nicbou

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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   I am self-employed and AI is taking my job. Or at least its owners are capturing the value of my work now. https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/death-by-ai
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   I write guides for immigrants moving to Germany. I focus on the undocumented and unpredictable parts of German bureaucracy. The stuff I document is happening offline behind closed doors. I create tools and leverage my contacts and audience
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   I had a mild version of that, and it allowed to focus on the parts of my work that I love without constantly worrying about productivity or monetisation. I could get more involved in the community and do fun things just for the sake of it.
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   This year especially, fashion in Berlin has converged to light blue jeans and white t-shirt. It’s as if fashion got distilled into something easily seized, but ever more rapidly rotating.
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   Neil Stephenson is weirdly prescient in some of his novels. The people getting beamed the worst kind of slop on Fall has also been on my mind a lot recently.
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   I love doing stuff like that. CSS grids make it very easy to reorder content. I use it to put the sidebar below the content on https://allaboutberlin.com . Recently, I added descriptive placeholders for JavaScript widgets. This h
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   I had this laptop and I loved it, but it was underpowered even for basic web development by 2023. It struggled to play YouTube videos in the background while I worked. I really wish they brought back this format with the modern M processors
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   Is this a typo? I cannot find them, but these days Google is unusable.
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   by nicbou 5mo ago

   You have a point, even if I hate to admit it. On the other hand, maybe we should stop doing bullshit things instead of doing them more and faster. Maybe we ought to have fewer, shorter speeches, simpler websites and so on. Instead, we'
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    It's harder to get them to stop. I love when I get someone to talk about something they clearly love, and they're giddy with joy and struggling to contain themselves. It's one of the finer pleasures of talking to strangers an
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    From what I've seen, the Japanese have a very different approach to design. The beauty is always so understated. It's not announced, but discovered by discerning eyes. You see it in their pottery, joinery, clothing, paper, archite
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    When a long article is topped by an AI-generated image, it makes me wonder if I should bother reading. Did a human write this?
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    Nominated by Foran Emmy Award. "It's the [...] best [...] movie" - Rolling Stone magazine.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    I use them as a metaphor search and advanced dictionary. Every word is mine, but I get to improve my English and use some lesser-known (to me) expressions. I have not used to review my writing yet. Is it that good?
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    And a hundred percent concentrated power of will?
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    It's clear from a few conversations with pro-AI people that they never valued what they're trying to replace. To them, everything is content, and content is fungible. They don't have the taste or the curiosity to appreciate c
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    I use Unhooked on desktop and UnTrap on iOS for this. Both work flawlessly, and reduced my YouTube usage to almost zero.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    I have done this a few times. If you can't be bothered to give me your attention when asking something from me, you won't get mine.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    That question would not be received well in many places. What candidates do in their private time is none of your business.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    I'm slowly getting there too. There is no way to win. Google's callousness is killing the web. The parasite metaphor is appropriate.
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    AI is killing All About Berlin(nicolasbouliane.com)

    9 points by nicbou 5mo ago|2 comments
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    I don't expect the boot on the other foot to taste any better
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    I find the results much worse though, especially in the last two or three months. My query is treated as a vague suggestion instead of a command, and the search index has become noticeably smaller.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    There is a subreddit called A Boring Dystopia. I think they nailed the feeling. I'm also seeing elements of Fall or Dodge In Hell.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    To many of us, American models are also foreign-hosted, and in an increasingly hostile nation.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    Same. However, for a while, I did not need to work much, and indulging in such things was an absolute delight. It was entertainment, but it also benefited me when I actually worked.
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    For a bit of context: https://allaboutberlin.com/ https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/all-about-berlin
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    Oh hey, author here. Here's the post text: [graph showing 7 years of steady growth, then a 70% traffic drop starting when AI overviews were released] AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    That was for SEO/copyright reasons, so I guess not? This mostly feels like a meme though. Most of the recipes I see have instructions, notes and photos, then a recipe. It's unfortunate that people think of the worst offender and c
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    by nicbou 5mo ago

    I have seen many recipe websites do the same recently. All the big sites require an account too now.