Or phone number. My phone is linked to one in another country. I’ve been here for 3 years.

Yep, same here. Fortunately they don't seem to use it for anything yet, somewhat begging the question of why it's there in the first place. (It doesn't need to be stored in a user-visible way if the only purpose is as a poor/annoying "proof of humanity" against sockpuppet accounts).

Update: I just checked, out of curiosity – seems to be gone now?

It was used to geofence access to some countries a few years ago, if I remember correctly.

There is enough to read between the lines. Dilbert manager has bought into a barely competent app (that they think replaces humans) in a panic because costs. They’ll learn more lessons over the next year, if they survive. The author might be a bit emotionally charged right now and is writing between some lines as they help migrate. Once they have some emotional distance they might write the fully clear article you’d like.

They probably used Claude because that way they don’t get blocked as fast. Websites trust Claude more. And why not use the foreign tools against themselves at presumably discounted rates (see AI losses) rather than burn your own GPU’s and IP’s.

1000’s of calls per second? That’s a lot of traffic. Hide it in Claude which is already doing that kind of thing 24/7. Wait until someone uses all models at the same time to hide the overall traffic patterns and security implications. Or have AI’s driving botnets. Or steal a few hundred enterprise logins and hide the traffic that is presumably not being logged because privacy and compliance.

re: segmenting traffic sources through chat bots and agents

There is an emerging tech Anonymous Credentials that aims to solve this problem

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/privacy-pass/--JXbGvkH...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/private-rate-limiting/

I left a research org because it was basically a professional gatherer and spender of grants. People would make some proposal with a consortium, spend the money, write a paper or two, visit a conference in eg Japan to present it, rinse and repeat. Hated that. Nothing to do with real innovation.

It’s much harder dealing with all the complexities of different devices, screen sizes, OS versions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/applesucks/comments/1k6m2fi/why_do_...

Suggest posting the original:

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...

First AI came for the artists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not an artist

Speak for yourself. I've been shouting against AI from minute 1, in defense of artists and anyone else

It doesn't matter. People are convinced it's a miracle technology, so I'm just a backwards luddite resisting progress

Keep at it, friend. You are not alone.

Thanks, I really appreciate it

It derives from a poem:

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

Developers are hit too, although I don't expect that anyone will be replaced. I think AI is a productivity boost, it just takes less times to solve the small problems and get reasonable advice for aynthing beyond. Perhaps it reduced required headcount to implement some features. But companies that expel their knowledge workers for some AI solution probably won't survive long. Those that understand the tooling advantage, will get ahead though.

I love AI image generation, but many certainly do not enjoy the results. I can see some people skimping on paying artists.

First I thought translators would be hit hard by AI, but you probably still need them as well to be decently sure about correctness.

And it remains true that any creativity produced by AI is basically still just a function of the creativity of other people.

Kind of the opposite of the article’s sentiment

Cubans benefited from the cars being older, simpler, and robust. Imagine freezing car tech now, with so many electronics, far more parts and built to be replaced relatively quickly!

These older cars broke down all the time. There's a reason old American sit-coms have at least some characters always tinkering with their cars: you needed to do that. Nowadays, cars just work.

They also typically dilute human input with self-talk. You can steer them in a direction, but the internal conversation can convince itself otherwise. It’s not frequent but it’s very frustrating when it happens.

In Australia here. I tend to go morning or 3pm. Crowds reduce, UV is lower, sun goes down 8pm in summer (so 3-8 is 5 hours). Anything near midday is silly.

Hill country TX where 8 month out of the year are 35 C daily and way too much humidity.

Agreed, partially. There are times one has to do things when it's blazing hot.

On sunscreens, we're still missing:

- amiloxate

- bemotrizinol

- bisdisulizole disodium

- bisoctrizole

- drometrizole trisiloxane

- tris-biphenyl triazine

While continuing to allow:

- 4-MBC (enzacamene)

- avobenzone

- oxybenzone

- homosalate

- octinoxate

- octocrylene

In the US, buying a safe(r) (for humans and reefs) sunscreen requires a medical and a marine biology degree unless you're willing to slather yourself in white pastes like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. One major barrier is the law demands animal testing prior to approval.

Meanwhile, there are still millions of Americans (mostly men) who routinely venture outdoors for work and projects without sufficient protection and accumulate enough exposure that leads to preventable skin cancer. And I had my fair share of sunburns as an active kid.