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by johneth 1y ago
> Do you genuinely think it’s worse that someone makes a decision, whether good or bad, after consulting with GPT versus making it in solitude? Depending on the decision yes. An LLM might confidently hallucinate incorrect information and
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by johneth 1y ago
The data it collects is used by AI companies, though.
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by johneth 1y ago
Another selfish reason: at some point we'll all have diminished eyesight; make things accessible for future you.
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by johneth 1y ago
Surely as the traffic Google sends to websites falls and falls, there'll come a tipping point where the websites themselves will feel there's no benefit to allowing Google to index them. If this happens, Google's generative A
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by johneth 1y ago
> Which suggests that content wins and form just needs to be good enough for the intended audience. I agree to an extent, but why not put the extra effort into making that content easier to read, especially for those whose vision is degr
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by johneth 2y ago
> So a solution should probably be done in software In Chrome you can simulate a slow connection on a slow device via the dev tools. Firefox has a similar feature. It's not entirely what you're suggesting (which is sort of like
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by johneth 2y ago
Elon's not brilliant, he's just lucky.
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by johneth 2y ago
The main reason I've done this is to make myself less profitable to Meta. A drop in the bucket, I know, but the more people who do this, the less money Meta makes, which can only be a good thing for the world. 1) I don't particula
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by johneth 2y ago
7 million is about 10% of the UK population, not 25%.
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by johneth 2y ago
I note that you didn't refute what I said.
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by johneth 2y ago
It is a nazi platform, in that it's owned and controlled by a nazi.
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by johneth 2y ago
You've always needed to go through passport control on Eurostar.
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by johneth 2y ago
> What part of "Hacker" or "News" makes this stupid hot take relevant exactly? Hacker News is run by a VC company that funds tech companies. Elon Musk owns many major companies in the same tech space. That's what
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by johneth 2y ago
Why is this flagged? Surely one of the most influential people in the tech space (and the richest man in the world) doing a nazi salute is pertinent to Hacker News?
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by johneth 2y ago
No, Elon's doing that all by himself.
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by johneth 2y ago
> Here incorporating as an ltd (limited liability) costs I think £25 They've increased it to (a still reasonable) £50, I assume to help fund the new legal obligations that Companies House has been given.
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by johneth 2y ago
> "recently" Over a century ago is not recently, even relatively.
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by johneth 2y ago
It took a decade to die. And another decade to decay away enough to stop having to support it.
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by johneth 2y ago
Just from gut feeling, from still using both X and Bluesky, I'd say the ratio of bots-to-humans on X is way higher than Bluesky.
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by johneth 2y ago
I thought about doing something like that, but then I realised: what if someone linked to the trap URL it from another site and a crawler followed that link to the trap? You might end up penalising Googlebot or Bingbot. If anyone knew what
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by johneth 2y ago
I doubt it would change anything. One of the first things Elon did after taking control of Twitter was to make verification pay-to-play. Now the blue checkmark is basically a sign of either a bot, grifter, or engagement farmer. Putting up a
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by johneth 2y ago
> X is paying lots now to content creators Sure, but most of that seems to be to engagement farmers who provide little to no value to actual humans. > And it seems their advertisers are coming back. Anything to back up this claim?
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by johneth 2y ago
That's called a newsletter.
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by johneth 2y ago
Looks to be one of Wing's (the Alphabet subsidiary) drones.
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NHS using drones to fly blood tests between Southwark hospitals(ianvisits.co.uk)
5 points by johneth 2y ago|3 comments
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by johneth 2y ago
I always assume the worst possible interpretation of any numbers falling out of Elon's mouth.
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by johneth 2y ago
The network effects are powerful, but anecdotally I've noticed fewer and fewer people I follow actually posting anything to Twitter. I think there'll be a tipping point where nobody of value is posting enough for anybody else to b
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by johneth 2y ago
I switched to Zed from Sublime a few months ago, and I really like it. Super snappy, doesn't choke, and just pleasant to use. I don't make any use of the AI features though, and as a solo dev the collaborative aspect is also not u
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by johneth 2y ago
Hashing an IPv4 address doesn't particularly protect privacy, given the limited address space.
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by johneth 2y ago
I just checked Wikipedia and it says Atom's is 'application/atom+xml' (also confirmed in the IANA registry), and RSS's is 'application/rss+xml' (but it's not registered yet, and 'text/x

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