Why can’t Alphabet just leave Chrome alone? They already have so many cash cows.
Stuffing Chrome with AI gimmicks makes it clunky and unusable — and when that happens, people will just migrate to other browsers. Alphabet should revisit its own history and remember the great migration from Internet Explorer to Chrome.
AI features must be there, considering how much money has been spent into developing these features. However putting these features inside will drive people away from Chrome, while not putting these features inside will make shareholders angry because line is not going up.
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Statue of |david behind age verification filter
So, going forward, will similar pieces of art be blocked in the British Museum as well? Like physically?
Or you can simply block people under 18 from the museum.
That's what Hungary did - no minors allowed in places where homosexuality could be on display.
No, that sense is not there, because we don't have any "no drugs for children" laws. Those don't exist - drugs are illegal across the board, unless they're prescribed, but prescription drugs are good for kids.
The closest thing we have is tobacco and alcohol. But that's still very far off.
Its true children can't buy alcohol, but they can't buy Internet access either. But, they can drink alcohol, and they can view the internet.
There's nothing stopping a parent from just giving little Timmy wine. All bets are off once you show ID at the corner store and go home.
Similarly, all bets are off after you show ID and proof of residence to your Teleco and they install Internet connection. ... Until now.
This is an entirely novel and never before seen type of law and type of reasoning. It may seem, on the surface, reasonable or done before. But if you think about it, it's not.
This isn't your typical brand of "think of the children".
> The closest thing we have is tobacco and alcohol. But that's still very far off.
Those are not far off, they are harmful drugs as well (despite being somewhat normalised).
The goal is not about stopping parent from giving child something, the goal is to minimise exposure and ability to get access to it as much as possible.
> Those are not far off, they are harmful drugs as well (despite being somewhat normalised).
They are extremely far off, and you chose to ignore why.
Its not because of harm or normalization. Its because what people are proposing here is fundamentally different than ID checking for cigs.
If I buy a pack, I can go home and immediately give them to a kid. If I wanted.
The store clerk does not follow me home. The ID checking happened at point of sale, and after that, all bets are off.
We actually already have this type of ID checking in place for the internet and have since the beginning.
To buy Internet, I must present ID and proof of residence. Once the internet is sold to me, all bets are off. It is my responsibility to not give it to my kid, in the same way it's my responsibility to put the vodka in the locked liquor cabinet.
What you're proposing is the equivalent of the store clerk following you home and staying in your house, watching you smoke the cigarettes to make sure you don't give it to any children.
The difference is that parents, rightfully, don't give out cigs like candy. But they DO give out internet access like candy.
That's because parents are stupid, not because the laws are broken. We don't extreme privacy violations, we just need people to get their head out of their ass.
And, anyone who claims kids need an Internet connection is lying through their teeth. No, they don't. For anything. I promise. No exceptions.
Oh oh but what about homework???.
Put a goddamn computer in your living room like it's 1997, don't tell your spoiled brat the internet password, and problem solved. Its that easy. No 1984 required.
Oh oh but what about phones??? Little Timmy is gonna die on the 14 second walk from the bus to my front door!!
Go to Walmart, but a prepaid cricket phone, and give it to them. There, I solved your problem and saved you 900 dollars.
I'm in the UK and that tweet and profile aren't blocked (not even an ID wall).
Likewise for every Reddit link and probably more.
I wish the website made a better effort at filtering those because it muddies the point when the government can point out that half of the list is actually accessible in the UK (even if some are behind an ID wall).
YT-Premium is still ad-free, though they did bump up the prices recently.
Being a monopoly gives them that kind of power, but they haven’t gone overboard—probably because they know regulators would start poking around if they did.
Everyone I've spoken to in my circle hates this feature.
We're all fairly intelligent people — if we needed audio dubbing, we'd turn it on ourselves.
But to have auto-dub enabled by default is, frankly, incredulous.
If someone from Google could explain the rationale behind forcing this on users, I’d genuinely love to understand it.
>>all managed by the same technical team that previously handled the cloud.
Does this imply they haven’t hired any additional personnel?
I would’ve thought moving everything in-house would need more hands on deck—for stuff like security, keeping things up and running, and all the behind-the-scenes stuff AWS usually takes care of.
If they managed with the same team, that’s darned impressive.
Much of the work "security, keeping things up and running" that AWS does behinds the scenes is bolstered due to the nature of running a massively complicated multi-tenant cloud. Doing exactly what you need in-house is orders of magnitude simpler, but has a deeper knowledge requirement. The cloud is a powerful way for companies to commoditize skill.
I’m not sure where this idea that the cloud doesn’t need skill to manage comes from.
Cloud engineers are extremely highly paid because they need to be extremely skilled.
No one running stuff on prem is compiling Linux from the kernel and then building a few packages onto the hardware they built manually after designing a networking infrastructure in their office building’s basement.
You’re paying for enterprise software with support and best practices and sensible defaults provided to you, running on enterprise level hardware with support, best practices, sensible defaults configured, running in professional data centers where the data center firms manage maintenance, repair, etc while also managing physical security and other risks.
If anything, the support you can get from all the on prem providers is far superior to what the cloud providers are giving you.
I'm curious how Amazon handles fire in the midst of their Kiva pods. Do they have procedures for retasking an army of robots to clear a path for humans to get access?
True, though the problem isn't just robot batteries burning up, but setting all the stock ablaze and this part is indeed feeding in atmospheric oxygen.
I don’t need automation to build LEGO sets — that’s the fun part, and I want to do it myself. What I need is automation after the build: to clean up, sort the bricks by color and shape, and store them properly.
I just wish scientists would start by solving problems that actually exist in the real world. There’s real value — and real money — in that.
- What other people think of product XYZ: reddit
- Subject specific/Historical: Wikipedia
- News specific: My favored news sources
- Coding related: I start with ChatGPT. To validate those answers I use Google
Is it just me, or do these new "leaps" from Boston Dynamics feel tiresome?
People would surely appreciate automation that helps with household tasks like cleaning, chopping vegetables, and ironing clothes. But such delicate activities don’t seem to be part of BD’s vision....not even on the periphery.
What is the end goal that BD has in mind? Yet another Police/Military toy?
I wonder what this will cost to build and how often they break. I doubt it's going to be able to compete with the price of human labour anytime soon. So it's either for going places people can't go (rescue bot?), or doing things people really don't want to do, like walk towards gunfire.
