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by gman83 2y ago
It reminds me of people who won't eat certain foods because it contains "too many chemicals".
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by gman83 2y ago
Wait, "follow the Geneva Conventions" is high expectations?
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by gman83 2y ago
This whole "the EU fining us for breaking EU law is a tariff" narrative is such BS. The big tech companies just don't like the privacy & consumer protection laws in the EU so now they're getting the US government to
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by gman83 2y ago
It's relevant that the corruption charges against Erdoğan's opponent are obviously trumped-up, whereas the ones against Le Pen are entirely legitimate.
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by gman83 2y ago
The plan was initially to merge Android & Chrome and create "Andromeda" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/android-chrome-andro... Then they decided that Fuchsia was going to be the way f
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by gman83 2y ago
Whenever they do these blind tests for different phone cameras, the iPhone never wins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoTOE3FqT0
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by gman83 2y ago
I mainly read local news, and I listen to the audio edition of The Economist every week. Also, I replaced most of my podcasts and social media use by listening to audiobooks.
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by gman83 2y ago
Where did they imply they were from the US? And why would that be relevant here?
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by gman83 2y ago
He still hasn't got his $56 billion pay package, right? I imagine he'll at least want to prop the stock up until he gets that.
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by gman83 2y ago
China broke promises about "One country, two systems" in Hong Kong, so I don't think Taiwan can count on any promises made there either.
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by gman83 2y ago
Anyone looking for a similar experience to Arc, I recommend Zen Browser, based on Firefox: https://zen-browser.app/
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by gman83 2y ago
Sovereignity Seal -- https://strategic-technologies.europa.eu/investors_en is just a fund for investing in strategic technologies, it's meant for projects that are getting started.
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by gman83 2y ago
At least at the time, we thought it could be a tool for populist uprisings in authoritarian countries. Now it seems like they just want to promote populist uprisings in democratic countries.
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by gman83 2y ago
Re: this report that USAID was sending condoms to Gaza, that was actually in Gaza, Mozambique (which has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS), not Palestine. Maybe they knew, maybe not. Anyway, I know many people who have been
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by gman83 2y ago
Why is it ok that the American government have a backdoor & have access to all non-American's personal data, but when the UK/EU wants something similar, suddenly it's a massive outrage. Is it just "we're stronge
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by gman83 2y ago
> Lately, there’s been a growing paranoia inside OpenAI—whispers about “Chinese spies” in the office. Wasn't it obvious from the very beginning that it was likely that China would try to get their hands on this tech? If they're
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FOSDEM 2025 – Flutter for all the desktops and beyond [video](fosdem.org)
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by gman83 2y ago
Yeah, it's probably a fishing expedition to uncover some "scandal": https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...
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by gman83 2y ago
The website doesn't seem to mention anywhere that it's from ByteDance? Also from the terms of service: "You hereby grant to us, our affiliates and our third party partners (“SPRING Parties”) an unconditional, irrevocable, non
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by gman83 2y ago
It's really too bad that you can't disable YouTube shorts. I like watching YouTube videos on my phone, but the shorts is too tempting and I find myself wasting so much time with totally useless content. I'll probably have to
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by gman83 2y ago
For months now I've seen benchmarks for lots of models that beat the pants off Claude 3.5 Sonnet, but when I actually try to use those models (using Cline VSCode plugin) they never work as well as Claude for programming.
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by gman83 2y ago
He received $100 million from Jeff Yass, the largest American investor in TIkTok. That did the trick.
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by gman83 2y ago
For football (soccer), Reddit is much better.
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Ruining other people's lives is minding your own business?
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by gman83 2y ago
I've been using Gemini Flash for free through the API using Cline for VS Code. I switch between Claude and Gemini Flash, using Claude for more complicated tasks. Hope that the 2.0 model comes closer to Claude for coding.
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by gman83 2y ago
It makes sense that Google is much more careful than Claude or ChatGPT about things like political topics, they just have so much more to lose from drawing the ire of politicians. Conservatives already hate them so much that they want to br
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by gman83 2y ago
These guys think it can be done: https://ladybird.org
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by gman83 2y ago
Her audience is full of science deniers, even though she herself isn't one. The thumbnails she uses for her videos are atrocious, even if the content is usually more nuanced. She really seems to have cultivated this audience, which tur
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by gman83 2y ago
Why is a fork required? I use the cline plugin for VS Code and it seems to be able to be able to more things, like update code directly, create new files, etc.
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by gman83 2y ago
> Gas prices are double or even triple what they are in the US. It’s ok, the economy isn’t collapsing. The Economist about Germany's economy: "a national business model build in part on cheap energy from one autocracy and abund

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