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by KoftaBob 1y ago
> solid alternatives from Asia That just moves the problem somewhere else, rather than giving the EU homegrown solutions to rely on.
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by KoftaBob 1y ago
> Whatsapp (and perhaps Telegram) are the dominant messaging/chat apps for example and that is European tech but it was inevitably going to be bought Nitpick: Whatsapp was American from the start. It was founded in Mountain View, CA
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by KoftaBob 1y ago
If you want to skip the middleman and integrate the national weather service APIs that many countries governments provide (and which most commercial APIs base their data on anyway), check out this library. It unifies weather data from offic
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The Disappearance of Saturday Morning (2003)(awn.com)
68 points by KoftaBob 1y ago|53 comments
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by KoftaBob 1y ago
In addition to what others have said, I've had great experiences with LobeChat: https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat
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by KoftaBob 1y ago
> At this point their fabs are a liability. So we're just going to hand control of the US supply of semiconductors completely over to TSMC, Samsung, and the Chinese fabs in the works? That seems incredibly short sighted and reckless
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by KoftaBob 1y ago
What happened is the gig economy inserted a middleman (DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.) between the restaurant and customer. These platforms take a 20–30% cut, charge customer fees, and still often lose money. Meanwhile, drivers—now independent c
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Rats in New York City(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by KoftaBob 1y ago|0 comments
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Scottish Colonization of the Americas(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by KoftaBob 1y ago|0 comments
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: Some Thoughts on Generative AI(aboutamazon.com)
3 points by KoftaBob 1y ago|0 comments
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FCC Approves Verizon-Frontier Merger [pdf](docs.fcc.gov)
1 points by KoftaBob 1y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 1y ago
How very European.
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Support changes to our earliest generation Nest Learning Thermostats(googlenestcommunity.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 1y ago|1 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> The part that really struck me was framing advertising and propaganda as essentially the same mechanism - just with different masters. A big reason for that is influence from Edward Bernays: "Edward Louis Bernays was an American p
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AI Accent Conversion for call centers(krisp.ai)
48 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|70 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
For shopping suggestions, I've had the best experience with Perplexity.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Bluesky/AT Protocol hits a much better balance of mostly decentralized while having an intuitive user experience. On the other hand, ask the average social media user to try to do the below tasks on Mastodon/ActivityPub, and you
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
They can ask for Israel's assistance, they managed to (relatively) covertly develop nuclear weapons without a major power getting in their way. Granted, the US president who was pushing the most for inspections of Israel's Dimona
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Designating English as the Official Language of the United States(whitehouse.gov)
4 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|3 comments
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In memo to Google's AI team, Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is 'sweet spot'(finance.yahoo.com)
13 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|7 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Time to switch: https://librewolf.net/
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Every .gov Domain(flatgithub.com)
336 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|265 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
They addressed that in their FAQ: https://obscura.net/#faq-multihop
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Open Euro LLM(openeurollm.eu)
3 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
The way I see it, for a piece of news to hold value, it must have 2 properties: 1. Actionable: can this news inform how you go about your life in some way? 2. Primary Source: it must come straight from the source, to avoid manipulation of t
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A Plan for Establishing a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund(whitehouse.gov)
6 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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Thunderbird Appointment(appointment.day)
2 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|1 comments
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No shrubs and lots of concrete: This is what a fire-resistant house looks like(fastcompany.com)
3 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
You know where
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Are you under the impression that their website is hosted on-premises? This ain't the early 90s

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