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by tartoran 9mo ago
It does affect us quite a bit. This situation makes us have to think hard, makes us be very wary of what we click on or read and sometimes bites us as well. I personally find ads extremely tiring such that I mostly avoid add riddled product
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by tartoran 9mo ago
If the vast majority of people recognized ads and skipped them as more technically minded people do, they'd either not do that or step up a notch and make them even harder to spot. The reality is that these dark patterns do work for a
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Engaging healthily with chess: an Acceptance and Commitment therapist's guide(lichess.org)
2 points by tartoran 9mo ago|0 comments
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by tartoran 9mo ago
Yeah, I have no idea what this acronym stands for.
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Trump housing plan to allow 401(k) money for down payments, adviser says(reuters.com)
4 points by tartoran 9mo ago|4 comments
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Musk seeks up to $134B from OpenAI and Microsoft(reuters.com)
1 points by tartoran 9mo ago|0 comments
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German industry lashes out at Trump's 'ludicrous' demands(reuters.com)
13 points by tartoran 9mo ago|1 comments
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by tartoran 9mo ago
Yikes, I think we'll need to go local.
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by tartoran 9mo ago
Backwards compatibility. Apparently there are still some people stuck on IE11. It's nice that jQuery still supports those users and the products that they are still running.
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by tartoran 9mo ago
Oh, wow. That's a pretty good deal. What size is it?
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by tartoran 9mo ago
Advertisers are salivating at paying users but paying users really don't want any advertising in their product because they're paying not to have any advertising. That does not mean somebody will not cave in and shove advertising
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by tartoran 10mo ago
under $100?
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Yeah, they're nearly £50, a bit absurd for nail clippers...
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Just force an AI label on it and that's that. Whoever wants to listen to it at least don't get tricked into thinking it has to do with a real person behind it. Some people don't care, others do. Right now when I'm tricke
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Supposedly he isn't trying to bring back the monarchy, which the Iranians probably wouldn't easily accept, he wants to collect enough support to bring the current government. But in all honesty, I think even a monarchy would be be
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Exiled crown prince urges world to help protesters topple Iran's government(bbc.com)
5 points by tartoran 10mo ago|3 comments
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Cloudflare would lose a lot more than 15M if they left, so this makes no financial sense. They just feel backed up by the current administration and proceeded to bluff. I'd call their bluff. If they leave some European/Italian co
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AI will destroy jobs if not controlled, Khan warns(bbc.com)
3 points by tartoran 10mo ago|0 comments
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by tartoran 10mo ago
LLMs are becoming indispensable, and without real privacy guarantees, anonymity is just a comforting story.
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Imagine that Anthropic, or whatever company du jour at some point, starts charging a quarter of your income. Maybe even a third and you have no real alternatives because there is no open source alternative. What feels like opium right now w
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by tartoran 10mo ago
I agree that sex work is work but it's no extraordinary ability.
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by tartoran 10mo ago
> Hollywood took a bribe from the tobacco industry to make smoking "cool" and infect our nation with cigarettes. I think the whole world took up smoking because of Hollywood.
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by tartoran 10mo ago
> He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing on systems thinking and compounding habits, the clarity about the gap between what organizations say and what they do—unques
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Identifying them at least it's a better thing than not. The lock-in challenge can be solved too, also through organizing, activism and politics.
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by tartoran 10mo ago
I’d happily pay for a tool that lets me opt out of being slowly nickel-and-dimed by entities optimized for short-term yield. This feels like infrastructure: a small amount of collective effort that gives individuals leverage again. Visibili
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Let's not even go there. Copilot is .. just bad. I'm not surprised though.
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by tartoran 10mo ago
I've been a Notepad++ user for about 20 years. It's a pain to use it in Win11 as they force their crappy notepad on context menus and such. It's still usable (with some registry changes) but annoying that they're doogfo
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by tartoran 10mo ago
You clearly have an ax to grind with leftists but outrage is a human reaction to something bad happening, it can be perceived on any political spectrum, including right as well. And discussion is the only a good thing even if not everybody
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by tartoran 10mo ago
What's your point?
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by tartoran 10mo ago
Simple, somebody wants you not to know these facts.

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