brandon272

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by brandon272 7d ago
What do you mean LLM slop? OP says they built it themselves.
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by brandon272 7d ago
It does when I log in. You click "Try another way" and then it brings up a menu of options you have for 2FA. For some reason they have designed the account recovery flow to be different. So, if you are used to the "Try anothe
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by brandon272 7d ago
Thanks. Upon further investigation we could have hit “Try another way” on the account recovery process UI a few times to get to a workable account recovery method. Would be nice if Google would lay your recovery options out for you (which I
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by brandon272 8d ago
Ran into the same issue with my dad the other day. Has a passkey set up on his Google account. Bear in mind that he doesn’t know what a passkey is, so Google obviously sent him through a pattern at one point to get him to create one. He did
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by brandon272 9d ago
Laws are threats. The difference is that we empower the government to threaten us to maintain social order, we do not empower individuals to threaten each other.
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by brandon272 10d ago
> AI stealing their jobs isn't a "legitimate material harm"? No, if you have to make several indirect causal leaps, to get from "shop owner uses ChatGPT instead of MS Word to generate a menu" to "somewhere a
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by brandon272 10d ago
> In your original point you seemed to be painting everything with the same brush. There was no "90%" mentioned. My apologies, I assumed that it was implied that I was speaking generally. I will try to be clearer going forward.
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by brandon272 10d ago
In that analogy, you SHOULD assume the person is an influencer. In the case of this shop, we're talking about local retail. If you are a retail small business owner you have to assume that any customer can be an "influencer"
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by brandon272 10d ago
If the "business owner needs to own their actions", shouldn't the people who are seeking to take a coordinated effort to harm that business also "own their actions" and be able to say plainly what they are doing ins
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by brandon272 10d ago
If I tell someone that I am going to take a coordinated effort to undermine their business and get customers to stop shopping there, potentially resulting in the demise of the business, the loss of their livelihood and ability to provide fo
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by brandon272 10d ago
"Nice business you've got here, shame if something happened to it"
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by brandon272 10d ago
I think that issuing an ultimatum where if the person does not do what you want, that you will be sharing your concerns with likeminded people online, with the underlying implication being that the business owner will end up experiencing so
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by brandon272 10d ago
The bird frame project has all the signatures of something developed with thought, care and effort put behind it, and the fact that it involves physical hardware is part of that. There's a reason it reached the front page. My point was
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by brandon272 10d ago
I think there are undeniable and novel risks with AI. But there are risks in everything. We could theorize all day about them. We all use tools every day that could be used for very ugly acts. An iPhone can be used to plan a terrorist attac
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by brandon272 10d ago
Yes, a rare gem.
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by brandon272 10d ago
I feel like there was an attached covenant with the "Show HN" concept that implied someone had likely put some level of painstaking craft and creativity into whatever their project was. It felt like a reasonable bargain to give yo
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by brandon272 11d ago
“Temporary” surveillance powers are never temporary.
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by brandon272 12d ago
> At this point it's handling large swathes of my operations, marketing and finance. Can you expand on this in terms of what it is handling specifically and how?
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by brandon272 16d ago
There is also an uncanny valley aspect to the videos. Outside of the formulaic transitions, I find the scenes where they are standing in various parts of the building distracting, because everything looks fake, as if they are standing in fr
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by brandon272 17d ago
There is widespread crippling phone addiction in our society. That is one reason why people want premium flagship features. If you are going to stare at your phone for 3+ hours a day, spending more to get the latest and greatest makes sense
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by brandon272 17d ago
I'm not even sure I'd point to "media coverage" when it is Anthropic's own employees stating plainly on Twitter that they think there is a >10% chance AI kills all humans within the next decade.
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by brandon272 18d ago
What configuration? What harness? These matter greatly to how a local model performs, in my experience.
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by brandon272 24d ago
What if the cousin goes bankrupt in year 5?
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by brandon272 27d ago
Canadian companies and government websites that use embedded Google Maps are displaying “Lake America”. Not good.
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by brandon272 1mo ago
This implies that writing styles are simply "correct" or "incorrect". I'd prefer to read someone's natural writing style, even if they do not consider themselves a good writer, because it comes from them genuin
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by brandon272 2mo ago
I had tried Kagi a few years ago but it didn't stick. Tried it again now and it feels like a breath of fresh air, which is probably less of a statement about Kagi's advancements and more a statement of what Google has become.
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by brandon272 2mo ago
If the article doesn't help you fix your brakes, it has confused you and wasted your time. Not immaterial.
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by brandon272 2mo ago
> However, just look at this article! Zero pictures for a process that _really_ needs it. It just drones on. Buckle up, because the next phase of this AI content generation nightmare will be articles like this featuring AI generated imag
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by brandon272 2mo ago
> I don't understand the desire to run own AI models for programming locally. Privacy. Security. Not bulk uploading your trade secrets and intellectual property to Sam and Dario’s servers.
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by brandon272 2mo ago
They aren’t prosecuted because they’re in a club that you are not in. Not all citizens have to abide by the same laws and rules.

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