The me-south-1 (Bahrain) Region was three AZs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/reg...

I think we can all understand the ways in which embedded advertisement in LLMs will be fundamentally different than view-based advertisement.

Maybe this will fly in the US, but I don’t think it will in the EU and other places, with regard to laws making covert advertising illegal.

There’s also the difficulty of proving to the advertising clients that the advertising actually takes place (and how much of it), if it is covert.

the AI providers will experiment with sustainable ad models and users will demand transparency and responsibility. An equilibrium will be reached, I'm sure.

The AI providers will experiment on their users, and keep going until they lose users

It'll be like Facebook; they're not losing money but it's awful to use

If you'd be willing to scan/post those I'd love to see them!

Many registrars allow renewal of domain names without authentication (you're unable to change any of the domain settings, however) -- some just let you do it, others it's a process, e.g. https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

That requires an account created before renewal even though it's not the same account as the domain name.

This may be useful for gifting a renewal or something like that.

41 meters is the height of a 13-story building.

My favorite read on the subject: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2756

lmao you posted moments before me! Leaving mine for posterity but everyone upvote this one instead.

Satire is already ahead of you: https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-admi...

What does this even mean? (I should be so lucky.)

> They claim full open source but for several years they did not release the server.

Specifically, they didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2].

0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of that article)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013 (comment from founder of MobileCoin)

2: https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...