coldpie

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by coldpie 1y ago
> To me it just seems like he's killing any and all credibility he had. Probably a bad long term strategy? He's already got more money than God and there's an infinite supply of suckers who think wealth and skill/inte
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Only if you consider Sam Altman not serious > Elon Musk[1], Sam Altman, or Marc Andreessen[2] ... these people are liars. Bingo. These people are salesmen & marketers. Lying to sell a product (including gathering funding &amp
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by coldpie 1y ago
I don't think anyone serious is talking about AGI from LLMs, no.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Doesn't seem to work for me, it looks like it cycles through all open windows instead of the most recently active window.
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Quick Tips for Making the Internet Suck Less(smokingonabike.com)
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah unfortunately my work doesn't allow 3rd party apps like that (a reasonable restriction, IMO).
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by coldpie 1y ago
Do you know if there is a way to quickly switch between only two individual windows in different applications? A very common paradigm for me is swapping between two windows, for example a terminal session for code editing and a browser win
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by coldpie 1y ago
It's embarrassing to me as an American that the people who are leading our society are so plainly in the loony bin.
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by coldpie 1y ago
LLMs are not going to fundamentally reshape society. Productivity will go up a couple percent, the profits from that productivity will go to the richest people. Some jobs will be made redundant, some new jobs will be created. That'
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by coldpie 1y ago
Deeply embarrassing to see this coming from one of America's most powerful companies, especially after the metaverse faceplant from a few years back.
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by coldpie 1y ago
uBlock Origin has a Cookie Notices filter which blocks those. NoScript worked for this one, too.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I agree natural monopolies such as ISPs can justify additional regulation. I'm not convinced payment processors are natural monopolies (see sibling thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44683153 ). > I just
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by coldpie 1y ago
Indeed, breaking up the too-big companies nicely solves several of these issues. It's much harder to deplatform someone if there are a dozen viable social media/video/critical Internet infrastructure companies, instead of ju
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by coldpie 1y ago
> How would you then prevent them from re-amalgamating the way Verizon and AT&T did after the Baby Bell breakup? Not just for a few years afterward, but ever? By continuing to enforce anti-trust legislation, though this time on the o
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by coldpie 1y ago
Hmm, maybe, I haven't thought about it much. The angle I'm taking is, as a private citizen I choose not to do business with entities I think are immoral, such as Amazon and Home Depot and Hobby Lobby and Uline and Tesla. If I we
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by coldpie 1y ago
> the point is payment processors shouldn't be arbiters on what you buy. Because if they can stop you buying/selling video games, they can do the same for other stuff. We both agree this is bad. What we are discussing is how b
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by coldpie 1y ago
You are correct, I don't think not being able to purchase porn games rises to the same level of danger as unsafe food or climate change, to require the government to tell businesses how they may operate. > With your logic we should
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by coldpie 1y ago
> We collectively agreed long ago that monopolies do not get to enjoy the same freedoms that other companies do. I think that's generally only the case for natural monopolies, such as power infrastructure, where breaking them up isn
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Is it controversial that companies aren't allowed to refuse service based on gender or race (in the US at least)? Those are legal categories known as "protected classes," and yeah, it was and is pretty controversial[1].
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by coldpie 1y ago
> THIS. Why is this PoV even controversial? Because it is stating that the government should control private behavior, which bumps into free speech and freedom of association issues. That gets pretty controversial. There are other soluti
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by coldpie 1y ago
> What I’m not going to do is offer it up to Google et al so they can profit from it. What are you going to do with it? If you publish it, the law currently allows Google to hoover it up and there's nothing you can do about it.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, though it's tricky because they want to retain free access & support for users who use the project but do not generate revenue.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Imagine indie developer or someone who wants to try and create something but without much revenue (eg 1k / year). so 10% of your revenue goes to the installer of your product... You can always download the source and build the sof
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by coldpie 1y ago
You're correct, but I guess they're banking on their users preferring to get the binaries straight from the source instead of through an unaffiliated third party. There are also other benefits to paying, such as being able to file
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by coldpie 1y ago
> > but most Linux distributions are made by people trying to escape the market share people > I never thought about it like that, but it makes sense in a lot of ways! Yeah. I developed Linux/open-source software for more than
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by coldpie 1y ago
> The Gnome desktop churn was a bit of a headache ... lately I just use XFCE and call it a day Yeah, the desktop roller coaster is fun for a year or two, but eventually you get tired of constantly being jerked around for no reason so you
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by coldpie 1y ago
There are many ad blocking solutions for iOS, though I don't have the knowledge to recommend one myself. Hopefully one day, Europe will force Apple to let users install better web browsers than Safari.
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by coldpie 1y ago
You don't have to put up with the Internet like that. Install uBlock Origin, turn off media autoplay in your browser settings ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay ), and consider installing No
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by coldpie 1y ago
As mentioned, an ad blocker fixes that, too. Ads aside, the actual search results don't seem to be any different.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> You probably have an adblocker running. Yeah, of course. Anyone with a brain does. But "Kagi doesn't have ads" is a different statement than "Kagi's results are better than Google's." I've never

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