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by latexr 4mo ago
What life is too short for is being screwed over by and having to deal with the consequences of some agreement you were too lazy to read. These aren’t half as inscrutable as you think; after you read a couple you get a feel for them and can
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by latexr 4mo ago
https://tosdr.org/en
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by latexr 4mo ago
> One new user joins every second Do they? Or is it that a new account is opened every second? Because I’ve been seeing so many spammers and scammers that those numbers have to be skewed.
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by latexr 4mo ago
> And you can just self-host it. For free, too! (A weird thing to write, but the OSS chat app space has become very weird in many ways!) Wait, what? There are open-source chat apps that you have to pay to host yourself? How does that wor
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by latexr 4mo ago
Interesting, but the article itself explains it isn’t exactly rare or special. > This is not a one-day-only phenomenon. For about 60 days each year, from roughly May 18 to July 17, there is a brief moment each day during which nearly all
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by latexr 4mo ago
> No humans write that many comments. Especially in a case like this, I would definitely write a lot of comments to aid in understanding, thus increasing trust so people would try it out and tinker with it.
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Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release(osnews.com)
3 points by latexr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
I wanted to like it but found it immediately frustrating on mobile: * The joystick is too sensitive, so it’s hard to keep a straight line, wobbling everywhere instead. The camera makes it worse. I felt that if I kept going I might get motio
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by latexr 4mo ago
They just voted to reinstate it, and it passed by a narrow majority. https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195338 They did id sneakily. https://www.politico.eu/article/president-vs-parliament-robe... As I
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A narrow majority voted to reinstate Chat Control 1.0(howtheyvote.eu)
4 points by latexr 4mo ago|1 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
Extremely click-bait title. It’s just another to-do app like dozens of others.
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by latexr 4mo ago
> "option shift -" like so —, or if you want an en-dash, just "option -" like –. That’s true in the US layout, but on other layouts those can be reversed. > for example in this HN edit box: - – — They look the same
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by latexr 4mo ago
> but given that you have to go digging for the key combination Except you don’t. If you’re on an Apple OS, by default doing -- (two hyphens) auto-substitutes for an em-dash. Also, the key combination isn’t even hard. Depending on the
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by latexr 4mo ago
There’s a long tradition in media of people completely missing the obvious and taking the opposite lesson from what was intended. One example is finance bros idolising Patrick Bateman (American Psycho). https://nypost.com/20
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by latexr 4mo ago
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you’re asking, but your parent comment isn’t saying the comparison is bad in the sense of being inaccurate, but bad in the sense of being ill-advised.
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Chat Control 1.0 vs. 2.0(fightchatcontrol.eu)
15 points by latexr 4mo ago|2 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
When you do your own web searches, you learn to trust certain signals over others. You learn which sources are trustworthy and which are suspicious. LLMs don’t do that, and they present every information to you as being equally valid.
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Democratizing Abandonware(geopjr.dev)
7 points by latexr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
> Nothing is good for you in too great amounts, even water https://youtube.com/watch?v=XewVicFzRxw&t=152s
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EPP spreading false claims on Chat Control(digitalcourage.social)
5 points by latexr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
I recommend you do even some basic cursory search on the size of the iOS gaming market VS consoles and desktops. You’ll find out your snark is embarrassingly misplaced. Look at the dates of the articles you find, too. Some will be almost
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by latexr 4mo ago
> It's insane that YouTube doesn't see prompt injection as a bug. Insane but not unexpected, from the company who literally sang at us that “there’s no wrong way to prompt”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBf
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by latexr 4mo ago
Perhaps try to steel man the argument. Your entire response is just one large condescendingly wrong straw man. > What you're describing isn't bad dialog, it's bad interaction design. I didn’t say it was bad dialogue. It sh
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by latexr 4mo ago
> End of the day though, why does it matter his true motivation? Are you asking why the motivations of one of the richest (and thus most influential) people on the planet matter? He’s actively influencing domestic and foreign elections t
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by latexr 4mo ago
Would you invest in a person with limited knowledge and expertise just because they’re enthusiastic? Might as well hire a literal clown; all the enthusiasm you might want and way cheaper.
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by latexr 4mo ago
The repetitiveness in video game dialogues is a feature, not a bug. Amongst other things, it allows you to re-retrieve information and hone in faster on what’s story and what’s relevant progression. Having each character invent their own in
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by latexr 4mo ago
I don’t get your ambivalence, when you seem to understand that the negatives of #2 far outweigh the positives[1] of #1. That’s something that has always been really weird in these LLM discussions, it’s like that Tom Toro cartoon: https:&#x
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Italy warns against Chat Control mass surveillance, but votes in favour of it(digitalcourage.social)
13 points by latexr 4mo ago|4 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
If you’re in the EEA or UK and reject the tracking, you can still use your browser’s Reader Mode to read the text. Or on the console: document.getElementById("consentModal").remove() document.getElementById("tpModal&quo
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by latexr 4mo ago
Louis Theroux did a documentary on it recently if you want to learn more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux:_Inside_the_Mano...

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