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> It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning

She was always with him when he did that. Not the same as him doing it alone.

Regardless, there are local laws against this.


She repeatedly saw him do it safely. Why should she think he wouldn't do it safely if not observed?

Because mom is not around, so now he can go where he wants? You must believe that people in society follow all the expectations? Especially children?

> Regardless, there are local laws against this.

Yeah, but maybe the laws are stupid and should be changed?


How have they had a negative impact? How about google?

Enabled genocide in Myanmar

don't forget LLMs are great at translating between languages, and within the same language. depending on the problem it works on, it will often reach for terminology that tend to be more common or familiar within that problem set. which appears inscrutable, but there's many different ways to skin a cat. just remind it to translate it back to the terminology and subject matter you're already an expert in.


Great idea! After all why reinvent the wheel with TUI libraries built in a popular browser-based front-end javascript framework?


We must stand on the shoulders of giants!


in the future, everyone's glasses will have automatic recording of people.

in the future, everyone's automatic recording of people will be fully accessible to all.

in the future, everyone's glasses will also be AR glasses, enabling everyone to view everyone else's POV at any time.

in the future there will be no privacy, because everyone will be able to watch everyone else.


Yes, but also no.

A longer argument can be put here: https://www.secretbatcave.co.uk/software/we-need-to-talk-abo...

Its perfectly possible that AR glasses could be _more_ privacy preserving than mobile phones. THe problem is, either the market needs to make it financially advantageous to be privacy preserving (yes I can hear the laughing from here) or the legal mechanism by which the end user can request damages from either the user of the glasses, or the maker ofthe glasses, or both.


In this future you describe, you forgot the key feature: that "everyone" is not really "everyone", because if you are not an individual in the system with all this augmentation, you are "no one" and effectively cut out of the economy. so, sure "everyone" will have this, because society will create an environment where the tech have nots are treated as if they do not exist.


Luckily, the future isn't set in stone. I see a ton of skepticism towards this surveillance tech.


>> in the future there will be no privacy, because everyone will be able to watch everyone else.

"Mark Zuckerberg spends $30 million on four homes to ensure privacy" - https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/mark-zuckerberg-spends-...


But some are everyone-er than others.


thats a nightmare for privacy enthusiasts :/


What isn't? It is increasingly impossible to do anything without being monitored and tracked, and that data is aggregated more and more. Cars, TVs, random appliances...


Fully accessible to all? Not when there's money to be made by putting it behind a paywall. Unless it's served with ads I guess.


$100k per month to allow your companies AI to see the vids/pics 100ms earlier than the (billions of) wearers of the glasses.


3GC


I tried googling this, not sure what this is a reference to?


Sorry... It's the corporation at the end of Marshall Brain's story Manna that runs a society where no ones actions are private. Everything is surveilled.


the obvious thing to do is keep using firefox as your daily driver, and load up the other browser as needed for the video etc.

I'm being tongue-in-cheek here because it seems most people just give up on safari/firefox if one thing doesn't work and go to some chromium-based browser as their default driver. That's sad.


I don't understand it. I do keep an ungoogled chromium install around for the few times when I suspect a site is intentionally breaking itself for firefox, and it's not a big deal to open on occasion. Otherwise, if you value customization at all, you have to use firefox.


I am not going to use two separate browsers purely so that a larger percentage of my time is spent in Firefox. That’s not a solution; the solution is to fix Firefox.

I would rather spend 100% of my time in Firefox but that’s not doable right now.


Thats what I do - that 1 page in 100, if at all, goes to chrome. But basically 100% of pages I ever use work fine.

They will have to pry with significant force firefox with ublock origin from my old dusty finger bones... fuck the rest for selling us all out.

Even if it won't move the needle a bit, I can look at myself in the mirror in this specific regard and be content that I didnt bow my head like bland masses did and didnt work towards massive enshittification of our global society from now on.

Because thats what its all about, nothing less. With our choices, we shape future for our kids and grandkids. Shame on you, all you rich faangs who are directly helping this. Godwin's law is never too far in such cases and history wont be kind to you, no reason to be


What you say is what I do, Firefox is open all the time, I switch to brave or edge if ff won't load something. I use adnauseam as adblocker.

I have never had chrome on windows 10 or 11; nor chromium.

For a year chase.com wouldn't allow me to login from Firefox. Dumb.


Did you go to your local Chase branch with Firefox on your phone and pretend you have no idea why it doesn't work?


Online advertising is what drives the desire for user data. Ban online advertising and the demand for user data withers.


A person can choose to ignore or avoid ads, but having their data bought and sold is solidly out of that person's control.


I've always thought that if online advertising as a business model had been entirely banned from the internet in the 90s, the internet would've looked like a much better place today.

And micropayments would've taken off in a big way.

The only reason why micropayments doesn't really exist today isn't due to technical reasons, it's because advertising is too dominant, and because consumers got trained on expecting everything on the internet to be "free", not realizing they're the product.


My carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms or RSI basically went away once I started using a macbook as my primary computer. It definitely doesn't hurt when the trackpad is right below my thumbs.


I once bought a digital/electric pressure cooker for $50 CAD barely used off craigslist in Toronto. They're not that expensive.


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