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by nicbou 7mo ago
Ah, it's a scene set in the late 1930s where a German stays at a mountain retreat in Japan, and bonds with the Japanese protagonist who also visited Germany (to learn how to make warplanes). It becomes clear that the German man is flee
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by nicbou 7mo ago
These options are not available to recent immigrants, people with foreign documents and people without a registered address. I spent a lot of time working around those limitations.
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by nicbou 7mo ago
Not at all. Postident required going to the post office in person with your ID, and famously omitted a lot of foreign IDs and required an Anmeldung.
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I heard that in France, they'd use postal office workers to verify people's IDs. It's a brilliant alternative to whatever we're doing in Germany.
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by nicbou 7mo ago
It's fine to an extent, but it kills what happens in the other half. You can feel it with AI-generated content and responses, in AI-generated art, customer service bots and vibe-coded software. This gradual worsening of everything won&
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I have been thinking about this scene a lot recently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hj_4KIKHRFY&t=60s America is isolating itself in so many ways. You could rewrite that scene and reach the same conclusion.
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by nicbou 7mo ago
That's interesting because the atmosphere feels the opposite of that. I was so excited by tech back then, so optimistic. Now I see it as a threat. People around me are worried about their future more than they are excited about the tec
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by nicbou 7mo ago
My only gripe is how myopic the AI discussion on HN is. We barely talk about how it hits everyone else. In the relocation industry, it's losing translators, relocation consultants and immigration lawyers a lot of work. Their cases are
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by nicbou 7mo ago
This is the "guns don't kill people" argument, isn't it? Semantics are not that important when people say "we have a gun problem". One way or the other, tech companies have created a weapon and they are using i
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I'm not. At least I'm not tired of talking about how it's killing websites and filling everything with spam. I have spent most of a decade building a useful resource, and Google AI overviews has killed my traffic. It killed e
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I used to dual boot Windows to play a single game too, and every few months something drastic would change with no input on my part.
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I haven't upgraded, and the notifications are fairly rare and unintrusive.
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> they specifically don't want you to POSSE They want you to engage with their user base and not just dump links. They also prefer if users stay on the platform, but recent research shows that the deprioritization is partly a myth;
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In due time it will serve ChatGPT more than either
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I follow this approach. It's mostly because I want to own the land I build on. It works well, but it's hard to automate. In the end you must manually cross-post, and both the post and the discussion will vary by community. You end
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by nicbou 7mo ago
Define quality. Many publications put information on the internet for the first time, or curate it for the first time, or research a topic deeper than ever before. Someone - a thinking, feeling human - had to get out there and try restauran
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by nicbou 7mo ago
Is a tech forum the place to talk about it? Is there any point at all to segregate communities by topic if politics end up taking over anyway?
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> The seem to presume that many visitors will not be regular visitors, and so they try to maximize value from every single visit. They operate a bit like restaurants in tourist areas
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It's treachery, a betrayal of trust. It's the same feeling as when you get sweet-talked into overpaying for something. This time, you overpaid with your attention.
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Well at least they asked nicely
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I have two fucking websites. One I live from. These days, it's pretty demoralising to run a website. Google AI overviews and LLMs have reduced traffic by over 60%, and that trend shows no sign of slowing down. These numbers are typica
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by nicbou 7mo ago
I'm a solo dev. In fact I'm hardly a dev; it's just a helpful skill. Code writing speed IS a problem, because it takes valuable time away from other tasks. A bit like doing the dishes. I just set up Claude Code tonight. I sti
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Your reaction seemed reasonable to me.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
We're dying on the same hill. I agree with you. I'm just examining my own biases out loud.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I always found the issue of artificial CSAM fascinating. It's repulsive content, but entirely synthetic. Or it it? How do they get the subject right? Where do they draw their inspiration from? What does having communities form around s
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by nicbou 8mo ago
A thousand bucks per citizen, whew.
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It's mostly just text on a page. It should be snappy!
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I still test mine on GPRS, because my website should work fine in the Berlin U-Bahn. I also spent a lot of time working from hotels and busses with bad internet, so I care about that stuff. Developers really ought to test such things better
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"Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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These also remove suggestions and comments

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