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Spotify has vaguely attributed the need for the API changes to improving security:

• In its blog post, Spotify says that it rolled out the changes with “the aim of creating a more secure platform.”
• In a community forum post, a Spotify employee says that “we want to reiterate the main message from the blog that we’re committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all Spotify stakeholders.” The post has many pages of replies from frustrated developers.
• In a statement to The Verge, Spotify spokesperson Brittney Le Roy says that “as part of our ongoing work to address the security challenges that many companies navigate today, we’re making changes to our public APIs.”

This is fairly disingenuous. The affected endpoints are all GET requests, which are read-only requests that provide some data about the track/artist/playlist/etc. There isn’t really very much potential to do anything insecure here.

The only thing they’re securing is their hegemony.

I believe this is indicating that it’s using the Python syntax highlighting.

Which is still a failure, don’t get me wrong. But I don’t think that AI truly knows the difference between one language and another anyway

That’s crazy, how can somebody not know what brand of laptop they…

HOLY SHIT ME TOO

I learned it by watching you, dad!

Every other skilled trade just says “Fast, Right, or Cheap: pick two.”

It’s not my fault if they always pick fast and cheap

Initial attempts to search for this were frustrated because my search engine kept trying to find rhymes for “FOSS” or “Open Source”

However, I did find an app with credits that showed what libraries it used.

In particular, this one might be up your alley: Carnegie Mellon pronouncing dictionary. It looks like you’d still have to combine it with an existing dictionary in order to find the rhymes, but at least you can get the pronunciation

I don’t understand, you didn’t get the jokes? I forwarded the chain letter to everyone

“Hustler’s University”

I’m sure the intention is a play on Hustle culture and it’s supposed to teach you that grindset mindset, but it wasn’t too long ago that “Hustler” meant “con artist” and, well, it’s his university

Surely that’s not what paragon of humanity and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Taint meant when naming it. He’s got the ego, but I’m not sure he’s clever enough to flaunt it

Lack of familiarity with AI PCs leads to what the study describes as “misconceptions,” which include the following: 44 percent of respondents believe AI PCs are a gimmick or futuristic; 53 percent believe AI PCs are only for creative or technical professionals; 86 percent are concerned about the privacy and security of their data when using an AI PC; and 17 percent believe AI PCs are not secure or regulated.

I guess we don’t have to worry about our data because the people selling us the machines tell us that our concerns are a misconception.

Also kind of the manufacturer to tell us that their gimmick is not, in fact, a gimmick

Often times, people learn that the stove is hot by touching it.

It’s easier to blame the stove than the person who touched it. But if you laugh when you watch it happen, you’re probably not laughing at the stove.

Sure, but underestimating the scope is how you wind up with a Scunthorpe problem

I don’t disagree, but it is a challenging problem. If you’re filtering for “die” then you’re going to find diet, indie, diesel, remedied, and just a whole mess of other words.

I’m in the camp where I believe they really should be reading all their inputs. You’ll never know what you’re feeding the machine otherwise.

However I have no illusions that they’re not cutting corners to save money

With the sheer volume of training data required, I have a hard time believing that the data sanitation is high quality.

If I had to guess, it’s largely filtered through scripts, and not thoroughly vetted by humans. So data sanitation might look for the removal of slurs and profanity, but wouldn’t have a way to find misinformation or a request that the reader stops existing.

Oh my gosh, I was not prepared for that.
As if CSS didn’t give me enough reasons to cry.

But it’s still got to be responsive for all devices, although flexbox is disabled

When I get to hell they’re going to make me work on the front end.

It’s all going to be inline HTML and Inspect Element isn’t available in their browser

Ah, I’m still waking up, so I must have misunderstood.

I hadn’t considered political spending, but I didn’t get the impression we were talking about super PACs. Those are abhorrent, and undemocratic.

My stance was that if a person wants to buy something that’s stupid, ineffective, but gives them some small degree of hope and doesn’t harm others, then they should be able to. However, I’m also of the opinion that regulators need to remove those products from the market because they’re lying to people about their efficacy.

Ideally we’d be teaching people that snake oil doesn’t work. But the current political climate suggests that Big Snake Oil has captured the regulation, so I don’t see that happening either.

Are you defending snake oil? The pseudoscience con so uniquituously used to deprive the desperate from their money that it became the term used to describe “harmful bullshit sold for profit?”

Freedom of choice or not, I suppose you should be able to spend your money however you want.

But if someone is selling people lies under the promise of medical miracles, we need to throw the book at them.

You seem like somebody who might have an answer for me:

A streaming service that I’m using lists the spoken language of the show, and I’ve often seen Spanish, Espanol, and Castilian listed. What’s the difference between Espanol and Castilian - is it like a regional dialect? Also I’m probably misinformed, but I always thought that Espanol was the English word for Spanish, which makes it seem odd that the service would list both Espanol and Spanish separately.

* Walter, this isn’t a guy who wrote the Magna Carta, this is a guy…

The caption is mislabeled, but don’t worry, I’ve got your back:

Left: Biology majors looking at Computer Science majors all day

Right: Bugs looking at bugs all day