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by jchw 4mo ago
Yeah, the actual funny thing is they've been blaming AI since almost GPT-3 era.
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by jchw 4mo ago
Actually I disagree, it's pretty apparent that modern frontier LLMs are nearly completely incapable of writing good prose for some reason. I'm not sure if it's the RLHF phase or what, but even when you explicitly tell them to
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by jchw 4mo ago
Yeah, no, if I can tell it's AI generated, that means it has the same garbage writing style that for some reason LLMs can't help but pump out. And if some human person thinks that's fine to post, they either don't care&#
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by jchw 4mo ago
OK, well, I'm getting very tired of all of the terrible AI-generated articles. I made a longer reply that discusses why I think this article is bad on top of the fact that the writing is absolutely fucking horrid, but a single person c
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by jchw 4mo ago
This is just bad. The writing is more horrible Claude garbage. It also begins with this quote from Durov: > Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Note this claim. When it goes into its first smo
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by jchw 4mo ago
Maybe he wanted to make sure a lot of copies of the evidence were floating around. Surveillance capitalism is like a free unlimited backup service you can't restore from.
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by jchw 4mo ago
Look man, this is absolutely getting into the semantics phase. I know you're not stupid, don't treat me like I am. Firstly, some Chrome features (like Chrome Remote Desktop) are delivered partly as extensions. This does not make t
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by jchw 4mo ago
I find this choice interesting. Vulkan is a sensible choice given the game is multiplatform (and of course they mention MoltenVK right in the announcement.) Despite that, I still find it interesting that a Microsoft subsidiary would make th
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by jchw 4mo ago
I definitely had this feeling early on in my career, but it did flip around somewhere around halfway through. "We're not shipping? Well, that's a bummer, but also, what a relief! If building it that was this hard, I can only
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by jchw 4mo ago
This does exist, actually. https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway
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by jchw 4mo ago
lol, absolutely not.
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by jchw 4mo ago
The Chrome feature is the support for Endpoint Verification that is used by CAA. That is quite literally the reason for this HN post.
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by jchw 4mo ago
There's really nothing particularly wrong with the Chrome feature itself. There is a bit of a problem with the way it inherently results in browser vendor lock-in (regardless of whether it is a stated goal) with Google Workspace, which
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by jchw 4mo ago
The issue with the AUR is that its design and the way package maintainership works puts users at undue risk compared to many other "user" repositories. This happens because so many useful packages are only available in the AUR t
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by jchw 4mo ago
Snap has had a couple of attacks, at least. I recall one that was a fake crypto wallet. I'm sure Flathub has, too. That said: the attacks on Snap and Flatpak are bound to be less interesting; it doesn't share the same mechanics th
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by jchw 4mo ago
The AUR really has been known to be low-hanging fruit for bad actors, which makes it somewhat surprising it took this long for it to be taken advantage of. I have many opinions regarding this situation, but it mostly doesn't matter.
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by jchw 4mo ago
Relays are now cheap to run, but they don't enable you to actually be independent. You would need a proper AppView for that. Eurosky is actually not independent at this point.
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by jchw 4mo ago
I really dislike you trying to turn this around on me like I'm the one spewing out gotchas. I'm not. You are. You did it with Threads and now you're doing it again with this nonsense. I'm comparing two supposedly decen
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by jchw 4mo ago
Reading through this, for some reason, something clicked for me that I've really struggled to understand for a long time. I have received a truck load of positive feedback (but of course some negative too) in my career and I've al
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by jchw 4mo ago
Uhhh, I'm comparing Bluesky to the Fediverse because that's the main applications of ActivityPub and ATProto? I don't care about the broader ATmosphere. How is comparing Mastodon/the Fediverse and Bluesky unfair? Are y
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by jchw 4mo ago
> I wrote this other comment that I think does well to address this misconception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601998 OK, but that raises a question. Can I do that right now? If so, I don't understand why
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by jchw 4mo ago
I dunno, it just seems like the set of circumstances that would be needed to overcome the inherent friction in a "healthy" ecosystem is a lot more gymnastics than the current situation where the browser company with the vast major
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by jchw 4mo ago
I didn't mean it would be physically impossible, which is hopefully implied, I mean, it would be de-facto impossible. Absent the perverse forces of anticompetitive behavior, browsers don't really have a good incentive to diminish
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by jchw 4mo ago
Google offering managed chrome as a service is a completely sensible thing. The problem is that they are nearly a browser monopoly, and making Google Workspace work in such a way with Google Chrome feels to me like anti-competitive practice
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by jchw 4mo ago
> Bluesky users can interact with Blacksky users and vice versa unless Bluesky has applied moderation to the Blacksky user, because they are decentralized via ATproto. Yes and I find it rather egregious that you can pay (a lot) to self-h
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by jchw 4mo ago
Note that making lock-in features like this effectively proprietary to the Chrome browser is only possible because of the fact that it's the same company making Google Workspace and Google Chrome. I absolutely see many problems with th
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by jchw 4mo ago
> I mean, this literally already happened (a person was banned, and Blacksky reversed that ban on their app server). Blacksky is literally the only such example of alternative infrastructure that I know of, and obviously, it will not be
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by jchw 4mo ago
Let's say I make a post on Bluesky, which is decentralized. My post is very contentious. It is blocked by the moderators, and the moderation service can't be disabled on bsky.app. I am now invisible on bsky.app. So when this happe
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by jchw 4mo ago
> And I don't mean that I went down any rabbit holes -- rather common culture was hollowed out, friends were distracted, friends fell down their own extremist rabbit holes. Yeah... It's actually not so hard for me to just not t
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by jchw 4mo ago
It wound up being OK, but it had a long span of time where it was virtually unmaintained and turned out to be buggy at points. The newer NTFS driver is based off of the old read-only NTFS driver which subjectively many claim is cleaner (I h

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