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by Zak 7mo ago
It's not just the average consumer. I continue to be surprised that so many developers and other tech nerds - the type who post on HN - chose and continue to choose the iPhone over Android when Apple dictates what apps they can install
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by Zak 8mo ago
I imagine PG is rich enough and influential enough in the tech/VC space that he doesn't have to signal anything he doesn't honestly believe. It's unsurprising he would believe LLM coding tools are a productivity boon, bu
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by Zak 8mo ago
Who is signaling what virtues to whom in this context? When I see PG write something like that, it signals to me that he has embraced AI hype to the point that he is displaying poor taste and embracing a risky technical practice.
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by Zak 8mo ago
An important detail here is that Ukraine's constitution says they can't have an election while they're at war. The US constitution does not say that, and the USA has had elections during wars several times.
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by Zak 8mo ago
Page loads that aren't measured in megabytes, no tracking cookies, and works without Javascript? Refreshing, if you ask me.
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by Zak 8mo ago
I thought about making something like this prior to LLMs. This version is more sophisticated than what I had in mind. I think its response to this comment could use some work: > The Glock 19 is a great answer to this position. It detec
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by Zak 8mo ago
Here's a study showing an immediate negative impact on prospective memory from switching context repeatedly on short-form video platforms: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107... Unlim
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by Zak 8mo ago
Each feed has a unique URL, so you can bookmark it in your browser. For people using Facebook via native mobile apps, my recommendation would be to stop and use a browser.
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by Zak 8mo ago
I never saw Instagram as appealing to photography hobbyists. Instead, I saw it as deliberately nerfing things where hobbyists have advantages (image quality, choice of aspect ratios, posting from desktop PCs), likely to increase participati
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by Zak 8mo ago
> If they lock things down, they lose less money to fraud. [Citation Needed] I see this kind of claim made often, but never backed up with evidence that remote attestation of consumer devices has any real-world impact on fraud. It soun
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by Zak 8mo ago
It's not about what users want. It's about what's profitable for the company. What I want from Facebook is to see what original words, images, or videos my friends and family thought was worth sharing with the world today, an
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by Zak 8mo ago
You can definitely make a "phone calls only" mode: create a mode, allow certain apps to interrupt, and add only phone calls to the list. I do think they should offer more pre-configured notification modes by default, if only to sh
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by Zak 8mo ago
> It seems like they will still allow installs, just hide it behind some scare text. That describes the current (and long-established) behavior. App installation is only from Google's store by default and the user has to manually
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by Zak 8mo ago
It is possible, but many people still buy them from their provider with financing or subsidies. That means people shopping for used Pixels who want to unlock the bootloader need to avoid the special Verizon variant which forbids unlocking t
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by Zak 8mo ago
Öffi, if it has coverage for the areas relevant to you: https://oeffi.schildbach.de/index.html
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by Zak 8mo ago
I don't either, but I'm familiar with the situation from talking to people who do. The obvious answer is to just use any of the many third-party messaging apps, but in the USA it seems like there's always someone who thinks a
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by Zak 8mo ago
That's not quite how it works. You can't have a group chat that's mixed iMessage and SMS/MMS. If an iMessage user creates a group chat where not everyone is using iMessage, then it's MMS. I suppose now it could be R
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by Zak 8mo ago
I have a group of adults in my social circle who won't migrate a group chat to anything other than iMessage so that I can participate. I'm genuinely angry at them for this and angry at Apple for its role in creating the situation.
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by Zak 8mo ago
(Non-Android) Linux phones often aren't GNU; PostmarketOS is one of the more popular options, and that's based on Alpine Linux which uses musl and Busybox.
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by Zak 8mo ago
Google has backed away from that, stating that an "advanced workflow" with more warnings than the current settings toggle will remain available. We should all be concerned they even considered such a thing though. https:/&#x
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by Zak 8mo ago
It was a scheme to sell math textbooks involving a purported method for squaring the circle which depended on that incorrect value of pi. Squaring the circle had already been proven impossible, but that didn't stop them from trying. h
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by Zak 8mo ago
In 1897, the Indiana general assembly passed a bill declaring the value of pi to be 3.2. The senate was wise enough to postpone it indefinitely.
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by Zak 8mo ago
> It doesn't matter what country you run your server in or where your company is based; if you're providing public signup to a chat server then the countries (UK, AU, NZ etc) which require age verification will object if you d
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by Zak 8mo ago
It would take some clever crafting to outlaw Matrix clients without also outlawing web browsers and conventional email clients. Let's assume they did though. The best they can do is block it from app stores, which won't stop anyon
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by Zak 8mo ago
People without a physical or legal presence in Australia likely don't care what the Australian law cares about.
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by Zak 8mo ago
Matrix is a protocol, not a service. It's likely the UK government can enforce laws against content and accounts hosted on the matrix.org servers, but no single government has jurisdiction over the entire network.
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by Zak 8mo ago
> Every safety regulation is written in blood. This has become a mantra, but it's not always true. Automatic shoulder belts, for example were a terrible idea, and 5 MPH bumpers were more about repair costs than reducing injuries.
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by Zak 8mo ago
One of my unfavorite random car regulations is that as of some time in this millennium, cars sold in the USA may not have required lighting on movable bodywork. This bans new cars from having clamshell bodywork like that found on classics l
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by Zak 8mo ago
That's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass.
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by Zak 8mo ago
I thought I had a decent understanding of the 2024 election; people were unhappy with the status quo, therefore mistrusting the people and institutions they believed responsible for it. Then I saw this and its supporting data in your first

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