Andrex

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by Andrex 6d ago
> The entire ad tech industry may truly be an intelligence agency front. The lengths they go to track individuals is quite alarming. Never attribute to malice what can be explained as greed. The quiet part you rarely hear is that adverti
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by Andrex 6d ago
I was going to say, wasn't this supposed to be the default in Chrome by now? But Google reneged on it two years back: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-third-party-cookies-chro... This disgusts me more than any
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by Andrex 7d ago
Putting aside the question of "why consume any media," and even admitting that I myself have seen hundreds of hours of General Hospital (don't ask), why consume this media specifically? Are people seeking this out or is it
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by Andrex 7d ago
I haven't seen overly political links in a while; I would assume the experiment failed.
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by Andrex 7d ago
This is a cool idea! Where can I learn more without signing up?
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Ten days that changed the course of AI(reuters.com)
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by Andrex 7d ago
> There are projects like PostmarketOS which work to get mainline Linux on phones. From there, you can run Linux on phones through desktop environments such as Phosh and Plasma Mobile which are touch optimized. Gnome is undertaking some
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by Andrex 7d ago
It sounds like you want a phone version of Raspberry Pi, something that's totally open to tinkering? That would be cool to see, but it would be a tough sell to general users.
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by Andrex 7d ago
That linked article really blows apart 10-years of Pixel security posturing. Numerous press articles about the security of its Titan chip, "most secure phone ever," etc. (HN types would snicker, "Google's getting all you
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by Andrex 7d ago
Sometimes market forces fail and it becomes the only choice.
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by Andrex 7d ago
AI is definitely going to cause a chilling effect for (human-written) code. Why connect with other young nerds to make something cool when an AI can make it for you? Why share code if you've never sought out shared code yourself? Furth
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by Andrex 7d ago
I fear someone higher-up taking the dataset, pointing AI at it, and saying "find me people who said something I don't like."
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by Andrex 12d ago
Semi-related but I'm ignorant: when did Apple change to use a universal version number? Is it just for the public, like how Windows 11 is actually NT 10.0? I can't believe I missed the HN discussion on this one.
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by Andrex 17d ago
I think the multiplayer is very smartly implemented. The big "Anomaly" space stations can feel very busy. I don't feel very alone playing tbh, unless I want to be. MMO raid-like expeditions are right there if I wanna join up
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by Andrex 29d ago
I have a weird personal theory that whittling down the number of app vendors on your phone is just a good thing to do. As a Pixel user, I've gotten my phone to just having four (4) third-party app vendors. - Duolingo (I've never s
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by Andrex 1mo ago
I don't know why I've never drawn a line from our current situation to the zaibatsus, that's a great insight.
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by Andrex 1mo ago
I completely forgot you could "squirt" songs to other Zune owners. What a time! (Brown launch model here.)
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by Andrex 1mo ago
Speak for yourself, I don't see dairy.
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by Andrex 1mo ago
Advertisers get to pretend their ads are being seen. Websites get paid. Users don't see ads. Sounds like a win-win-win?
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by Andrex 1mo ago
Exactly. The difference between the two is not qualitatively different for 99% of users.
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by Andrex 2mo ago
The blind aspect (I would assume) is meant to cut down on favoritism and discrimination. With the US I understand how that would come about. Whether it succeeds in that goal is a separate topic.
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by Andrex 2mo ago
https://youtu.be/HTpbpxNc6c0 The more things change...
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by Andrex 2mo ago
> Hollywood probably has less than three years to live. "Probably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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by Andrex 2mo ago
Let the man dream (and possibly write interesting scifi about it).
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by Andrex 2mo ago
This is an extremely fair judgment. I should not be surprised but it is nice. I will turn down the snark a little more in the future. Sometimes it just sneaks in there. Sneaky snark.
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by Andrex 2mo ago
That's true, I meant more by Google themselves. It's their first-party data, the whole set available on-demand, no scraping needed.
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by Andrex 2mo ago
I disagree. It was relevant, succinct, and meant to inspire introspection leading to positive change.
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by Andrex 2mo ago
I spin a mental roulette on whether the reception on a new release will be "OMG best model by far, no one will be able to catch up for months!" or "OMG this is already outdated, RIP company X, they might as well just give up
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by Andrex 2mo ago
What's the current outlook on Antigravity IDE vs. 2.0? How long will they begrudgingly keep it going before kicking everyone to 2.0/3.0? (I actually use a mix of both for some offline projects, nothing serious.)
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by Andrex 2mo ago
Knowledge Graph + automated transcriptions of almost every YouTube video = giant untapped moat of data

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