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   by bertman 3y ago

   -Channels are a one-way broadcast tool for admins -Searchable directory (optional for a channel to be in), but also invite links -Following a channel won't reveal your phone number to other followers and admins -Channel history stored
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   WhatsApp Channels(blog.whatsapp.com)

   2 points by bertman 3y ago|6 comments
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   by bertman 3y ago

   I don't think the behavior is strictly equivalent. From this extension's description: When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and
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   Rarbg Shutdown Is a Major Blow to the Pirate Ecosystem(torrentfreak.com)

   19 points by bertman 3y ago|1 comments
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   by bertman 3y ago

   >crosvm is currently used to run Linux/Android guests on ChromeOS devices.
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   Rust: The wrong people are resigning(fasterthanli.me)

   63 points by bertman 3y ago|11 comments
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   Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports(mullvad.net)

   3 points by bertman 3y ago|0 comments
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   by bertman 3y ago

   This is literally in the second paragraph of the article.
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   by bertman 3y ago

   Related post (and highly recommended!) from yesterday: The Silent (R)evolution of SAT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36079115
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    by bertman 3y ago

    Or you could just continue using "Reader Mode" (chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode) which does basically the same thing with a single click in the url bar instead of using the awkward side panel.
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    by bertman 3y ago

    And its discussion from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046738
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    by bertman 3y ago

    >[...] it’s a profound relief, these days, to press our collective feverish forehead against the cold steel of actual information. Beautiful.
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    by bertman 3y ago

    This is a pretty in-depth blog post by The Guardian's 3-persons development team about improving their notification platform to achieve the "90in2" goal: Deliviring "breaking news" push notifications to 90% of the i
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    Our journey towards the fastest breaking news service(theguardian.com)

    1 points by bertman 3y ago|1 comments
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    Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage'(theregister.com)

    2 points by bertman 3y ago|0 comments
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    by bertman 3y ago

    >Leverage Astro's unique zero-JS frontend architecture to unlock higher conversion rates with better SEO. I don't know Astro, and I'm sure other frameworks write similar stuff on their landing pages, but this state of web
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    by bertman 3y ago

    Previous story from 2 weeks ago, 133 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780517
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    by bertman 3y ago

    Yeah, I don't know why my summary was flagged either. I like testing LLMs on article summarization (especially on articles about AI), and found this to be a very good summary, that's why I posted it.
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    by bertman 3y ago

    Doctorow coined the term "enshitification" for this. Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=enshitification
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    by bertman 3y ago

    >I mean aren't all these points obvious to everybody? Pretty much, yeah. Ironically, this makes rants like OP part of the AI PR Industrial Complex.
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    by bertman 3y ago

    My favorite quote from the essay: "When they [AI companies] do ‘do’ science, they are still using science mostly as an aesthetic. They publish papers with grand claims but provide no access to any of the data or code used in the resear
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    Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil(baldurbjarnason.com)

    237 points by bertman 3y ago|171 comments
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    “Twitter is going great” is being sunset(twitterisgoinggreat.com)

    68 points by bertman 3y ago|108 comments
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    by bertman 3y ago

    Nice little tool! From their Github page [0]: >this plugin was created by GPT-4 in just two hours It uses the Intersection Observer API [1] to grep visible usernames on twitter.com and then checks the Wikipedia API if the property
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    by bertman 3y ago

    Also, "it's important to note" has forever been tarnished as "AI generated" for me.
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    by bertman 3y ago

    >a Brand on Twitter acting like a real human >send all messages through them as a representative Not sure what you're getting at. Everyone knows that some social media person/intern manages the corporate Twitter account. How
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    by bertman 3y ago

    This shows randomly selected summaries from English Wikipedia articles from a selection of 49652 articles that seem to be have been last crawled two years ago. [0] [0] https://github.com/retrohacker/wikiscroll/blob
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    by bertman 3y ago

    Or (from the readme): cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*s
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    by bertman 3y ago

    That was even 15 years ago (September 2008, time flies...).
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    by bertman 4y ago

    Not to be confused with old "reader mode", which unfortunately always has been hidden behind a the "#enable-reader-mode" flag.