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by kmfrk 4mo ago
The year is 2030. Content's been blocked by age verification and overreach, but the ads still remain.
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by kmfrk 4mo ago
A lot of the iPhone design decisions have generally had the nature of something I didn't like that some market research must have shown to be in demand. And so the iPhones have kept getting bigger, even though I've held on to my 4
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by kmfrk 4mo ago
Even worse when you're on Windows. What's the point of the cloud if it only works halfway decently on Mac. Makes me feel like an idiot for doing something as outlandish as paying artists for their music.
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by kmfrk 4mo ago
People might be more prone to referring to "submarines" on HN: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html .
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by kmfrk 4mo ago
The scale of deepfakes in Korea is horrifying: https://www.securityhero.io/state-of-deepfakes/#targeted-ind... . And in 2024, someone made a viral map with reports of deepfakes in schools: https://www.koreati
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by kmfrk 4mo ago
Intel's Arc dGPUs were really compelling for dedicated AV1 encode and decode, especially the small form factor of some cards. You could even fit it as a secondary card in a PC dedicated to recording and encode workflows for OBS. Hope w
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
That's basically C2PA: https://c2pa.org . I'm not super optimistic about it, and last I saw, Apple wasn't a part of it either.
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
As tired as I am of the lack of improvement in Dropbox and the most of my nag-mails being warnings about my inactive Dropbox storage reaching "dangerous lows", I can't help be frustrated at how much the equivalent virtual dri
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Ubiquiti patches three max severity UniFi OS vulnerabilities(bleepingcomputer.com)
5 points by kmfrk 5mo ago|1 comments
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
Thought I'd submit this from a few days ago since some people who didn't update are seeing "John Sim" admin users being added. Make sure to keep your UniFi up to date folks. https://www.reddit.com/r/
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
Everyone's tired of hearing about Kagi, and the good news is that they have a free trial now so you can just see for yourself instead of reading comments after comments about it: https://kagi.com/signup?plan_id=trial .
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
Chat Control refuses to die.
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
The Switch 2 also released right in the midst of the tariff mayhem, Nintendo really couldn't catch a break with this generation.
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
I wonder when things get so bad that we end up filtering content made by accounts created before the release of ChatGPT.
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by kmfrk 5mo ago
GitHub too for their releases; you just add /atom to get the feed, which works great.
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by kmfrk 6mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800166 .
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Emails show Amazon colluded to raise prices, California authorities allege(theguardian.com)
16 points by kmfrk 6mo ago|1 comments
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by kmfrk 6mo ago
Looking forward to putting every apology statement into this - although many of them tend to require OCR for being posted as images or screenshots.
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New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims(theguardian.com)
274 points by kmfrk 6mo ago|75 comments
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by kmfrk 6mo ago
Heck of a Patch Tuesday.
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by kmfrk 6mo ago
One of the decidedly eerier parts of this story as you keep reading are all the gaps between what people are saying about Altman, and what they clearly want to say about Altman but can't .
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by kmfrk 6mo ago
Gobsmacking details about Altmans' time as Y Combinator president, in case anyone's wondering. Fantastic reporting.
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by kmfrk 7mo ago
Discord's main problem for me is that it's built around people having one and only one user, which is a huge privacy and pseudonymity mess. The only alternative that works somewhat is using the PTB version of Discord for your &quo
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by kmfrk 7mo ago
Marked as wontfix.
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by kmfrk 7mo ago
What a crazy timeline this has been. (1) May 04 2019: "Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)" [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 ] eastdakota on May 4, 2019 on: Tell HN: Ar
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by kmfrk 7mo ago
I completely forgot this existed. I like the occasional feature of appending a question mark to your query to get a nice summarizer to comb through the internet so I don't, but I only use it a few times a month.
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by kmfrk 7mo ago
A few years ago, someone on Twitter had a really cool proposal for how to revamp the entire format of the Oscars, even taking the importance of commercials into account, but I can't for the life of me find it anymore.
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by kmfrk 7mo ago
A lot of people also got into buying Macs for OpenClaw, so demand is probably up as well.
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How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart(nytimes.com)
7 points by kmfrk 7mo ago|1 comments
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by kmfrk 8mo ago
Also came across this today about how Meta is allotting 5% of ad spend on AI testing for Gen AI. Which leads to unintentional Gen AI promotions across Instagram and Facebook - mind you for companies who paid for the promotion. https:&#x2

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