Millennials caught the tail end of physical 3rd spaces, but experienced the golden age of digital third spaces. The internet until the mid 2000s was way more decentralised and chaotic.

Instead of anonymous chatrooms and forums as digital 3rd spaces, Zoomers used less accessible proprietary options such as Discord or Twitch instead.

Usual suspects

As someone completely unfamiliar with the JavaScript mess, are these security issues specific to npm the actual repository or npm the package manager?

If it’s the latter, does using something else like yarn or bun instead help?

Smh Anything to avoid releasing sex 2

Unless you forced everyone to install standardized mailboxes

This seems to be the exact direction China is going in.

In major cities, there are increasingly more smart mailbox/parcel pickup points in apartments and central areas. These aren’t “forced,” but so many essential services are locked behind these private tech platforms.

Originally designed for food delivery drop offs, but you can use them as a mailbox as well.

This is commonly done for the purposes of replicability, but is not at all how these models are deployed in practice.

Larger institutions, especially those with strict data privacy requirements, are deploying locally hosted models permanently RAGed to their own internally vetted documentation.

It would’ve been much more interesting to see how much RAG setups fail, contrary to their marketed promises.

From experience, RAGs do help reduce hallucinations, but LLMs still do dumb things, like jumble up numbers. There were many cases where the LLM confidently presented some numerical results, but the number existed somewhere else entirely, like a footnote on the same page.

Even browsing existing small to medium sized sites has become such a chore, with all these verifications and rate limiters as part of the anti AI scraper effort.

So many cloudflare verification checkboxes. So many Google sign ins. So many cross site cookies and tracking for even basic functionality.

Care about privacy and restrict browsing data even a little? Captcha hell.