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   by raphman 2y ago

   FWIW, the American Steve Jackson also wrote three Fighting Fantasy novels (Scorpion Swamp, Demons of the Deep, and Robot Commando): > "As Ian and I couldn't write a book a month, we opened Fighting Fantasy up to new authors. Th
2. 182.▲
   by raphman 2y ago

   > There seems to be a coordinated effort to control the narrative. Do you have any evidence for this? Who would want to coordinate such an effort, and how would they manipulate HN users to comment/vote in a certain way? I think it i
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   by raphman 2y ago

   Thanks for the explanation about the CDN for apple.com. However, the parent's observation seems to be consistent with the Great Firewall, no?
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   by raphman 2y ago

   Also, the 'apple.com' IP address in the screenshot (221.194.154.187) belongs to a Chinese company. The developer seems to be located in China. You are seeing the Great Firewall in action: > The GFW does not have a unique techn
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   by raphman 2y ago

   One more advantage: ZIP codes are a good trade-off if you want to gather anonymous data in a survey or provide anonymized data to an outside entity. For example, we recently conducted a survey on mobility patterns within our university. To
6. 186.▲
   by raphman 2y ago

   In this case, it was not my choice. I preferred other tools but network effects resulted in Discord becoming our group's primary mode of real-time communication for online courses and within the group.
7. 187.▲
   by raphman 2y ago

   Just a gentle warning: try out alternative Discord clients with a non-important account first. A few years ago, I used ripcord¹ and got automatically banned by Discord - probably because I had started the original Discord client on the same
8. 188.▲
   by raphman 2y ago

   Oh, I'll probably wait for GPT 4 Pro Max v2 NG (improved)
9. 189.▲
   by raphman 2y ago

   FWIW, I'm using the German DKB Android app (which seems to require non-rooted phones) without issues on my Sailfish OS phone.
10. 190.▲
    by raphman 2y ago

    Oh, I guess a few of these additional rules might prove helpful for weeding out people who just memorized FizzBuzz but don't know much more. However, all of these "don't use the right tools" and "write extremely com
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Yes, I agree. This attack won't work on competent / paranoid people. What I had in mind when writing the comment: a whistleblower who wants to inform the press about illegal practices in their company and installed Signal to commu
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    by raphman 2y ago

    How does this work out in the long term? Operating a data center does not require that many blue-collar workers. I'm imagining a future where the US builds a Tower of Babel from thousands of data centers just to keep people employed an
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Oh, this attack would be a useful tool for e.g., identifying whistleblowers that travel a lot (e.g., in academia, military). If you know their Signal ID, you could send them images from time to time and then compare their coarse locations w
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Not sure whether that's the correct way but it seems to work. AFAICT, there is no "now_playing" field in the sqlite db - but tracks that start playing are added to the `PlaylistTracks` table. That means that if you started tw
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    by raphman 2y ago

    [Posted also in another thread:] I am not so sure that Musk or right-wing moderators are directly to blame for the lack of published community notes. My guess: in recent months, many people (e.g., me) who are motivated to counter fake news
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    by raphman 2y ago

    I am not so sure that Musk or right-wing moderators are directly to blame for the lack of published community notes. My guess: in recent months, many people (e.g., me) who are motivated to counter fake news have left Twitter for other plat
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    by raphman 2y ago

    > It’s still noteworthy that it was published in Nature. FWIW, it was not published in 'Nature' but in 'Communications Engineering', a journal by Nature Portfolio (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group, part of S
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Thanks :)
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Thanks for calling this out. That was also my impression after having skimmed their paper: the only link to glucose monitoring is that the authors mention a few papers on the topic to motivate their research. And looking at the papers th
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Yeah. Our research group has a wiki with (among other stuff) a list of open, completed, and ongoing bachelor's/master's theses. Until recently, the list was openly available. But AI bots caused significant load by crawling ea
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    by raphman 2y ago

    https://privacy.openai.com/ > ChatGPT Personal Data Removal Request > Under certain privacy or data protection laws, such as the GDPR, you may have the right to object to the processing of your personal data by OpenAI
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    by raphman 2y ago

    You mean "David Faber", I guess? ChatGPT has no problem repeating "David Fober" but chokes when trying to write "David Faber" in the response.
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Duplicate (different submitted link, however): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42222387
24. 204.▲
    by raphman 2y ago

    Just tried it out a few times. It seems that the old gpt4 model strongly prefers telling story about "Elara" - but only if asked in English to "tell me a story". Prompting gpt4 in German or the current gpt4o in English l
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Nice. I like the short paragraph on "Why hasn’t anyone done this before?" at the bottom of the page. tl;dr: concept very old; C-Motive combined incremental improvements
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    by raphman 2y ago

    FWIW, Whisperfish, the unofficial Signal client for Sailfish OS works really well. An if I wanted, I could use the WhatsApp Android app on Sailfish via its App Support emulation layer. https://openrepos.net/content/rub
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Is your template/source available by chance?
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Oh, I had a similar experience - need to ping him again.
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Quick observations: - several people here mention that they learned this phrase in the military - the first written mention I could find is in a 1998 army report [0] - the first Google Books hit for this phrase is from 1970 but this seems t
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    by raphman 2y ago

    Something like https://delta.chat/ ? There was also a project/protocol called Chat-over-IMAP (COI): https://github.com/coi-dev/coi-specs