I like to think the delay is justified by the fact that IF you think in terms of 1800s tech, America is huge and it can take a while for horses to pull a wagon from sea to shining sea.
It's November 1860 and you just won your election to be the new Senator from Oregon. You have two months to get to DC. Can you do it? (Yes, you can do it in a "mere" 3-4 weeks thanks to rail. But before rail? No way two months is enough.)
The first thing will probably be to do something think of the children bullshit to ban local AI instances.
Are you seeing a lot of support for the "people should be forced to use a data center to run AIs, instead of being allowed to do it at home using solar power" position?
What I saw last week, is that "think of the children" means that no one should ever fucking ever let a Republican anywhere within ten feet of a child, rather than it meaning we need to give data centers a monopoly on running AI.
The RAM crisis is it. This is the high-water mark on suppressing competition. It was a clever move, but the consumer market isn't going to tolerate electronic gizmos and video games being expensive forever. As soon as someone decides they want money and opens another RAM factory, the AI companies are in trouble. They have this brief pre-Personal-Computer-Revolution situation going on like 1960s IBM, and the 1970s are coming to fuck their shit up.
Yo dawg, I heard you like DMCA, so I sent you a DMCA notice (Title 17 Section 512) about DMCA-prohibited circumvention (Title 17 Section 1201).
The only thing worse than not having metrics...
Big companies are almost always stupid.
Organizations measure what is easy for them to measure, not what actually matters. The drift between what matters and what gets measured always produces dumb behaviors.
Measuring token usage is perhaps a proxy for "is this person trying to use AI?". That question is only interesting if you are quite confident that at some point, your staff will be able to grow the business value they produce as a result of using AI.
What you actually should measure is business value delivered. Companies are bad at that (Because its difficult), So instead they Measure what is easy to measure, and they don't test the assumption that AI helps staff deliver more BV.
At my small software company, having developers use Claude is delivering tremendous BV. We are getting higher quality PRs, code reviews, and built software, and we are getting it faster. We are getting MUCH faster bug investigations. Overall time to fix is down. We are shipping faster and we are paying down technical debt.
(we may be accumulating new technical debt we don't see yet. time will tell)
The law doesn't explicitly define the term repeat infringer, nor does it say how many piracy accusations it takes before a subscriber can be cut off.
[emphasis mine] Surely they mean convictions, no?
Why would accusations be relevant? I accuse every single member of the Mexican government of having violated the copyright on my work, four times each. They all did it four times. No, I can't prove it, but the accusation stands.
The cheap way to get into graphene is to get a used Pixel 7a off of Ebay or Backmarket.
Make sure you don't get the verizon specific mmWave SKU. You need one that advertises itself as OEM Unlockable / Bootloader Unlockable. Verizon SKUs aren't.
(Some Ebay sellers give you the model # and some even show the specific phone with the OEM unlocking flag available. Backmarket doesn't let you specify you don't want the broken garbage verizon sku, so be prepared to return a few until you get one that isn't defective)
GrapheneOS is fantastic. I've been running it for over a year, and it's what I've mandated that my teens have on their phones also.
You should read up on what GrapheneOS actually does. Most google apps will work on it, if you want them to.
My daily driver user profile has no google apps installed nor google services enabled. I have an alternate user profile with sandboxed google play enabled, where I can run google maps or a handful of other dumb apps, when/if I want to. Even then, sandboxed google play (GrapheneOS exclusive feature) is a much better implementation than running the same app on a vanilla google phone. And, when you don't need that specific app, and are logged out of the "worse privacy" profile, the app and the google services are 100% inert.
I take a different view towards things: if the _only_ way I can use a service is to use their shitty mobile app, then I try very hard not to do business with that company at all.
Waymo, for instance, absolutely refuses to run on Graphene because they want strong integrity/attestation. Note that in the case of GrapheneOS, a GOS device is _more secure_ and _more trustworthy_ than any other consumer android advice. So app developers using the Google integrity APIs in such a way that Graphene is blocked are not interested in security, they are either stupid or are are interested in exfiltrating your data, so much so that if they cannot have their data harvesting rootkit on your phone, they refuse to let you use their service. So idiots, evil, or evil idiots. Inany of those cases, why would you run those apps? Why would you do business with those entities?
In my daily driver profile, I use almost exclusively FOSS apps.
GrapheneOS + immich + NextCloud does a pretty good job of completely replacing the google stack for someone who is privacy concious and into self-hosting.
When talking to nosy people or organizations, I just tell them I don't have a smartphone. We should all vigorously resist the idea that having a smartphone running corporate spyware is a requirement for modern life. In government, and also in our consumer choices.
It's important to keep using accurate language if you want to think clearly about things.
That sounds like a good idea, until someone says the word "hacker" and then you realize you lost the debate decades ago.
Words' meanings change, and nobody can ever do anything about it.
Excuse me, have you been alive for the last 2 years?
The last 2 years is over, and there's gonna be big changes. This is the month that the new Grand Theft Auto comes out.
No, he's telling the truth: Internet Explorer is deeply integrated into Windows.
Oh shit, sorry! I thought you were talking about someone else. Never mind.
Why would a manufacturer's device need a trusted introducer to communicate with that same manufacturer? Vizio can be its own CA. There's no intermediary between themself and themself.
From a 1960s comedy:
Interviewer: "Have you ever had any experience running a high-speed digital electronic computer?"
Virgil: "Yes, I have."
Interviewer: "Where?"
Virgil: "My aunt has one."
It was an absolutely absurd thing to say in 1967, but in 2026 the joke is about as dated as anything can be. I wonder if young people today even get it.
I don't know when you went larval, but your low uid suggests it was probably a very long time ago. I speculate that a few decades back, a type of tool once thought to be for business (which IBM had earlier predicted had a worldwide market size of about a half dozen) somehow fell into your hands, and you fell in love at a personal level. No? Did I guess right?
In a lot of industries, people learn about tech at work first, and then maybe adopt it personally. But with computers, at least for GenX-and-later, it mostly worked in the reverse: you get a personal computer and master it, and then when you're 18 you show up at a business totally loaded with years of experience and skills.
Why? Because unlike Bessemer converters or bucket wheel excavators or magnetic resonance imaging machines, computers are cheap. All the "capital" (if you can even honestly call it that) you need is just a few thousand dollars at most, maybe even just a few hundred.
The way things have worked in the last few decades (I'd think especially for old Slashdotters) is that the "professional" tool was already very familiar long before you got the job where you work with it. And anything involving cheap electronics is going to remain like that. Unless it's just totally illegal, there's no way millions of people aren't going to have it and use it personally.
Just ban them all in public, except perhaps for people with special needs (who could wear e.g. bright red ones with polkadots -- that nobody else wants to).
All the crap I wrote above was just to say: special needs is everybody. Don't hop in your time machine and tell 1979-me that I can't use a computer, or I'll become a very angry kid, and by 1984 I would consider it an inexcusable Act of War.
Now if you wanna mandate wearable displays be bright red with polka dots, you might get away with that. But don't be surprised if you end up changing fashion itself. Wearable displays don't really appeal to me yet (they haven't been commoditized where I can choose from many manufacturers, all of whose product can run the same defacto-standardized Free Software, just like how an x86 motherboard can) but maybe some day the market will produce a wearable display that I would be willing to use.
If it's bright red with polka dots, then I just might end up losing the black-band-shirt-and-jeans look, and start dressing like the love-spawn of Liberace and Quetzalcoatl, just so my glasses match the rest of me.
I loved that book but it was a thick one and a long time ago, so I don't remember that specifically. But I believe you.
I am reminded of Ted K's writings - specifically on the enablement-virtuous-cycle between tech level, state control, authortarianism, etc.
The replacement of uniform broadcast media with "decentralized" culture and media has thrown a wrench in things. The tech we had in the 50s-80s enabed one form of mass control. The changing tech broke those specific mechanisms, but the System responded.
The fight over control of twitter was actually like trying to re-litigate WW1 The dying princes of the dying imperial system were all trying to install their preferred ruler; not realizing that decentralization had already won.
People will occupy twitter if they can, but holding that territory was already non-essential by the time it changed hands.
The system response has certainly not let go of trying to reclaim overt control over all top-100 information warfare tiles on the board, but has invested in subterfuge and compartmentalization as well.
If the system cannot control a single monoculture, it is also happy to have significant influence over 100 microcultures that are functionally disjoint with non-porous boundaries.
Ted K would say that America has become functionally ungovernable. I agree. We have much evidence of being a failed state. Now, if you shut off the internet and the news, and just went about your life, you might not see any evidence of it. But we are sort of like an observer on the ground, watching a plane fly overhead at FL350. The plane's engines are out because it is out of gas. From the ground, to us, it looks fine. It looks like every other plane. It will stay up there, really high, for a good long while. It will have passed out of our view by the time it has lost enough altitude to notice.
But the plane is doomed. The people onboard know. The people with the right sensors know.
America is like that plane. It is going to fall out of the sky. But most observers don't know that yet.
Internet censorship won't restart the engines. That doesn't mean they won't keep trying anyway.
searches made through its AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search
Have you thought about disabling AI Mode and returning customers to traditional search? It'll not only make you more money, but result in happier users too. Everyone-except-Nvidia wins.
Tivo broke Civilization.
The olds will remember.
In the early 80s, every American watched the same TV programs at the same time. LIve, broadcast TV. It was the national American culture. Everyone at work and at school the next morning talked about their shared experience and varying reactions to the BroadCast that The Party had shown them the prior night.
Cable TV - by offering a few more channels - had _some_ impact on the "breakup" of America.
But it was Tivo - mass-scale consumer time shifting. Americans no longer watched all the same propaganda at the same time.
The monoculture started to crack.
The rest of it is downstream from there. The bigs tried to retain their control of culture and opinion, but it became too fragmented and too decentralized. They couldn't.
Nobody is mad about the internet. They are mad they don't control the internet.
Live free or die.
