u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,

Seems like the user tracking “special promotion” overrides the premium. They don’t even say whether it’s expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)

It do be like that sometimes.

Looking through the first one’s content and it seems reasonable? The patent’s abstract is supposed to be as widely applicable as legally permitted, so it’s like a completely different language on top of legalese.

PKD has a novel in the same vein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indefatigable_Frog

Left arm tattoo: do you worst. Problem solved.

Happy [object Object] birthday!

“You don’t need to follow anybody! You are all individuals! You are all different!”

In theory, methods like nightshades are supposed to poison the work such that AI systems trained on them will have their performance degraded significantly.

A rare shot showing sandworms forming a pattern known as OwO.

Linux Foundation (of which Linus is an employee) is an US entity. RISC-V International foresaw this and chose to incorporate in Switzerland.

An update:

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.

(direct link)

That’s more like his opinion or a post facto justification. Turns out it is a US thing.

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.

So to get back, you have to basically prove that you have no relations with OFAC SDN companies.

This update is from https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

POV: you’re Macbeth

Spell out numbers under 10, but not when it’s divisible by three or five.

Did they test it on alligators or really hungry alligators?

Unless you do something special depending on the day (like going to church on Sundays), aren’t the two options the same? They are both 4 up 3 down periods.

Now don’t look at the lamp next to your sofa too closely.

Your money at least.

And that’s why you don’t see cooking mouse no more.

The true fediverse: in JPEG we trust.