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by bogwog 4y ago
The issue is on competition. Nobody can really change consumer behavior, but we can regulate businesses to ensure the free market remains fair and competitive.
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by bogwog 4y ago
The internet would be a friendlier place if people were more willing to give each other the benefit of the doubt.
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by bogwog 4y ago
> Important thing here is, you're not a customer. That’s not the important thing at all. The important thing is the Otter.ai is violating the privacy of its users, potentially even breaking laws in some jurisdictions. If anything, i
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by bogwog 4y ago
If a single executive goes to prison for something like this, even just for a few months, it will drastically reduce the willingness to break the law from these companies no matter how huge they are.
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by bogwog 4y ago
The religion analogy is unnecessary. The FSF is a non-profit with the goal of fostering free software. As a non-profit, their actions and their investments are focused on their goal, not on becoming profitable. As an example, RMS himself ac
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by bogwog 4y ago
Slow startups are potentially a language issue (which can be mitigated/eliminated in various ways, especially for a text editor), but I hope you realize that comparing the performance of two completely different implementations doesn&#
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by bogwog 4y ago
I wonder what their costs are like? I'm not familiar with all the features of Bitwarden in particular, but a password management service is basically E2EE cloud storage for very tiny files, a simple account system, and then a bunch of
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by bogwog 4y ago
> Python is and has been a go to language for writing vim plugins. We've seen its limitations in the vim community. The same is true for Javascript and Typescript (which I personally love). Can you link to any example plugins that a
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by bogwog 4y ago
> I would imagine once you got all this setup the first time, it wouldn't be that much of a "maintenance nightmare". Literally just running scripts. Famous last words
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by bogwog 4y ago
I actually have a mild distaste for Lua after spending about a month and a half using LiteXL ( https://lite-xl.com/ ), which is an editor written entirely in Lua. The thing is a spaghetti mess, with a lot of plugins relying i
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by bogwog 4y ago
This is a project I'm really excited for. It seems like it has a chance of potentially replacing Sublime Text for me some day, which is something I've been trying to do for a while with zero success. I worry about the plugin syste
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by bogwog 4y ago
None of those things are Ubuntu exclusive. Not sure where he got that information.
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by bogwog 4y ago
I'm not sure of the details, but when you update a running Firefox all your currently-open tabs continue to work, but when you try to open a new one you'll get an error message telling you that you need to restart Firefox to keep
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by bogwog 4y ago
> With snap, Firefox is not updated until you close Firefox and run `snap refresh`. Worse, they display a misleading pop-up notification telling you Firefox needs to be closed within X days to update. However, closing Firefox doesn'
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by bogwog 4y ago
A better way to improve performance would be to switch to Flatpak. I used to be indifferent to the whole flatpak vs snap situation, since IMO either one is better than the traditional method of using the system package manager for everythin
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by bogwog 4y ago
Never heard of this organization, and this is one of the first results I found with a good bit of background on it: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_Civil_Liberties_Al... The site describes them as "a 501
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by bogwog 4y ago
Wow I'm more than $10 in the red so far after being subbed for 3 months, with an average of around 1200 search per month! I really hope that their high costs are due to some inefficiencies (e.g. with their current scale) they haven&#x2
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by bogwog 4y ago
I started using this when it was in free/public beta, and signed immediately once it required a subscription. Zero regrets. The results are excellent . Definitely better than Google and DuckDuckGo in my experience. I’ve been telling p
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by bogwog 4y ago
Remember that sarcasm doesn't work on the internet. You need to be explicit about it, such as by adding a "/s" at the end.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Back around the time when Metal Gear Solid V:GZ launched, I downloaded it on my PS4 at home and was able to stream it to my Vita over wifi while I was at university. It was fully playable and responsive, and the only real issue was that the
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by bogwog 4y ago
Sony had one of the best selling handhelds of all time with the PSP, and then they abandoned its successor (the Vita) almost immediately after launching it because they were scared of mobile gaming. They even hedged their bets by releasing
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by bogwog 4y ago
More competition is always good, no matter the politics behind it.
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by bogwog 4y ago
> Why would anyone leave money on the table and not do scummy / google / facebook ads If ethical ads do a better job of reaching developers, you would be leaving money on the table by not using them. Supply and demand applies,
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by bogwog 4y ago
My (somewhat cynical) explanation is that they want to deter people from taking these types of medical pictures on their phones, since that makes Google's job easier. Rather than improve their AI to avoid more of these types of false p
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by bogwog 4y ago
The best way I think is to try and run these models yourself. Depending on technical ability, you may want to run them on your own hardware, or use a service like dreamstudio.ai (which is run by the team behind Stable Diffusion afaik)
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by bogwog 4y ago
Also to be fair, the job "AI ethicist" probably didn't exist as a real thing until a few years ago. So the people in those roles over at OpenAI likely have no idea what they're doing.
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by bogwog 4y ago
I'm all for having these models scrutinized for copyright violations (and possibly amending copyright laws), but this comment is nothing but low-effort FUD.
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by bogwog 4y ago
Nobody can stop the march of progress. Being “vegan” with AI is just setting yourself up for failure in the (probably near) future. If you’re a professional artist today, you need to lean into this and adapt somehow. Current AI is pretty li
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At the pace that these things are progressing, I bet we’ll have that kind of control in like a year or less
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I don't think a cap is the right solution. Better would be regulations, controls, etc to enable competition for marketplaces (at least for those of a certain size) Like on iOS, if there was actual competition for app stores, Apple woul

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