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petcat commented on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies   ftm.eu/articles/europe-he... · Posted by u/Fnoord
qwertox · 8 hours ago
Cookie warnings are a sign of companies not willing to accept that they cannot just collect data on you and monetize it.

How does that make the EU regulation something bad? The bad thing is that the companies are willing to bombard us with the worst possible cookie banners, in order to monetize our visits.

Maybe the next EU regulation should be to prohibit those banners and allow companies to add a small toggle somewhere on their site so we can toggle it to allow them to set 3rd-party cookies.

petcat · 8 hours ago
> The bad thing is that the companies are willing to bombard us with the worst possible cookie banners, in order to monetize our visits.

The EU's own government websites [1] are littered with the same cookie banners. They want the visitor data just as bad as everyone else.

> Maybe the next EU regulation

We don't need anymore EU regulations seeing how bad and thoughtless they already are.

[1] https://european-union.europa.eu/

petcat commented on SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens   zknill.io/posts/sse-sucks... · Posted by u/zknill
devnull3 · a day ago
> the model has to re-run the generation, and the client has to start receiving tokens from scratch again.

I don't understand. The payload can be designed to have sequence number. In case of reconnect, send the last known sequence number. Sounds like a application level protocol problem and not transport. Am I missing something?

The pub/sub mentioned in the article essentially does the same thing.

petcat · a day ago
The blog author is confusing SSE the protocol itself, with how the application is typically implemented. SSE is great and can trivially be implemented in a way that allows history, catch-up, and resuming. The "Pub/Sub" mentioned at the end of the exact application of SSE that the author wants.
petcat commented on Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil   justice.gov/usao-sdia/pr/... · Posted by u/737min
petcat · a day ago
It is absolutely material to this story though? These people will likely serve their jail or prison sentence and then be forcibly returned to China where they will immediately undergo their re-education.

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petcat commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence   whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis
DannyBee · a day ago
Except it does literally nothing since EO can’t preempt state law
petcat · a day ago
It could have some teeth considering that the whole point is the executive office is going to establish a task force that investigates state laws in opposition of this federal deregulation of AI. Any states deemed to be out of sync will have certain kinds of federal funding cut from them.

There are a lot of states, and especially state universities, that will not like that.

petcat commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence   whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis
reeredfdfdf · 2 days ago
Median income doesn't tell much if you don't factor in the cost of living. My salary sucks compared to what I would earn in America, but when I factor in things like free healthcare, daycare and higher level education, I'm better off here.
petcat · a day ago
What countries offer free daycare? I know there are a few in Europe. It's not super common, so I'm curious to know where
petcat commented on Async DNS   flak.tedunangst.com/post/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
btown · 2 days ago
For those using it in Python, Gevent provides a pluggable set of DNS resolvers that monkey-patch the standard library's functions for async/cooperative use, including one built on c-ares: https://www.gevent.org/dns.html
petcat · 2 days ago
gevent. Man that's a blast from the past
petcat commented on Litestream VFS   fly.io/blog/litestream-vf... · Posted by u/emschwartz
petcat · 3 days ago
Are people still trying to shoehorn sqlite to run in a server-side context? I thought that was a fad that everyone gave up on.
petcat commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
yladiz · 4 days ago
In the EU you don’t need to upload your ID anywhere, the service can use the government’s portal for ID verification. In the case of age verification they can get a yes/no response if the age is above some threshold. This is opaque to the service so they wouldn’t get any additional ID details.
petcat · 4 days ago
> This is opaque to the service

The "service" is irrelevant. I think most people would trust Porno Hub to be discreet about their visits. That's in their business interest. But now they have to tell your government about all the times you're visiting Porno Hub.

And nobody should trust their government.

Also, keep in mind that western governments share with each other. There will come a time when Australians will try to enter USA but they'll get flagged at the border because the AUS government shared that this particular individual visited Porno Hub and a few other age-restricted websites 7,000 times in the last 30 days. Red Flag!

petcat commented on Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban   politico.com/news/2025/12... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
petcat · 5 days ago
Does the Democratic party actually have a platform capable of beating the incumbent Trump Republicans? Or is it just this kind of stuff? Ban kids from YouTube?

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