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by johneth 2y ago
I think the current correct content types are: 'application/rss+xml' (for RSS) 'application/atom+xml' (for Atom)
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by johneth 2y ago
> One recent idea I've had is that many online subscription services should automatically pause if you stop using it. That seems a bit fuzzy to implement, depending on what the service actually does. It's not always clear-cut,
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by johneth 2y ago
> but the reality (for better or worse) seems to be that AI is not going away. AI is in a hype cycle at the moment. Once tech companies realise that they're not going to be able to recoup the billions of dollars they've dumped
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by johneth 2y ago
> It may be "useful" for me to inspect your private bank accounts (maybe you are a good investor and I can learn something!) but it's no justification for me to violate your privacy. Right, that's why that's not
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by johneth 2y ago
That would be a great (and extremely justified) way to bring antitrust actions against those 'in control of search'.
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by johneth 2y ago
It's useful to know who owns a company or know a company's financial state for anyone who wants to do business with that company. It adds a level of transparency that makes it easier if you're at the beginning of a relationsh
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by johneth 2y ago
Minor pedantic correction: The Post Office (shops, services, government forms, etc.) is still fully government-owned. It's the Royal Mail (delivery) that was privatised. They used to be the same company but split in two before Royal Ma
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by johneth 2y ago
I find it strange that details of the owners of a private company isn't publicly available information in the first place (speaking as someone from a country – the UK – where this is publicly available information). In the UK (and I&#x
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by johneth 2y ago
There are several methods they may use: - OpenGraph (by Facebook, probably used by Whatsapp) – https://ogp.me/ - Schema.org markup (the main point of this blog) – https://schema.org/ - oEmbed (used to embed
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by johneth 2y ago
Pretty far behind who?
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by johneth 2y ago
> Is there a reason to choose LemonSqueezy over Stripe if you are located in the US? There hasn't been a single VAT-compliance case to my knowledge and the need for MoR is unclear. It's not just the EU that charges VAT (or VAT-
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by johneth 2y ago
> "One crawler downloaded 73 TB of zipped HTML files in May 2024, with almost 10 TB in a single day. This cost us over $5,000 in bandwidth charges, and we had to block the crawler." Invoice the abusers. They're rolling in
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by johneth 2y ago
> combining LLMs with GUIs to create a flexible interface that isn't fully defined in advance but works with the user to adapt to their needs I doubt this. Or, I doubt that it'll catch on. Unlearnable UIs, as in those that &#x2
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by johneth 2y ago
> My phone is an IP phone. It doesn't do SMS. Did you mean "mobile phone"? UK landlines are transitioning to VoIP. SMS messages sent to UK landlines are read out by a text-to-speech system (well, my parents' does).
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by johneth 2y ago
It's almost exclusively used by businesses and government to send notifications. They use SMS because it's a baseline that every phone, smart or dumb, has. No need to have an email address, no need to have an app. Most people use
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by johneth 2y ago
> One thing: Don't get cute. I considered buying "stran.ge" so I could have "josh@stran.ge" but thankfully sanity prevailed I did this, only out of necessity though – I have a common first name and common last na
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by johneth 2y ago
One minor benefit to living in the UK – no ads on the BBC website.
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by johneth 2y ago
The appropriate status is surely 451 (Unavailable For Legal Reasons)[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
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by johneth 2y ago
Do the AI features apply to content from sites that block their 'Google-Extended' crawler (which they use to index content for their LLMs)?[1] I'm not as worried if that distinction still applies – I can just block 'Go
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by johneth 2y ago
> What exactly do you dislike about him Everything. Guy's a prick. Specifically, he's a huge narcissist surrounding himself with yes men to stroke his ego. Not a good environment for push back (resulting in obvious failures lik
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by johneth 2y ago
When I use ETags, I'll generate the ETag value once (on startup), then cache and serve that value. When the resource changes, regenerate the ETag value. Obviously doesn't work if you're using ETags on dynamic resources, but w
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by johneth 3y ago
> LVMH is their biggest company. Got to hit 'em where it hurts. It only hurts a French billionaire. I doubt many Europeans give a solitary shit about the fortunes of LVMH.
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by johneth 3y ago
The headline could be reworded to "Tinder Owner Signs Own Death Warrant". The more that AI is used in dating apps, where human connection is basically the entire product, the less people will use them.
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by johneth 3y ago
It's interesting how often the prevailing sentiment of Hacker News commenters ends up being wrong (or misjudged).
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by johneth 3y ago
> I don't know enough about Altman's previous business dealings to judge He's involved in the eye scanning shitcoin 'Worldcoin'.[0] Personally, I assume anyone involved in crypto has suspicious motives at best. [
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by johneth 3y ago
I'm 50/50 on this being either AI-generated slop or just being poorly copied-and-pasted.
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by johneth 3y ago
Give it a rest, mate.
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by johneth 3y ago
> By doing what they did, they showed what’s possible and how excited users are. I agree. > Now there’s a balance of power and both sides can come to a compromise. The only side that needs to compromise is OpenAI (et al). They used so
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by johneth 3y ago
> Everywhere else in the UK is forbidden from doing that. Thankfully this seems to be changing. Greater Manchester, through its devolution in the last few years, has in the last few months started the 'Bee network',[0] which op
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by johneth 3y ago
There's a difference between a human reading something on the internet and an LLM absorbing something in to its model on a mass scale. Mainly that LLMs are packaged up in to nice commercial products that, in essence, sell other people&

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