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Everything is redacted by default. You can obtain the full DMCA reports but it requires you to fill in your email on each of them and request them. It’s not impossible but definitely a little more involved than just “read[ing] the DMCA complaints”

Only the exact URI is redacted, the domain isn't. Knowing that a book is on a specific site usually makes locating it trivial.

When you need to scale up and down dynamically.

Then the claim above can never be falsified because there will always be a value you can plug into the equation at which it's cheaper to rent (like at 50% occupancy, at 5%, at 0.5%... so long as you're not the only person in the world who wants to use the device being offered for loan). I would assume we're talking about a common workload where one actually needs the device that one considers purchasing for some reasonable fraction of the time and not less than half the time

So in summary:

- own the hardware, if you have constant load and have enough expertise (personally or a team) to use/maintain it at your required reliability level

- rent the cloud, if your usage is opportunistic/ spike’y/rapidly changing

- also rent the cloud, if required expertise/maintenance would cost you more than the hardware (if you want to have gazillion of nines, you need somebody who’s there to deal with smoking stuff, in several locations)


That sounds like good common sense, though I'd reword the "constant" with like <30% occupancy because cloud premiums are rather large

My question was (to what ozim wrote), how's that new in 2026


I can’t believe how the very first line of the article is a grotesque strawman. Tbh I expected better from Scott Aaronson.


Could you elaborate as you why you think it is a grotesque strawman? It doesn’t strike me as such, even on rereading.


The guy who spends most of his time posting either in favor of genocide or about how he got cancelled for being a misogynist? He's an excellent scientist but not a calm person.


What makes it more akin to 60’s general computing development than 60’s fusion power development (that is still ongoing!)? The former is incremental, the latter requires major technological breakthroughs before reaching any sort of usefulness. Quantum computing feels more like there are roadblocks that can’t be ironed out without several technological revolutions.


Yeah but that means that the “court said I’m right ” rhetoric is invalid. It’s as if you said that a no bill or dismissal proved your innocence: it doesn’t.

Now although I have only superficial understanding of the case at stake I believe the author nonetheless (but with a weak certainty until I hear the other side).


I think it is imprecise to say that the facts were not argued - they were! As the judge writes in paragraph 58,

> The authorship or control of these accounts has consistently been strenuously denied by Dr Garrett. I have no evidence from the Defendants to support it. Instead, they necessarily rely on an inferential case built on a limited number of pleaded facts, some of which are undisputed. I consider them in turn.

There were not _witness statements_ presented by the defense in support of myriad facts, but it's not like the case for the defense wasn't made at all.


> There were not _witness statements_ presented by the defense in support of myriad facts, but it's not like the case for the defense wasn't made at all.

It kind of wasn't. In UK civil cases your witness statement takes the place of your testimony on the stand (only cross exam is done on the stand). Outside of your witness statement(s) the other material in your case (e.g. random pleadings and inter-parties correspondence) aren't made under the same penalties for perjury.

So if you're going to tell a bunch of lies in your case (ill advised, for sure) then you're best off to do it via all other means and avoid ever producing a witness statement.

But as a result it's also important for the judge to generally discard such positions when not supported by material attested to in a way with serious consequences.


I hate so much the fact that you can’t disable app store search ads. Like shove ads down users’ throat if you want, but at least give the chance to the ones who can’t tolerate them to opt out. It’s hostile on people with attentional dysregulation such as ADHD people.


AdGuard works great, it has a native Safari extension and I don’t see a single ad on there.


Note that the generated article links only work from the home page. If you open the comments section and then click on the article it redirects to the hallucinated URL instead of the generated article.


The full quote:

> And we’re reducing the net cost of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39%, depending on which machine type is used.

> The price reduction you will see in your account depends on the types of machines that you use most frequently – smaller runners will have a smaller relative price reduction, larger runners will see a larger relative reduction.


I have a powerful MacBook Pro M2 Max with 32 GB of RAM. I updated it to macOS 26 since that it became a lot slower than my MacBook Air M1 with just 16 GB of RAM that I left on macOS Sequoia 15.7.x… What an irony given that my MacBook Pro has way better hardware specs.


Do you happen to have an app on this list open (https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/) ?

There is a bug in Electron caused by the use of a private API that slows down macOS 26 significantly. It’s fixed in Electron but not all Electron apps have updated to the new version yet. Apparently it’s fixed in macOS 26.2


I do know about it! I even did a few PRs in the past :) https://github.com/avarayr/shamelectron/pulls?q=is%3Apr+auth...


They do it on purpose and they're being very blatant about it now

Someone will maybe come along and tell you it's just "indexing" slowing it down and to wait a few weeks lol. That's the common gaslighting method


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