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Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” ( www.theverge.com )

Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...

eleitl ,

If you haven't noticed, you've been not paying attention. I canceled Prime a while ago and they try very hard to get you back. And they try to sneak on you billed expedited shipping when over minimum gratis shipping quota. Dark patterns galore.

It would be a major pain for me to boycott them completely so I don't, yet.

eleitl , (edited )

Ok, if you don't use their web site you won't see the UX dark patterns. Trust us, they there and fit with the overall garbagefication theme. Annoys the living shit out of me. At least no more Prime Video UI and ad trainwreck.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

eleitl ,

You forget that nation-states control your ISP. And of course you can choose your VPN provider or run your own.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air ( 9to5mac.com )

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

eleitl ,

You seem to not be using open source software packaged for multiple architectures or which can be built for your binary target. Most people will be just using a browser and an office suite.

eleitl ,

There are diminishing returns in semiconductor photolitho. Moore scaling is long over, absolute real estate see WSI with Cerebras, DC costs and power envelope are all sending a clear message. Quantization is there, so you can go from digital multipliers to analog and go spiking networks, but transformers and Co have little power there.

Also, the kind of economy that can carry Gen AI as business model is not a given, long term.

eleitl ,

Yes orders of magnitude, but not too many of them. The real estate of a 300 mm wafer is limited, the structure shrink is saturating and you can't get too many layers. You still need a packet switched network on the wafer even if the rest is mostly analog. Perhaps spintronics can limit the power requirements too.

eleitl ,

A free running cellular automaton (CA) approach in hardware would work, but each cell would be a much souped up SRAM cell, the interactions would be all local and 2D. Considering Cerebras is 40 G SRAM on the 300 mm WSI and is about at the cooling limit I'm afraid you do not have 5 orders of magnitude. Perhaps reversible spintronics can help with the power draw, but you still have to splat a higher dimensional network so not just local interactions into a 2D array.

eleitl ,

https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/data.html

Make sure you have spare 1400 terabytes.

eleitl ,

Sadly, you can't download the hardware to run models that size.

eleitl ,

Secure has no meaning.

eleitl ,

Factor in power bills and heat and noise into your calculations.

eleitl ,

I would look into thin clients and Lenovo etc. tiny PC for office on eBay. I run old low power low noise rackmount Supermicros which are nice but hard to find at low prices.

eleitl ,

And these power lines into the EU are very easy to disrupt and disrupt again after repairs.

eleitl ,

There is a reason 1984 was written by a Brit.

eleitl ,

Not enough sanctions. More are needed.

eleitl ,

Neat. At 750 Wp I wonder what the EROEI of the installation is.

eleitl ,

Potentially double use for space launches.

eleitl ,

Without VPN or Usenet subscription it's going to be difficult and/or illegal.

eleitl ,

Since most VPNs no longer have port mapping it's a pure download which would make it technically legal e.g. in Germany.

eleitl ,

No port mapping, no upload, so technically legal where only sharing is penalized. IANAL.

eleitl ,

Interesting, wasn't aware. It remains illegal in Germany then, as long as you seed. Notice in Germany you will receive a nastygram in any case as long as you've been identified as a member in a swarm, even if you do not seed. It would be interesting if someone would contest that, though you will likely lose since technical details don't matter in most courts.

eleitl ,

Anemic as it is it's even fake growth. See https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/ for some more real world-relevant metrics.

eleitl ,

LineageOS with Jerboa over Mullvad VPN here. Not many options on mobile devices.

eleitl ,

Too bad Iris production is unaffected.

eleitl ,

360 km or 194 nautic miles is the inter-port distance.

eleitl ,

Things definitely changed. 15-20 years ago you actually got good search results instead of unusable crap we get today.

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