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by nomilk 2y ago
I screenshotted the ad for it I saw (did not click on it so have no idea what it's like). If it's any good please report back https://imgur.com/9Ea7ISw
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by nomilk 2y ago
Nothing special about duolingo, just that it gamifies something very dry and makes it fun, and won't let you progress until you're actually good enough (e.g. I would pronounce 'robes' [french for 'dress'] and i
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by nomilk 2y ago
Tangental: Came across an app aspiring to be 'duolingo for math', could the same be possible for music. I played guitar for ~10 years yet if I hear two tones, I struggle to tell which is higher and which is lower! (unbelievable th
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by nomilk 2y ago
But per mile is the right way to measure it. Cars win per trip because there are so many short trips.
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by nomilk 2y ago
That's interesting. Would your use of these sites be affected if you had to submit your ID to use the site (other users wouldn't know who you are, but the site and possibly forum admins may know or be able to find out).
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by nomilk 2y ago
And bot AI doesn't have to be super smart to be fun to play against. I recall the erudition of John Romero in saying highly intelligent, patient bots are less fun; usually big, dumb enemies are the most fun. Duke Nukem 64 bots were fun
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Ask HN: Have you created a 'fake' (pseudo anonymous) social account; if so, why?
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by nomilk 2y ago
When the laws come in, many Australians will get VPNs rather than provide ID to random websites. If social media sites are compelled block VPNs, is that technically achievable/viable? Cloud providers and VPN services have predictable I
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by nomilk 2y ago
4chan is a synecdoche representing all those fringe ~'social media' substitute sites; they'll soon be common knowledge in Aus, at least among the U16s..
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by nomilk 2y ago
> Are you suggesting porn, violence, and other mind bending content is not present on social media? If protecting kids from porn is the objective, the most obvious thing to do would be to require age verification for porn sites , not so
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by nomilk 2y ago
> stop their kids accessing hardcore porn, violence and other mind bending content. Such sites are not among the social media sites required to verify Australian's ID/ages, which hints that protecting kids is merely a pretenc
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by nomilk 2y ago
Australia doesn't (yet) have a thriving podcast and 'new media' landscape as the US recently discovered it had. Many Australians get their news from one of two large companies (News Corp and Nine Entertainment). Those compani
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by nomilk 2y ago
Legacy media are indeed lazy and stupid, but all that's stopping them is the Australian parliament, who are lazier and stupider.
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by nomilk 2y ago
Every single Australian 's ID will have to be verified (in order to confirm their age). Depending on the degree of cooperation (/coercion) the Australian government has with social media companies, the Aus Govt will be able to ac
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by nomilk 2y ago
404 for me.
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by nomilk 2y ago
Desktop, as opposed to mobile. (on mobile the site looks pretty similar to most others). On desktop it feels like a pdf, but extremely light weight (in a very nice way; loads quickly, scrolls perfectly [unlike pdfs], and isn't cluttere
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by nomilk 2y ago
Quite like the desktop website. Feels like a pdf without the cruft.
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by nomilk 2y ago
The hate doesn't prevent the research taking place, but ensures it won't occur publicly where it's more useful.
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by nomilk 2y ago
Does Bluesky's decentralised nature make it hard/impossible to apply a bot blocker^ like cloudflare? ^ More accurately, cloudflare is a bot- slower as it (and services like it) make it slower and most costly to scrape data, but n
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by nomilk 2y ago
Can confirm :)
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by nomilk 2y ago
Thirded. I mentally translated 'Red Teaming' to 'audited' / 'reviewed'. To be fair, what they're doing is good. Just that the wording is a little extravagant.
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by nomilk 2y ago
Tangental but I noted this quote from 4HWW: > Ask: if this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day? Don’t ever arrive at your computer without a clear list of priorities, you’ll just read unassociated email
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by nomilk 2y ago
If that’s the case I suspect fly is getting a lot more reliable. I stopped using them about a year ago so haven’t kept up on their reliability since. Glad to hear, it’s good for a competitive market to have many providers, and fly might hav
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by nomilk 2y ago
By asking directly and someone answering, it solves the problem for the person wondering, but also anyone else wondering (i.e. asking directly scales very nicely).
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by nomilk 2y ago
https://fly.io/ loading for me
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by nomilk 2y ago
Would be fascinated to see your data over a period of months. Application up time is flakey, but what was worse were fly deploys failing for no clear reason. Sometimes layers would just hang and eventually fail for no particular reason; I&#
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by nomilk 2y ago
I don't have a solution (and would be mindful any 'solution' could be unreasonably burdensome, unenforceable, or have unintended consequences). I just point out that the past couple of decades have seen a dramatic change how
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by nomilk 2y ago
> it was not met with shrugs That's good news in this instance but not in the case of cameras in gyms and many other cases, unfortunately.
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by nomilk 2y ago
Seems a lot of modern tech is (ab)used for the purpose of perving. I recently visited a gym which seemed very social media oriented (not dissimilar to most gyms tbh), but as days went by I gathered the impression something weird was going o
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by nomilk 2y ago
Well, you’re right for some definition of ‘news’. I mean finding out things a reasonable person would want to know, for example hyper local safety/weather/crime events (someone was murdered a block from me, and Twitter was 2-3 h

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