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by barnabee 2y ago
> Advertising has a purpose; it's how I find out what products and services are available, and at what cost. When I am unable to avoid it (which I’m relatively successful at), it’s how I explicitly decide what to avoid. See an ad, p
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by barnabee 2y ago
> IMO the idea of removing advertising entirely would essentially entrench the status quo even further. This doesn’t seem correct to me. Products would still be searchable, but the wealthiest companies could no longer pay for placement o
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by barnabee 2y ago
If they are paid and the consumer didn’t ask to see it, either because it’s inserted into the web page / video stream / whatever they are actually trying to consume, OR because because the whole thing has a paid bias or ulterior m
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by barnabee 2y ago
This is precisely why I try to see as close to zero advertising as possible, and also why I will always actively avoid buying something when I do see an ad for it (if I realise this). I do not trust my in-built protections, so I’d rather no
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by barnabee 2y ago
I like the direction but some things are difficult to imagine happening at all without extremely large companies. I have wondered before about restricting a company’s diversity. Effectively giving a time limit after a company over a certain
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by barnabee 2y ago
I’m over 40 and I think banning advertising is perfectly reasonable and should be done. I have been certain of this since at least my 20s, and since before the emergence of the current fully formed hellscape. I have long thought advertising
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by barnabee 2y ago
100% agree. I am happy to pay for an ad-free version of a product I want but I will never use your product if I cannot block or remove the ads.
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by barnabee 2y ago
> Some extreme examples of commercial advertising that was or is highly sought after by its target audience include eBay listings, Craigslist posts, the Yellow Pages, classified ads, the Sears catalog, job offer postings, the McMaster–Ca
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by barnabee 2y ago
I have a pretty big Steam library and have had no issues with any “verified” game and very few issues even with those that are just marked “playable”. What problems have you seen?
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by barnabee 2y ago
I much prefer the size and form factor of the Onyx Poke 5 to their phone-like Palma (and now Palma 2). I'd love to see an update of that with a better CPU, smaller bezel (though honestly it's already really nice and compact devi
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by barnabee 2y ago
> The entire point of these tools is that I am supposed to be able to trust what they say Hard disagree, and I feel like this assumption might be at the root of why some people seem so down on LLMs. They’re a tool. When they’re useful to
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by barnabee 2y ago
They are noisy and pollute. Not the same at all.
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by barnabee 2y ago
The only way they’d not be API accessible is surely if they contained some new and extremely difficult to replicate innovation that prevents important capabilities from being commoditised. What reason or evidence do you see that that is (
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by barnabee 2y ago
You can’t set Kagi as the default though. As others have said, you can only set something else as default and run an extension that tries to hijack it.
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by barnabee 2y ago
It’s extremely circumstantial for me. Sometimes they give me maybe a 5–10% improvement (i.e. nice but not world changing). Usually that’s when they’re working as an alternative to docs, solving the odd bug, helping write tests or occasional
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by barnabee 2y ago
Depends what you’re measuring. Sutro Tower’s prominence[0] is almost certainly greater than the house in Nebraska and probably most of the buildings in Denver too (though possibly there’s some comms equipment or ski infrastructure that coul
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by barnabee 2y ago
Age verification should be baked into the parenting. It's about the only place it might have the intended effect anyway, and has the advantage of not enabling mass surveillance.
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by barnabee 2y ago
I don't particularly trust Kagi but I will always prefer something that I can pay for, which has no ads, over anything funded by advertising and monetising my data.
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by barnabee 2y ago
This. Scott Manley explains it well in his video: https://youtu.be/Esk1hg2knno
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by barnabee 2y ago
No, I write a fair bit of TypeScript when I need to make a frontend in Svelte.
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by barnabee 2y ago
I also can’t get along with SvelteKit. Astro + Svelte seems nice enough if you need it but for most of what I do, plain Svelte 5 is great.
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by barnabee 2y ago
Debugging seems fine to me, theres even the {@debug …} tag. TypeScript is a better scripting language than JavaScript, Svelte is a better language/model/platform than HTML+TypeScript. React may be your cup of tea but I’d rather wr
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by barnabee 2y ago
Svelte 5 is not JavaScript is why I like Svelte 5 . There are two major ways I think it's reasonable to do frontend/web: 1. Static HTML or server rednered templates with maybe HTMX . 2. Compile-to-JavaScript languages/platfo
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by barnabee 2y ago
Yeah, it's a deal-breaker if I can't run the model locally and/or have to sign up for their account.
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by barnabee 2y ago
For anyone that wants it: https://archive.ph/WRbhV but I encourage you to read the summary at the top of the non-paywalled report above instead
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by barnabee 2y ago
It’s probably possible to have copyright laws that aren’t a net negative, but they’d be very different (perhaps they’d be very short and only restrict commercial use/exploitation), and we don’t. I’m pretty confident the optimum is at o
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by barnabee 2y ago
If we want authors and other artists/creators to be paid in the long term we need to find a method that is not copyright. Copyright helps Spotify more than musicians and bands. It helps Meta and Google more than authors and journalists
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by barnabee 2y ago
Man, they ought to lose Java on generic-ness, let alone JavaScript. Java was invented by Sun and literally nobody cares (nor is particularly happy) that Oracle currently makes a version of the JDK. JavaScript is made by almost everyone in
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by barnabee 2y ago
Sign up for an API account and connect something like Open WebUI[0] and you can have just that, with a few caveats (mostly around specific UI features). Bonus is you can query multiple models at once, including local llama.cpp/Ollama m
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by barnabee 2y ago
This is cool. It’d be great if they extended it to refund $5 for anyone on a Pro or Ultimate plan doing less than 300 searches in a month, too. (I pay for ultimate and would still be very happy with that gesture.)

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