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by latexr 7mo ago
I presume you’re in Europe? If I recall, the Chicago Tribune began blocking the region when the GDPR was implemented, presumably so they can invade users’ privacy at will without having to worry about repercussions.
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by latexr 7mo ago
If you’re considering it, you should probably watch Last Week Tonight’s investigation first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeABJbvcJ_k
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by latexr 7mo ago
It’s not that interesting, we know companies react to these things fast. It’s why I don’t share online my methods on how simple it is to show LLM flaws. The problem is all the lies which won’t be fessed up to. This one was because they had
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by latexr 7mo ago
> I'm not sure how many Medium articles, blog posts and reddit threads I need to put out Probably not that many. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison https://www.bbc.com/futur
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real(nature.com)
94 points by latexr 7mo ago|92 comments
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by latexr 7mo ago
> I know what you’re thinking. You’re hoping that we’ll use phrases such as “we’re excited,” “this is just the beginning,” and “AI is changing everything”. While all those things are true Superbly tone deaf. The only people who might pos
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by latexr 7mo ago
HN is not a hive mind with a single opinion. You get the extreme opinions of both sides and every nuance in between. There are people here who despise VC and people who live for it and think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Why is nobody solving actual problems anymore? Because solving problems isn’t the goal, the goal is money (and sometimes a little fame) with the least possible effort, and software can be changed on a whim and is very cheap to manufact
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by latexr 7mo ago
So what? Clearly the tool was already thought of, worked on, and meant to ship. It had been announced. It’s absurd to think that had Twitter not been sold, they’d have simply done nothing with it.
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Prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking(unsung.aresluna.org)
5 points by latexr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 7mo ago
> This is so full of holes I don't even know where to start. I recommend you start by understanding the argument instead of straw manning it. > But the main one is that you have a false dichotomy in assuming that individual succe
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Rights that apply to people even if you disagree with them That is true of every right. A right that doesn’t apply when you disagree isn’t a right.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Community Notes wouldn’t have happened without X. Community Notes did happen without X. It was a feature introduced in January 2021 under the name Birdwatch. https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/product/2021
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by latexr 7mo ago
Regarding YouTube, I can’t recommend enough turning off your history (even the front page is gone, it’s glorious) and subscribing only to select creators via RSS. I only see what I want to see, from creators I care about. Recommendations on
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by latexr 7mo ago
> changed from neutral rights-focused activism into questionable political activism. What exactly are “neutral rights”? Every right is political, and none of them are neutral, you’ll always find someone who supports them and someone who
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by latexr 7mo ago
Not an excuse. We shouldn’t turn a blind eye to bad behaviour because “everyone does it”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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Not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans(euobserver.com)
10 points by latexr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 7mo ago
The team pricing still calculates wrongly (63*5 is 315, not 316).
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by latexr 7mo ago
64.23€ and 256.92€ are strange numbers. The latter looks like bad math, since the text suggests it’s 51*5, which would be 255. Of course you can charge whatever you like, but I’m curious as to the reasoning behind those specific numbers.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> My extension is more valuable to me than to anyone else, because I, one person, can make a living from it. I believe you, and as a fellow indie developer trust you and your intentions and that you’re careful to not be compromised. But
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Bartender had no target! It was not an attack. The point is that it shows it can happen. You’re a browser extension developer, surely you know how often it happens that developers of popular extensions are approached by shady businesse
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by latexr 7mo ago
> You might not like the new developer What I didn’t like was the secrecy, that was a breach of user trust. Why wasn’t it announced is the problem.
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by latexr 7mo ago
If you press the browser’s back button on the donation page, they send you to a page pestering you for your email address so they can send you a reminder to donate later. Talk about a dark pattern. Mozilla has really gone off the rails. An
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by latexr 7mo ago
Depends on the target and what you can get. Think about Bartender, an app requiring an insanely high level of trust and permissions, which was quietly sold. If you know of someone specific you want to target who uses it, the investment coul
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by latexr 7mo ago
Like how it happened for Bartender, another macOS app which required a lot of permissions. It was sold to a company and they told no one, until a user noticed via the now defunct MacUpdater that the app signature changed. Ben Surtees (Barte
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Hence i think the right to be lazy is for a lucky few. The freedom or ability to be lazy may be for a lucky few, but the right should be for all. A right doesn’t stop being a right when it’s not being observed, and when that happ
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by latexr 7mo ago
The issue is that he saw machines as working for the greater good of all, yet the reality we have are machines working for the benefit of a select few, who use that advantage to perpetuate the system where they are at the top and everyone i
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by latexr 7mo ago
Oh you will, will you? And what, pray tell, happens in this dust you’re left in? What’s the reward for working so hard right now? More work? What a rotten deal. It’s common for people on their death beds to wish they had spent more time rel
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Computers, TVs, video games, and smartphones have solved that problem. No, they exacerbated the problem. The point of the quote is not the being alone, but the doing nothing. All your examples just made it harder to do so because the
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by latexr 7mo ago
I have several of those projects. I avoid dependencies as much as possible, striving to only use things which I know ship with my target OS. I code for a level of correctness and longevity. That benefits everyone, including myself. A QR (or

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