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"They reject more of the AI's offers, probably to get it to be more generous."
TBH, not terribly surprising, but useful to know.

"Don McGowan...goes into great detail about why he left the NCMEC board, and why he felt the board had become rotten, captured by interests not aligned with the underlying mission of NCMEC, and more focused on making it look like they’re protecting kids than actually protecting kids."

"Why is designing spam filters like designing bear-proof trash cans?"

"What the future of search could look like as DOJ seeks to end Google's monopoly."

A 2004 message post parodying the interaction between various Red Hat departments, two Fedora organizations, and the broader OSS crowd in the form of an IRC chat.
(rh_sales insists you shouldn't use Fedora because it will "eat your brain" and you should buy RHEL instead)

"Experts and observers say although these foxes with their long snouts and bushy tails aren’t native to the South Bay, they’ve become a part of the culture."

"In the 90s, MIT's Athena system devised a system known as 'stopit' to handle online harrassment. One feature of the system was that the notice of reported abusive behaviour sent to the accused began with the phrase "Someone using your account...""

"Spoon theory is about what you have to give. Fork theory is about what you can take. A useful tool for neurodivergence."

"Until now, Japanese phone carrier Docomo has most often been widely credited as the originator of what we know as emoji today. It turns out, that might not be the case..."