hypothesis (u/hypothesis)

hypothesis commented on Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/c420

_DeadFred_ · 2 months ago

This is why people hate modern tech companies. They don't optimize for efficiency and providing the best service, they optimize for profit in 500 different messed up manipulative ways. I don't want to have a 'social credit score' to manage while on vacation in the form of my AirBnB rating. I don't want to gamify between two apps to get a ride. But tech says 'do it or we'll exploit you'.

Modern tech business models make you pay a tax to not waste mental energy on their BS games and it gets exhausting. So you stop and resent the companies for ripping you off/manipulating you. I hope that frustrations comes back to bite them and instead of being special darlings with regulation carveout's they become the most regulated industry.

hypothesis · 2 months ago

> So you stop and resent the companies for ripping you off/manipulating you

It will probably work for both sides, as the only people left are either ok with that or clueless, perfectly self selected.

hypothesis commented on I feel open source has turned into two worlds utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/sdht0

jsnell · 3 months ago

> If you contribute nothing and demand security fixes, then you’re not a leecher — you’re a parasite, because your demands exceed your contributions;

There's the "demand" word again. Who is that demanded something from the maintainer, and where? I saw no indication in the original bug of any demands from big tech companies.

(Just the act reporting a security issue is not a demand. A verifiable bug is a bug whether it was reported or not, and reporting one is a contribution.)

When the demand part of your torrent-inspired equation is zero, how is it leeching? It's just zero, no matter what the earnings are.

hypothesis · 3 months ago

Just looking at a few previous issues:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/905#note_243...

hypothesis commented on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests cnn.com/2025/06/09/politi... · Posted by u/sapphicsnail

EGreg · 3 months ago

What happened to all those safe active denial systems?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System

hypothesis · 3 months ago

> modifications or misuse by an operator could nevertheless turn the ADS into a more damaging weapon which could potentially violate international conventions on warfare

Safe? When manned by actors known to shoot journalists in the head with “less lethal” weapons?

hypothesis commented on Social Security Admin to require in-person ID checks for new&existing recipients apnews.com/article/social... · Posted by u/petethomas

hypothesis · 6 months ago

> they just need to find a local young person that is willing to help them handle the requirements online

Is that an officially published guidance? Because it sounds awfully close to “social security/ballot harvesting” and will surely backfire on those old people.

hypothesis commented on Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months theverge.com/news/632108/... · Posted by u/quyleanh

hypothesis · 6 months ago

Another sus thing about this Password app is what “App Privacy Report” shows.

Sometimes it would increment counters for visited sites without you using the app, which likely means that sites are able to track you if you have an entry in Passwords.

Alternatively, some sites do not show up in logs even though icon shows up for a site/password entry.

hypothesis commented on No one knows what the hell an AI agent is techcrunch.com/2025/03/14... · Posted by u/marban

kemotep · 6 months ago

Microsoft literally renamed their Office Suite to more prominently feature Copilot.

hypothesis · 6 months ago

Facebook is now Meta and no one cares about the supposed titular product anymore.

hypothesis commented on Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS icann.org/en/announcement... · Posted by u/radeeyate

scarab92 · 6 months ago

As I understand it, Verisign doesn't own the .com TLD, they are just a contracted service provider to ICANN.

Which begs the question, why doesn't ICANN just replace Verisign them with a different authoritative register that charges much less?

hypothesis · 6 months ago

That’s a “$1.56 billion” question…

hypothesis commented on Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 chipsandcheese.com/p/rayt... · Posted by u/rbanffy

999900000999 · 6 months ago

X86 is still needed for a lot of software. The emulation just isn't there yet.

hypothesis · 6 months ago

That would be news to people on mac with Rosetta Stone / Crossover.

hypothesis commented on Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 chipsandcheese.com/p/rayt... · Posted by u/rbanffy

999900000999 · 6 months ago

R&D isn't free.

Even selling at cost is a subsidy.

I'm proud to support them. Intel is also selling their lunar lake chips fairly cheaply too. Let's all hope they make it through this rough patch. I can't imagine a world where we only have one x86 manufacturer.

hypothesis · 6 months ago

> I can't imagine a world where we only have one x86 manufacturer.

Does it even matter? Some people won’t notice even if there are zero x86 manufacturers.

In fact I would say lots of people have not bought x86 CPU in while, between Mac, RPi and risc-v boards…

hypothesis commented on Nervous international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/geox

apical_dendrite · 6 months ago

The government is claiming that their decisions are not reviewable by the courts. If the courts accept that argument, then tomorrow the President could proclaim that we are being invaded by, say, the Yakuza, and send any non-citizen Japanese person to a prison in El Salvador and the courts would have no power to question them.

There is nothing stopping the President from using this enormous, unchecked power against his political opponents.

Read the motion I linked above.

hypothesis · 6 months ago

> tomorrow the President could proclaim that we are being invaded by, say, the Yakuza, and send any non-citizen Japanese person to a prison in El Salvador

Why would he do that? Manzanar is much closer and successfully tested even against citizens.

I’ve heard that interned Japanese-American did not like to bring the whole thing up afterwards, but it was clearly a mistake trying to memory hole that abomination.

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