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by safety1st 4mo ago
It needs to be said that this article was written by the Browser Choice Alliance, which is funded by another convicted monopolist, namely Google. So this is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, and the conflict of interest is obvious;
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by safety1st 4mo ago
Yes 100% this. A lot of people keep talking about how OpenAI and Anthropic will need to raise their prices. What is less discussed is how they CAN'T raise their prices because competition exists, and sure it's not SOTA, but it&#x2
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by safety1st 4mo ago
My parents were broke. I grew up on food stamps. Mom worked retail. Dad had a few good years, his business went bust and we spent a decade below the poverty line. It was a public high school in the USA. It was in a rich neighborhood on the
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by safety1st 4mo ago
I essentially owe my career to two great strokes of luck. The first was that my father purchased a PC in the early 1990s to help out with his self-employed publishing business, and like most PCs of the time, it came preloaded with QBasic an
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by safety1st 4mo ago
I ended up at the same conclusion as you guys but implemented in yet another way: my home office has a desk for digital work, and a 'study nook' for analog (mostly reading, but it has its own little desk as well). If I had a large
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by safety1st 5mo ago
Seems far less scary to me than, say, building an electrical grid in a cold climate, where if it fails for a few days people start to die. Oh wait...
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by safety1st 5mo ago
While I agree, I think there's a better way to frame this with the public. We don't need to bring in pedo references. That looks very unhinged to most people. There's already a lot of support out there, in both public opinion
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by safety1st 5mo ago
> That said, you might be surprised to learn that some of the models from 3b-9b could probably replace 80% of the things nonvibe coders use chatgpt for. Really? I'm a total amateur when it comes to doing anything with local models b
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by safety1st 5mo ago
I'm no fan of car culture but I think to say it's the primary cause of living a sedentary life at home is an overstatement. I deliberately moved somewhere where I could walk to everything I needed including a fantastic central tra
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by safety1st 5mo ago
There's a pub in my city where the staff greet you when you walk in and actively encourage you to sit at a table that's already occupied. If you come in alone you'll probably end up sitting at a two person table where inevita
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by safety1st 5mo ago
To be fair, ShellGPT does a lot of heavy lifting for me. Weird thing I need to do, ask it a question in my terminal, it suggests a bash one-liner. I haven't looked into voice/dictation yet. I'm dumber when I talk and smarter
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by safety1st 5mo ago
How did you know that I use i3 on all my non-Omarchy machines? :D
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by safety1st 5mo ago
- very little of this has ever extended outside Chinese borders, apart from the extraterritorial policing of Chinese nationals; they've not "gone global" in the way the US did I would dispute this. They just use tools that mo
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by safety1st 5mo ago
The peak of TUIs is now. Take a look at Omarchy, an entire operating system built around terminals and config files, it's nirvana. I can only imagine how much farther down this road things may go as we enter a world where the primary i
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by safety1st 5mo ago
Their solution will be to push mandatory and nonconsensual updates to your devices which limit your device and your freedom in the name of security. Like Google is doing to Android in September. You will no longer be able to install "u
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by safety1st 5mo ago
Tell this to my banks (whose apps are the only way you can even pay at some businesses nowadays)
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by safety1st 5mo ago
What follows is the "advanced flow." I feel like there should be a class action lawsuit in response to this as when I purchased my device I had an expectation that I could install apps without this insane limitation Enable D
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by safety1st 6mo ago
Oh good grief. This is such an uninformed and unnecessarily belligerent take. We can and do have public nuisance laws which kick in when an individual is impinging upon the health, safety, comfort etc. of other people. This exists in jurisd
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by safety1st 6mo ago
Not only that, but music generated by AI is not copyrightable. If it's truly 100% AI generated, you can redistribute it to your heart's content without infringement. (IANAL) Someone will surely attempt some kind of end-run around
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by safety1st 6mo ago
I agree it makes no sense. The whole point of chunking is to handle large documents. If your chunking system fails because a document is too big, that seems like a pretty glaring omission. I just chalked it up to the tech being new and nove
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by safety1st 6mo ago
We were given a demo of a vector based approach, and it didn't work. They said our docs were too big and for some reason their chunking process was failing. So we ended up using a good old fashioned Elastic backend because that's
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by safety1st 6mo ago
We anthropomorphize these agents in every other way. Why aren't we using plain ol' unix user accounts to sandbox them? They look a lot like daemons to me, they're a program that you want hanging around ready to respond, and m
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by safety1st 6mo ago
This is a good time to reflect on how business actually works (as opposed to how hopeful consumers wish it would work). A business exists because its shareholders invest capital with the expectation of a return. As a result, nearly all busi
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by safety1st 7mo ago
This cultural shift exists and it will intensify as long as consumer prices and cost of living continue to rise at the same time corporate profit margins do. This is a simple, easy link to make, pretty much everyone's now aware and has
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by safety1st 7mo ago
I mean it's a title. Titles are under no obligation to condense the entire content of the article into one sentence. People who want to comment on the article should read it first, and then write in good faith. The problem lies in the
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by safety1st 7mo ago
The alternative they accept is traveling down to their office and handing them cash, no joke. Phone app or cash. No website, never has been one. No snail mail because they "modernized" and discontinued it some time ago. But I&#x27
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by safety1st 7mo ago
It is great that you have the right in your jurisdiction to do that. Where I am, they just shut off your power if you don't pay. It's a big and hairy world out there. Having lived on three continents and traveled to some pretty wi
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by safety1st 7mo ago
I appreciate that there are people out there working on stuff like /e/OS, but the number one question I have when I learn about a mobile OS that isn't iOS or "Googled" Android is: will the banking and payment apps I
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by safety1st 7mo ago
My main takeaway from all of this is that Hegseth seems deeply unfit for his job. First there was the Signal leak and now this. Look, Anthropic is not going to be designated a supply chain risk. 80% of the Fortune 500 have contracts with th
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by safety1st 7mo ago
My first reaction is that this is an insanely bad law: * The signal has to be made available to both apps and websites * So if you dutifully input valid ages for your computer users, now any groomer with a website or an app can find out who

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