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by mintplant 2y ago
My assumption is that this will be used to watermark images coming out of cloud-based generative AI.
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by mintplant 2y ago
What's the difference between social-app and the AppView?
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by mintplant 2y ago
Sorry, someone else in this thread already beat you to that particular propaganda point.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Care that I earn through my work that brings in more to my institution than it costs to have me on board. As if that distinction should matter.
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by mintplant 2y ago
I could literally lose my access to care over this, if the new administration follows through with what's been promised.
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by mintplant 2y ago
I can't wait for four more years and beyond of hearing these same talking points over and over and over again. I could put up an argument here, but it's been done before and better, and frankly, I'm just so tired today.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Then why won't they leave us alone?
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by mintplant 2y ago
I did say "or is just that willing to throw us to the wolves". You can't pretend that we we haven't been forced into the political eye over past several years. The winning party has been extremely loud and extremely clea
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by mintplant 2y ago
I'm trans. Yeah, the message is clear, alright. This country either hates us that much , or is just that willing to throw us to the wolves.
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by mintplant 2y ago
It (optionally) integrates with the Apple Music Android app now, and offers to add to your library there whenever you scan a song, so I assume it's a good funnel for them to get people into their service ecosystem.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Do you have the Bypass Paywalls extension installed, by any chance? You may need to disable it for NYTimes.com.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Hell yes. I've been advocating for this for years. From an engine-implementer perspective, full-fledged JavaScript is just too hard to make both fast and secure .
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by mintplant 2y ago
Specifically the "Looking Forward" section feels straight out of ChatGPT. Apologies to the author if it isn't.
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by mintplant 2y ago
> It also eliminates the silly fiction that a block prevented stalkers from stalking their target It's about adding enough friction to discourage the behavior. Human problems don't always need mathematically-perfect solutions.
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by mintplant 2y ago
These are horse chestnuts, they're inedible.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Does it solve it, or does it wind you up in court arguing over which copy is the "real" version?
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by mintplant 2y ago
Two-character TLDs are reserved for country codes, yes.
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by mintplant 2y ago
I've been wondering this since his Tumblr dust-up earlier in the year.
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by mintplant 2y ago
MetaWare was based in Santa Cruz, CA.
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by mintplant 2y ago
People in this thread seem to be focused on the defamation angle, but is the more important allegation not the alleged demand for large amounts of money to not destroy WP Engine's business? Matt sounds like a wannabe mob boss in the sc
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by mintplant 2y ago
On supported devices (Samsung and OnePlus, off the top of my head), Phone Link can mirror apps to your PC and will open them up in this mode when you click a notification. There are some rough edges, like needing to manually unlock your pho
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by mintplant 2y ago
Kitbashed SO code at least had some kind of grounding to it. The AI stuff is fully unmoored.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Nothing against Katamari Damacy, but it's three times as long, and like 'simonw said, doesn't feature dirtbag raccoons.
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by mintplant 2y ago
I've become increasingly frustrated with having to work with other people's AI-"assisted" code. I can tell when I depart from reading sensible human-written code and enter the land of Copilot where all bets are off. Ju
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by mintplant 2y ago
My previous ThinkPad lasted eight years before I replaced it with this one.
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by mintplant 2y ago
I've got 128 GB of RAM, heh.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Unfortunately not on mine, it's unsupported at the hardware level :/ This is the norm for newer laptops sadly.
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by mintplant 2y ago
Donut County is my favorite game to sit someone down and watch them play through in a single sitting.
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Who Owns Nebula?(medium.com)
270 points by mintplant 2y ago|104 comments
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by mintplant 2y ago
I've found Gemini to be pretty terrible at vision tasks compared to the competition. Try GPT-4o or Claude-3.5-Sonnet instead.

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