segasaturn

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Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time(dedoimedo.com)
98 points by segasaturn 2y ago|132 comments
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I didn't even mention mods in my (admittedly flamey) comment, I actually don't think the moderation of HN is a problem as much as the larger culture that comes with being tied to a SV finance company. But thanks for the info.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
No, you might even be right that I have a "victim complex", given that my country is currently being victimized by the current US administration's pointless desire for a trade war. I'm especially hot under the collar at
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Was anything in my comment untrue?
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Thanks for unflagging it Dang, I wish I could have seen it yesterday.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Of course it's flagged, this site is an altar to worship at the feet of the American oligarchy. It's as rotten as the rest of Silicon Valley. As JWZ put it: "A venture capital company's fan club, finance-obsessed manchil
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by segasaturn 2y ago
OpenAI once again trying to drive up hype by making ChatGPT seem mysterious and dangerous, and the tech press uncritically eats it up. Ars even invokes the tired cliche of ChatGPT getting us into nuclear war in this article. I don't kn
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I'm sure that Elon isn't helping, but I've read that Tesla sales were always expected to decline due to no new car in years (outside of the Cybertruck which is seen as a gimmick) and market saturation from Tesla's contin
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Musk says he's working to shut down USAID as employees told to stay home(bbc.com)
42 points by segasaturn 2y ago|19 comments
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by segasaturn 2y ago
The rebranding is funny since people on TikTok also use "fugging" to evade censorship.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
There used to be a time, in the early days around 2018-2020, where "AI art" was something that only could have been made by an AI. Very trippy and resembling hallucinations. Sort of like dreams of a computer. I do miss that era of
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by segasaturn 2y ago
If Kagi made a cheaper "no AI" tier I would be happy to subscribe. AI is costly to run, so even if you don't use the AI it's priced into your subscription fee - you're paying for an expensive product you don't
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I agree with everything you're saying about how hard the privacy issue is, but would also like to add that the social media companies are incentivized to act like they have no idea how to implement a solution, because they want teens
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How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer (2024)(npr.org)
41 points by segasaturn 2y ago|47 comments
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by segasaturn 2y ago
They claimed to be a bank (savings account) that would give users free lottery tickets for saving money on their app. After freezing customer assets on the app, they pivoted to gambling. Customer funds are still frozen last I checked. Their
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Nearly $109M in Yotta (YC S20) customer deposits vanish(cnbc.com)
36 points by segasaturn 2y ago|5 comments
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by segasaturn 2y ago
They're not doing "voluntary exits" out of the goodness of their hearts, they're doing it because their accountants determined that the cost of paying employees to quit outweighed the reputational damage of doing another
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Paired with the Pixel 4a "update of death" it feels like Google is throwing in the towel on smartphones. I don't care about Pixel but I do worry about Android - as flawed as it is, it's still the only viable option for a
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Microsoft stock slumps more than 6% on disappointing revenue outlook(cnbc.com)
3 points by segasaturn 2y ago|0 comments
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by segasaturn 2y ago
BYD cars are everywhere in Latin America and Europe. Xiaomi phones also.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
The Nvidia export restrictions have already harmed Nvidia. Deepseek-R1 is efficient on compute and was trained on old, obsolete cards because they couldn't get ahold of Nvidia's most cutting edge tech, so they were forced to innov
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by segasaturn 2y ago
My first time playing NMS was around 7 years after launch when it was added to Game Pass Ultimate. It's a fine game, but the reliance on procedural generation for planets made everything feel... stale, and same-y. It's ironic, t
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I recently ordered a Fairphone 5, imported from the UK. Stock Android experience, replaceable battery, SD card slot, unlocked bootloader and modding is encouraged. Its basically what the Pixel (Nexus) line was originally supposed to be.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
My god, that Roast section is a wonderful addition. I got the best laugh in weeks out of it. Mine: >Roast >Spends so much time worrying about privacy that their tin foil hat probably has better specs than their Linux machine >Claim
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by segasaturn 2y ago
This (YC funded) startup is the same one that ran ads saying "stop hiring humans", "AI won't complain about work-life balance" etc. They're definitely trying to create controversy for attention.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
One of my friends almost got scammed by a fake job posting just yesterday. The job was for a real company with a real site and headquarters in the US, and the fake recruiter was impersonating the identity of a real recruiter on LinkedIn. Th
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by segasaturn 2y ago
You've linked to this very post!
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Trump says new tariffs on computer chips, semiconductors coming 'soon'(washingtonpost.com)
22 points by segasaturn 2y ago|2 comments
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by segasaturn 2y ago
This makes ScaleAI obsolete right?
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by segasaturn 2y ago
The number of people interested in doing self-hosting for AI at the moment is a tiny, tiny percentage of enthusiast computer users, who indeed get to play with self-hosted LLMs on consumer hardware now.. but the promise of these AI companie

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