the marginalia dude is a bit of both-sideist, though it could've been worse (his second reply in the thread clarifies things a bit). and frankly, most of the alternative search engines developers are worse.

i'm so sorry.

just to note that reportedly the palantir employees are for whatever reason going through a massive “hans, are we the baddies” moment, almost a whole year into the second trump administration.

as i wrote elsewhere, those people need to be subjected to actual social consequences of choosing to work with and for the u.s. concentration camp administration office.

i hereby propose a new metric for a popular publication, the epstein number (Ē), denoting the number of authors who took flights to epstein's rape island. generally, credible publications should have Ē=0. this one, after a very quick look, has Ē=2, and also hosts sabine hossenfelder.

yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in

it's not “hating your post history”, it's just realisation that you're a shitty debatelord and talking to you is waste of time.

at one of the places i worked this kind of data was called assnumbers.

the indignant outrage at the mere suggestion that the cultists be slightly less visibly racist, maybe, is 10/10, no notes.

the technical term is either “confabulation” or “bullshit”; “hallucination” is a misleading label coined by the ai pushers.

the fascism is strong in those

• ‘at rest’ → we're using filesystem encryption
• ‘in transit’ → we're using TLS

neither is end-to-end encryption, the data is not private to the service provider.