I’ve been an android developer for a decade at this point, I’m aware of how app deep links work.

The comparison is not “what LOE is call linking from scratch” but rather “how does call linking meshing into existing production codebases across all platforms compare in LOE to 3 buttons?” And the answer is self evidently more.

You’re minimizing the amount of effort and we’re comparing it to buttons. Adding “a few buttons” is very different than setting up 3 platforms to all use a new protocol (calls from links will require new handling - previously all calls were just based on authenticated users being allowed into webrtc calls based on their tokens. Now you have to have a new handler which joins a call with the token in the URL - that can’t be handled identically). Then we get into the Android app, much of which is still in Java, which uses multi-activity-srchitrcgure meaning you’ve gotta pass data through each layer manually, rewriting each of these activities to accept the new deep link and route to the right end.

And then you’ve got to be sure it all coordinates across iOS, Android and your backend.

It’s not hard but it’s not “a few buttons”. It’s probably 2 weeks of work for skilled and competent engineers, 1 per platform.

Do you actually have any experience in Mobile dev? You sound like a fresh outta college junior eng - cocky and confident that everyone else is wrong, making it harder than it needs to be etc.

Just like that cocky junior eng you’re too unaware of what you don’t know to realize you’re wrong. Wade through the grass a few times and you’ll realize the flowery meadow is full of snakes.

Call links are a lot more work than “a few buttons”

I’m pro nuclear as well but we absolutely can maintain this level of energy consumption on renewables alone.

The question is cost and risk - I’m for diversification of our grid which includes nuclear.

But it is getting to the point where renewables with backups will be cheaper than coal. That’s absolutely something you can run the entire grid off of. You can balance storage requirements with excess production capacity that gets shuttered over the summer etc etc

It is my understanding that the fundamental architecture (the general purpose transformer) is identical between the “AI” used by Black Rock and by OpenAI

If you have some evidence to the contrary I’d always appreciate the chance to learn.

But the transformer based architecture is fundamentally flawed: it will always hallucinate.

The “AI” being used by big corporations is still fundamentally an LLM and has all the flaws of an LLM. It’s not a hot wheels car vs a tank, it’s a hot wheels car vs a $2 billion RC car

I’m having an aneurysm trying to understand what’s being said here, can anyone explain?

(it’s not his personal device - it’s a work owned device)

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying “I’m ok with Intrusive software practices that provide a tangible benefit (fuck cheaters) because I air gap my shit.”

Malware implies malicious. It’s not malicious - it’s extremely intrusive.

Ultimately I don’t give a shit if they have every bit of data on the computer I play games on: there’s nothing there worth looking at. I do my private stuff on my phone. Gaming PC is for discord, games, and making shit for the games.

So I trust their root kit. They can’t do anything to me there.

Not necessarily the same hacker.

This guy is outing the archive for terrible security posture by bringing attention to it because they received disclosures and did not fix them.

Don’t get shit twisted - he’s the hero here. IA fucked up and has been vulnerable to manipulation by any number of corporate or national actors this entire time.

Note that a TikTok link is un-cleanable. It will always trace back to you. Do not ever share TikTok links unless you’re willing to expose your identity to the person you’re sharing with.

I got an Acebeam EC35 Gen II a couple years back and while there are many settings you can use there’s a big button onto he back that turns it on full blast and you click it again to turn it off. Done.

Honestly for a multinational corp operating at the scale they operate that’s a pretty good report card. They look like boy scouts compared with Nestle, Coca cola etc

No mention of paying for death squads, no forced child slavery …

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t boycott, just that there’s a sliding scale and if you have to choose a Nestle product or a Unilever one is less evil.

Climate disasters are not affecting the world equally everywhere. Hurricanes are far and away the most destructive climate related disaster and they disproportionately affect Florida of all US states

Florida is uninsurable, that’s kinda the issue.

There’s a reason so many big insurance companies have left Florida. And honestly I don’t really want even more Federal money going to rebuild in the most common path of ever rising hurricane intensity.

I want Federal funds set aside to move people out of Florida in homes elsewhere for those who want it. If you want to rebuild your house in the path of the hurricane you can do it on your own dime.

Well that’s all the convincing I need tbh

Serial killer Garth

I don’t keep up with my country music memes - what’s this one?

Nearest convenience store is 200m Chain supermarket is 200m Bus stop is 150m Library is 50m Park is 500m Train station is 800m

NYC makes everything easy

I honestly think that difference in opinion speaks highly of Banks as an author - the books speak to us differently and he wrote diverse enough stories that they capture each person separately.