Anamon

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by Anamon 7mo ago
The no-autoplay feature in Firefox has been very reliable in my experience. Unfortunately, it has a few issues of its own (play/pause status on YouTube getting out of sync, or not being able to use wildcards in the whitelist so you hav
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Why "rightly"?
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by Anamon 7mo ago
A permanent, non-negligible chance of becoming a collateral victim in an extrajudicial drone killing doesn't sound like order to me. TFA mentions residents are very scared. They live in a war zone. Edit: I get the argument that it was
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Even back then we were looking for alternative mouse drivers with lower memory footprints, though =D some wouldn't load high (or not work im games when they were). Conventional memory was such a precious resource in DOS. With a bad mou
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Nobody makes thumb trackballs as good as Logitech, or at least not anymore. And I have no complaints about the quality. I have three MX Ergos, replacing my previous Logitech trackballs that all lasted well over 10 years of daily use (the le
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by Anamon 7mo ago
The scale is not the same. Low-tech tools require more human input, more pre-filtering of suspects. They can't just default to starting with "everybody" and match against millions at the push of a button.
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by Anamon 7mo ago
The problem is in how these tools are sold to them. Not everybody can be an expert in every topic. Like in every other application area, these AI systems are promoted as being able to do about a thousand times more, and a million times more
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by Anamon 7mo ago
That just reminded me of Chat Roulette for some reason. It seems that one is still around, as well. I'd guess not many bots on there, either (though potentially plenty of other unpleasant things).
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by Anamon 7mo ago
I, for one, miss the promise of the old Internet, that you could connect with people from all around the world. I always saw it as an exciting extension to real-world interactions, not a replacement. And I love the fact that over the past 3
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by Anamon 7mo ago
The Discord thing sounds like a reasonable and acceptable use case to me. Fuzzy search is basically the only thing LLMs are really useful for, and a feature like that actually serves the user. Help them find stuff that's interesting to
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by Anamon 7mo ago
The problem is that A. People want to connect with other people, not talk to computers, and B. AI slop peddlers know this and have an incentive to lie about their content. If GenAI content was always reliably declared and people's choi
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by Anamon 7mo ago
I read about an idea for an incentive/check system like that before. Something like: make the cost 10c instead of 1c, but implement a system where recipients can mark mails as confirmed "wanted" mail, upon which the sender wo
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by Anamon 7mo ago
I don't think the current firehose model of spam would be sustainable anymore, though. Those spammers send millions of mails a day. Even with a 1 cent cost, they'd have to be much more selective about their address lists, given th
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Absolutely. If anything, private torrent trackers and NZB indexers are proof that it works overwhelmingly well. The few I'm part of all have a real community (like in the net of old), civil conversation, and verified, quality materials
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by Anamon 7mo ago
That's the nerdiest dream I ever heard about. I'm a bit jealous I never had one like that (that I remember). How did you compile? Were you sitting at a desk getting piles of printed code?
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Writing software is not chopping trees, though. For instance, there is a lot of evidence (and intuition, frankly) to the argument that while LLM increase superficial, short-term productivity, they also cause an extreme accumulation in techn
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by Anamon 7mo ago
So how will progress be made in our field, in your scenario of the future? It's both an obvious consequence of how they operate, and an easily observable reality, that even the best models utterly fail at any task that is even slightly
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Forget about checking Safe Browsing. Try reporting phishing sites to Google if you really want a reason to hate them. I report all (manually verified) phishing sites I get spam for to Safe Browsing, then automatically check the listing
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by Anamon 8mo ago
People get arrested for tweets like calling for the homes of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Something like this, clear and direct calls for violence and criminal acts, usually turn up when you research any of those cases brought as examp
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by Anamon 8mo ago
Awesome, Clonk fans on HN! To this day, I don't think there's any game series I spent more total hours in than Clonk. Also starting in 1998 with Clonk 4, especially with one particular friend from school, we played these sometimes
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by Anamon 8mo ago
These problems had been solved for a long time before publishers decided to needlessly kill self-hosted multiplayer. Don't let them gaslight you into believing that the online requirements are about anything else but their greed. Also,
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by Anamon 8mo ago
That's ironic. I remember when they removed Messenger from facebook.com in order to force people to use the app.
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by Anamon 8mo ago
I found it incredibly rewarding to share my hobbies with people from around the world, with the most diverse backgrounds, in the inherently more walled garden of the early web. That was what the web promised over "meatspace" and I
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by Anamon 8mo ago
Profile age and history are not a reliable indicator, either. Many of these bots use hacked accounts. The accounts of real people who stopped using the site and therefore won't notice the abuse of their account and stop it. You sometim
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by Anamon 8mo ago
> Not just squash merges, rebase-merges also don't work. Are you sure? I almost exclusively rebase-merge, and I use ‘git branch --merged‘ all the time. It works perfectly fine for me. Also conceptually it seems to make sense to me:
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by Anamon 8mo ago
Incidentally, 'git trash' is also quite close to what I tend to shout in the office after running not quite the correct git command.
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by Anamon 8mo ago
What agenda, pray tell? Since GitHub and GitLab both default to main, and Git doesn't default to anything, I'm pretty sure main being more prevalent than master is just a fact. NB, the change from master to main isn't "s
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by Anamon 8mo ago
I had configured that one ever since reading this very helpful article, which I suspect I discovered through HN a while ago: https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git
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by Anamon 8mo ago
> 1 last thing; some global brands actually have the same size name on the same product represent a different size in different region (eg an SKU in size S in US may have different measurements to the same SKU in S in Asia) I (Swiss) onc
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by Anamon 8mo ago
The comments tend to be overwhelmingly negative, though.

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