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by latexr 5d ago
> To resolve the situation, Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism. Move along now, don’t make a racket, don’t do anything to disturb count Zuckerberg and his masters. Go away with you
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by latexr 5d ago
> If reading books is valuable, just as I think it is, people will find its value by trying. Eating healthy and exercising are both valuable, no one disputes that, and yet we’re not all doing both those things on the regular. Even those
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by latexr 5d ago
> elitism I was being facetious with that word, I don’t believe it literally. > it's about historical accuracy. Historical accuracy means recognising not everyone had the same experience. Yes, many remember pixel art from CRTs, b
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by latexr 5d ago
> "But I saw on Instagram, with AI it can be done cheaper and faster". You’re a doctor. What’s your reaction when a patient rejects your diagnosis due to something they saw on Instagram? > The people that would pay me don&#x
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by latexr 5d ago
> But what is the cost? The cost is similar to doing any other task in a rushed, careless manner, with little regard for the consequences. > sometimes I feel like I am being left behind. And why does that bother you? “Forward” does no
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by latexr 5d ago
Hear hear. I’m so tired of this pixel art elitism (exhibited in the article) which asserts with certainty that our fondness for pixel art comes from viewing it distorted on CRTs. The Game Boy was insanely popular, is part of many people’s i
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by latexr 5d ago
> the whispering earring story https://web.archive.org/web/20121008025245/http://squid314.l...
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by latexr 6d ago
> I feel like a bit of an idiot for not doing this sooner. Don’t beat yourself up, uBlock Origin on iOS is only four months old.
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by latexr 6d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism The fact that others do the same doesn’t make any of the cases excusable.
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by latexr 6d ago
Regardless, they are not “as important” and you should exercise caution. In addition, they are not the only option, there is also https://unwall.app .
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by latexr 6d ago
The Internet Archive is a non-profit we can trace back to real people, while archive.today is owned by who-knows-who and they have engaged in DDoS attacks and tampering with archives. They have revealed themselves untrustworthy. https:&#x2
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by latexr 6d ago
I find your argument to be in extreme bad faith. Instead of steel manning the argument, you are repeatedly straw manning it. Certainly you can understand that deliberately lying about, for example, areas where the science is overwhelming su
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by latexr 6d ago
> A local model has more data than Wikipedia You do understand that was an example, right? Did you know there are other websites you can download? Anna has one that is pretty big and full of information. I’m pretty sure the AI labs know
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by latexr 6d ago
It is available, and searching for it is a good way to end up on a list. It is hilarious how you gave “go to university” as an option, as if all universities were accessible to anyone and taught classes on this. I also couldn’t help but not
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by latexr 6d ago
Idealistically, I agree with access to information. But how do you square that (and I don’t have a solution) with the proliferation of mis information used to manipulate the population or the access to dangerous information such as buildin
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by latexr 6d ago
https://unwall.app/reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-to...
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by latexr 6d ago
> You can't host the internet on your machine, or download a "Google" or "Meta" but you can download a local model. You can very much host websites on your machine (not the whole internet, but then again you can’
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by latexr 7d ago
That statement can be used to justify anything, to the point it is utterly useless. — Humanity has been on the decline. People are hateful towards each other, striking their fellow man and poisoning the environment. Despots eventually launc
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by latexr 8d ago
> is not something I quite understand I can only speak for myself, but right now working on open-source is even more thankless and shitty. Now any douche-knuckle comes to your repo and starts spamming you with bad PRs or issues as if the
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by latexr 8d ago
> That's people problems though And the people make the culture. So, in effect, the culture suffered. I think you’re taking the original comment too literally with your “piracy is theft” comparison. Obviously you can’t literally r
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by latexr 8d ago
Thank you. I did indeed miss that. I did do a ⌘F for the individual words, but it didn’t occur to me they could’ve been written like that.
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by latexr 8d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25140587
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by latexr 8d ago
> called him suspicious as fuck I don’t see anything from your parent commenter on the other thread that deserves that classification. On the contrary, while they initially had suspicious of vibe coding, on later comments they are cordia
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Why Germany Is Building an Ark for U.S. Climate Data(e360.yale.edu)
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by latexr 9d ago
Three minutes after kickbacks were announced there would be a flurry of new repos being created with bots repeatedly scraping them just to get those kickbacks.
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by latexr 9d ago
> This article was written with the assistance of AI. If that bothers you, stop reading here. Genuinely appreciate the honesty. If you believe there’s nothing wrong about writing with AI, there’s no reason to not own up to it.
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by latexr 9d ago
> If a different fork took 90% That can only happen if we don’t all focus resources on Blink, which is the point. By definition, we can only have other engines if diversity is a thing. The problem isn’t specifically Google (though they a
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by latexr 9d ago
> The best thing for long term browser compatibility is focusing resources into Blink. That’s what makes Google more dominant, and if you think that’s a good idea you should really put down your LLM and go read up on a bit of history. Do
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by latexr 9d ago
> All I know is what you wrote By your own admission, you read my words and associated them with other conversations had by other people on another website. In other words, “all you know” is the preconceived bias you have in your head le
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by latexr 9d ago
Known as grawlix or obscenicon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix

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