plutokras

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by plutokras 7mo ago
As mentioned, we all pay the fee. Additionally, I pay for plenty of media when it is practical, deserving, or convenient. The rest gets pirated.
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by plutokras 7mo ago
I have no issue with anyone pirating. In my country — and soon in Italy as well — all storage media sales include a small levy (Artisjus) intended to compensate copyright holders for losses from piracy. One could argue it's unfair if y
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by plutokras 7mo ago
The comment section under any AI-related article is unbelievably negative, and the headlines are feeding the fire too. Ashley Belanger's articles are the most notorious examples, like "Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on
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by plutokras 8mo ago
That's a bit overblown, but Im getting tired of seeing pelicans on bikes too.
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by plutokras 9mo ago
Nintendo has been doing this for ages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30773214
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by plutokras 9mo ago
> I wish now I could remember the title and author. LLMs are great at finding media by vague descriptions. ;)
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by plutokras 9mo ago
I too have the techie urge to upgrade my software whenever I can, ut after watching the Tahoe demos, I'm staying on Sequoia indefinitely. I would really appreciate it if the next macOS would be about stability instead of some fancy fea
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by plutokras 10mo ago
I still don't get why my friends and family think gifting a less liquid form of money is better than just giving cash. Gift cards are the best proof against the existence of the homo economicus, that's for sure.
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by plutokras 10mo ago
I’m 100% with OP on this. So many posts on the front page have names like “Hamburger — a tool for doing a thing.” These names are neither memorable nor distinctive, good luck trying to look them up later.
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by plutokras 1y ago
> What are they protecting against? Honestly. They are protcting their producer from bad PR.
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by plutokras 1y ago
I have no complaints about AdGuard, but I will switch to this. uBlock is the best ad blocker across platforms, and gorhill is a legend.
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by plutokras 1y ago
They have fixed costs per query. Unlike VC-backed companies burning cash for market share, they need sustainable unit economics to stay profitable. This makes regional pricing hard to pull off. I know I'm speaking form a position of pr
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by plutokras 2y ago
As others already mentioned, the real space is already full of all sorts of advertisements. I personally can't wait for an AR uBlock.
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by plutokras 2y ago
People keep bringing up the same argument about dropping nukes on Japanese cities, and it seems like the world just accepted it.
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by plutokras 2y ago
This could be really nice on a VR headset with all the floating windows.
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by plutokras 2y ago
He is infamously a self-proclaimed illiberal. But nice try. Also, I will leave here some recommended reading on the topic: > Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus, a powerful Israeli cyberweapon https:&#x
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by plutokras 2y ago
> First of all, as a project, Kagi stretches itself way too thin. "Kagi" isn't just Kagi Search, it's also a whole slew of AI tools, a Mac-only web browser called Orion, and right now they are planning on launching an
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by plutokras 3y ago
Seems like that's the case.
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by plutokras 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/@Reducible/videos
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by plutokras 3y ago
I disagree. It is nice to have separate apps for Music, Podcasts and audiobooks. You know, do one thing well. Spotfiy tries to do all of these and it's a bloated mess.
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by plutokras 3y ago
And now the company will serve the interest of the shareholders above all else. The number gotta go up each quarter.
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by plutokras 3y ago
With the sea of SEO and AI spam, we aren't living anymore in the age of the old internet. Communities need to adapt.
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by plutokras 3y ago
Reeder is the app I use the most. It does its job perfectly and nothing more. I love it.
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by plutokras 3y ago
Great tool, thanks for sharing. If you are open to suggestions, I would love to have spellcheck in it. https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
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by plutokras 3y ago
Im sure there is a subbreddit for things like this. Im here for the tech stuff.
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by plutokras 3y ago
I tried out Kagi, but then I asked myself: “why pay for it if it's only marginally better than Google?”. Then I realized Kagi has won. The sentiment about non-Google search engines used to be something like “XY is slightly worse than
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by plutokras 3y ago
> I’d really like some kind of Uber Eats type thing The Japanese already have a very similar service, called Delivery health. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_prostitution_in_moder...
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by plutokras 3y ago
> I think more people would be pushing for animal welfare and proper slaughtering/raising conditions if this was done, even if they still ate meat. Why does animal welfare matter if at the end they will end up as food anyway? Not tr