No longer works on Pixels. Power button long press just brings up some kind of screen management app. There's no straightforward way to power off the device anymore at all. You have to go through a menu and a couple confirms.

Terrible for police encounters.

Judges need to start applying eye watering fines so the message gets through. They have no problem sending a message to drug dealers and murderers. Now step up, do your job, and send a message to your buddies at work.

*there is no useful innovation to be had anymore in the retail space"

I don't know if you can really call it innovation, but I imagine the staff shopper is coming back. You walk up to the clerk and give them your order (or submit online ahead of time). The clerk or shopper loads your bags from the stock room.

This solves several problems in retail that have become very difficult for store owners to deal with. It gets rid of customer theft almost entirely. If moves some of the value add of middlemen, like Door Dash, into the store's revenue stream. It provides upsell opportunities and staff engagement. It allows for more efficient stocking and inventory management for cheap. It addresses customers like the elderly who get overwhelmed by modern consumer choice.

There are downsides. But I think something like this happening more frequently (like the old Service Merchandise store that predated Best Buy) is likely.

Sounds more like the speaker doesn't understand what they're saying.

If you have a problem with automation, you aren't a socialist, you're a Luddite.

There's this thing called a reverse caching proxy that websites used to use back in the day to run efficiently on old hardware. This tech still exists and works wonders on such sites.

If you need to run temporary maintenance, you can pretty easily beef up the instance for a few minutes then go back into serving mode. Or throw up a new instance in front of the same backend DB and use that.

What I'm hearing is: "Vote DSA! We won't let progress stand in the way of a menial job!"

Not necessary. They will find their demands lead to such high prices that they either have to back off on their demands or let the industry (and their job) die.

First, very few people care if they run on lambda.

Second, AWS has a $3/month tier for a dedicated instance. If you can't afford $3/month for your site, it probably isn't worth putting on the web.

This guy is almost certainly not a billionaire. At their peak, he was likely worth half a billion, but that peak was set in a private transaction in a very different economy and before all this chaos.

Translation: we have hit a point where the public backlash has led to untenable increased risks in liability for our criminal actions.

Kids are expected to sit in class for six hours a day then go home and potentially do homework for an hour or two.

You're acting like this is child abuse when it's simply the way kids are almost always treated.

While that's technically true, there's a reason people are asked by police whether they wish to press charges. These companies need to engage with their jurisdictional law enforcement agencies and hand hold them through evidentiary proceedings, but if they want Anthropic charged, they will be.

Apple didn't launch with an app store. It wasn't even a smart phone. Sidekick and the G1 were both smart phones from the kicker.

These companies that were hit should be bringing criminal charges against Anthropic. At the very least, they should be able to pressure Anthropic into providing an IP blacklist to ensure it never happens again.

The original iPhone was a glorified Blackberry. The original Android had an app store.

I was being a bit glib. The iPhone obviously stole from Sidekick before Android came around. Then they started stealing from Android.