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by alex1138 10mo ago
I like it but I really hate how they felt it "added drama" to put in a fictional argument Swigert was nothing but capable and professional and nobody blamed him (even in anger) for the oxygen tank explosion
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by alex1138 10mo ago
The gantry for Apollo 1 is still there (not the museum but the actual place it was supposed to launch from). Photos of it are chilling
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I can't take HN seriously, I just can't. It's where I get a lot of information but the naval gazing is endemic here. It's a certain type of culture, mixed in with the genuinely good posts and people who work in the indus
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by alex1138 10mo ago
General reminder that Artemis is due to launch by February
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I just honestly feel Zuck's lost the benefit of the doubt but I'm willing to be proven wrong
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I don't think it was Jack's fault, but Twitter went from something that (granted they did tend to do a few shady things from a UX perspective) was fine and largely worked but did have a massive censorship problem, to something tha
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by alex1138 10mo ago
What's fun is how many things they lock behind a "fuck you, sign in to read this" popup (and now Instagram too) This from the same company that conveniently tends to reset privacy settings on posts (It ought to be possible to
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Oh sure but a) people don't realize the scandals or magnitude of them and b) they literally captured every network effect Myspace was a hot mess but they got everyone that was there at the start of the internet where if I'm on it,
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by alex1138 10mo ago
No. I'm very specifically saying (contrary to your implication) that it's the management of the bar which is the problem HN loves to do this. "Platforms are mirrors held up to society". No, not always. Sometimes there re
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Reddit is fucking miserable. I don't want to claim they profited solely off the work of Swarz, because his involvement wasn't... total, I mean he left, but it feels like one of these things where mediocre people get control over s
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by alex1138 10mo ago
> Will Meta fuck this up as they seem (in my opinion) to do with most of the acquisitions? Do you even have to ask? Yes
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by alex1138 10mo ago
+ also got a bad rap due to what happened to Youtube - merged accounts - and yeah Google acted in some awful ways in more than one way but they were also trying to solve a problem of Zuck's shifting views on privacy (or rather the same
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I apologize for the somewhat low-effort comment but across the board Meta is the single most malicious tech company I can think of I'm no fan of Google but at least Google didn't use your 2FA for ads https://news.ycombi
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Has he helped Russia? I know he did help Ukraine partly with Starlink and I hadn't heard much beyond that
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Yeah honestly it really makes me want to use Claude Gemini can be a powerful model but it's just infested with the stink of Google
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I guess this might be a chance to plug the fact that Matrix came up with their own Metaverse thing (for lack of a better word) called Third Room, it represented the rooms you joined as spaces/worlds, they built some limited functionali
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by alex1138 10mo ago
...brought peace?
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Literally everything to do with covid. I can list "at least 3" right there. Masks don't work, the vaccine has killed people, epidemiologists (credible ones) warned against lockdowns. Wikipedia will tell you otherwise I'm
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopath, it's been obvious for years But everyone always excuses it. "He was young when he wrote those IMs"
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Yeah, exactly. Maybe before 2020 I would say Wikipedia is the gold standard (meaning those were my political views/biases, not that I think it got worse after 2020 although it probably did) but I've seen too much in the last few y
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by alex1138 10mo ago
You have to stop force feeding content Reels suck because they just jam it into the feed. I don't really know what they have planned but please, stop making people hate your product You too, Youtube
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I just have real institutional problems with Google, they have all the best tech minds but some things are just off limits to them being politically correct And no, not Epstein. It's a general statement; but it's disappointing tha
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I'm being snarky and this isn't such a serious comment and I don't really mean this for Gemini but can you imagine using something like Gemini ("Hi, please comb through this") and it just refuses on ethical grounds
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Yeah, welcome to tech. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize completely with you. It's an outrage. But it's incredible that Every. Single. One. of these companies has terrible automation with no ability to file a ticket for a huma
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by alex1138 10mo ago
but but but but 'if you're not paying then you are the product' Turns out that doesn't work, either
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by alex1138 10mo ago
> napster/piracy This one rankles me because of a) the benefits piracy has (third world consumers can now discover you, for starters) and b) the absolute bad faith way in which the industry acts, screwing over artists, unethically g
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by alex1138 10mo ago
Downvotes from sycophants
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I so want to like Gemini. I so want to like Google, but beyond their history of shuttering products they also tend to have a bent towards censorship (as most directly seen with Youtube)
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by alex1138 10mo ago
> VC-backed dumping operations Which is very reassuring considering some of them are fairly obviously on the wrong side of history with very naive viewpoints https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7852246
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by alex1138 10mo ago
I just can't stop thinking though about the vulnerability of training data You say good enough. Great, but what if I as a malicious person were to just make a bunch of internet pages containing things that are blatantly wrong, to trick

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