Not sure what crypto we’re talking about here, but most crypto coins (e.g. bitcoin) are also easily traceable, as all transactions are public. It’s true that they’re not reversible and that certainly offer less protection than a bank account, but also offer other things e.g. more privacy and decentralized infrastructure, which can be useful even to non criminals.

Also once again, if one needs absolutely no traceablilty (ok fine, almost no traceability) then cash is still king and criminals use that as well, or sometimes gift cards and prepaid cards. Should we ban cash and gift cards? (hmm gift cards maybe…)

What I’m trying to say is, crypto is just a tool and it’s up to us to use it in a good or bad way. Unfortunately, most people seem to have chosen the second option.

This could’ve easily happened over his bank account online password instead of crypto, don’t blame crypto here, blame human greed.

Artificial Insanity?

That’s a far cry from genocide though

A cutlery knife is not a butter knife, most are sharp and definitely capable of killing someone. Again doesn’t justify the cops acting in such disproportionate manner, but … definitely not the same as a straw.

Fully agree the cops went too far with how they treated him, definitely didn’t deserve to die.

Ok, I understand the officers likely used excessive force and this guy maybe had dementia or something but …

Burgess […] was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife

Sorry, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for this old man.

It’s an extension so it can be deactivated

Article says:

[…] then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So… maybe you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore. Not cool, microsoft (but totally expected).

One thing I don’t like though, the article says:

then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So … you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore? not cool, it I interpreted it correctly.

For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren’t that good.

it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested

At my last job there were several people using copilot very successfully, some even had the paid subscription, and clearly it was very useful to them. I tried it and found it not that good, barely saves me any time and sometimes actively wastes time, but that’s me. I won’t judge if others want to use it, as long as the code gets reviewed by humans, like during a pull request (and it was, in our case).

It’s just a tool. Just because I don’t find it very useful, I shouldn’t tell others not to use it.

“pro life”

I guess I misunderstood what you meant. I stand by my words though: If a mother, who wanted the child, is now all of a sudden braindead, it makes a lot of sense to try to save the baby. This is of course not the case in the article, because the fetus is not in good conditions and probably dead already, so I agree in this case it makes no sense.

Yes, generally if a mother was pregnant and now she’s braindead, it makes sense to keep her alive until her child is born, but if you read the article, the fetus suffered complications and is likely braindead as well, so it might be a stillbirth or just suffer and not live for very long, so it’s a bit more complicated

Gmail, outlook web, whatsapp web, slack web … just some examples of webapps that I use or used in the past that someone might legitimately want notifications from. Maybe you don’t use them, or are not required to use them for work, and that’s fine.

The article is specifically talking about android though, and there you’d most likely use an app for those, so I personally never needed them on mobile, but I can see someone else might need them.

Hasn’t been true for my past two jobs at least (US based), what I do outside of company premises / my own hardware and my own time is mine. They only own what was done on company’s dime. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but that’s not my experience so far, and I’m not sure if would be legal.

I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it’s the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.

Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.

Al Jazeera is fine, not perfect (who is?), but definitely fine

The usual “free speech as long as you agree with me”

If they are the minority, why does Netanyahu keep getting reelected?