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by tempodox 1y ago
Indeed, I thought the whole point of alternative app stores is that it’s not Apple’s decision any more whether an app can be installed or not. This looks like another case of malicious compliance.
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by tempodox 1y ago
I’d assume that the “copyright infringement” is just Google’s pretext for removing the channel. They can hardly cite “obedient submission to the Trump gang” as the reason.
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by tempodox 1y ago
I would never have guessed it’s a tool by the title, I thought it’s a blog post.
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by tempodox 1y ago
> “manufactured tension without basis in fact that’s clearly being pushed by dramatic, navel-gazing busybodies.” A spokesperson who said things like that would get fired immediately from any civilized company. Draw your own conclusions.
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by tempodox 1y ago
And there’s your answer. If past scandals haven’t made the remaining users leave, then what will?
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by tempodox 1y ago
Yes, Trump actually wrote that. How much more in-your-face can his lies get before he’s being laughed out of the room?
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by tempodox 1y ago
> Our work evokes a feeling. The feeling matters. The feeling is part of the work. The desired feeling is part of the requirements. I do share this ambition. In my own metric, I was as successful as it gets when “the desired feeling” is
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by tempodox 1y ago
> the Newton I found the idea fascinating, but it was too clunky and heavy for the features it offered. I think the concept was too far ahead of its time, it couldn’t be implemented well in available tech.
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by tempodox 1y ago
And there is another important difference: Our environments have oodles of details that inform us, while LLM training data is just “everything humans have ever written”. Those are completely different things. And LLMs have no concept of f
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by tempodox 1y ago
“Beautiful Clean Coal Industry”? Seriously?
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by tempodox 1y ago
That makes perfect sense, since you’re meant to spend any additional time with the profit-generating pastimes you mentioned.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Video games have been responsible since their inception for everything the bigots don't like. That doesn’t make it true.
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by tempodox 1y ago
So if even those curmudgeons say sex is declining, there must be something to it.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Maybe this idiocy could be explained by the idea that the powers that be are more afraid of their own citizens than of any foreign threat.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Indeed. And besides that, all three are really bad parodies. Mort is the only one where the product actually works, because for him that’s an explicit goal. With the other two, a working product is mere coincidence.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Including browsers with built-in “AI” & MCP draining user’s bank accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846
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by tempodox 1y ago
> no software that has not been vetted can be run on this device That’s just it. Software isn’t being vetted. Witness all the scam apps in the iOS and Android app stores. Even paid developer accounts don’t stop people from publishing
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by tempodox 1y ago
Are you seriously comparing the self-serving decisions of a for-profit company with laws designed to protect people?
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by tempodox 1y ago
Having your opinions and personal remarks automated by “AI” sounds really smart.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Past mind control experiments have all failed, but there is hope!
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by tempodox 1y ago
That must have been the plan behind buying Twitter, even if not the Pentagon’s.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Agreed. I was just wondering about the reductive title, since the reals are a strict subset of the complex.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Praised be therefore William of Ockham. entia non sunt muliplicanda praeter necessitatem . Thou shalt not multiply entities beyond necessity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham
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by tempodox 1y ago
You mean, she didn’t create the complex numbers?
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by tempodox 1y ago
An “AI” that makes text “AI”-readable. How does that make any sense?
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by tempodox 1y ago
They are using a non-Arial font which already makes them better than 90% of what you see online.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Not propagating Trump’s lies is organized bias all right.
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by tempodox 1y ago
This seems to be another case of malicious compliance. What’s the point of an alternative app store when Apple can block every single app?
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by tempodox 1y ago
Not blocking an unconstitutional law _is_ denial of service by the Supreme Court (although DDoS referred to more than that).
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by tempodox 1y ago
Apart from the water in the hydraulic system this reads as though there is such a thing as too much automation. The plane being uncontrollable because you cannot convince it it’s not on the ground while it’s actually in the air can only le

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