Posts by cbrisuda

Looks like paywalls are coming soon to a subreddit near you

I hope they paywall everything. Best way to be free of my Reddit addiction :).

India's banking on the bank.in domain cleaning up its financial services sector

I think this is a clever solution - elegant in its simplicity. Sometimes there’s such a tendency to look for complex solutions, and I like that this is straightforward, understandable to most users, and fairly sound. Nicely done

TSA’s airport facial-recog tech faces audit probe

Boiling a frog

I’m very pleased to see this. I’ve been concerned about the use of facial recognition at airports since I first saw it. My concern is that it’s a boiling the frog situation. We’re so used to intrusions and surveillance in the airport context, so it’s no big deal to add facial recognition to that situation. But then we get used to facial recognition and it’ll spread. I believe there needs to be robust debate and civic engagement on the issue of facial recognition by government entities, and I’m pleased to see that someone is working on it.

Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

Why have a livable world when you can have snake-oil no one asked for in every program?

Raspberry Pi prepares to boot up a London listing

"We've always tried to run a business that does interesting work and makes money, and I don't think those imperatives are going to change.”

Am I hallucinating or isn’t/wasn’t their mission statement something like democratizing access to technology? Not sure how “interesting and profitable” slots into that.

Easy to say your goals won’t change if you’ve already changed them…

Is the long awaited Raspberry Pi flotation about to happen?

Alternatives

Oh dear… although with availability problems, not sure it matters at this point.

Long live the Libre Le Potato