phatfish

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by phatfish 10mo ago
Dude, parents don't want their kids wading through porn and whatever social media throws at them before they are even teenagers. Childless digital nomad privacy freaks are a minority, age gates are coming. I don't care that they w
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by phatfish 10mo ago
It's only scary to Americans (maybe reaching hard because of Trump?) and those who live off Twitter and Daily Mail headlines. For the rest us it's marginally better than when the crazies where screwing us over with Brexit.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Sorry, you are crazy if you trust American tech companies (that you have zero control over) rather than your own government which in theory you have a lot of control over, but it does depend on your flavour of democracy. Until these control
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by phatfish 10mo ago
This is going to end in an plague of video marketing material, the sort of professional looking creation that is too expensive currently to get wrong so the same advert is shown for months and sometimes repeated yearly. Big brands are going
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Yup, online culture is utter trash, and kids are sucked in the most. As seen on HN as well with overwhelming rejection of applying age restrictions to porn sites. It's like society doesn't exist any more, and adults not having to
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Maybe they should have focused on fixing the "legacy tech debt mess", rather than pushing out more and more services and trying to be like AWS or Azure.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Plenty of art house type movie theatres in the UK which would suit your taste better I expect.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
This is just how free markets work, on the internet with no "physical" limitations it is simply accelerated. Left alone corporations to rival governments emerge, which are completely unaccountable. At least there is some accountab
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Steam has so many users I'm not sure the average says a lot? If you are just playing Hentai games like most Steam users (j/k, probably) you can do that on any device from the last 10 years. More interesting would be to see the spe
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by phatfish 11mo ago
I don't know. You can bet these people were being obnoxious sh*ts to teachers and trying to rally some online mob to get their way. No much sympathy from me, even if arrest (and not a stern telling off and being told to set a good exam
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by phatfish 11mo ago
It's like people want to hand over scans of their passport and/or driving license to random businesses again and again, every time the need to prove who they are; and have their ID documents littered in Outlook mailboxes or compan
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by phatfish 11mo ago
German speakers usually have very good English, but this is one of their tells.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Yeah, Germany must be one of the few still attracting foreign students with no/low fees? I know a lot of courses have teaching in English, landing a job afterwards needs fluent German though. I wonder how long it will last? UK Universi
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by phatfish 11mo ago
A degree from the "right" college surely helps for certain firms? Sure, it must be a small number of top ones as most can't afford to be that choosy about their candidates. Whether that is a sensible strategy for the firm (a
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by phatfish 11mo ago
LLMs spoiled it, but it was fun to see the genuine top times. Watching competitive coders solve in real time is interesting (Youtube videos), and i wouldn't have discovered these without the leader board.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
The sovereign wealth funds and billionaires need something to do with all their available cash. It's no fun just watching the number increase anymore, that got boring quite a while ago.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
For this to be useful they need up to date information, so it just Googles shit and reads Reddit comments. I just don't see how that is likely to be any better than Googling shit and reading Reddit comments yourself. If they had some d
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Maybe, but OpenAI only get the data you decide to type into ChatGPT in a vibe therapy session or whatever, and they have to burn a load of GPU time to keep you feeding it more slop. Google just passively collects email and browsing history,
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by phatfish 11mo ago
The EU removing roaming is better than the situation in the UK. Although some operators (O2 I know of) give a fixed roaming allowance in the EU that is OK. Not as good as getting your full contract/PAYG allowance though. eSIMs have mad
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by phatfish 11mo ago
So you can feel 1000x better about yourself when 1000x more resources are used to create an extra special image just for you. Rather than the canonical one served from the Wikipedia (or Google image search) cache.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
It makes Gmail a normal email client again?
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Is "published online" the bar for valuable information? At this point published online is a good signal for junk information.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
And when your ridiculous LED lamps blind the oncoming driver on a corner during heavy rain and they crash into you, you wish weren't so selfish. I guess it is more likely they crash into the car behind you or just run off the road them
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by phatfish 11mo ago
Thanks ChatGPT.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
And we get to know about the "hard work" by reading what ChatGPT cooked up.
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by phatfish 11mo ago
I want someone who cares to be driving the train I'm on. They also require in person participation which make outsourcing hard. I'm fine with self driving when the line is designed for it. It will be a very long time before existi
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by phatfish 11mo ago
My dad would always buy a "Hanyes" manual for our second hand cars in the UK, as inevitably there would be something to fix. These were comprehensive 3rd party manuals. I have also gotten them for newer early 2000s cars. Never had
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by phatfish 11mo ago
I wish Labour would impose any regulation on the tech industry, let alone "heavy". The UK is running sacred of Trump and will do nothing to stop the US tech giants avoiding tax and causing social unrest.
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by phatfish 1y ago
Of course age laws have worked. Adults are the smokers, drinkers and drug abusers. Do you want a situation with kids being drunk in school because they can just go to a shop during break and get a bottle of Vodka, no questions asked?
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by phatfish 1y ago
"Old media" was (and is) quite heavily regulated. Not everywhere turned into an East German surveillance state. The idea that governments are incapable of acting in the interests of their citizens is just a narrative designed to w

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