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by rpdillon 23d ago
The app stores are neither necessary nor sufficient to curb malicious software. Conflating the centralized app stores with safety is a mistake that only serves the gatekeepers.
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by rpdillon 24d ago
Yeah, you're mistaken. One archives web pages, the other maintains a list of paid-access accounts and fetches information from behind paywalls as a service.
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by rpdillon 24d ago
As technical as I am, none of those items really matter to me at all. So it's a great illustration of how the long tail of user needs is what ends up differentiating us in these discussions. It's very rare to get deep enough to ac
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by rpdillon 24d ago
> this paper doesn't matter if it is represented by someone who doesn't uphold its content. Not at all...that's when the paper matters the most, because the electorate can see that the person in charge is not upholding our
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by rpdillon 24d ago
I mean, there are American values. The country was built around the idea of limiting the federal government's power, and adherence not a person, but to a set of values (like freedom of speech). We're explictly founded on the con
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by rpdillon 25d ago
Meta-topic: I've seen this comment many times over the years, and it never results in a discussion where folks can agree. My reaction reading it is "You must be holding it wrong!" because I daily-drive Linux in many more ways
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by rpdillon 25d ago
This was the era when I had replaced explorer.exe with litestep and had a reminder to reinstall Windows every six months to keep the computer running smoothly. It wasn't MS "shipping" stuff that broke it IIRC (though patches
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by rpdillon 26d ago
Yep! We used to call it "twist and shout". Tons of fun.
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by rpdillon 26d ago
> nagging question that if it’s so easy, why would the clients not do it by themselves? It's easy if you're already an expert at software engineering and know how to leverage AI. For people like that, it's a phenomenal upg
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by rpdillon 27d ago
I used to go on here about Sceptre TVs, because they are relatively cheap and dumb as a brick. Was just shopping for one because of this LG news (wanted to replace my old one from 2014), and while Sceptre still lists them on their website,
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by rpdillon 27d ago
Non-drivers benefit from roads and vehicles, since they are part of society. Many non-drivers order from Amazon, for example, and are reliant on someone being able to actually deliver what they ordered. I'm responding to you, because t
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by rpdillon 27d ago
Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. No one reads the ToS anyway. Just stop buying TVs, now that Sceptre stopped delivering the last models of consumer dumb TVs.
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by rpdillon 27d ago
Thanks for posting this. I did a lot of research yesterday into the model card and the implications of the architecture changes they made and I was hoping to find discussion about that here. I haven't seen any besides your comment. V4.
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by rpdillon 27d ago
I'm an OpenCode Zen user and I picked it over Go because opencode actually hosts those models and can make assurances about how the data is handled. OpenCode Go is a subsidized service that sends all of your data out to third-party pro
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by rpdillon 27d ago
They pay scraping sites for results, including SERP API. When I pointed this out, last time Kagi was discussed on Hacker News, an employee of Kagi said that they're trying to build their own internal index, but he didn't provide d
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by rpdillon 27d ago
It's probably mixed. I think Vizio's financial statements suggest they lose money on TVs and make it up on user data, but I'm not sure this holds for other manufacturers. I agree with you that TVs have gotten much cheaper t
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by rpdillon 27d ago
LG's statement: > ACR uses audio fingerprinting technology using the TV’s internal audio processor (not a speaker) to identify content and does not collect screenshots, screen recordings, video recordings, voice recordings, or other
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by rpdillon 27d ago
Agree. I don't think folks think clearly about how their setup scales computationally when they are choosing their stack. I've been writing a lot of software designed for drop-dead simple self-hosting lately (can run CGI-bin or a
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by rpdillon 28d ago
> majority of big tech companies have been treating user data like radioactive waste for 10+ years. They're collecting more than ever.
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by rpdillon 28d ago
Yep, still can't get over how I missed the obvious arrow in the FedEx logo (it's embedded between the "E" and "x") for so many years. Super clever!
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by rpdillon 28d ago
I guess "hype cycle" is an accurate description, but it feels overly negative, in the sense that we now have a revolutionary technology that's still quite young and moving fast, and folks everywhere are trying to figure out h
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by rpdillon 29d ago
All of the early data shows that self-driving cars from Waymo are safer than the average attentive driver. This is not the average driver, since of the 36,000 deaths a year from accidents in the US, about 12,000 of them are due to alcohol o
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by rpdillon 29d ago
> If you react that strongly and violently to the idea of alcohol being banned, you might want to look into your relationship with alcohol. There are two reasons for a violent reaction like this, only one of which relates to your relatio
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by rpdillon 29d ago
Well put!
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by rpdillon 29d ago
Two copies means two copies. I have a copy, my house burns down, your copy is fine. Hashes have nothing to do with it.
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by rpdillon 29d ago
It's great except for the side button durability. I had to throw my latest Pebble out because of that.
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
The failure mode is not people that are supposed to work eight hours a day and then only work seven or six. And I don't really think of them as slobs or slackers. What they do is they come into the job and they turn the crank. They don
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Yeah, I'm on Android and I have F-Droid for the time being, and I'm planning to register myself as a power user, but I think the writing is on the wall and the mobile ecosystems. My side projects that I've been building are n
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Sure. I think copyright is broken far beyond just the length of it, but let's focus on the length of copyright. There's a phenomenon called the Copyright Cliff, where works published from the early to mid 20th century are unavail
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
For one event, yeah!

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