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by 1shooner 9mo ago
>Your data never leaves your computer. Tasker runs entirely on your machine for maximum privacy. Am I misreading your docs that Tasker actually does not support running local, and in fact requires using either a Google, Anthropic, or O
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by 1shooner 9mo ago
>I sent the details to friends and acquaintances who appeared in my notifications, or to mutuals who appeared on my timeline. But anyway, to my relief, on the night itself, a whole bunch of people actually turned up. If the author was ab
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
I'm not any more in the ecosystem than an Apple ID and airpods, and it is just fine. The directional spatial audio with the airpods is cool, but we also use other BT headphones with it. I use the ATV almost exclusively for Jellyfin&#x2
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
Yes.
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
Do you have a link? I can't find any reference to this. The only hits I'm getting are a Mozilla leadership AMA where they are reiterating their support for ad blockers.
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
If you're looking to put the brakes on that, I've used LeechBlock to add a 5-second timer to opening a new HN window (along with other block schedules). The timer even fails if it loses focus, so it really helps slow you down. ht
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
I just know I've already had to chase down AI in Firefox I definitely did not ask for or activate, and I don't recall consenting to.
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
I just installed it on my Kindle Oasis. No way to just replicate the Kindle view of all my books in a list regardless of directory, and the real killer was that it doesn't invert page turn buttons when the display is rotated. PRs welco
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
> I can't live my life out of fear. I compare it to ecology. You're saying you will deal with the sea when it has risen to your doorstep rather than reduce emissions, or even build a levy. You've chosen to not worry about
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
Honestly, the closet I mentioned were late PPC to mid Intel era. Those machines (putting aside the architecture changes) regularly outlived their ability to practically run the latest Mac OS, full stop. I am not even willing to say that was
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
Right, I think that was the point being made: I've had a closet of Apple hardware with no technical problems, but made useless due to Apple's software decisions.
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
The monopolist providing this service would be de-incentivized from ever equipping for all the demand, and the last 10% of capacity being bid on by the last 20% of demand would make this a constant stress and struggle. Meanwhile it's a
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
But isn't this whole concept externalizing the commercial micro-transit problem onto pedestrian-only right of way? The sidewalk is the ocean in this metaphor.
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by 1shooner 10mo ago
>The bank's analysts then assumed Anthropic gross profit margins of 60%, and estimated that 75% of related costs are spent on AWS cloud services. Not estimate, assumption.
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
The distinction is whether it is intentional. I think your addiction to TikTok was intentional.
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
> banning ALPR wont fix anything either. Ideally the implementation would be immaterial to a ban. The ban (or more likely first, warrant requirement similar to cell data) would be on the tracking database, not the details of how the trac
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
On the contrary, cannibalizing the commercial viability of original content creation is possibly the most short-sighted aspect of the current AI push. That isn't 'political', it's just a relatively conservative assessmen
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
Yesterday I watched a video showing off 'My New Agent Coding Workflow'. The beginning involved prompting the IDE with a URL to download some additional prompt text files. I really didn't understand why you wouldn't just
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
The scope constitutes a novel level of invasive government surveillance. It is not just the recording, it is the massive collating and dissemination of these data. If you need a correlate, consider cell phone tracking rather than photograph
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
If this isn't GPT-5, this author writes a lot like GPT-5.
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
This was my conclusion after reading both sides. It seems that Rebble is inevitably going to be an archive, while new development will be distributed on Core's store. Core temporarily needs some of its (unlicensed) catalog to bootstrap
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
>Rebble has demonstrated that they respect copyright. Have they not been redistributing copyrighted material without a license to do so?
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
Yes, I think we have different definitions. Some people make a distinction between social behavior and manipulation that you apparently do not. If I wear nice clothes and make a good impression on someone, I am creating an outcome we both w
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
>A lot of stuff "normal" people do is charm, manipulate, and game social interactions. Except because they are not conscious about it, we give them a pass. One of the characteristics of autistic-spectrum individuals is that the
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
>"theme" code What do you you mean by 'theme' code?
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
Would you accept the government require you to wear a private company's gps tracker whenever you are in public?
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
>one good avenue for preventing a Google monopoly over the web This may be a canard but I was under the impression that Google maintains Mozilla through default search payment in order to have a bare minimum competitor to head off regula
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
I actually was just reading up on it yesterday because I've rooted a commercial e-ink word processor and was trying to sort out how much about the process I can legally share. The sibling post has the link to the LoC rulemakings that d
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by 1shooner 11mo ago
There's an exemption from Section 1201 for "Computer programs that control devices designed primarily for use by consumers for diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the device or system".
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>“I still plan to continue to use it,” he said. “The main friction point is, really, the mattress should work even without Wi-Fi.” I appreciate the drifting semantics of names, but Wi-Fi and AWS are really not the same thing.

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