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by nicbou 7mo ago
I have an iPad Mini that was supposed to replace books and notebooks, since I travel a lot and travel light. Right from the start, I decided to make it a quiet device. I've had it since 2020, and it basically never bothered me, save fo
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It's also killing websites. It's an extinction event for the open internet.
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I agree with that, so I choose not to become a citizen.
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I’m reminds of that tweet about how America will bomb a country and then go back in 20 years and make a movie about how sad doing it made the soldiers.
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Isn't that war illegal? Doesn't congress need to approve these things? Speaking of terrorism, only one of the belligerents has been antagonizing both its allies and its enemies recently. Didn't they just snatch another countr
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Why would non-citizens get drafted in the military?
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At the moment, the German state is reneging on its obligations. The current workforce is expected to work harder and harder while retirement is pushed back and social benefits are threatened. A third or a fifth of the population is consider
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I have been living in Germany for 11 years and qualify for citizenship. This is exactly the kind of thing that has stopped me. If this country goes to war, I'm out. My presence here has always been transactional when it benefited Germa
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They traded my Canadian license for a German one. No tests required. I didn’t even now about the priority signs. I learned most of it when I did my motorcycle license later.
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That loophole has been closed years ago by requiring classes and tests in your country of residence. I believe that’s the case since almost a decade, but I could be wrong.
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> at something that we already know we can do Something that we know we could do. I think of it as the third act of a movie when the main character is pulling himself out of the gutter. That being said, I agree with you. America has bi
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Untrap is solid. For Firefox I use Unhook
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Economics is a natural force, but it does not specifically optimize for customer satisfaction.
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They don't own ideas, but they own the land we build on and the means of production.
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My work requires a lot of original research, and I'm putting a lot of information online for the first time. I'll run my website until traffic goes to zero. The work is important and I care. The big change is that traffic from the
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Freedom can also be a strong social safety net, a loving community supporting you, health and so many other things. It's not just the right to do something, but the ability to do it unimpeded. America's version of freedom is radic
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Does that make it okay? Some websites weren't free enough and their owners not passionate enough, so wholesale destruction of that ecosystem is acceptable? We'll have the internet we deserve
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The value to consumers goes up, but that's pointless if they are drowned out by AI overviews paraphrasing their work , half a page of sponsored results, then AI-written SEO spam. I'm a creator of such content, and like everyone e
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A lot of people were running original websites, reviewing stuff, blazing new trails, making new art. It's just harder when you cut all traffic to them, devalue their work and fill the air with AI noise.
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It will not collapse, just be there and disappoint us.
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Will AI test recipes and try to find the cafe with the nicest vibe? Will it do original research about things that have never been written down yet? I've heard this argument before, but you don't need to think too hard to see the
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For what it's worth, I switched to Gemini because of the long ChatGPT load time. Gemini loads as fast as Google Search.
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The problem for me is that I'm competing with the AI results that Google trained on my work. I'm losing the majority of my traffic to it, so at some point I'll have to give up because the work no longer supports me and no lon
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Original career aside, I only struck gold once, and I didn't realise what I was sitting on for a while. I'm almost a decade in, and I'm still learning. p.s. what a fitting name!
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This one is, oddly enough, higher
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tl;dr: Take risks, try new stuff often, change directions if you want to I wanted to study business, but a software dev booth at my college convinced me otherwise. I loved computers and already paid rent by making websites. A few years late
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I love Robin Sloan's idea of apps as home-cooked meals. This is the only thing about AI that doesn't make me want to burn a datacenter to the ground. https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
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by nicbou 7mo ago
Correction: I meant postal delivery workers. You don't have to leave your house.
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I'm not OP, but I find the American threat more real and immediate than the more abstract Chinese and Russian threats. From my perspective, the American President has threatened to annex my country, American businesses have repeatedly
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I am usually grossed out by AI when it fakes humanness, but not here, I think. Steve Jobs saw the computer as a bicycle for the mind, a way to enable us to do more and be more. This is the metaphor against which I measure all technology. I

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