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uBlock Origin with all "annoyance" filters enabled. I haven't seen a cookie banner in years. Another good one to have the "hide Youtube shorts" filter, featured on HN a while back.
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A sledgehammer would be a better solution.
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> Chinese release open models to drive the state of the art Are you sure it isn't just another form of Chinese industrial policy? China does not have frontier labs, but through distillation and their own work they can get pretty clo
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> American labs need to release frontier-grade open-weight models under licenses that startups can actually build on. To be fair, OpenAI has released a couple of (then very good) OSS models. I run the 20B version at home and it is excell
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I also self-host, and it's not nearly as difficult as know-it-all people on the Internet make it out to be. I rolled things out from scratch using Postfix and Dovecot on Debian as I dislike bloated and opaque containers that hide impor
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We are talking about the U.S. here, and no, 40k or 55k are not good salaries at all. It may be OK in Europe with the lower cost of living, etc., but the price of a new car is 50k in 2026, and a basic fast food meal pretty much anywhere is w
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Germany and Japan surrendered and have done pretty well since.
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> Can you even find a single source online that suggests doing what you said for you to think its a commonly held expectation? Isn't it common sense? Do you want coding agents to read and possibly upload somewhere the contents of yo
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> Who, if anyone, is Iran allowed to retaliate against? The answer here is surrender and disarmament. It's the only outcome that seems compatible with the reintegration of Iran into the world economy, normalization of diplomatic rel
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Iran gets to learn "you break it, you buy it," with their own money. The remaining government officials still running their mouths on X and elsewhere should also be grateful they are still alive.
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> When they are successful at making those illegal/inaccessible This would be like trying to outlaw Linux or peer-to-peer file sharing. It's technically possible to write and pass a law, but it's basically impossible to en
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Are these kinds of tests still relevant in the AI age? Genuine question, I have not interviewed for a very long time. They seem as useful as take home college exams.
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> Increasingly software is distributed by "curl dodgysite.com/get.sh|sudo bash -" I don't think this is the norm at all. I have seen curl/bash install scripts for tools like Claude Code, but they don't use s
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Arch or Fedora, because you want a very recent KDE version.
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It's not "quasi-malware," it is malware.
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Another reason not to use ISP hardware. That's on top of a well-known backdoor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069 ).
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> Open up the back and disconnect the wifi antenna. Upvoted. This is precisely the kind of thing I expect to read on HN.
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> So first you have to get a raspberry pi, install pi hole, then switch your router’s DNS. This does not provide any meaningful protection against data exfiltration. The TV is very possibly using public DNS or outright phoning home throu
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I would suggest a mini-PC running Linux and Plasma Bigscreen instead of an AppleTV if you want something 100% private and user-controlled.
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Another win for the Linux security model (software installed and updated manually from vetted repos only).
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> thanks to Google efforts switching to GrapheneOS mean tons of apps either not working or break every few months. Sometimes, all you need is a Web browser. I personally don't want any "apps" on my phone that aren't b
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> It is crazy people think apple isnt on the side of privacy. Apple is on the side of making money, and the privacy claims are mostly marketing. The entire stack is closed source, which means it is difficult and expensive to independentl
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> But you still need backups right? I back up files to my own cloud with a Nextcloud integration for Android. That being said, a monthly or so backup of devices via USB/Ethernet, like we used to in the pre-cloud area, would be enoug
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The world where the operating system on my phone (GrapheneOS) isn't conspiring against me or uploading my files to someone else's computer.
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I simply don't trust services such as iCloud. The legal landscape is too volatile, and Apple's own "terms and conditions" are also subject to constant change. As far as I can tell, most people don't need cloud backu
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One thing that Jellyfin does really well is integrate devices like the HDHomeRun. You can then watch OTA TV from any device on the LAN or elsewhere through the Jellyfin Web portal or dedicated clients for Linux/Android/iOS. If you
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A Ph.D. is usually a collection of papers/chapters, so even if a fatal flaw is found in one of the chapters, it does not normally result in "failing the Ph.D." It just means that that particular paper isn't publishable.
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> booting into a black screen, random software breaking, games not working, bad performance and just jank in general. That has not been my experience at all, using either the old closed source drivers or the newer "open" drive
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There will be smaller versions in the 10-30B parameters range that can run on consumer GPUs.
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I still have one too in a home server to power a local AI model. That being said, even my 3090 is starting to show its age. Recent games require aggressive DLSS (performance or super performance) to maintain at usable 70-80fps at 4K. That b

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