Obviously I understand what is the purpose and the good intention, but I think sad to see that we are not not anymore responsible adults but big corps deciding for us what we can and what we cannot do. Snitching on your back.
Readit Newsgreatgib commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Power management in all aspects is one big thing that I wish was better in all distros. Hibernate/fans/shorter battery life are real usability things. I only use windows when I am at risk of being fired for not using it and macos is 'acceptable' but there are soooo many little things that make me cringe about it (.DS_Store littering every drive I touch is close to the top) but if I knew I could get mac hardware, including MPS backend working well in pytorch and battery life, with a solid distro guaranteed to work I would definitely buy that over all the pc hardware out there.
My experience with mac is that yes it looks like to have longer battery life with less fan noise sometimes, but it might be by tricking you into a worse user experience of your machine.
For example, you computer to always go to kind of sleep when it is not necessarily what you want.
Like with the memory, you will not see app crashing upfront, but at some point macos stops all the other apps when you switch app. And like going from a web browser window, to a pdf, and back, or from a browser window to another, you will experience something like a 1s delay between your click and the window showing up from being minimized.
The fell fast on the slippery slope in US.
Officials say the reviews will include all visa holders’ social media accounts, law enforcement and immigration records in their home countries, along with any actionable violations of U.S. law committed while they were in the United States.
The reviews will include new tools for data collection on past, present and future visa applicants, including a complete scouring of social media sites made possible by new requirements introduced earlier this year. Those make it mandatory for privacy switches on cellphones and other electronic devices or apps to be turned off when an applicant appears for a visa interview.
greatgib commented on Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider voidfox.com/blog/payment_... · Posted by u/progval
And to note your note, we have those regulations specifically because of repeated bad actors finding ways to exploit consumers, businesses, or markets due to a lack of regulation.
Regulation is not a bad thing, but it has the potential to be a bad thing. Done right, it's meant to protect people from being exploited, fleeced, or harmed; done wrong, it does the exact opposite.
Most banking regulations, at least in my exposure to them (mainly through PCI-DSS and FDIC), are sensible regulations trying to combat known exploits or problems. Yes, it's inconvenient at times for legitimate use cases, but the solution there is making those legitimate cases easier or safer without weakening regulations stopping, slowing, or tracing bad ones.
That is not the regulation that are the one in question here, more FATCA and AML, KYC and co
Honestly, I don't see how one might be proud to need cloudflare just to block simple requests in that range of only 33,000 requests per second at peak.
Not little but even a simple potable rule on a basic server should be able to sustain that easy.
That's the moment that you remember that years ago in self hosted you could have sustained millions request per second on a single low end server for quite nothing.
But now you are "on the cloud", with lambdas because "who cares" and hiring a proper part-time sysadmin is too complicated and so now you are pounded with crazy costs for moderate loads...
greatgib commented on Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider voidfox.com/blog/payment_... · Posted by u/progval
The solution to this issue is regulation, pure and simple. It doesn’t even have to be a complicated bill, either:
“Financial institutions and financial services providers are barred from blocking, interfering with, restricting, or refusing any consensual transaction that complies with laws regarding content, materials, goods, or services.”
Admittedly in the USA this tees up a 1A case over whether companies have freedom of speech (they shouldn’t), but in other jurisdictions it could be the game changer needed to unshackle commerce from the control of a handful of boardroom puritans and risk-adverse compliance departments. If porn has a high rate of chargebacks, then stop allowing them without a higher burden of proof on the person requesting them, for instance. There’s ample room to enforce accountability on consumers and processors without upending the proverbial produce cart.
Just to be noted, we are in this situation especially because there are a lot of terrible regulation in banking that force them to police every single use of your money or take very big risks.
greatgib commented on AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/a... · Posted by u/pulisse
At the moment that the thing is operated and owned by an US company, they are subject to the law and will of the US government and so obviously not sovereign.
I'm wondering if someone could sue them for "deceptive marketing statement" under European law.
Sadly a lot of company will pretend to believe the marketing of aws to have an excuse to use aws and pretend to be using a safe sovereign cloud.
Also, I have doubt that the European employees and entities with all access and review to source code, and everything. It will probably be European technician running black box servers in an European data center.
greatgib commented on Nothing to see here (it was Cloudflare crawler hints) simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/simonw
I'm very curious to know if someone comes with a credible hypothesis about why!