While this is a very real concern; I can't help but think it's over exaggerated? Kids will always find ways around blocks. I know, I too was once a child.
They're already using Google Docs as a chat application in class when social media is blocked. So what are we really trying to do here? Much like prohibition, I suspect we'll see the masses annoyed and inconvenienced, and those who want to find alcohol finding it regardless.
Sometimes I miss the old flash, irc, html tables for layouts internet.
That's not necessarily a position you have to fight. You can also take the standpoint that if the UK government can't protect your private data, then how can a data provider. There are many such cases:
Definitely feels like since AI there's been a shift and it's gone from total head count as a measure of success to revenue per employee as a measure of success. The fewer employees the better.
This has always been true for any mature companies.
The conundrum is that tech companies in particular are really averse to be perceived as mature companies, because their valuations have to be more grounded in reality.
Generally I agree, but there have been some rare occasions where I needed a gif of a screen recording. In that case, finding a nice way to convert was pretty painful, without using any of those online converters.
But having a nice tool on any (windows) computer where you can just press WIN + Shift + S (or PrtSc?) and record a image/video/gif to paste it straight into another app like a chat is very convenient.
I’ve run into this problem before and there’s ways to stop it. Sure your email blocklists work to an extent assuming they’re up to the minute accurate (which they’re not).
I’d look into fingerprinting (https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs), block by ASN if it makes sense for your business (does OVH really need access to my SaaS?), use an active disposable email checker and possibly flag risky orders for manual payment capture if at all possible.
Thanks! I actually just ran into another problem with ELV, a request to their "single email verification" API timed out repeatedly. So not a good experience so far, will probably not keep using it.
Ad blocking happens on your own computer, which you are authorised to make changes to. But simulating a click, therefore making an entry in another person's computer is what makes it unlawful.
I sent a get request. If you put something in your database that's on you.
Could we all be less eager to be the devil's advocate?
"Chug your mandatory mountain dew in order to continue"
Yes but technically you are not making an entry in someone's database; you merely send a request and it is not your problem that the remote computer misinterpreted this as displaying an interest in an ad. Remote server doesn't use any password, SMS confirmation or similar measure to restrict the users that are authorized to send requests so sending it sould be 100% legal.
But as a proverb says, "the law is like a drawbar, you can bend it as you like".
I had the same question. I don't wanna your tracking cokies and I don't wanna you draw strange pictures on my computer to fingerprint me. But when I click your link in backround thats not ok.
> But when I click your link in backround thats not ok.
Why not?
If you don't want bots clicking on your link you should put a captcha on it. If your link is publicly accessible, my background click is authorized by consequence.
Unfortunately the "open"AI effect is starting to show in other labs as well. DeepMind recently announced a min 6months delay in publishing their SotA research, to give them a market advantage. I get it, but it's sad that it's happening.
The good thing is that there are a lot of companies out there that want to make a name for themselves. Mistral started like that with Apache 2.0 models, now ds w/ MIT models, and so on. And if the past year is a good indicator, it seems that closed SotA to open close-to-SotA is 6-3 months. So that's good.
I also find interesting LeCun's take that "there is no closed source moat, or not for long". In a podcast he went into detail on this, saying that "people move companies, and people talk". If someone finds some secret sauce, the ideas will move around and other labs will catch up quickly. So there's some hope.
They're already using Google Docs as a chat application in class when social media is blocked. So what are we really trying to do here? Much like prohibition, I suspect we'll see the masses annoyed and inconvenienced, and those who want to find alcohol finding it regardless.
Sometimes I miss the old flash, irc, html tables for layouts internet.
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