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627467··on France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)
Maybe also prohibit legislation that protects excess/longterm promises too? Promises are cheap enforcement of promises cost money too.
627467··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
> By that logic human thought is just electrochemical signals propagating through neural networks.

This argument keeps getting rehashed. The point is not the signal. The point is where/how the signal travels which in the human is affect by much more than whatever concept that can be represented by words.

627467··on A farewell to Arc browser
I tried supasidebar for like a week, then used helium for month. In the past month I've settled on search with vimium: https://officecommun.com/search
627467··on Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest
A lot = most?

I agree with "alot", but i doubt most "hate". Hate is a strong word/emotion that gets thrown around easily for sensationalist or propaganda purposes. Is this an "appeal to hate" argument?

Most people have more going on in their lives than to have chance to hate abstract things.

For most people AI are search results in "human" speech presentation. Or slightly more sophisticated customer service bot. Or the latest form of personalized clipart generator for their group chats.

For most people experiencing AI is not (yet) beyond the experience clash of going from nokia 3310 to a multicamera, ig/fb/doomscroll filled iPhone. Are they seeing much more "slop" in their doomscroll than in 2021? I'd argue not. Social media has been filled with low quality engagement triggering slop way before chatgpt.

627467··on How the Claude Code team does code review
> You then have to invest an imbalanced amount of time to understand and fix the issue vs the time it took to generate the code.

Obviously no amount of training will make AI human but: how is this different from you being the leader of a team whose output you own and are accountable for?

627467··on Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis
> Raising incomes to combat affordability problems is far better for everyone involved than lowering prices artificially.

This has been tried in many latam countries in the past 15-20years with Inflation expectations getting out of control as result

627467··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
You have to measure and compare the interdependence then aim for interdependence be balanced. Or you're back to where we are.
627467··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
> In the country where they live

When people outsource everything this is what happens

627467··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Why deflecting from the implicit question? Why is european ASML incapable of finding fellow european buyers - among 27 strong nations and 500M people?
627467··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
> You don't have to be exclusively one race to be a unique country

You don't. You also dont have to NOT be a homogenous country to be a unique country. Or you dont event have to be unique to be a country.

Bhutan doesn't get as much flack for strict migration policies.

627467··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
And ironically, not Japan.
627467··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
If different words exists why insist in making "creative" use of the wrong word?

Your local monopoly of water provider charges a fee not a tax (although many collect taxes on behalf of the state that sanctions the monopoly)

Platform apps stores tend to be a monopoly (specially in iOS case) and that decreases incentive to provide a decent service/product to their customers who hate that fact - not because customer have no representation.

I never submitted an app to play store but knowing how Google handles app customers (or any customer of their services/products) its believable that app devs are shafted too. I personally wonder if there's any differentiated service level between an app that results in revenue for Google vs one that is 100% free. I'd be pissed if my 15% fee is not buying me priority over the latest adware filled flashlight app

627467··on How to Write with an LLM
> I still, while reading, am checking for any amount of AI used

Im sorry for you. It must be hard to detach yourself with a fixation. I also cant help but spend my attention spotting where the magician is hiding the coin instead of trying to enjoy the show

> If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it?

Most people in these threads repeat this question. As if pre-ai all writing was from deep thinkers full of genuine intention.

627467··on Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
True.. but now you have more devices to have to secure against attacks...

Edit: this "feature" did save me when my home hosted vaultwarden died due to hdd failure.

627467··on A warning about 'model welfare'
Surely it is a sign of societal decadence that the idea of "ai" welfare/rights is even being entertained anywhere outside of fiction or standup comedy
627467··on Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
I'm curious that every time BS buys up some we hear about all the criticism of them and never the funding/management model thay has powered saas for the past 15-20years.

Its not like they are making high payout in the purchases. They are snatching assets off weak hands (management, investors) who has no interest or idea on how to make their operations work.

627467··on Getting your hands dirty is good for you
GTD, lifehacking, quantified self... all coolness of the 2000s biting us hard now
627467··on Why I'm Not Excited About the Graphene OS and Motorola Partnership
Is it a fact that when these devices come the process to unlock will remain the same?
627467··on OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem
I for one am excited to see the return of secret and hermetical societies to counter this idea of information scrapping
627467··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
I assume there's a financial cost for doing this? I assume gold reserves in others coffers act as collateral so having them at home makes them a lot less useful financially useful?
627467··on GrapheneOS may skip Pixel 11 over missing hardware security feature
Trending (again) on the day they say they may support pixel 11 after all: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117179231167297908
627467··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
Works for me. Is this a geo-restriction?
627467··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
This has always been an option pre-AI (block MS, block Google, etc). They never done that before why would they do that now?
627467··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
> repeatedly broke in to a room

> rotated his MAC address

Do you really think these details drastically change how people should judge his actions vs those of a corporation?

627467··on Norway should buy OpenAI
Where you happen to be born is the only criteria for population diversity?
627467··on Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?
> EDIT: and another thing! human interaction here focuses entirely on the living and the related. Why? Human connection can span all of humanity. And it should

You don't think society has mostly trended towards "everyone but those nearest to us"? You dont think solitude is related to this? Or antisocial behavior and opinions?

627467··on Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request
How do you know it's low paid? Why not tip 100%? You seem very certain about parent invalid reason as well as your own assumptions. Please enlighten us
627467··on Grok Bot
What's the difference between this and how its been done till now?

When sourcing you'd typical prepare a same request and email the supliers similarly looking emails and they - if interest on business - would respond and start a back and forth.

If anything now there will be more business. Filtering and triaging was always an issue you'd have to deal with and if the cost of dealing with small order is too high you just stop taking those and filter out large orders

627467··on I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
> backlash is good

Because pre-AI, slop didnt exist? At least in the past meaningful criticism involved much more than name calling. I guess criticism slop is a natural progression and matches low effort creative slop. 0 moral higher ground

AI slop accusations are tiring, spammy, and most of the time without any evidence to back it up other than prejudice and bad attitude[0]

[0] https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1163/authenticity-problem

627467··on Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Id argue the true source of poor culture is this globalized bland/blended talking points and memes that propagate 24/7/365 over multimedia comunication. Boring "hipster" cafes found in burkina faso and new york is just one manifestation of this.
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