AJ007

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by AJ007 1y ago
The last gen iPods (that looked like an iPhone) were basically this. Also I've had friends who stopped paying for their cell service, same thing, just needed wifi.
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by AJ007 1y ago
From reading comments on hn over the past couple of years, I'm disappointed how terrible the security practices and knowledge has become. All of this stuff is about to get a lot worse with generative AI. There are complaints on this
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by AJ007 1y ago
With JS disabled!
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by AJ007 1y ago
What if all we need is for bloggers to post a recommended feed with links to external posts in a separate RSS feed? The feed readers ingest the recommendation feeds and count them. I've been following ActivityPub and other protocols, b
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by AJ007 1y ago
I've been using newsboat for years. I've thought about trying out miniflux for a while, but a few days ago I got a different idea. First, the newsboat DB is SQLlite so it's easy to access. I wrote a few scripts that built sta
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by AJ007 1y ago
This should have been the EU approach to Apple. Instead we got third party "App Stores" to install software Apple still approves and controls. It could have been a three paragraph law.
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by AJ007 1y ago
I had a similar issue, after cleaning up a Windows machine for someone else, making sure Firefox with uBlock was running. I took a look at it a few weeks later and there was some bullshit Microsoft Bing search bar or AI thing on the toolbar
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by AJ007 1y ago
Not my project, but I was hoping to see more stuff like https://prose.org/ As others have pointed out, for iOS Monal is good.
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by AJ007 1y ago
Each had a unique set of pitfalls. Out of the 3 Usenet seems to be functionally dead for it's original purpose. Perhaps there was no possible outcome where usenet would scale along with the internet. The email spam issue is trivially s
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by AJ007 1y ago
Delta Chat certainly could emerge in that direction. https://delta.chat/
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by AJ007 1y ago
But that's a bullshit excuse, just like with email the answer to spam posting is the person gets un-followed/unsubbed. When its an algorithm, the user is incentivized to produce content in order to increase their chances of gettin
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by AJ007 1y ago
All of the future billion dollar model training runs might be for conversion rate optimization. User mentions they didn't sleep well. Model delivers jarring information right before user's bed time. Model subtly suggests other sle
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by AJ007 1y ago
A good reason why no one should ever have their Windows install linked to a Microsoft account, same for MacOS.
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by AJ007 1y ago
In F-Droid's case this is absolutely a regulatory reaction -- this is directly related to the DMA (and to some extent, the Epic lawsuits.) Google does not want third parties bypassing Google in any way -- which probably ties in to the
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by AJ007 1y ago
Eh, reads like someone who uses ChatGPT but can't tell you what model they have. For my personal projects I have a list of difficult bugs I keep that LLMs can't solve. Right now that list is empty. Anyone using LLMs for coding, us
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by AJ007 1y ago
Agreed. One thing I've grown concerned about, after watching the Twitter migration fizzle out, is we can imitate the old internet on a small scale, but on a large scale it just doesn't work. For Twitter specifically, the outcome w
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by AJ007 1y ago
This is the bull case for AI, as with any significant advance in technology eventually you have no choice but to use it. In this case, the only way to filter through large volumes of AI output is going to be with other LLM models. The expon
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by AJ007 1y ago
Lecture? They should be stripped of their intellectual property rights.
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by AJ007 1y ago
If you have to have use a phone, at minimum disable notifications and never answer it. First it removes all of the urgency. Second, the caller has to provide some way for you to contact them, which gives you a second point of contact to val
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by AJ007 1y ago
That's all bullshit because we already live in a panopticon. Everyone's physical movements are tracked, facial recognition works even on partials, there are HD cameras everywhere, continuous uploads of videos to TikTok and Instagr
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by AJ007 1y ago
They have evil intentions, but they are also idiots. The nature of an authoritarian government is one that requires maximizing control for survival. As a particular country shifts to a more authoritarian government, and those people who ena
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by AJ007 1y ago
I suspect the solution may be a compact tablet running a touch-friendly Linux distro, and the "phone" is just a mobile hotspot. If you want some fantastic camera built in, that's a separate problem. I've been more neutra
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by AJ007 1y ago
This is what bothers me about the whole "App Store" stuff with the EU. This entire fight about Apple being required to allow third party "App Stores" -- how about simply the user can load whatever software they want to
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by AJ007 1y ago
Whenever someone has complained to me about issues they are having with ChatGPT on a particular question or type of question, the first thing I do is ask them what model they are using. So far, no one has ever known offhand what model they
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by AJ007 1y ago
Between the 0 real security and the generational jump in capability fraud now has because of AI, there is no excuse for the continued existence of traditional voice or SMS. We'll never be able to solve compromised devices or social eng
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by AJ007 1y ago
Or even horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal
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by AJ007 1y ago
Corn syrup is just a vegetable?
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by AJ007 1y ago
I have no idea why we need to require site operators to verify users ages? Just force the mobile phone companies do it. It would be pretty trivial for apple, with a front facing camera, face detection, and then just read everything on the s
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by AJ007 1y ago
I've been around for a while (not quite retirement age) and this time is the closest to the new feeling I had using the internet and web in the early days. There are simultaneously infinite possibilities but also great uncertainty what
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by AJ007 1y ago
Right, this is having Claude Code just running as an agent doing a lot of stuff. Also tool use is a big context hog here.

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