force the EU parliamentarians to say, one way or the other, whether such actions as taking away the ability to use a software after someone has paid for it is illegal or not. This should force a lot of markets to conform to the EU market as well as they are quite huge.

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/…

stopkillinggames.com/

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in reply to EVHaste

Hey, sharing this because I think you and others would benefit from it. I am somewhat more optimistic about today’s moves, but I think it should be easy to access the old versions of Affinity.

writing.exchange/@ernie/115466…

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Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had a whopping “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/h0f5MHG

trib.al/vXp5rHf



I’m so proud.

Our 18yo played in a school drama production of The Wave tonight, with his entire class.

They were given a lot of room for creative decisions, and made good use of it. The mood was oppressive and scary, and the relevance to current events was crystal clear.

Some people apparently complained that their interpretation was too radical. I told him that if art doesn’t hurt at least a bit, it’s just decoration.

#parenting

in reply to Rocketman

They came up with a different ending. They introduced a meta level, with a team of directors that goes full Nazi.

They included a less-than-subtle allusion to an incident a couple of years ago, when some classmates threw a Nazi salute “for fun”. (Those classmates were gone from the school by the end of the week.) They picked an uncomfortably indecisive ending.

All that takes creative courage.

in reply to Rocketman

Cleaning up after the play, I spotted a copy of @pluralistic ’s Little Brother backstage.

The kids are alright.



🏛️ Política e globalismo

“Enquanto muitos acreditam que a política é apenas sobre eleições, na verdade ela é o campo onde interesses globais decidem o futuro de nações inteiras. Quem realmente controla o poder?”
#Política #Brasil #Globalismo #Geopolítica youtube.com/watch?v=3_jH96P9kB…




Google's phone security is crap, according to a leaked presentation of a hacking tool widely used by law enforcement -- and no doubt corporations and crooks, too.

I'd bet that this insecurity is deliberate, given Google's increasing friendliness with fascists.

404media.co/someone-snuck-into…


Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details


Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones, according to a forum post about the leak and 404 Media’s review of the material.

The leak follows others obtained and verified by 404 Media over the last 18 months. Those leaks impacted both Cellebrite and its competitor Grayshift, now owned by Magnet Forensics. Both companies constantly hunt for techniques to unlock phones law enforcement have physical access to.

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in reply to Dan Gillmor

AFAICT, GrapheneOS comes out looking a lot better than stock Android from Google.

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in reply to Dan Gillmor

So Google's official O.S. is easier to compromise then a custom fork and it's offical Play Store is full of malicious apps with billions of downloads but somehow kneecapping Fdroid is gonna make us more secure...


2 Muslim doctors have been performing illegal surgeries on young girls in Minnesota as part of “Shia Muslim religious practice”

“Security camera footage, some taped phone conversations and the testimony from 2 very young girls who say they were taken to that clinic where they experienced unthinkable pain”

They were performing Female Genital Mutilation, “it will be in that hearing when more will be presented about religion, culture, tradition versus federal law that prohibits the cutting of the genitals of young girls to keep them from being sexually active later in life.”

“They do have a very strong religious belief.”

The doctors say the surgery was a “Shia Muslim religious practice”

‘“Shia Muslim religious practice” or rite-of-passage ritual’"

Doctor charged in mutilation case
youtu.be/gBwr-eEGn2U

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes
x.com/i/status/198367310914538…

#FemaleGenitalMutilation #Livonia #Michigan #FGM #Islam #Islamophobia #CompelledSpeech #Atheist #Atheism #ThoughtControl #BanShariaLaw #Misogyny #WomanHate #Rape #SexualAssault #MaleSexualPolitics #Atheist #Atheism #MVAWG #MaleViolence #WomensOppression #WomensEmpowerment #HumanRights #Feminism #Feminist #RadicalFeminist #RadFem



🏛️ Política e globalismo

“Enquanto muitos acreditam que a política é apenas sobre eleições, na verdade ela é o campo onde interesses globais decidem o futuro de nações inteiras. Quem realmente controla o poder?”
#Política #Brasil #Globalismo #Geopolítica youtube.com/watch?v=0mN9x-UuUU…



Pedro annuncia l’addio alla Lazio, è l'ultima stagione
https://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/2025/10/31/news/pedro_addio_lazio_ultima_stagione-424949806/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Calcio e sport @calcio-e-sport-repubblica



Amazon запускає продаж нових смарт-колонок Echo Dot Max і Echo Studio, створених для Alexa+ '#technews''#itnews''#opensource''#freeinternet' - gagadget.com/uk/681668-amazon-…


Last night the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce hosted a live candidate forum for this year's municipal election. If you missed it, you can watch the recording at
dovernh.viebit.com/watch?hash=…

#newhampshire #politics #dover



🏛️ Política e globalismo

“Enquanto muitos acreditam que a política é apenas sobre eleições, na verdade ela é o campo onde interesses globais decidem o futuro de nações inteiras. Quem realmente controla o poder?”
#Política #Brasil #Globalismo #Geopolítica youtube.com/watch?v=LTDPMlKXkO…



Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.3B vs. $1.25B est., forecasts Q4 sales above est., agrees to buy identity platform Stytch; TWLO jumps 8%+ after hours (Chris Ciaccia/Seeking Alpha)

seekingalpha.com/news/4511471-…
techmeme.com/251030/p57#a25103…

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