BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I don't know, do you have evidence to the contrary? Either way, all I'm saying is when I look at the UI changes that have been made to Firefox over a period of years, I believe their value to me is closer to zero than their develo
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Those are also obvious extension workflow. They would need to finance a lot less development if they stopped changing things and just worked on maintaining a limited core functionality including a nice extension system. That's it. Mo
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
So true about onboarding. The trend towards trying to make all interfaces simple and immediately accessible has led to lots of functionality being deeply hidden. Of course you don't want the interface to be insanely complicated but y
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This has the same problem that most public searxng instances seem to have nowadays, which is that they don't work. Either you just get an error about rate limiting or you get results totally unrelated to your search. I just tried a c
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I had been using baresearch.org (a searxng instance) but it's recently become unusable, apparently due to the engines it aggregates cracking down on such things. I tried some other instances but they also don't work. It's a
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
What I have noticed is how slow it is to load versus other search engines. It's not much in the scheme of things but it's noticeable.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But there's no UI for that, nor is there a way to use it for any other profile data (that I know of).
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I don't really see this as a positive thing.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Well, unless the person giving the corporate-sounding reply is the same one who made the decision to activate the translation bot in the first place, then no, it's not just two fallible humans. I have to assume there were multiple fal
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I mean the missing link here is can you make money with it. There are plenty of people out there for whom the "easy" work is something like building hyper-detailed models of obscure railway bridges, or painting 5,000 pictures of
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I don't see an article with this title on the site. The link just goes to the front page of the site.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
They are actionable by entirely canceling the machine translation operations in that community,
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The right thing to do is undo what you did and then ask to talk about it. There is nothing the person can say to make up for the destructive effects they took.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I've used profiles for a long time, but they have some annoyances. One thing I really want is a comprehensive system for transferring/syncing only certain data between profiles. Profiles contain some data that is specific to, w
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
You say "redefine what happiness is", but I'm not sure there's any "re"-definition necessary, it can just be about how you define it. I wouldn't say that the things you mention (satisfaction, purpose, etc
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I mean one way to handle that is to just outright exclude Chinese companies from such bids.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'd bet dollars to donuts it doesn't actually "end legal and medical advice", it just ends it in some ill-defined subset of situations they were able to target, while still leaving the engine capable of giving such advic
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Still better.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is another example of a little radicalism is a dangerous thing. You don't need to be friends with landlords if you're prepared to simply seize all their property.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think there's an argument to be made that many of the allegedly "radical" Democratic policies fall into an uncanny valley of wonkiness, where they're enough of a reach to get people riled up emotionally but not enough
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
With 20/20 hindsight I'd say that's the wrong lesson. The actual lesson is that if you're struggling to get 40% of the legislature to make obvious improvements to your country, you should use your majority for even more
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
More stuff getting paywalled.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's good in that way, but it's in the process of being enshittified.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's a complex issue, but the dumb part is letting the for-profit utilities decide to not provide the power people signed up for because those same utilities can't keep their own equipment from starting fires.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
What about "this is large and complex enough to be not the way we do things"?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I enjoyed this. I find it somewhat telling though that while the title is about "the internet", the actual discussion about what's changed focuses a lot on money. You can argue that the internet changed how money is made, b
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
And make the fish pay for it?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Gosh, what a relief that someone has settled this question for us.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Silicon Valley didn’t ruin the internet on its own; it just magnified a culture of deregulation and quick profit that has shaped U.S. policy for decades. That's a good point. Or another way to say it is that silicon valley didn&#
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> A future company also could. Then they should be broken up too. > We don't need to be interfering just because we feel a company is too good at being a company. We absolutely do, because "being good at being a company&quot

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