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by troyvit 2y ago
They have more information at the link. This is an abstraction layer that allows anybody who is using OpenAI's API to use them instead, and they can point your API requests to any other LLM. This would be good for anybody using OpenAI
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by troyvit 2y ago
The title of this piece recommends cancelling Adobe. If anybody has, what are they cancelling to? Our organization uses their audio tools among other things, and they're used to the polish and convenience they get from Adobe products.
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by troyvit 2y ago
Penal colonies of course!
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by troyvit 2y ago
I mean honestly war is a fundamental part of human nature, and if we just got a little bit better at that we could solve the rest of our resource consumption issues quickly. Might be a little ancillary damage but you can't make an omel
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by troyvit 2y ago
Totally, which is why Colorado is producing less and less food. I mean towns sprouted up where people settled and people settled to grow food, so this has been happening in Colorado since farming began here. As a result the land left for fa
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by troyvit 2y ago
This innovator actually works for a nonprofit and guess what -- people don't want to pay for news, and those who did at one time are giving much less.[1] There are a few nonprofit models for social media, and they aren't making a
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Advertising needs to be purged, not embraced. I agree, but most people also also feel that content should be free. If content is free, but not ad supported, who pays the people to create it?
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by troyvit 2y ago
> To build transit that works you cannot value everyone's opinion equally and have to just make it happen. Yep.[1] The governor is _trying_ to build comprehensive transit in Colorado[2], but between an incompetent transportation dis
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by troyvit 2y ago
> The thing is that preventing "sharing" isn't sufficient. Exactly this. It doesn't matter that google doesn't "share" what they gather if they own so many conversion funnels from top to bottom anyway.
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by troyvit 2y ago
They could compromise and use car shuttles[1]. Then people could still get the joy of 5 lanes of gridlock on the 101. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_shuttle_train
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Google can't meaningfully improve their search without killing their profits and growth numbers. This is a really good point and might mark a dead end for google. Most of their money is made when people click off of search and lan
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by troyvit 2y ago
> As far as The Google is concerned, no one was seriously going to say "Just AltaVista it." And "Just Yahoo it" has an inherent awkwardness I can't describe. Even now in my kagi/duck-duck-go house, some of u
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by troyvit 2y ago
"they'resmall"
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by troyvit 2y ago
From an economics standpoint, does that make tech giants good, or does it make the US's GDP weaker since so much wealth is concentrated among so few players? I keep wanting to push back on whether GDP is the best way to measure an econ
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by troyvit 2y ago
Then I propose letting systemd hijack sudo's usefulness only on server installs.
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by troyvit 3y ago
As in: when I subscribe to the NYTimes Games app I also get a newspaper? (kidding!) When I look at their subscription page it just shows the paper and a few other bespoke properties like Wirecutter. ( https://www.nytimes.com/
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by troyvit 3y ago
My old journalism professor, Bob Woodword ("Not that one," he'd chuckle) would constantly chant "Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy" as he taught. I think he chose those words carefully because he recognized that while al
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by troyvit 3y ago
I had the same comment in a previous HN thread and somebody responded noting something along the lines of, "I remember seeing free newspapers and magazines everywhere, especially in coffee shops." There are a few nits to pick abou
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by troyvit 3y ago
I spend about half a second estimating. I think, eh that looks like about 30 lines so I'll go 30k. Then it's "oops I was off by 5 lines", so 5j (or jjjjj like you) and I'm there. Unfortunately if I land where I go o
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by troyvit 3y ago
Seems like a post on Medium is a little bit overkill when the answer is simply "Absolutely. Yes. No question. How could you think otherwise?" Is there some sort of micro-twitter they could've used instead?
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by troyvit 3y ago
Thanks for helping to clarify what we're talking about. I disagree with some of what you're saying, but I also see where you're coming from re: the convenience of passkeys in your pw manager.
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by troyvit 3y ago
I agree that it's not more vulnerable than just using a password, I'm only saying that it's only slightly less vulnerable under the best circumstances and incredibly more vulnerable under the worst circumstances (ie. if someb
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by troyvit 3y ago
This is my problem. We have 2 cars, a 2006 and a 2007. The time will come when we have to replace them. Right now I'm just hoping that industries like crate engines take off before that happens, because I don't personally believe
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by troyvit 3y ago
> Passkeys have no easy way to extract the private key and do not request to enter the private key to authenticate. Sure the do. All somebody needs is the password to your password manager. It's a single point of failure and by putt
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by troyvit 3y ago
I've had a link to OnlyKey's user guide bookmarked for about a year[1]. They're an open hardware company that offers a key. Despite that I still can't be bothered to go through with it. The article we're talking abo
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by troyvit 3y ago
Oooh good point. W3c accounts for it, and it's not that tough. Just a case of putting in the raw html: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H86.html
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by troyvit 3y ago
To me the real national security threat is that Americans don't know how to use social media safely. > The potential for abuse from the CCP on the minds of US users exists The exact same way Facebook and other U.S. social networks a
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by troyvit 3y ago
How well would tribbler work for disseminating content, such as a documentary, that might get a person jailed if they put it out on more mainstream social media?
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by troyvit 3y ago
I was going back through Pink Floyd's discography the other day and was reminded that The Wall was a four record album! And yeah I do think that exception proves your rule. They coulda trimmed that up a wee bit.
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by troyvit 3y ago
You're getting downvoted pretty heavily. Do you have sources for that? I did a quick search on Kagi and couldn't find anything to support what you say.

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