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by coldpie 2mo ago
I found if you turn off transparency effects and turn on high contrast in the accessibility settings, it's actually a pretty nice looking UI. Still has some dumb quirks like inconsistent corner radiuses and text appearing under UI elem
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Yeah, it sucks. It could've been a cool technology but they're so locked in to "my way or nothing" and won't consider other usecases or security trade-offs other than the ones they decided on. It's just a compl
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Your understanding is correct and I agree with you. The Passkey spec authors, however, think services should be allowed to ban your client for behaving this way: > [When UV is required, KeePassXC must request user verification or not han
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Proton Pass is on the official Passkey client naughty list[1]. I hope the services you log in to don't choose to ban it because of those big, scary X's. [1] https://passkeys.dev/docs/reference/known-issu
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Passkeys are a vector for locking your logins to Big Tech ecosystems. They support device attestation, which means the service you are logging in to can require you to only use certain Passkey clients such as those provided by Google, Appl
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I have. Like I said, the results were the same or worse than DDG and Google. It was not noticeably better in any way, certainly not something I want to pay $50 for.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I've asked a number of times on HN threads for specific examples of searches that Kagi performs better on than DDG or Google, and never gotten a solid reply. It seems what people like about Kagi is the customization and surrounding too
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I finally did this: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
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Browser extension to automatically Hide AI-related submissions on Hacker News(github.com)
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I thought about writing a Firefox extension that would just auto-click the Hide button for any story containing a keyword from a configurable list. Haven't gotten around to it.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Also looking to leave software, lots of options in front of me. Are you still in training, or are you making a living from it now?
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I wonder too. About a year ago I dropped a ~1970s Citizen mechanical watch[1] of mine and it shattered into a few pieces. I took it to a small-device repair place that advertised they can fix watches. The guy there said it was out of his
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I'm a security people. I can say with confidence that a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of these security issues are deliberate. Almost all of them are just dumb mistakes because making good software is really hard and really, really
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Yeah I suspect ebooks are even more dire as they have neither the curation of a publisher putting money into physical production; or the curation of a librarian with limited shelf space.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
> Never regretted reading them Interesting! I'm surprised to hear you've had that experience. I pick out books at the library largely by the cover & back blurb, not by whether they're popular or well reviewed or whatev
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by coldpie 3mo ago
You get VC to give your company $X00 M to build out AI capabilities, take a $X M salary for yourself, and retire. Doesn't matter what happens past that.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
It has definitely grown up with its users, yes. Most of us are in our 30s-50s now, lol.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I guess the WWW itself is what you are asking for. You simply can't scale a single community to include all of humanity. You need some way to filter out abusers, and people will vary widely in where they want to place the line of what
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I think it's pretty clear from the conversation context?
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by coldpie 3mo ago
It is the website owner's decision to allow people on drugs screaming obscenities on their platform. They are allowed to kick those people out, and you're allowed to leave if you don't like the people in that community. Good
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Years ago, HN used to actually display the score on each comment, like Reddit does. I'm glad they removed it.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
The SA forums are still there, happily chugging along. It's been my main hangout for 20 years.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
They have much in common with slot machines, yes. It's no accident, many of the lessons from exploitative mobile games are being reused in LLM UIs. Rename "tokens" to "gems" and the situation looks very familiar.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I don't think it's that hard to reconcile. The tools are being massively oversold and we are in a bubble. I think things will settle down to a reasonable middle ground in ~2 years as the checks being written right now start coming
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by coldpie 3mo ago
You know, someone should invent an infinite sequence of ordinal symbols which we could use to place things in a sequence. It could start with a simple vertical line, something like "1". Maybe someone more clever than me can come
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by coldpie 3mo ago
FWIW I just rent a truck from the home center when I need to do that two or three times a year. Small hassle but a lot easier than owning a whole vehicle.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
Well I mean yeah. That's exactly my point, you don't have to do that with the 300mi range. I think 300mi is the "sweet spot" where you're probably going to stop anyway to take a break or whatever, or your trip wil
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by coldpie 3mo ago
I have often felt that software should have a "Credits screen", like movies and video games do. For developers, QA staff, support staff, etc. I opened a bug to create one for our end-user facing software at my last job, but we n
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by coldpie 3mo ago
> But you're going to stop somewhere along that path already, right? Honestly, no, I didn't. It's only 2 hours. Having to stop for a 30+ minute charge in each direction would add a significant amount of time to the trip.
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by coldpie 3mo ago
> Yeah all of us Americans drive 200mi+ each way nine days a week 'cause the average house is on a 2,000 acre ranch. I never claimed that. > People often really overestimate their driving habits. I agree, and like I said I think

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