dmantis

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by dmantis 5d ago
You can expect exactly HN people to read a comment saying "why would you use smth instead of" on HN.
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by dmantis 5d ago
It's a better marketing indeed, but that doesn't answers the op's question. Between something opensource and trusted, and a proprietary potential backdoor that can send the data back to the Zuck himself you'd probably wa
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by dmantis 9d ago
Oh boy, Yudkowsky is a geek rock star.
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by dmantis 9d ago
> State actors can just hurt your famiily. That actor has to know that you have something to be touched for in the first place. Which is not the case if you buy crypto without KYC unlike with the classical brokerage, for example. > S
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by dmantis 9d ago
> could use one that's linked to Swiss Franks or the Singapore dollar. Well, if only we had something like that with a proper liquidity! USDT/USDC are useful for the exchange to fiat, but have freeze function in their contract,
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by dmantis 9d ago
Depends on the actor. From western perspective, maybe, but there are many people in the world who don't trust neither their government, nor western ones: Iranians, Russians, some Chinese, etc. BTC is a nice safe place for money, which
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by dmantis 12d ago
Everything from meta is a spyware and should be only touched inside a VM like with any other malware vendors. Money is just a number and far less precious than personal dignity and privacy. I don't even get the idea why people really w
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by dmantis 14d ago
There is no way of redistributing those resources but violence if there is no economy. Say, you have 98 people who have literally nothing and no established way to obtain basic needs, and 2 people who has something based on whatever. Say, t
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by dmantis 14d ago
Why does that matter? b2b sector doesn't make any sense if there is no "clients" at some end point. There is no money in the end of the chain if everybody is jobless. And if 99% of the population don't have magic numbers
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by dmantis 14d ago
You are right, my answer was meant for parent's "“AI agent, here’s our assets, make money”" and "If every year 50% of the job disappears, how long until there is no human-ai team, just ai.". I mean it in a broader s
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by dmantis 14d ago
We use money to exchange resources (actual or promised) in form of credit to each other. If most of the population doesn't participate in the exchange, money is worthless. You can make numbers, but those are meaningless without the und
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by dmantis 15d ago
If there is no jobs, there is no modern economy in today's sense and "money" costs nothing. That will trigger very interesting consequences.
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by dmantis 19d ago
What's wrong with having more sovereignty over your data and infrastructure? You don't need to stop working on the mentioned issues together but cutting foreign spies the access to your citizens data and reducing their leverage. T
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by dmantis 25d ago
Sometimes you just can't. For example, the banking app I have refuses to be installed from the Play Store on GrapheneOS due to "not-certified" device, but works perfectly fine when installed by Aurora. The check seems to be p
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by dmantis 1mo ago
Sure. However I have a strange feeling when I read all AI praises and how productive everyone is while seeing more and more broken things everywhere. Sometimes from the same very productive people. Otherwise we might have said that maybe br
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by dmantis 1mo ago
Well, who knows, but in brave it looks alright, and ff for me has extremely narrow text with disproportionately huge images. I see a few upvotes so I assume at least some other users have the same.
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by dmantis 1mo ago
> Single developer projects can build to the caliber and consistency of large development teams. Yet the simple blog website static page saying that looks very weird and broken on the desktop firefox. How large should be a development te
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by dmantis 1mo ago
Article literally says it adds a guid, not a binary field indicating that the image is ai generated.
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by dmantis 1mo ago
It became much easier to make open source too. The current biggest problem is reputation and QA. Ie I see hundreds of same kind of apps when I search for open source stuff on F-Droid, but I can't really say whether it was properly audi
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by dmantis 1mo ago
LinkedIn users made slop long before LLMs, what would be left if the platform removes such a content?
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by dmantis 1mo ago
I have a good experience with Huawei Band. Huawei doesn't even require to pair the watch with an official app! So I never connected it to the Internet or installed their app, paired directly with gadgetbridge from the first day.
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by dmantis 2mo ago
I haven't encountered such a thing on private trackers for a very long time. Like, for years. They usually have a very decent moderation and if they say that an entry has some particular resolution/subs/audio then it has it.
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by dmantis 2mo ago
On the other hand, privacy becomes a luxury. People love signaling their status and standing out from the crowd. Entire car and clothing brands exist solely because of that. And if enough people stand out, it doesn't matter anymore.
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by dmantis 2mo ago
True. Though I have mixed feelings buying new pixel from Google after all these actions.
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by dmantis 2mo ago
The API behaves this way: > To request a user's age range and sharing status, you call the Play Age Signals API (beta) from your app at runtime. The default age ranges the API returns are 0-12, 13-15, 16-17, and 18+, but you can rec
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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year(android-developers.googleblog.com)
423 points by dmantis 2mo ago|525 comments
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by dmantis 2mo ago
Apparently, looking at Iraq and Vietnam, US citizens only believe in "personal freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the value of human life" when it comes to US citizens, not to humans in general. Even on HN, I saw
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by dmantis 2mo ago
The point is not what they believe, but how to avoid both breaking the law and not giving up your data, isn't it? As long as that's legal, what they believe doesn't matter. You are not legally obliged to keep your data on you
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by dmantis 3mo ago
Well, adware and spyware just became a normal thing that people surrendered to and don't call a malware anymore due to heavy lobbying. Google adds cloud AI spyware to the new android versions, feeds private email contents to it; meta t
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by dmantis 3mo ago
Such a convenient time frame with all think-of-the-children bs wave to point fingers at the one of the best VPN services our there with spotless reputation and raise a hysteria with duplicated stream of posts, isn't it? Surely just a c

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