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by eitland 2y ago
I keep wondering why people on HN use Chrome at all three days. There was a couple of years when people posted demos that only worked in IE^H Chrome but right now everything I need works in Firefox and I don't even see demos that need
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by eitland 2y ago
> And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger server-based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests for you while protecting your privacy. Most interesting part of it. Won
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by eitland 2y ago
And the sad outcome is probably more people will go to Chrome, which 1. is already worse wrt privacy 2. if they get monopoly will absolutely destroy the open web (already busy doing what they can already get away with).
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They are in the early stages. I think the website said they recently raised 16 million euros (or dollars). Making investments into data centers and hardware could burn through that really quick in addition to needing more engineers. By usin
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by eitland 2y ago
Probably not. But of you can still find a way to identify users from server logs, then probably yes.
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by eitland 2y ago
Not related to you, but from a description in the first link, in the description for Plausible: > Because it does not use cookies their is no need to show cookie banner for this service. This is IMO a rather fundamental misunderstanding
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by eitland 2y ago
I am reminded if this IMO timeless classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397797 A short snippet (the whole thing is very funny and interestingly written in 2013 long before the modern ai craze): By now I had starte
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by eitland 2y ago
I admit it is a nice one. My base salary has doubled and I enjoy my work a lot more now that I don't have to accept all kinds of MS shenanigans to play a part in how I work. Having a working search engine shouldn't be underestimat
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by eitland 2y ago
Our only recourse is that we punish them with our wallets, advice and habits and reward good actors. I'm a firm believer of this but we need more people to join in. And it already works to some degree. I've now had a working searc
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by eitland 2y ago
Good point but for me, ultimately it wouldn't help. There is something that stopped working on the server side that only the dev (devs?) can fix and my requests kept getting ignored despite the fact that I was a paying customer (both l
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by eitland 2y ago
I want. And I do. Notable examples are Kagi.com and Raindrop.io. I've also been sponsoring a number of projects for a number of months, from journalism to social media startup. But I am getting more hesitant as often when I (and others
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by eitland 2y ago
> Archival stopped working, got a bunch of very confrontative replies from the admin I didn't even get that as far as I could see. > Is there any tool to migrate from pinboard to raindrop while keeping all the tags Yes, it is bui
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by eitland 2y ago
I stopped paying (and using it) a couple of years ago. I have a lifetime account so my bookmarks are still there. Reason: I had started paying yearly for the archive option and it stopped working and I tried and failed several times to get
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by eitland 2y ago
Haven't tried jj, but one thing that immediately strikes me is that for us who use IDEs, git hashes are all that we can see in that view. I've been considering trying out jj and thought it could work since it uses git as store, bu
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by eitland 2y ago
> There are zero good search engines. Everything returns propaganda. Kagi exists and has been production quality and better than Google for over two years already. (At this point I think it is even better than old google.)
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by eitland 2y ago
Totally agree, this is my main complaint against Google. But IIRC all except one of the ones I got were actually relevant even if I had to tweak my query even more before I got better results.
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But they are there, and they are real, and they don't drown out any better results.
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by eitland 2y ago
Another thing Google had cornered with Photos and and Google+ only to let it rot and die instead of taking feedback and iterating over it. Kind of sad, but I should probably be thankful given the direction Google has been moving since.
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by eitland 2y ago
Tangentially related: Whenever I mention Kagi is actually better, someone will claim the opposite. So yesterday someone here said something along the lines of: "With apologies to Bill Buxton every user interface is best at something an
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by eitland 2y ago
Can't this be solved using a remote file system these days? I haven't done it in years since with every customer from the last few years the only official way to get to prod is a CI-pipeline, but I think I remember using sfpt or s
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by eitland 2y ago
Forgiven, yes, but I still cannot trust them. A decade of messing with my search results (they only cannot do that anymore since I switched to Kagi) and the killing of Google+ (still interested if anyone have alternatives. Despite its probl
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by eitland 2y ago
> I honestly think this is as much the enshittification of google as it is the enshittification of the web. Early google was great in large part because the early web had a much better signal to noise ratio. Hi again! Lots of respect for
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by eitland 2y ago
> If somebody hasn't been following this, it's one person's passion project, and it doesn't aim to compete with Google/Bing/DDG. That is correct. But I used[1] to find that in certain niches (Linux and open
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by eitland 2y ago
If by hype you mean that there isn't extreme real world value right here and right now, then I very much disagree. Closing in on 20 years since I left school and for me AI is absolutely useful, right here and right now. It is really a
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by eitland 2y ago
Mac user here, and I think Mac really isn't far away from being worst. Between only now finally getting tiling[1], menus filled with items I haven't seen anyone use, and since WSL came on Windows it is now the absolutely most clum
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Then again the moon is a few times bigger than a typical drone and much brighter. The point is: the moon is easier to spot, moves less and emits more light.
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by eitland 2y ago
Norwegian here. Just read [1] that our local telecom authorities (NKOM) report good progress when it comes to preventing people from abusing Norwegian telephone numbers to spam/scam Norwegians. [1]: https://www.tek.no/n
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by eitland 2y ago
As far as I can see you are assuming an attacker with permanent access to your main email account. If someone has persistent to your main email account you will have all kinds of problems.
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by eitland 2y ago
> but I like the idea that I get access to a number of sources for one payment. For me it wouldn't even need to be all-I-can-read. I'd be very happy to pay a reasonable fee pr thing I read, and I'd frankly be excited about
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by eitland 2y ago
Late, but SEO gaming does not explain these observations from sibling comments: - Not showing loads of valid results when looking for UN documents and instead just return 40 or so out of thousands: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x

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