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by rpdillon 5mo ago
I did not intend to spread misinformation here, and would like to hear more about the general-purpose index Kagi is working on. I had based my comment on several Kagi pages, but mostly https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
Yes, their argument is essentially that Microsoft spent $100 billion over 20 years trying to compete and still essentially failed.
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
I paid for Kagi for a bit, but got a weird vibe when I realized they were working pretty hard to paper over the fact that they pay a third party to scrape Google search results for them. The public-facing side of that coin is Kagi's po
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
This is reductive. The author did write it, but used AI to polish it before publishing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221934
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
My inference machine is the only drive I leave unencrypted, but that's because it has the models on it, llama.cpp, and nothing else, and I want it back up and running services after a power-failure. My other desktops are encrypted to
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
I was happy to give up my side-hobby of drilling drives after FDE became standard everywhere. Plug and play is great, but you don't want it to be plug and play for whoever pulls your drive out of the trash.
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
Curious to see this take from you! I followed TrueCrypt for years, but always thought it was very strange that they were anonymous, and then the mysterious shutdown happened, and I have no idea what to make of VeraCrypt. It's been in m
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
I've had a handful of software projects in my career land essentially on the day I predicted, sometimes several months out, and the commonality across all of those projects was that the specification was crystal clear. Two of them were
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
Many Americans have contributed substantially to open source and free software over the past decades. What are you trying to say?
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
Works best if you have an always on client. Easy if you have a VPS or a home lab, even a small one, a nuisance if you don't.
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
I don't think your understanding of Fair Use matches mine, but it is important, since it invalidates the concern about licensing. I wrote a nearby comment giving some resources on the current state of Fair Use for training, but in shor
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
They key issue is whether the training is considered to be fair use; but this can only be determined in court. We have some preliminary indications that it definitely can be, but also may not be, depending on four factors, but predominantly
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
How did you draw those conclusions? They don't seem to be in line with court rulings (i.e. Anthropic), which hold that training is fair use. Code is being treated the same as any other copyrighted content that is used for training, fro
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
> aren't sociopaths that think they have the right to steal from others. I cannot possibly fathom how you're getting from "I deployed some GPLv3 software as part of my hosting service" to "sociopath that think(s)
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
This ignores the part where the printer company said anyone could use the printers for whatever they wanted.
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
Companies that provide offerings that are open-source, and then later stop offering open-source updates are not a "golden goose". Organizations that produce open-source need to have a funding model that isn't "charging f
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by rpdillon 5mo ago
This is exactly it. The speed of light has not changed: we're limited by our ability to understand the system, and make decisions about what to do next. AI will speed that up, but the core work is the understanding and decision-making.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
This is an uncharitable take. Rossman has actual repair expertise, founded the consumer rights wiki to help organize activists that want to forward right to repair, and attends public meetings to discuss these topics with local governments.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Indeed! I just don't think it's on Amazon to fix those institutional and economic realities when they decide to host a project that people find useful.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
This feels close to "felony contempt of business model". https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine... We are supportive of 3rd party ink cartridges, and there's little concer
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
It's not just Amazon, it's also smaller providers like Dreamhost, which I've been using for 20 years. I feel like people are in favor of killing the hosting ecosystem so that we can support businesses that didn't have a
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
They have a problem with their business model, then. License changes to a formerly open source project are costly. The community reacts very strongly when license terms change after they've come to depend on a product, and they should.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
My old car is a Honda Civic hybrid from 2008. Your comment sent me checking out the current Civic (ICE) performance, and it's also eight seconds! So I see your point, I guess my expectations have changed since EVs came on the scene.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
This is particularly uncharitable to someone that saw around many corners and was articulate enough to warn us about them in advance. There's a reason there's a subreddit called "Stallman Was Right", and it's not th
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Ten minutes ago my son came home from school and told me there was a fight and that the kid who started it has no punishment but the kid who finished it got a weeklong suspension. I have no clue how they come up with this stuff.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
I know little about this, so I suspect you're right. I've mostly been looking for the car version of a "dumb phone", and Slate looked like a nice fit, but it's thrown me into the world of EVs and I'm still pret
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
This has been a question the Slate team has been trying to answer. They claim the weight distribution being more even front-to-back (batteries offsetting motor, I presume), but I don't know whether I believe them. I was interested in
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Comments like this are pretty useless unless you bring numbers.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Yeah, the comment talking about currency exchange rates is missing the hardware crisis. Nintendo stock prices dropped 45% over the past year because of the hardware shortages and the inevitability of having to raise prices to account for th
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
I'm gonna have to go dig up the link, but isn't there a guy that Nintendo basically has on indentured servitude for the rest of his life? Ah, found it: >In April 2023, a 54-year-old programmer named Gary Bowser was released fro

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