256 GB of RAM?

It costs money. Getting an ID here costs about 5% of minimum wage if you order it online + travel (you still have to travel there for the photos and pickup). It costs even more if you apply in person.

You could buy 19 gallons of milk for that money (80 liters).

So do you buy an ID every month or can we depreciate that over 15 years?

Not unless you are offering to front everyone that money for no interest.

Providing every citizen an ID every X years at no cost does seem like good policy.

You have to get a new one every 5 years.

Really more so than money is the amount of time. Sitting at the DMV for half a day, and that is with an appointment, really sucks.

>and get near unlimited use (with rate limits)

But they're not near unlimited though. They're just hidden limits.

The geoblocks happened because of our (EU) governments making punitive rules of the website doesn't follow European standards. It's easier for an American website targeted at Americans to just not bother with Europeans.

That may explains the news sites with thousands of cookies and tracking bullshit, but it doesn't explain small brick and mortar stores blocking traffic

Why wouldn't it? It exposes them to unknown risks because they're not lawyers while providing negligible returns since they are not geared towards a European audience.

I would've done the same thing.

>"[...] But we should claim the right to suppress them [intolerant ideologies] if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols."

The paradox of tolerance is not about censoring others. If anything, censorship lands on the side of the intolerant of this paradox.

Something to consider is that input tokens have a cost too. They are typically processed much faster than output tokens. If you have long conversations then input tokens will end up being a significant part of the cost.

It probably won't matter much here though.

2FA is a requirement in Europe. I can't log into my bank account without my phone being able to run the app.

But 2FA is moot if it’s the same device as your bank app, is it not?

Yes. Please tell my bank that.

They know. The EU directive is quite clear that hw tokens are to be preferred over phones. Banks are cheap though and violate it.

Switch bank.

It is in the specific case that you don't have biometric or PIN login set up on the device and you use a password manager that doesn't require authentication. In that case, the only factor is "something you have". Otherwise, it is still a multi-factor authentication because the device itself still represents "something you have", and your device unlock represents "something you know" or "something you are".

Nearly all the security value of 1fa is that it keeps your users from picking the own passwords.

The "app" is probably a web page written in JS. Rarely its a native app in either Kotlin or Swift but then you have to maintain 2 different apps in 2 different languages with 2 different OSes for the devs. So unless the app really specifically requires something special, its just a web page. Even (and especially) your banking app.

2FA and Google SafetyNet are two completely different things. Your banking app can implement 2FA without SafetyNet.

It's Play Protect and Play Integrity now, not SafetyNet, in case anyone wants to look it up

I would stop using bank requiring phone app to do banking, simple as that, both my main EU accounts use sms verification codes and extra password, which is fine with me. If they will require an app, they will lose customer.

So what are you going to do when all of them requires it?

2fa does not mean smartphone. There are other variants too

Imagine this thing for autocomplete.

I'm not sure how good llama 3.1 8b is for that, but it should work, right?

Autocomplete models don't have to be very big, but they gotta be fast.

I've done the same thing with a todo app.

I find that a convenient UI becomes the most important aspect of some applications (to-do list, alarm clocks etc). Getting it to be exactly the way I like it is a benefit by itself.

I've been thinking of making a note taking app for my phone as well. The 10 or so that I've used all have had issues that made me not like them for one reason or another. Eg 16k char limit per note, no searching inside a note, broken bullet lists, long startup time etc.

With millions of todo apps released daily, it boils down to marketing which have a taste component.

Can they? The articles said that they bought wafers, not finished RAM. Is there interest in buying something like that?

They could sell them, but not at the price they bought them for!