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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   HN's provider was DDoSed yesterday [0], I wonder if the popular website being targeted was HN itself. Either way, I do wonder if there is any relation. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939559
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   Was about to say, just got the Cloudflare "Checking if site is secure" prompt.
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   > blue check was supposed to stop them I think this was always an illusion. The blue checkmark certainly hasn't presented a barrier to spammers, and if anything, the reply/promotion boost it gives you has accelerated the rate o
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   You’re not wrong. The FYP, at least for my unused account, is garbage tier. Hell, the latest phenomenon it has picked up on is meme pages used to advertise OnlyFans and gambling, and outright pornography and porn ads. Some of the worst huma
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   > there are rumors that a certain large middle eastern airline Thank god there are airlines with standards. I'm certainly glad my Middle Eastern long haul option for a particular cross-continent journey does not have any faulty Boei
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   It is surprising the amount of claims (well, future promises) on here for a project that is clearly getting off the ground. Compare it to Ladybird's [0], where it is nice and simple. They're building a browser, but they're n
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   I wonder the developers' chat app from what feels like 5 years ago will ever come out [0]. (edit: it's 6 years, according to the HN thread I found it on! [1]). By the way, you should really close that Patreon (which in fairness is
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   > edit wait did this article seriously just call the guy running the open source project mastodon, “CEO”…? That is his title [0]. Other places calling him CEO include Flipboard's interview with him [1], and various tech articles [2]
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   by pityJuke 3y ago

   > The biggest lie in the Fediverse is that Mastodon is too small for Meta to care about. By all accounts and reason, that's simply not true. Zuck is in this impossible position because of how often and indiscriminately he kills off
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    Here's a comment I posted a few weeks ago about my experience with Threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640884
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    It’s a miracle it is on YouTube at all, considering it’s a full episode of a broadcast TV show by one of the UK’s biggest networks. Sadly, they haven’t clipped this task or put it in any compilation I can find, which would be internationall
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    > Eh this is really tricky, for exampe if I open instagram, Threads or tiktok 9/10 posts will be pro-palestinian Yeah. I don't think I've seen any pro-Israeli content on Instagram, just overwhelming comment spam on random
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    From a skim: while I agree with surface level details about deepfakes (i.e. they're mostly used for funny memes, humans are mostly capable of detecting them), I am still slightly perturbed by people using it to generate NSFW porn of pe
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    I know Ventoy has been around for a while, but I'm still glad we have a good FOSS solution for this. Back in the day, I used to run a proprietary (I think) tool called SARDU for the job, which worked fine, but wasn't terrific.
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    I didn't want to call attention to it, but it does appear that this particular topic is charged. While it isn't astroturfing (in the sense that Twitter executives), there does seem to be a lot of impetus to defend Twitter.
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    A concrete mixed bag. I am no longer experiencing brand slop [0]. For following tech news, it's pretty good - the Verge and their journalists in particular seem to live on the app, and I had no issue following the OpenAI debacle on it.
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    Oh, right, I remember hearing that was a technique to train LLMs. Interesting that it impacts it in such a way.
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    Is it hallucinating (whether that be through sheer chance, or trained to think it is GPT), or is it pointing at the wrong place? https://imgur.com/a/YOF6szw or https://imgur.com/a/fkgkfRO
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    And the fact that sewage is now the content that is prioritised. Blue checkmarks went from being a flawed, but useful signal of interest, to being a symbol for the most garbage content on the internet. And I have to wade through the filth i
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    Some articles that came out around the same time as this piece: - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/ousted-openai-... - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023&
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    If you like HN commentators being wrong, you’ll love this initial thread on Alameda being insolvent [0]. I post only in jest, as hindsight makes much of this hilarious. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464494
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    I love that the Indian Governments idea of security for their Aadhaar portal is to block IPs outside of India. One VPN later…
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    NHS.uk is brilliant, but yes, individual GPs (and I think the different NHS regional bodies, whatever they’re called), are a hodgepodge.
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    I don't even see the first half as particularly damning. Owning a domain name doesn't mean you own exclusive rights for the trademark ---in that space---. Uzi Nissan (who I've just found out died, R.I.P), couldn't demand
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    That's the post about sunsetting the tokens mentioned in the article, I'm talking about a post discussion the mods' dumping the tokens.
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    I see no discussion on /r/cryptocurrency, but I do see some on /r/buttcoin [0]. If I haven't missed anything, supression of the story (predictable)? [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/c
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    > It’s just that not having ADS into iron sights or vaulting in 2023 game feels archaic. And thank god. Nobody was asking for thi.s > The movement is incredibly clunky Clunky to some is incredibly layered to others. Simple, yet oh so
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    To add to this point, it's already had a mass migration away, to Discuit [0]. Some other discussion on Tildes [1]. [0]: https://discuit.net/Discuit/post/a8Suq9qc [1]: https://tildes.net/~tech&
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    Wait, they are a company called Fizz, that was formerly called Buzz [0]? Talk about on the nose. [0]: https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/01/opinion-fizz-previously...
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    by pityJuke 3y ago

    All I'll add is that whether or not that specific example holds up today matters little to the wider point: which is, that the language makes promises, and you need to verify each claim due to the repeated [0] ambiguity/inaccuraci