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antifa··on Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
I have a feeling most people rushing to be first in line to freeze themselves for non-terminal-illness-reasons are probably not high productivity individuals.
antifa··on Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
A botnet that shows no evidence of saturating my CPU, RAM, disk, network? OK fine then.

Most malware these days does things like demand bitcoin, popup ads, or upload your files to the cloud without your consent.

If I've actually unknowingly downloaded a virus, it's honestly less malevolent than the paid version.

antifa··on Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
> I ran some benchmarks and the Go variants (traefik, caddy) eat a lot of memory per conn.

I'm pretty annoyed with how many people on HN are shouting in every thread "caddy is soon much better!" and the only material benefit to caddy I can glean from these threads is that it's easier for noobs. Which, to be clear, as far as I can tell, it does a good job of that and will probably win the next decade over nginx for that reason alone, but nginx really isn't that hard to set up, and I'm surprised there isn't so much push back against the pro-caddy narrative. It's just an uphill battle for an application written in golang to be faster than a mature application written in C. Obviously I will continue to use nginx until hard evidence of on-par performance is published, but at the same time I'm more likely to hold out for a competitor written in rust.

antifa··on Ozempic and Wegovy Might Be Supercharging Your Taste Buds
Sadly, I've noticed that since covid started, a lot of places stopped having unsweetened tea. It appears to also correlate with the arrival of freestyle machines, which often have full sugar tea and diet sweetened tea options, but sadly unsweetened tea is disappearing.
antifa··on Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it wasn't
"I have a friend who didn't want to travel, therefore most people just don't want to travel."
antifa··on Russia says it isn't bluffing over threats to use nuclear weapons
> By definition they cannot escalate

By definition, they literally can escalate and have a wide variety of escalating options, I have no idea why you'd go all in on a word without knowing what it means.

antifa··on Sony Will Use AI to Cut Film Costs, Says CEO Tony Vinciquerra
Can't wait for Sony to be the only high profile publisher that makes films where people can tell AI was used.
antifa··on Unpopular opinion: you should copy/fork/DIY your dependencies for everything
An ancient version of svelte/sapper did something like this to me. I was pinning my versions correctly. A year or 2 later, I needed to make a one line change to my project. I was on a new computer. Neither my computer nor the existing netlify autodeploy could successfully build my project. Luckily, it was tiny enough to remake in any fresh SPA framework in less than an hour.

Usually, this happens with any tutorial/blog that tells you to pip/npm install and doesn't specify an exact version or provide a pinned package.json. if it's a year old, it almost always won't work without estimating what version of X was likely published at the time of blog entry.

antifa··on Unpopular opinion: you should copy/fork/DIY your dependencies for everything
> JS canvas library

Is that publicly available anywhere?

antifa··on Priced out of home ownership
Irrelevant, the problem is runaway inequality, not general inequality.
antifa··on PcTattletale leaks victims' screen recordings to entire Internet
They're just derailing to what about their unrelated political grandstand.
antifa··on Teacher Did All He Could to Keep Kids Off Phones. He's Quitting in Frustration
Ignoring all the psychologists and engineers being paid 6 figure salary to siphon your peers attention to sell ads, I wouldn't be surprised if your peers had several undiagnosed and easily accommodated attention disorders their parents don't believe in.
antifa··on Veo
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antifa··on Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
What happens when I need to search a term that's outside the scope of topics that my followees are trusted for? Then it's a spammer free-for-all?
antifa··on Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
> human can tell you "I have no idea, this isn't my field" or "I'm just guessing here"

I wish more of them would lol

antifa··on &udm=14 – easy access to an AI-free Google search
Either they are annoyed that everything claims to be fast, or they prefer slow bloated software.
antifa··on We're ending our Samsung collaboration
I'm going to buy a case for any phone regardless of how many gorilla's they promise are in the phone.
antifa··on Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes
I wouldn't br surprised if the macs hardware were still better for local LLMs and other AIs tho.
antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
The corporate marketing vanguard that picks winners in the gaming industry is almost entirely dedicated to microtransactions, pay to win, pay walls, subscriptions, and battle passes.

Inorganicly chosen winners is a problem, but in the music industry, the end product itself doesn't exploit the listener beyond just that.

antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
Do you consider the civilization series popular? It seems people put up with that.
antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
I got a buddy who is making an AW2-like and was exploring procedurally generated gameplay modes (including co-op), not sure if they'll use this new AI thing or not.
antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
I can't think of any high effort, non-cash-grabs, non-asset-flips that were dragged through the mud for using AI.
antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
System Prompt: You are a helpful crew member for the user's space vessel. You attempt to follow every detail of every command the user provides or question the user asks. If any detail is left ambiguous or unspecified, assume the worst possible interpretation.
antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
That probably involves more of a corporate marketing vanguard that picks winners more so than it organicly finds them.
antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
These days any time I ask an AI to fix something, it starts over from scratch and some random detail falls off the back of the prompt truck.
antifa··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
> you will never be able to fix it.

I don't know about the article's studio specifically, but regarding AI game engines, I'm mostly worried you won't be able to make engine edits, or the engine will only be able to make an extremely narrow subset of games, or exiting the WYSIWYG/SaaS means starting over from scratch. If the engine targets a specific genre, it could cause a flood of low effort garbage. Some genres are already flooded because the easier game engines have tutorials and asset packs for them.

antifa··on Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
For budgeting purposes, I'm trying to amortize the cost of freespeech. Twitter keeps it simple, free speech is $8/month there. How much do you think I should budget monthly/yearly for account suspension appeals? Do you plan on offering a subscription option?
antifa··on What's the most radical book you've read?
> The suggestion that one can have a direct relationship with God tends to annoy those in power

Weird because you can have a direct relationship with God is a very popular outspoken opinion among those in power and also something most Americans are taught at a young age, seems strange to call one of the most popular religious opinions "radical".

antifa··on Overbite Project: Why still use Gopher? What makes Gopher relevant?
Is it possible to browse a forum and post/reply to comments on gopher/gemini? I saw a debate where one party insisted it was possible and supported, but no one was willing to provide evidence like documentation or code samples.
antifa··on Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users
> No, anonymizing the comment doesn't count.

It would be nice if HN, or literally anyone, offered that option.

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