So the article repeats, several times, “waymo relies on remote operators”. I don’t think the author knows what “self-driving” means.

That’s the benefit of a custom domain, I suppose; you can always change he provider without changing your email.

BlackRock, for one, which shouldn’t make you feel any better.

NeXT was a mediocre BSD front end and a few interesting Objective-C libraries. Apple’s board of directors pretty much crawled back to Jobs hat in hand after the disasters of Sculley and Spindler.

Who cares if the code is open source, or pre-training weights are released? Virtually every Masters in CS student in 2024 is building this from scratch. The differentiator is the training dataset, or at worst, the weights after fine tuning the model.

Cost of living, yes, and if you’re a solid performer, 3% is considered good. However, this is a 5% across the board, and a large increase to entry level.

Digital signature as a means of non repudiation is exactly the way this should be done. Any official docs or releases should be signed and easily verifiable by any public official.

When using an external TPM. Which next to no one does.

They’ve been around since 2018, and with only two weeks notice, now are saying they need $150k?! Who the fuck is their CFO, and how did their burn rate get so out of control? Shouldn’t they have started the campaign months ago if this was an expected problem?

This just fucking reeks of embezzlement; grossly mismanaging the funds charitable individuals had entrusted them with.

Linux device attacks preventable by standard security precautions

Any competitor worth their salt will match and exceed that as a signing bonus.

Why are you running a VPN? If you are simply shielding your internet activity from your ISP, Google won’t give a shit where you sign in from.

If you are browsing to shield your identity, you want to be fully disassociated with any non-secure browsing habits. If this is your use case, even if you are using discrete internet accounts, tracking cookies are common enough that, you would still be identifiable from your browser fingerprint. It all depends on what your risk factors are, and how much you want to spend to mitigate them.