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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Archive.today (and all of its mirrors) have been unusable for me over the last week or so. Prior to that it was incredibly unreliable; but I've only had success using it once (trying all mirrors) in the last couple of weeks. Does anyon
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Brilliant, but I hope it doesn't hasten Youtube's use of AI to "enhance" videos automatically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169554
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Thanks, that was confusing. Anyway I loved your writeup, I hope alternatives will be built (alas, I've tried with Mattermost, but I'm not proficient enough in Golang to maintain a fork on my own)
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
The post is "Discord alternatives" so it strikes me as strange for only E2EE capable chat apps to be supported.
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Why are Zulip and Mattermost not considered here? To be clear I am a former Mattermost user who would no longer recommend them, but considering Zulip now as a replacement
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Do you know if migrating from Mattermost to Zulip is remotely possible? I had been using Mattermost because it's also (mostly) FOSS. However, they've recently been changing their released OSS edition to restrict capabilities... Un
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> I can say that humans aren't very good at it You're assuming the people making accusations of posts being written by AI are from humans (which I agree are not good at making this determination). However, computers analyzing m
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> I read the article and couldn’t come up with a reason for the $2B valuation I think the potential applications in military-grade spyware explain the valuation. Oh, you mean what are we missing as far as this software meriting that valu
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> SPIN THE CAMERA 1080 DEGREES YOU COWARDS > a full 1080 degree camera spin Do you mean 3 full turns, or do you mean 180 (one half-turn)?
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> and tokens are used not as trading , but transactional currency to do that building. I think it's funny that you highlight this, because for many blockchains, their native token is the transactional currency also. Which opens up
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> and uh... Tesla I suppose Are Teslas popular in Norway?
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> Even including ICE in this statistic, you will never even meet someone who knows someone who was murdered by a cop. Uh.. I know someone who was murdered by cops while having a bad LSD trip (not violent, just incoherent). He was restrai
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
Yes
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing. This is open source, so whether or not it's a web app should make no difference here
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
Very innovative, thanks for sharing!
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
I fear it won't be possible to detect any potential "commercial interests" in the output, unless the LLM companies are required to disclose them. If I ask an LLM to write some basic application for me and it uses Next.js with
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
That's a sweet ass—reference
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
Also Canadian here (I've been using this account for years despite the name though). The above poster is correct that Canada also has a lot of problems. I lived in the U.S. for 20 years and probably would have stayed if I could have. F
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Tech Billionaires want us Dead – Taylor Lorenz [video](youtube.com)
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
The difference between light-up arrows pointing the way "forward" for a car turning onto the expressway the wrong way, and doing so with the possibility humans might see and attempt to flag them down before they're too far to
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
In theory it should be possible to allow users to upload ciphertext that they can then share a decryption key with their intended audience. I believe atproto has dissuaded against this with the argument that ciphertext shouldn't be in
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
For the commenters who have made similar comments, I'd be curious to hear what they think could be cut. I suspect different readers will have different opinions on this, which means it's probably a good thing you didn't mak
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
This is true, but the tech world is very interconnected and broadly supports/enables human rights abuses and war crimes to agree that most industries are not. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft develop tech used in the genocide of Palestini
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
Are you me? > but it seemed like others didn't think much about society or politics, beyond how "great" everything could be made with tech A wake-up call for me was when I requested fair trade coffee for the office due to
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
> Wealth as we describe it today is effectively directly correlated with consumption of natural resources I think the more relevant factor is control of natural resources
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
Redis is called a cache but is also often used with some expectation of persistence
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
Not the person you responded to, but I very much liked this. Thank you for sharing
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
The relevant word here is MAY[1] It's true that if an API requires the devs of its consumers to have consulted documentation in order to respect the RateLimit header, they can just as easily include custom API logic for traffic control
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
I'm incredibly relieved they didn't join Vercel (which everyone else seems to be doing these days).
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by pcthrowaway 9mo ago
Agreed, I'd like to know more about this also. As someone raised in the Jewish faith, and having spent time also learning about the New Testament and the Quran (though without having read the texts directly), I'm inclined to thi

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