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Almost certainly /s. "Danke Merkel" ("Thanks Merkel") was once a sincere criticism from conservatives regarding her policies (esp. during 2015 refugee crisis), but it quickly evolved into a sarcastic, deadpan joke used to blame her for literally anything that goes wrong in daily Germany - even years after she left. Interesting phenomenon...

Tbh, I like it!

Yes, crypto has a bad taste. But from my pov, the research paper situation is so broken, that anything that improves upon the status quo is highly welcomed.

But I'm with you with the penalties. Maybe they can add an option to forfeit the tokens to sci-net instead.

I think you right. But researchers can upload their own papers. Seem to require a paying requester and the researcher has to notice the request.

I understand the confusion as I was confused myself for the same reason. I also attributed that to my english language level.

But I think they just used title-case[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

While I'm sure the new Gemini model has made improvements, I feel like the user experience outside of the model itself is stagnating. I think OpenAI's interfaces, both web app and mobile app, are quite a bit more polished currently. For example, Gemini's speech recognition struggles with longer pauses and often enough cuts me off mid-sentence. Also, OpenAIs whisper model understands more context (for instance, saying “[...] plex, emby and Jellyfin [...]” is usually understood in whisper, but less often in Gemini) The Gemini web app lacks keyboard shortcuts for basic actions like opening a new chat or toggling the sidebar (good for privacy friendly pair programming). Last point off the top of my head would be the ability to edit messages beyond just the last one. That's possible in ChatGPT, but not in Gemini. Googlers are spending so much money for model training, I would appreciate spending some for making it fun to use :)

I'm not sure why others have problems, but I love it!

Once, in a similar situation, I had the thought that "somebody should build that" and never imagined that somebody actually would.

With your tool, I learned that our home is better located than I thought and that there are many places more downtown that would be worse for me and my wife (bc of highways and good public transport connections).

I will show this some friends! Thanks!

> I'd strongly recommend trying a framework other than React for your next project.

This gave me a good chuckle (if you read it as next.js)

The Firefox Mobile (Android) page is really slow which is ironic as they advertise speed prominently. iOS Safari and Android Chrome work great though...

I use "HighlightAll by Jerome Goudey". If you use this, you might have to tweak your addon preferences. I have set "Always enabled", "Native Highlighting" (without whitespace) and a minimum number of characters of 2. Nothing else is selected for me.

Yeah, it's to prevent click-hijacking (correct term?). I assassed the risk as very minimal.

My two cents for FF about:config changes:

1. disable Fullscreen "XY is now Fullscreen" text. Set full-screen-api.warning.timeout to 0 2. disable Alt key: set ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses to false 3. don't select space after double clicking a word (together with auto highlight selection addon very nice for skimming code in browser like GH): set layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word to false 4. reduce forced wait when downloading a file (Download button in small FF-modal takes time to enable/activate, hard to explain, but annoying) : set security.dialog_enable_delay to 300ms 5. disable "This Connection is not Secure" Warning in (for pages like fritz.box together with XCkeepass very annoying) security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled

I like the human-relatable story behind it. I think many kids experience a similar situation that sparks this life lesson.

My younger self condemned my father's printer as "dumb" for printing a multi-page print job in reverse order. It took me a couple days to understand it does that so that you have them sorted once you pick them up (printed side was up). By that time I also have already publicly declared the stupidity of that printer. I think the shame after my enlightment deepened this life lesson.

I think so, yes. I could also imagine that business people: 1. see effort in integrating Slack/Matrix/.. . into their landscape 2. think MS is a big name and thus will build a proper product 3. see no big difference in terms of functionality.

While scrolling, the web page shifts up a couple dozens of pixels (Android, Firefox) . It's very annoying. I had to stop reading after the second paragraph.

Am I the only one?

The fight against facial recognition will be a back and forth between the facial recognition itself and algorithms trying to prevent it (like this one). One issue is that parties using facial recognition have a big advantage: They can run new algorithms against old pictures.

Tools like these might be useful in some cases, like preventing stalking _right now_, but can't (sadly) guarantee a prevention in any way for the future.

I assume this tool will be marketed differently.

For completeness sake: The BTC network is, by design, setting the difficulty of mining a new block so that its 10 min on avg. Currently there fitting ~2200 transactions in one block [0].

That makes 3.6667 transactions per second. BTC needs a hard fork in order to increase this dramatically.

So you were actually quite generous with 10 transactions per second...

[0] "Blockchain Charts" https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions-per-block

The problem is not the option to place cookies per se. The issue is its misuse which aims to de-anonymize users (in order to place ads). I don't see how saving the user data somewhere else (in a browser add-on or in the browser natively) is helping here.

EDIT: The official description [https://github.com/WICG/floc], does a better job in explaining the point. They try to cluster (="cohort") users interests and exchange that with the ad-service. This could maybe help to increase transparency and authority over your data as it's saved locally. But I don't see a way to limit the access to the users cohorts (they even say that themself, see link above). Everybody could access my interests - not just Google and other ad services. And of course, if you have 1000 categories and some meta information (region based on IP address etc.), you will be able to track down individual users with pretty good accuracy.