a user pretending to espouse paranoid delusions received reinforcement from GPT-4o, which praised their supposed clarity and self-trust

This may be the next big sabotage of society.

Algo-driven unregulated social media pushed negative views, division, misinformation, while opening the platforms to manipulative content producers and connecting positive as well as negative influences (like finding communities of extremism).

If unregulated AI interfaces get pushed to people, they will not critically verify, but be confirmed in their own and the AIs biases, without any obvious indicators that this is happening.

Good thing we see some kinds of positive regulation. Like them pulling this model, interfaces adding disclosures of AI and uncertainty, and regulation by law.

Both are valid considerations, but I find the large shift to time spent on social media apps a much more compelling argument.

Indie games are part of the industry too, so I don’t think they’d be losses in accumulated industry revenue. The small and niche indies probably don’t have much of an impact on the market as a whole.

I also think the big titles largely marketed towards the general people and casual gamer. And I have to assume that still works the same way. They buy the popular marketed title, or on their console digital store. They don’t care as much about classics or indies [outside of the store’s popular titles].

You could say “batteries included… in the article”

I don’t see how that defies Trump. Trump is and was not part of negotiations or deals between these parties.

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In the new study, the vast majority of the microplastics were concentrated on the root caps of the plants, a protective structure on the tip of the plant’s roots. A smaller amount was observed in the roots themselves, and even less was found in the stem. No plastic was detected in the leaves.

Notably, removal by binding them, not dissolving them.

I don’t get why you would then suggest farming the leaves only. The microplastics are still in the environment then.

Especially the burning example, wouldn’t collecting the whole plant and burning the roots too remove the microplastics from the environment instead of only binding them?

uBlock Origin still functions the same. I doubt it’ll die in the foreseeable future because there’s interest in it, and moreso than in NoScript (my assumption anyway).

The uBlock Origin introduced https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home to cover the manifest v3. It’s a separate software. The original uBlock Origin remains functional like before.

Regarding the earlier point, this lite FAQ entry sounds to me like the main author is more committed to origin than lite.

Username checks out.

Sometimes a different approach or technology changes extrapolation limitations.

I was interested but a quick search did not reveal how they implement it.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/byd-confirms-1000v-super-e-platform-fast-charging-400km-5-minutes/ at least has a little more technical information; “unveiled its new 1,000V Super E-Platform, capable of charging 1MW+ (1,000 kW) rates”

The first kid test they did with both auto-pilot and self-driving (or whatever you call that). Was that different for the later tests?

and even with that he apparently manually disengaged it before impact

Source?

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also

Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, “You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.”

Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.

So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you’re (probably) good to go.

poly means many

so if both mono and poly are in monopoly, why do you only pick mono, or why does only mono matter here?

The announcement blog post linked on the bottom of the linked Turnstile page has some info on that

For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser. The current deployment of Turnstile checks billions of visitors every day, and we are able to identify browser abnormalities that bots exhibit while attempting to pass those tests.

Since Cloudflare published Turnstile I’ve hated Captchas even more, because Turnstile does it so much better. Captchas are such a hassle. One website I occasionally visit does not keep me logged in and then presents one of the worst captcha puzzle systems. Shitty captchas are a huge barrier.

Turnstile is, in almost all cases, one checkbox to click (I’ve never been challenged beyond that). All captcha puzzles should be replaced with Turnstile or similar simple (for the user to solve) tech.

we do so via a large-scale (over 3, 600 distinct users) 13-month real-world user study and post-study survey

results indicate that the website context directly influences (with statistically significant differences) solving time between pass- word recovery and account creation.

We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated.

I read one news about a community ban, and that was about calls to violence and doxxing over days, resulting in a temporary community ban. Not merely talking about Elon. I don’t think that would be handled much differently on any other decent platform.

Have there been other instances of bans?

I wonder how many software devs and admins now weigh their morals. And how many reject to implement or not.

going on the main project

Sounds more like they’re just making sure the plugin is compatible on release of GIMP 3.0. It’s still a [separate] plugin.