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Need to try it here, dorry for OT: Does anyone know investors in europe looking to fund something a little moonshotty? What i've been working on is fundamentally "calm" at it's core, yet more advanced tech.

Happy for any input (don't think VC is the route to go).

I have a very simple bash function for this (filecontens), including ignoring files based on gitignore & binary files etc. Piped to clipboard and done.

All these other ways seem unnecessarily complicated...

If you send me an unwanted newsletter or marketing-email, you'll receive multiple AI generated fake support tickets from various email addresses, every couple of days.

I'm 100% in the third camp.

> These tech parents are hackers by nature

Why? Being in tech doesn't make you a hacker. Most people, even very talented engineers, are still happy to follow boss, do a 9 to 5, and don't really bend or break the rules... they don't go against the elite. They see themselves as the elite.

Damn, now that i read my "sure it wasn't you" it seems as if it was meant sarcastically. Just to be clear: it was not. I really appreciate your reply & just wanted to make clear that i know you didn't flag me. I don't think a person responding that well & nicely would flag my kinda comment.

Anyway, good day my friend in another universe!

I'd guess the classname "hide-visually" is not the best, trying to fool an LLM. I'd try "most-important" or "summary" and things alike. And the amount of red herrings should probably exceed the actual content. Probably not good for actual instruction-injection, but at least for confusing an LLM.

Great replay, thanks. Also i actually wanted to write more to explain my point.

And in no way was i trying to say he isn't greedy, egotistical or a tyrant. My point was not about his methods nor his person.

I believe if more people acted like him it wouldn't be as bad for (F)OSS compared to how it would be if (even) more companies base their whole existence on specific OSS but never give back or support.

Not sure why i got flagged though. downvotes i expected, but flagged? Sure it wasn't you.

Thanks tiktok.

When you say "it worked" referring to you downloading big files to generate cost for Hertz, it mean you told them you were doing this and would stop if they remove you from the mailing list?

"Congrats to being a slave to the capitalist system"

> congrats on wrapping ffmpeg and charging for it!

I doubt that people who are capable of using ffmpeg are the target group here.

> but on the internet you don't have to say anything and if you do it may as well have some substance

Seems like we're using different internets. Which i am glad about. I just wish mine had less of the negativity that's coming over from yours. Guess in the end, the people on your internet realize, it's more fun over here.

You could have expressed all of that with less maliciousness towards the person. Thank god, in my internet everyone can say whatever they want f they want. Because– and more people should remember this apparently– if i don't like it, i just turn off the internet, like grandma!

Wish all the best to you and everyone you care about in real life. I might be just a bot. You might be. We'll never know for certain. Don't let some bits mess with your feels.

As likeabatterycar said, it's about avoiding anti trust / monopoly issues. Just imagine mozilla died and google had to cut lose chrome. That would really be interesting.

> My feelings about this very much hinge on whether or not it is in fact the original creator of the theme who gets paid for it. If so? Fair enough, a very small ask for a very useful thing. If not? Fuck your own face.

OPs HN profile says: "Author of the original Monokai color scheme and its successor https://monokai.pro"

So i guess, not his face to be f*@%#!

Sometimes it's worth to invest minimal effort into "research" before commenting aggressively.

Genius idea. There must be one of these gui git clients that work like that.

> The minute Mozilla starts being relevant in search, Google will cut their billions USD/year sponsorship, killing Mozilla in the process. The incentives are not there.

Google needs mozilla more than anyone. It would be a big win for the web if google stopped financing mozilla and had to deal with the consequences.

> Everyone should start doing this. Once the AI companies engorge themselves on enough garbage and start to see a negative impact to their own products, they'll stop running up your traffic bills

Or just wait for after the AI flood has peaked & most easily scrapable content has been AI generated (or at least modified).

We should seriously start discussing the future of the public web & how to not leave it to big tech before it's too late. It's a small part of something i am working on, but not central. So i haven't spend enough time to have great answers. If anyone reading this seriously cares, i am waiting desperately to exchange thoughts & approaches on this.

Serious question, super OT but i've wanted to ask this someone who works non-trivial fields like you for a long time: Have you ever used a LLM for something relevant to your work?

Well obviously you didn't get it... anyway, thanks for the downvotes.

Unfortunately some sites make it hard to get past the headline with their banners (and ads) for me. So i won't know what he ought to create awareness for.

Well, haven't you heard? The issue with your analogy is: you don't own your data.

(One might argue that it's similar with "your" money ((in the bank)) , but that's not the point)

I understand the overall contrast you're sketching here. But can you elaborate on

> typing or even thinking is itself a finished product

Any specific examples where you notice the difference?

i was thinking rather the meet HN would summarize for all cities, or in the comments or whatever. or just link to a overview site on meet.hn. but anyway, as i said: just random thoughts that were the first ones to go through my mind. might help coming up with better ideas.

Random thought(s): A monthly "Meet HN" post– for each area (per city might be too small?) decide a public location & time and list it.

Or: Maybe one (random) person of that area gets to decide a meeting time & location.

Or: each person can put a location in their profile and a bot will pick the location (randomly or by "count")

I imagine someone sitting with a "jesus was a velociraptor– change my mind" sign somewhere on a college campus.

I was wondering what about that comment offended you that much to assume OP is "nazi russophobe".

The only thing i could think of that might be much more offensive than i interpret it, would be the "genetically preconditioned". To me, the "almost" made it seem like a figure of speech, an obvious exaggeration. Not that OP actually thinks that there is something up with the genom. But considering the bad things people say about russian people, and how it seems to have become totally acceptable for many to discriminate based on nationality, i can see how either i, as a non-russian person, might not be sensitive enough for the wording here, or, how russians are extra sensitive.

In case my comment seems provocative, it is not meant like that at all. I want to learn about your honest perspective.

> Modern cars are just smartphones on wheels at this point, and smartphones are just spying devices at this point.

Exactly. I saw a clip of an elon musk interview where he was asked if tesla would ever build a smartphone. I had to chuckle and think to myself, they already do. It just doesn't fit in your pocket, has wheels and actually tries to kill you physically.

I have built a dumb internal service for this that i have been using for more than a year now. And just today i've thought about turning it into a simple product, as i am in need to finance the work on my actual product. Then i saw this Show HN & then your comment. Which makes me wonder: how would you use such a service "occasionally"? And what would be your pricing expectation?

cool ideas! I am especially into these type of workarounds like your e-mail forwarding workaround. I've written services for myself based in similar ideas some time ago. Have you done more things like that?

> Keeping one's sanity away from the side effects of tech these days is quite a technical job, somehow

Disappointing, right? We are working on something to change this & take a different path into a technological future. Right now we are running out of cash (bootstrapped) & need to find ways to stay alive...

I have a feeling that it would be great to talk to you, after i've ensured survival.