Depends on the watermark method used. Some people talk about watermarking by subtly adjusting the words used. Like if there’s 5 synonyms and you pick the 1st synonym, next word you pick the 3rd synonym. To check the watermark you have to access to the model and probabilities to see if it matches that. The tricky part about this is that the model can change and so can the probabilities and other things I don’t fully understand.

Was that anything more than just rumors? Letting a currently monopolistic company keep the browser because another bad billionaire might buy it and do something bad with it just prevents anything from changing.

It has to be the employees not the state because companies withhold it and remit directly to the IRS. Not saying you should do this, but if you increase your withholdings exemptions then it won’t go to the IRS. Though you will owe it in April and may have to pay penalties for underwitholding.

Who organized this form? Is there something official to make it look like it’s not just signing me up for spam?

I don’t think there is a technical issue or any kind of complexity at issue here, the problem seems trivial even though I haven’t worked the details. It is moot since it’s broken on purpose to preserve “They’s” business model.

I’m explaining what the technical problems are with your idea. It seems like you don’t fully understand the technical details of these networking protocols and that’s okay but I’ve summarized a few non trivial technical problems that aren’t just people keeping multicast from being used. I assure you if multicast worked, big tech would want to use it. For example, Netflix would want to use it to distribute content to their CDN boxes and save tons of bandwidth.

I don’t know who they is in the case, but let’s think about this for a minute.

Technically what do you need for this to work?

How many Multicast Addresses do you need? How are multicast addresses assigned? Can anybody write to any multicast address? How do I decide that 239.53.244.53 is for my file not your movie? How do we know who is listening? This is effectively BGP, but more tricky because depending on the answer to the previous question you may not benefit from any network block sizes to reduce the routing info being shared. How do you decide when to start transmitting a file? Is anybody listening? Does anybody care?

You seem latched on to assume that technically would work and haven’t asked if it is actually technically a good solution. P2P is going to work better than multicast

Multicast addresses are handled specially in routers and switches all over the world.

Changing that would require massive firmware updates everywhere to get this to work and we can’t even get people to adopt IPv6. Nevermind the complexity in figuring out to how manage IGMP group membership at the Internet scale.

Given the complexity with either change, its better to adopt IPv6 and use PeerTube. Multicast at the Internet scale won’t work and IPv6 is less work

Assuming multicast worked across the internet, it’s not going to work in practice. Multicast works by sending a packet and fanning it out to all receivers.

It works with broadcast TV like IPTV because everybody is watching the same few set of channels at the same time, but on YouTube I can watch any video at any time. How does a mythical Transmitter know what video packets to send when? Are they on loop? Are clients receiving packets for videos they don’t care about?

You might be interested in PeerTube which uses unicast peer to peer to distribute videos in a way that works.

My prediction is that manually reviewing user creation won’t scale to a high level and unless systems develop spam detection and reputation management similar to email then it’s not going to be limited to just one or two bad instances.

Its trivial to create my own instance with a new domain and there’s no limitations against sending ActivityPub messages to a server. Unfortunately the simplest fix is for big instances to restrict what instances can communicate to it, but that causes centralization.

Plus, we don’t need to be huge. There’s no benefit from it.

The benefit is breadth and depth of communities. Reddit is great because if you are interested in a topic, there’s a bunch of people talking about it.

The problem is the payment processor. There’s only so many of them that customers actually choose to use.

How about some Yubikeys or smart cards instead of something that requires me to scan my retina and share it with Sam Altman

Executives have compensation tied to stock price. If the stock price goes down because nobody wants to invest in a bad company, those executives have incentive to become change their ways.

That compensation incentive is also why executives are so short term thinking nowadays.

The stock market is part popularity contest but it’s a lot more complicated than simple statements.

There’s different ways to be ethical in finances.

One option is to just not be anxious about investing in “bad” companies and make money, but then turn around and donate to charities, vote for aligned politicians, and vote in shareholder elections.

Or you could try to invest in “better” companies. ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) based investing has been politicized and isn’t perfect because the scoring can be and is manipulated. But at least it’s trying. For example, normally ETFs management companies take the shares that you effectively own and vote along with the board recommendations which often aligns with making the most money over environmental and social concerns, but funds like $VOTE so those voting rights to vote in ways they think are more ethical. Vanguard has $ESGV. Black Rock, a huge investing company, offers voting choice which allows you to pick alignment strategy. For example, you could pick to vote for environmental reasons and they’ll influence the company that way. Support for that depends on your brokerage and the fund you own.

You could also pick individual stocks and never buy companies that don’t align with your ethics, but that has its own complexities because now you’re actively investing and probably not matching market returns.

Ultimately, ethics aren’t black and white. I don’t try to be perfectly ethical in my investing because it just causes too much anxiety asking is this company bad or good? I invest in broad market funds, I vote in all elections (both shareholder and government elections), I don’t invest in individual companies I don’t agree with, I invest in some climate friendly ETFs, and I donate to charities that I like.

This situation reminds me of a plot in The Good Place, a TV show, about how >!everybody went to the “bad place” because modern society had so many decisions that had small negative consequences.!<

WiFi is on all three bands. It’s not so much what’s newer vs older. Newer devices tend to support 2.4, 5, and 6 and switch between them based on quality of signal and support by the WiFi network. Higher frequencies like 5 and 6GHz are generally better because there’s less interference.

Cheaper devices tend to only support 2.4GHz

Fascinating. Just based on your comment and nothing else, sounds like it could be something like a CPU Enclave like Intel SGX. Basically a remote client can validate that an application runs in a secure part of a remote cloud computer. The stated goal of SGX is that you only have to trust Intel and if you trust Intel and say run program X in the enclave, then only that part of the CPU can access the data, not the applications running in the non-secure enclave.

Now that brushes over some things like you still need to trust the client and IIRC in a WhatsApp situation, you don’t really know what enclave does, but the communications between the enclave and the host OS are heavily restricted. LLMs also require lots of CPU and are usually run on GPUs, so not sure how that works yet.

I think #1 is suggesting to move the neutral over to another hot phase and change the outlet to a 240v nema 6/three prong (I think) with two hots and a ground instead of the 4 prong.

The 240v at the same amps gives you higher watts so faster charging without an expensive new conductor. I’m

Maybe that’s intentional to keep you from wanting to stay there a long time and negotiate.

Sounds a lot like getting used to time zones. Just get used to it being 3pm there when it’s 6pm here

It makes some things hard and some things easier. For example, you can more easily defend against DoS attacks because there’s just more targets.

But decentralized makes it easier for bot manipulation because you can hide your actions across multiple users on different instances and those instances can’t easily identify bot signatures like IP addresses to ban many accounts.

Google is doing this because they have incentives to do so. They want to block malicious actors like attack their platforms.

Other companies want to lock down their own apps because they don’t think users should be permitted to do anything other than use their apps exactly as they want.

I don’t like it as a user, but I also see the reason why companies want this by being on the security side of software.