Eat your heart out RFC 1149! We're moving up to Layer 7.
Readit Newsrunlevel1 commented on Hacking birds to store images;-) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP... · Posted by u/danielEM
runlevel1 commented on Tough news for our UK users blog.janitorai.com/posts/... · Posted by u/airhangerf15
I personally know how this works in Europe & UK. Not only government, this applies to big companies such as large banks as well. They recruit two kinds of staff. One that works to progress some work and one who puts an many hurdles as possible and call it risk management, compliance, security, regulatory etc (RCSR). They hire approximately 3 times more people into these RCSR positions compared to the technical and real work related positions. These RCSR guys dump thousands of pages of guidelines, making it impossible for any meaningful work to progress. My technical team has been running around for 4 months for approvals for testing an upgrade of a database.
Top management can never go against the RCSR guys, who are like priests of the church in medieval ages. And the RCSR guys have no goals linked to the progress of the real work. The don't like any thing that moves. It's a risk.
Management thinks that RCSR helps with controls around the work. But what happens is, you put more people in building controls, they deliver fort walls around your garbage bins.
In theory, when there's viable competition, a competitor will take advantage of their competitor's overly-cautious interpretation.*
But if the regulation is indeed oppressive or byzantine, everybody hurts and only the biggest survive.
*Social contagion effects on risk perception can be a confounding factor here, though.
> My best guess is that these lines in the prompt were the root of the problem:
The second line was recently removed, per the GitHub: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50...
Those comments... Wild what some people are willing to post under their real name -- and their employer's name.
Looks like they quietly took the message down. For posterity, it said:
> ⓘ Restricted-Access Federal Facility, Effective July 7, 2025
>
> Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public. Security officers will enforce these restrictions, and your cooperation is appreciated.
runlevel1 commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Your smoking gun is to not use the app in the most intuitive and obvious way?
I couldn't search System Settings when I setup my laptop for over an hour because it was indexing files I migrated from my old Mac. It made for a frustrating user experience trying to set this thing up.
runlevel1 commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Even the non transparent stuff looks bad - a plain Finder window:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-tahoe-26-0-beta-1...
Oh dear...
That's worse than I expected.
runlevel1 commented on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests cnn.com/2025/06/09/politi... · Posted by u/sapphicsnail
I’m not sure I understand. Are you saying ICE should deport on.. merit basis? Leave the hardest working immigrants be and deport the lazy ones?
Trump repeatedly said the administration would be targeting 'violent criminals and rapists', 'gang members', and 'heinous monsters' first.
So, you know, maybe they could try to do what they said they'd do for once?
runlevel1 commented on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests cnn.com/2025/06/09/politi... · Posted by u/sapphicsnail
runlevel1 commented on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app techcrunch.com/2025/05/28... · Posted by u/freetonik
> products that look like solutions to other executives but that don't solve any problems problems people in the real world
Enshitification is often a company-wide culture problem, but the fish does rot from the head.
There are a variety of reasons why a company might begin to over-incentivize short-term gain (or high-stakes risk-taking) at the expense of customer happiness and possibly to the detriment of the company's long-term interests.
For example: Growth stagnation, an existential threat, a pessimistic long-term financial outlook, bad reward structure, low customer regard, organizational infighting, low employee retention, etc.
The sudden emergence of AI and volatile economy are triggering several of those for a boat load of companies. And, well, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
Who did? Russell Vought is anti-science but he doesn't know satellites
I doubt Musk has any communication or influence anymore
Someone quietly behind the scenes taking a sledgehammer to society
What the Sea People were to the Bronze Age, these people are to the Information Age. At least in the West.