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by zecg 1y ago
"Authentic conversations", with single-serving people provided as matches by an opaque algorithm based on short video vibes, this might as well have been mental health services in Mike Judge's Idiocracy.
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by zecg 1y ago
These are horrible two and a half backwards steps for usability but please talk to me about how your shitty bouba elements inspire emotion and communicate function. Fucking liars, what emotion is it suppose to inspire that bluetooth is now
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by zecg 1y ago
This is just shit, a horrible redesign. I'd much rather "truly express" myself by keeping high information density in the user interface instead of picking color palettes for this trendy "bouba" bullshit. It's
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by zecg 2y ago
> AI is more or less the same thing — it uses our wonder to convince us of a simulacrum of intelligence when what we are really witnessing is, in a sense, our own childish excitement at a trick of anthropomorphisation This claim would st
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by zecg 2y ago
How is seeing 7 entries without scrolling better than seeing 20+
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by zecg 2y ago
You don't have to use any DNS features, Rethink will happily let you set your DNS resolvers to whatever you like, you can just use it as an on-device VPN that allows you to block or isolate everything per app or per connection.
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by zecg 2y ago
I have doubled my battery life on Moto Edge with Rethink DNS, blocking everything per app. There's so much junk I don't want to phone home that tries 50 times a day.
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by zecg 2y ago
> Nobody will pay for a browser. I would, if they offered a payment-only access to Firefox with no added services and no telemetry whatsoever. I'd pay 50€ a year for that.
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by zecg 2y ago
I'd pay $50 yearly if they're willing to just work on the browser and remove their added value services and any telemetry.
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by zecg 2y ago
Are we reading the same thing? They removed: > We believe the internet is for people, not profit. Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data. and instead there's vague weaseling > doesn’t sell data about you (in th
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by zecg 2y ago
If you thought HP's crapware was insultingly bad before, wait until they start putting some 8b models trained on their marketing bullshit to helpfully shill wherever a sidebar can be planted.
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by zecg 2y ago
signal.me links are used to join (and advertise) Signal groups
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by zecg 2y ago
About as salient as the style of shoes he preferred.
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by zecg 2y ago
I can't believe someone thought this will be a sustainable business bringing in money.
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by zecg 2y ago
Yeah, fuck off, Mozilla. I don't want ads and will not see ads. I don't care if all the content that requires money goes away. In fact, I would prefer it. You fucked up big time when you opted me into your "virginity preservi
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by zecg 2y ago
> “One of the key factors for the lower-than-expected demand for the iPhone 16 Pro series is that the major selling point, Apple Intelligence, is not available at launch alongside the iPhone 16 release,” Kuo said. Well, I might be the mi
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by zecg 2y ago
There's this https://explorerplusplus.com/
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by zecg 2y ago
> How is this different from being manipulated in the same manner by a human? It can be done at scale for very little. I'm not touching AI because I can't know its biases, it can be enshittified and advertise without the user n
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by zecg 2y ago
> I'm very bullish on genAI, and I bought the new phone, but I really don't think the features shown are that exciting yet. It feels like they're laying the groundwork for more powerful AI to be ready to do things in your
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by zecg 2y ago
The batch editing is also handy
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by zecg 2y ago
Absolutely horrible once again, great job Mozilla. Sharing on Android is so fucked, btw., that the only way I ever do it is by grabbing the URL, which seems to be more difficult than ever. I hope this bullshit is toggleable in Fennec.
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by zecg 2y ago
> when you die, you’ll probably remember Is this vacuous clickbait written by AI?
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by zecg 2y ago
> I go to great lengths to avoid advertising. It's a skill issue then, I do that too with resounding success, I haven't seen an ad in decades, either on pc or android. I don't use apps which have ads and only use browsers
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by zecg 2y ago
Once again, it's opt out.
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by zecg 2y ago
> The study said only about 5% of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, and by 2040, there could be some 8 million tons of lithium-ion battery waste. That can't be true?
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by zecg 2y ago
Did Airbnb write this?
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by zecg 2y ago
Just discard images and have the LLM describe them on the other side.
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by zecg 2y ago
Made by a by a two-bit company that...
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by zecg 2y ago
These fuckers are about to go to war with all the hackers in the EU
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by zecg 2y ago
> however if you heard it on the radio Which I never listen to. There's no way for AI music to find me unless it creates something extraordinary that I will seek. And in my humble opinion AI is much better at image generation than m

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