There is some noise, but there are bounds. Everyone tends to have fairly common habits and periods of transition into new habits, that combined with IPs, or geolocation, or screen sizes, that you can fairly accurately pin individual devices..
Your processors, memory, and so on all have manufacturing quirks, and then workloads provide some more. The fuzzy circle of rendering times becomes easy to use.
Various places have used it since before '14. But here's one random paper that goes into more depth. [0]
Yes. Originally they were Mac-only, then they went open-source and the community added support for Linux and Windows, but AFAICT they've never invested in anything but Mac
There could not be a worse idea than to put all trust in one institution, even if its reputation was still clean.
Google has continally abused trust on ethics and on accuracy.
Yes, it would be nice if there was a button you could push to ask any question and get a simple answer. No, we are not there yet. No, there are no shortcuts in life. You have to go to a source and evaluate its information and its trustworthiness in its own context otherwise you are not meeting your responsibility of diligence.
For most queries the AI summary works. If it doesn’t, oh well.
Yesterday I looked up how much a certain car weighs. The AI summary gave me an answer. It may be the wrong one, but I looked it up out of curiosity, so it doesn’t ultimately matter.
> It may be the wrong one, but I looked it up out of curiosity, so it doesn’t ultimately matter.
Now this has to be the most surprising thing I've read this week, until I thought about it for long.
It doesn't matter if it's correct because you googled it out of curiosity? I think you might be confused. When you're curious, you want the answer to be correct (there's related questions that are raised and consistency checks that a curious person does in their mind.) I think what you are is addicted to the internet. You searched something because that's you brain's kneejerk reaction to whatever the trigger was in this case. The act of searching is what your brain was looking for, not the actual information.
Its accuracy is around 50% for queries I do, which is low enough that I actually consider it a negative to my experience using Google, and has made me think about looking for a different search engine for the first time.
CGNAT is completely irrelevant to the average person. It’s only an issue if you expect others to connect to you, which is something that almost all people don’t need.
(inb4 but the internet was made to receive connections! Well yes, decades ago maybe. But that’s not the way things have evolved. Get with the times.)
It contributes to it, because now you're behind the same public IP address as X other people. You're then X-times more likely to get flagged as suspicious and need to enter a CAPTCHA X-times more frequently.
It's not a direct cause, but if an IP is hitting my website with spam, I don't care if it's a spam bot or a CGNAT exit point. The only way to stop the spam is to take action against the IP address. For CGNAT customers, that means extra CAPTCHAs or worse.
You can ask your ISP for your own IPv6 subnet if you don't want to be lumped in with the people whose computers and phones are part of a scraping/spamming botnet.
Pathetic that in 2025 there still are games that rely on p2p connections, to the detriment of the experience because cheating can’t be detected server-side. GTA 5 is one of them.
At the very least if a game publisher wants to power down their own servers because they don't feel it's "worth" supporting their customers, they should post the server code so that the customers can continue to use the product they 'bought'.
It’s incredible that here of all places you will have someone justify a person who’s completely unqualified running something as important as a country’s electrical network.
I wonder if they’d say the same if this had happened in, say, Hungary.
Really WhatsApp is not a national security threat? Ukraine is basically a vassal state of the US at this point, I would think it would be best to depend less of them.
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