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by pndy 3y ago
> some Google employees feel that they are so righteous that they ought to "align" everyone else to think in their way This doesn't seem to be exclusive to Google nowadays
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by pndy 3y ago
There is an attempt in Space: 2099 but it seems it stuck in development hell since 2012. And frankly, considering what happens in scifi and media overall for last couple of years maybe it's for the good. I don't know to whom such
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by pndy 3y ago
Ah Space: 1999... The British answer to Star Trek that once took its own shape, went thru "redesign" only to end abruptly. Such a shame nobody ever pick this series ever again. A small trivia: there was this educational tv series
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by pndy 3y ago
> They ran out of dangerous places to do designer drugs. Yesterday on mastodon I saw a link to the vice piece about mushrooms: "Magic Mushroom Edibles: Everything to Know, from Chocolates to Drops" . Their situation is dire in
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by pndy 3y ago
Well I'm not denying that it's an absurd what happens with Gemini - I'm just passing the bits where people say what could affect the output
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by pndy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39439748 from yesterday
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by pndy 3y ago
I read that thread and some users argue it's because how (obviously) prompt was provided: > He wanted couples in Germany, he got couples in Germany. He didn’t ask for typical German couples in Germany. > The difference one word m
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by pndy 3y ago
I'd like to have a way to hide content coming from particular places or of particular themes. So: tags for submissions and blocking lists for domains, tags and users. Rest is pretty much fine as it is.
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by pndy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that Waterfox fork uses Lepton already for quite some time
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by pndy 3y ago
> Why throw all semantics out of the window? Almost everything nowadays is designed with mobile-first in mind approach - whether it's a smartphone or tablet, or desktop software. That throw all semantics out of the window - look wha
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by pndy 3y ago
Slightly paywalled
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by pndy 3y ago
At least HAL could be 'tamed' relatively easy on board of Discovery in 2001... Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, All for the love of you!
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by pndy 3y ago
They should put a message on login site and a banner inside inbox because from just glancing over "We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion." placed over barely readable gray text on white background user could assume
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by pndy 3y ago
Happens for few years now not only with "best interests" at higher corporate levels but also with trivial things like UI/UX within services and applications - users are treated like kids and they're given virtual balloon
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by pndy 3y ago
I've got this call regarding energy prices in Poland (worth mention, it happen AFTER maximum prices threshold was frozen by govt). A pre-recorded "lady" persistently tries to force me to say "yes" going with "s
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by pndy 3y ago
Microsoft already " works with journalists to create the newsrooms of the future with AI ": https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/02/05/journal... So, I'm not sure if I want to kn
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by pndy 3y ago
Each time I'm reading about what you wrote I'm thinking about Star Trek's teleportation 'dilemma' - whether the transporter is a killing machine or not
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by pndy 3y ago
> I'm sure it's going to be unusable in a couple years. I've bought a Philips tv some 11 years ago that come with some custom-tied linux distro and bunch of smart apps - the usual stuff: weather, yt, netflix, facebook,
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by pndy 3y ago
> It's now filled with (...) All of this and more wasn't here when social media become a thing - we all had fun talking to each other and sharing funny, stupid and interesting stuff. Of course there were weird and dangerous peo
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by pndy 3y ago
I'd say these are mainly popular among people who could be categorized as Apple enthusiasts ; I've seen these on various Apple-related discord servers, news sites like macrumors or mastodon, bluesky profiles. Nobody from my frien
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by pndy 3y ago
> Parents should work on keeping their kids away from social media, what’s the point of a kid having a Facebook or Instagram anyway? Parents are users too and in some cases they're addicted to social media as well. So it may be a qu
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by pndy 3y ago
Granted, sometimes you'll find an interesting article that even may send you on the hyperlinks journey across the wiki but there are accounts who just pump karma on Wikipedia. Once again, I believe that tags (like on two stop bits, ht
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by pndy 3y ago
How about Modern for Hacker News: https://www.modernhn.com/ - available for both Gecko and Chromium-based browsers. There's also a Wikipedia version: https://www.modernwiki.app/ - tho now it just sligh
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by pndy 3y ago
Are you ok?
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by pndy 3y ago
These examples under Essays feels obnoxiously dystopian; it's just a demo environment of course but I really hope that's not the feature where were heading into, in which every single link/piece of information on the Internet
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by pndy 3y ago
Pre-paid SIM registration was introduced in Poland 7 years ago and existing cards which weren't in use were deactivated. Already active ones had a grace period after which owners either had to register these or pick new SIM and provide
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by pndy 3y ago
I find somehow ironic fact that site loads images from lh7-us.googleusercontent.com
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by pndy 3y ago
Most of the links for this domain is added by green accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thecritic.co.uk
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by pndy 3y ago
he probably was since we're wondering 5 times already; last time 2 weeks ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by pndy 3y ago
That's a pretty charming analogy and it would be perfect some 15 years ago; nowadays adblocking extensions are more like a personal bodyguards that fend off all the leafleters and shady individuals in trentch coat and dark glasses who

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