They’re a good actual mechanism for spyware, because they see all your traffic.

Https means that they can’t see the actual contents without installing a root certificate, but they can see all the sites you visit and for how long. Reputable providers (at least the good ones) do not log any of this, but you should have a high level of trust in a provider to use their VPN, because they see a lot still.

That doesn’t mean that they didn’t ban legit VPNs. I don’t know. But it doesn’t really qualify as “reporting news” without at least a list of the apps that were banned, because they’re providing no information at all about the legitimacy of the apps, and it’s a category appealing to bad actors.

Like I said, I’m all for it. And I think the current state is definitely too much wasted edible food.

But I think they should also focus on requiring labeling that gives some standardized indicators of spoilage relevant to that specific food.

Most packaged stuff like chips is so full of preservatives it’s pretty unlikely to be unsafe without clear visual indications.

I’m all for clearer labeling, but those dates are still inherently guesses.

If you were hired as remote you have a pretty strong case for constructive dismissal.

I think you’re going to have an uphill battle if you were hired to work in a building and they allowed work from home due to a pandemic. I don’t think being slow getting back to the office is going to win you your case.

I see no mention of what they actually removed or how reputable they are. “VPN apps” are a reasonably common approach to spyware. (Common enough that literally Facebook has done it.)

I have a Boox go color 7 that I have in my pocket a lot. I made a little leather sleeve for it and am frequently tempted to add a couple pockets to the flap and make it my permanent “wallet”. It’s better for reading, anyways, but there’s a lot of software I use that’s only on iOS without an acceptable Android substitute, and it’s also not a phone. (I’d also be perfectly happy with the watch as my “phone” and to carry two small tablets).

But you just can’t fit much on a phone screen.

Yeah. And no phone app.

But that’s my preferred size for sure. I probably won’t bother with a max the next time I get a phone, just because it still isn’t actually big enough for me to justify the price difference.

Exactly. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to wish to bias learning to certain changes in output.

There are no legitimate reasons to do so without acknowledging that you are adding bias and being clear on the intent of doing so.

I’d use the mini if they’d just let me lol.

Statistics are people.

It cannot possibly, under any circumstances, be a correct, reasonable, or valid word choice to describe an “AI” that accurately models reality as “biased”. That word already has a meaning and using it in that manner is a lie.

Bias is an irrational departure from reality. You can want an AI to be biased towards diversity, but that is adding bias, not removing it.

Representative of actually real world statistics is not “bias”.

The pro max is too small.

They should be legally required to refund full purchase price plus interest in every case. If there are legal fees to get compliance, multiply that plus the refund by five.

Except it doesn’t make class actions more expensive, because it removes the step of invalidating the arbitration clause.

Footing the bill for arbitration was pro-consumer. They abandoned the whole thing because of bad faith frivolous lawsuit spam trying to extort settlements, not for any other reason.

Their fundamentals are too strong. They have market dominance with extremely steady technological progress against really bad competition. LLMs aren’t going to disappear when the shitty overpromising bubble pops. Generative AI isn’t going anywhere. Any of the thousands of other uses for their raw power are still there. They’ll just be at the ground floor of whatever the next math heavy hype cycle is, just like they were with crypto and LLMs, because cuda is the best way to get shit done, whether what you’re doing is useful or trash.

Nvidia isn’t going to be holding any bag. They’re selling through what they make, and LLMs are just one of many uses for the massively parallel math they’re at the forefront of. At most they have to bring pricing down, but they don’t own the fab, so if demand did drop (which isn’t really all that likely), their costs will go down too. They have contracts in terms of volume and price, but they’re not near long term enough to do them more than a blip, and all their investment in developing architecture/tooling has value well outside of LLM nonsense.

A disclaimer absolutely doesn’t make it not trademark infringement. It doesn’t even make a dent.

No, it’s not. They’re literally advertising the performance of their altered code.

You keep parroting nominative use and ignoring that your definition of nominative use is “as the trademark owner uses it”, and that there’s no legitimate reading of any of that material that doesn’t very blatantly imply endorsement, which is always trademark infringement.

No, there isn’t. You’re just repeating incorrect information.

The second you change how a project works in any way in any context, it is no longer the same product and you are not entitled to use their trademark to reference it.

Functionally, any scenario where there’s any room at all for brand confusion or implied endorsement is trademark infringement. But even if you buy the outrageous lie that what they were doing was somehow ambiguous, as soon as they were contacted and told that their use was unacceptable, that ambiguity goes away.

There is no debate.

Nominative fair use has no relevance to a separate, competing product. Nominative fair use gives you permission to use the term in the exact manner they do and no more. Their notice that your version is not “WordPress”, in and of itself, completely nullifies the argument.