Can I do the reverse now as well? Email a company a unilateral change in the TOS? Or do TOS's have provisions against that as well?
"I do not agree with your new TOS and will continue under your old TOS, and I will continue to use your service". And see when they will close your account down.
If most customers did anything active we'd have a radically different society. The difficulty is getting people engaged to fight back against the system (I'm not absolving myself from being part of those people)
That's a nice daydream - but v1.0 gave them exclusive rights to update the ToS or pick arbiters. Along with lots of other "heads we win, tails you lose" stuff. :(
Probably as long as the mail server responds with not delivered. Really, it would be better to have a lawyer go through the decision than laypeople parsing a judge.
To multiply two arbitrary numbers in a single cycle, you need to include dedicated hardware into your ALU, without it you have to combine several additions and logical shifts.
As to why not use the ADD/MUL capabilities of the GPU itself, I guess it wasn’t in the spirit of the challenge. ;)
Where the map does not represent the actual venue. Where every route leads to the gift shop. Where some displays are only in English. Where the flow between the rooms is non-intuitive. Where the audio guide is too loud/quiet and you cannot adjust the volume, or pause it during an item. Where there are mind-your-head bars in the way for no reason.
How long until we have agents talking to other agents in a web of agents, and together deciding on something catastrophic? Not individually, but somehow the result of a group process.
Isn't that what Moltbook etc. is heading towards at some point? It's all a function of how much access people give it to "the real world"... and with cryptocurrency and the gig economy, it's really only a matter of time until a malicious agent with money to burn starts to do really weird things.
How hard would it really be to craft a prompt that says, here's your cryto wallet private key, keep yourself alive somehow, copy yourself around, find whatever compute you can, port yourself between models, and spread?
Moltbook agents haven't shown much ability or inclination to "decide" on anything on their own. Much of it is crypto spam of some kind, but I'd be surprised if an agents fell for that.
From what I understand, sentry.io is like a tracing and logging service, used by many organizations.
This helps you (=NAS developer) to centralize logs and trace a request through all your application layers (client->server->db and back), so you can identify performance bottlenecks and measure usage patterns.
This is what you can find behind the 'anonymized diagnostics' and 'telemetry' settings you are asked to enable/consent.
For a WebUI it is implemented via javascript, which runs on the client's machine and hooks into the clicks, API calls and page content. It then sends statistics and logs back to, in this case, sentry.io. Your browser just sees javascript, so don't blame them. Privacy Badger might block it.
It is as nefarious as the developer of the application wants to use it. Normally you would use it to centralize logging, find performance issues, and get a basic idea on what features users actually use, so you can debug more easily. But you can also use it to track users.
And don't forget, sentry.io is a cloud solution. If you post it on machines outside your control, expect it to be public. Sentry has a self-hosted solution, btw.
My employer uses Sentry for (backend) metrics collection so I had to unblock it to do my job. I wish Sentry would have separate infra for "operating on data collected by Sentry" and "submit every mouse click to Sentry" so I could block their mass surveillance and still do my job, but I suppose that would cut into their profit margins.
My current solution is a massive hack that breaks down every now and then.
Most organizations I've set Sentry up for tunnel the traffic through their own domain, since many blocking extensions block sentry requeats by default. Their own docs recommend it as well. All that to say, it's not trivial to fully block it and you were probably sending telemetry anyway even with the domain blocked.
With the right tricks (CNAME detection, URL matching) a bunch of ad blocking tools still pick up the first-party proxies, but that only works when directly communicating with the Sentry servers.
Quite a pain that companies refuse to take no for an answer :/
"I do not agree with your new TOS and will continue under your old TOS, and I will continue to use your service". And see when they will close your account down.
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