glenstein

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by glenstein 1mo ago
They moved over to a new extension platform for legitimate development reasons. I agree there was pain but it wasn't a self interested flexing of power to remove ad blocking extensions.
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by glenstein 1mo ago
I couldn't agree more with your point. But also, precisely because I agree with you, I'm flashing back to Proton CEO Andy Yen claiming that Trump would be great on tech anti trust and an improvement on what came before, which was
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by glenstein 1mo ago
I think there's a remarkably clear precedent at least for browsers, which is having Android users pick from a list of browsers instead of having Chrome as the pre installed default. That's already been done previously with Microso
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by glenstein 1mo ago
"No way to prevent this" say users of only browser where this regularly happens.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Well they did just say it was in reply to a dead comment, so I suspect that was one person entertaining the possibility of widespread transmission, and there's already at least one more comment here if not two (depending how you interp
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Right, they're all over the place. That's just the kind of movie that it is, And to the extent that he serves as one of the distractions, it's complementing the tone and vibe of the movie. Like I wholeheartedly agree that he
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Yeah, I would go so far as to say highlight of his career. Extremely, extremely good, like can't look away good. I suppose it's all just opinion at some level, but this is sticking out like a sore thumb is perhaps the hardest one
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by glenstein 2mo ago
>(Gibson gets a pass for taking the new trope even further by being a brilliant stylist, mixing in some tech orientalism, and inventing cyberspace.) Gibson was also writing in that vein long before the release of Neuromancer, which repur
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Tangent on the tangent: I think that's true in a minority of cases and in a majority of AI cases. Though in principle I think it should be possible for an LLM to have access to and faithfully represent its own reasoning.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
It might not even be the worst thing he said in that podcast: > are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,” Ben-Gvir added while calling for the targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza. I
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Thanks, that's good info. I found this thread from an ex Opera employee and to your point, they could have kept on with Presto, but didn't [1]. What remains true is that bad management chased profits and found a better path to mor
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Fascinating crossover from literal to figurative that you find so often when you trace language back far enough.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Right, basically no web browser has a profitable business model except through licensing or being subsidized through some other branch of the business. The best pure browser company in history was Opera, and they didn't fail because th
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by glenstein 2mo ago
>So you're saying that because Google didn't completely up-end the security model and break almost every extension in the one-go, we should have no-progress towards a more secure extension model? A funny argument to make becaus
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Yikes, that is a twist I was not aware of.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
A sharp point in this context because yet again, Mozilla faces contradictory demands in every direction. In today's edition, they are failing their users by not hard coding the ablocking in but also they need to give up on ad blocking
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Thanks, that's a fantastic quote that gets at the heart of how to appreciate GEB.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Wish I had the full text on me, but I recall there's a version of it with an introduction by Douglas Hofstadter that disagrees with the interpretation of the proof by Nagel and Newman, and it's something key to their culminating a
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Definitely pretty far along imo. But maybe they consider the progress bar to be at 75% or 80% rather than 100%.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Not sure why you got downvoted on this one. You're right and you even turned it into a bit of language history. It's bury the lede, and now I know why.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
I think you're right that there's no principled or well-reasoned stopping point that aligns the behavior with any notion of consistency. But I think for a case like this no further answer is necessary then that people and circumst
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by glenstein 2mo ago
To try to contribute some real discussion of the actual content of the article, the data revealed in the database is impressively organized, almost indulgently futuristic in its graphic design choices, and the way they source photos in part
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Agreed. I could be biased here but it seems to me that, to much greater degree than I would have expected, criticism of China is held to a uniquely escalated standard for factual verification, and met with a lot of whataboutism non-sequitur
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by glenstein 2mo ago
I don't think of non profit bloat as enshittification. Enshittification is gradual reduction in quality of a user facing service over time that used to be trusted. Here it's just a matter of (arguably) inefficient spending as fund
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Agree. It was the watershed moment that represented the break from "don't be evil", a cheeky slogan that was remarkably effective at conveying a sense of what they were about by talking about what they were trying not to be.
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by glenstein 2mo ago
I mean you're right, but also Google had one of the legitimately best options at the time and massive visibility and seemingly credible institutional commitment. And it was early to a scene of web based always online RSS readers when b
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Exactly. Reader was maturing into a proto social network in its own right (I started commenting on articles with friends in it in college right before it started getting deprecated) and finding the organic activity and rolling with it and t
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by glenstein 2mo ago
Someone who gets it! This whole branch of comments is like a comedy of errors of distractedness in multiple directions. The wrong theory, dramatically inadequate evidence in support of that theory, and a lack of applicability of that theory
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by glenstein 2mo ago
>if I remember correctly, the plot point wasn't a "civilization level reaction" Your memory is exactly right. But in this instance, what I'm reacting to is not the book but to an HN commenter who glibly claimed that &
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by glenstein 2mo ago
>That also stuck with me as weird: there are any number of places you could sabotage a precision physics experiment by injecting tiny amounts of noise, which would drive the scientists to think they were bad scientists. Instead they thou

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