The real reason is that fingerprint.com's selling point is tracking over longer periods (months, their website claims), and this doesn't help them with that.
Or how it is possible to grant broad permissions to their Google workspace account. That doesn't happen where I work. Only a handful of approved applications can connect.
It seems to me like magic links are just off-loading the auth problem to email.
If magic links become increasingly common then email† account access increasing becomes a single point of vulnerability/failure. And email providers obviously can't use magic links for auth. I dont know what the solution is.
Many (maybe even most bugs) the ais are finding are memory safety errors, which is pretty clearly not "the fault of running things with ambient authority". The data is treated as untrusted, but due to a mistake can still do something it shouldn't.
The thing is, if you're only allowed to access the actual files the user selected (at runtime) those are the only things that could possibly be corrupted. A memory error in any given app doesn't set up for a system compromise in a capabilities based system.
> Russia after Putins fall will do everything to please other countries, to get back to good terms
This is pretty obviously not true? Russia's not going to try to please the us or most European countries, and many fugitives in Russia only angered those countries.
I personally find the almost absence of spam on WhatsApp a big success story for it. Think about how much Spam still hits your email inbox (and nobody knows how much is filtered away before it does).
I totally understand why they try and make it hard for integration to happen. When compared to classic SMS, the fact that you need to start a conversation with a preapproved template means that they have a way to control casual interactions.
I consider marketing use to be spam, and this is what the API is primarily meant for.
I understand that WhatsApp is kinda special in that it effectively replaced SMS in some parts of the world, but IMO this needs to be looked at through the lens of other Meta effort. The same is the case with Facebook/Messenger, and has been since before WhatsApp has been a (Meta) thing - they offer multiple different official ways to support spamming users and tricking them to buy stuff, but may the Lord have mercy on you should you want to create an auto-responder or "save to calendar" script and hook it up to your personal account.
That seems a but pessimistic. A few companies use it for customer service, like ime Adidas Germany [0] (they handled an exchange for me once on there). It is effectively just another customer support line like a chat portal on a website.
There is variation in how comfortable someone is with the idea of "selling out". It seems to me that Mario is less comfortable than many other people in the AI space. How comfortable someone is with the idea of selling out doesn't really seem like a good signal for how bad something is.
If Mario had instead just written: "I'm excited to work on the future of PI at Palantir." and nothing else, clearly this is worse?
> The fact I can't understand what Earendil is
From the article:
> I learned a few things. My European brain thinks pi is just another small, mildly useful OSS project of mine with no commercial value. My peers in the space seem to think it has properties that make it stand out over the alternatives. VCs and big corps seem to think that pi has commercial value. Some demonstrated their conviction by sending term sheets or "dream job" offers.
Mario thinks there's no commercial value, but clearly some VC people do. If you have the VC money, but don't have any ideas for how to justify commercial viability, why bother? If someone just handed me a big bag of cash and told you to just "do something", I could imagine coming up with Earndil. Make a nice landing page, write some nice guiding principles, and figure out the AI stuff later.
> "I'm excited to work on the future of PI at Palantir." and nothing else, clearly this is worse?
Yeah, but mainly just because what Palantir is.
It would be better if he just told us what part of the future pi tool chain would be proprietary, but from the article it seems that they haven't even decided on that, so I don't know what to make of this.
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