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by pmdr 9mo ago
This started long before LLMs when Google rewarded such websites for their SEO.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Perhaps people who unknowingly bought a rooted phone. I don't know how frequent this is, but it would be the only case it would matter.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Meanwhile we got Copilot in Notepad.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Absolutely, but the AI era seems to have lowered the bar for what's considered passable code. Slop works for most projects.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
If there's anything AI coding is good at, it's writing react components and tailwind css.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Windows 10 is mostly EOL because M$ doesn't want you using older machines, no matter how powerful.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
High-school economics also point out that this handful of companies has so far only produced slop and debt.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Apple has been poisoning the design space the last 5-10 years, they're not just doing it to themselves.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
I expect an unimpressive camera and (hopefully not) battery.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Widespread outages whenever AWS or Cloudflare experience a hiccup points to the contrary.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
> Love the idea but it still isn’t easy enough for normies to host a blog or a website. I have a hunch that normies are increasingly unaware of what a website is. Newer generations are growing up with apps, on their phone/tablet, so
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by pmdr 9mo ago
> The second you expose anything to the public internet it is going to be flooded by malicious bots looking for things to exploit. I've been running VPS's since at least 2010 and this has always been the case for me, getting &q
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Last phrase highlights what investors care about. I personally hate reels and tiktok -- they should've stopped at stories.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
Because it's not benefiting them in any way when users leave the website, especially to some 'unsafe/unapproved' website.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
He copied Snapchat and then Tiktok -- which have been most likely immensely positive for the bottom line.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
That's why I wonder if, deep down, Zuck realizes the walled slop garden he's ultimately created instead of what it looked like he'd set out to create 18-20 years ago.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
I think all open-source projects should actively and openly protest dark patterns, like they do with various social/political issues. Yet I haven't noticed any of them ever doing that.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
I find the Consent-O-Matic extension pretty good in dealing with that.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
It's not '.popup-subscribe-modal', it's often a random string spit out at build time that changes with every deployment.
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by pmdr 9mo ago
He's right about the settings. Why would these be the default? Who watches TV that way? Unfortunately settings won't help Season 5 be any better, it verges on being garbage itself, a profound drop in quality compared to previous s
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by pmdr 10mo ago
For me, earlier versions of macOS/OS X and Windows Vista/7 were the right mix of eye candy and usability. Apple's just showing off with this liquid glass thing. Yeah, it's cool that they attempted it, but it should'
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by pmdr 10mo ago
It's peak content form that AI was trained on and is now writing itself.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
That was a really good read.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
The responsibility now lies on the user, who has to click through confirmations to prove they are human, thus making their experience a lot worse. It has been my experience the last ten years.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
> Turns out a lot has changed in the last decade and I think it’s likely that the article should be updated on what it’s like right now. Yes, every one-pager running on Vercel/Netlify sits behind Cloudflare now because no one wants
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by pmdr 10mo ago
Genuinely curious, is there a way of tuning how this protection is triggered? If there is, perhaps filter out those ISPs/countries from which most attack originate? Not a cloudflare user myself -- for me it's mostly been a nuisanc
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by pmdr 10mo ago
> It is not CloudFlare that is ruining the Internet, but the spammers and attackers. Spammers have been around since forever and it used to be the webmaster/sysadmin's responsibility to deal with spam in a way that would not hi
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by pmdr 10mo ago
> I'm not running my own ISP and I'm not in a country known for originating DDoS attacks (Sweden), yet just using Firefox on Linux seems to be enough to be forced to click on traffic lights many times an hour. I'm in the s
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by pmdr 10mo ago
Oppenheimer's biography and some Cormac McCarthy books.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
IRC, email and XAMPP solved messaging a long time ago. Derivative products built on these protocols should have solved the chat problem for most orgs, but we got complacent and thus vulnerable to nickle and diming by the likes of Saleforce

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