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by protoster 11mo ago
Residential internets are now proxies for AI scrapers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741357
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by protoster 11mo ago
Windows struck the iceberg back in 8. It took until 11 for people to finally start to abandon ship in numbers.
33.
by protoster 1y ago
De-googled Chromium? This does not compute.
34.
by protoster 1y ago
Vice signalling
35.
by protoster 1y ago
Not a fair comparison. Hardware security device has nothing to do with general compute power. It's like saying "What do you mean 'my Ferrari is not a good firetruck'??? It can go 0 to 100 in 4 seconds!"
36.
by protoster 1y ago
Last time MS cared about power users was in Windows 7.
37.
by protoster 1y ago
Clearly there is a disconnect between what commenters want and what actually sells.
38.
by protoster 1y ago
Welcome to 2025, where any channel of human attention will be tragedy-of-the-commons'd into dust to squeeze out some kind of profit. Settle in and watch the malthusian trap slowly shut.
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by protoster 1y ago
They're complicit
40.
by protoster 1y ago
The " – Procreate" is absolutely not necessary in the title, the submitter knew what they were doing.
41.
by protoster 1y ago
My phone isn't getting slower, but rather the OS running on it becomes less efficient with every update. Shameful.
42.
by protoster 2y ago
My guess as to why it's necessary to nuke all potentially copyright audio is that the platform is liable for infringement, and as a result they have a policy to shoot first and ask questions later. This is justified because in overwhel
43.
by protoster 2y ago
Forget safety, but wouldn't adding more people around the launch site make the required permits even more difficult to get? You have to close the roads, the beach, issue "over-pressure event" notices, and so on.
44.
by protoster 2y ago
Different containers for different paths on the same domain. Obviously not a common use case, but it's there. It's fully programmable, so you can open a different container based on the current phase of the moon if your heart desi
45.
by protoster 2y ago
Yes! I need this. I have a separate youtube container for background listening videos where I want the video quality to be set low. I want a container so that I don' t have to change quality back and forth when watching videos at full
46.
by protoster 2y ago
The linked "Services Agreement" doesn't appear to be specific to this "Connected Experiences" thing, but is rather the basic agreement required to use any MS software. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but opting o
47.
by protoster 2y ago
Why does lying about manual review seem so commonplace? For example, during basically any YouTube copyright or moderation controversy, there is always "manual review" of videos that have obviously been caught in automated systems
48.
by protoster 2y ago
Great article, love to see claims backed up with examples. It's one thing to say "jai's meta-programming capabilities are a Big Deal", and another to see it in action alongside competing languages.
49.
by protoster 2y ago
Do typical emulators compile ahead of time? Just-in-time? If not, why? This approach (ahead of time compilation) appears to have huge benefits.
50.
by protoster 3y ago
I've run into it being used in https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/syntax/instructions.... It's slow, and you can't highlight the text. This also means that searching on the page is broken,
51.
by protoster 3y ago
NSFW, this is some serious domain name gore.
52.
by protoster 4y ago
Mullvad doing a fantastic marketing job on HN. 2-3 articles every month, without fail.
53.
by protoster 4y ago
Well, that was straightforward.
54.
by protoster 4y ago
I use Ubuntu (as stock as possible) for my media center PC, here are some reasons off the top of my head that prevent me from using desktop Linux for anything more serious: Bluetooth connection to my headset sometimes causes the entire syst
55.
by protoster 4y ago
Is Apple Music the same thing as iTunes? I use it on windows to put music on my iPhone.
56.
by protoster 4y ago
Absolutely. There are beautiful things today as well, but people choose the ugly thing because of the cheaper cost.
57.
by protoster 4y ago
It's a mystery to me how Firefox updates on Ubuntu. Sometimes it goes through auto updates, but sometimes I'll try to open a new tab and it tells me that it will NOT allow me to do that until I restart. This is exceptionally annoy
58.
by protoster 4y ago
>I’m not sure why anyone would pick a language that won’t ever have a real ecosystem of libraries Could you elaborate?
59.
by protoster 4y ago
It's true, not all of the services died due to technical issues.
60.
by protoster 4y ago
It's actually scary how badly the industry wants cloud gaming to happen. They attempt again and again, even in the face of over a decade of failures that include Google.

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