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hosteur··on [dead]
So this post is just spam?

Else you might want to use show HN.

hosteur··on Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function
Why would using your teeth for their primary purpose require extensive dental work?
hosteur··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
> After disabling Apple Intelligence when you do the next mini update to 15.3.1 Apple intelligence is enabled.

This should be criminal. And I believe it might actually be criminal in EU.

hosteur··on About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
I fear it will become a huge deal. At some point, Google and/or cloudflare might decide that Firefox is not allowed. This decision becomes harder to make the more people are using Firefox.

In a way, every time a Firefox user-agent string is logged it is a sort of vote for a more open web.

hosteur··on About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
Yeah, an odd coincidence, right?
hosteur··on About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
> but I guess if that stops working it's on to Firefox.

It will stop working. Why not get ahead of the curve and move to Firefox now?

hosteur··on About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
Relevant now as Chrome recently started force-removing/disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome.

(at least is has been force-removed on one of my machines. On another machine, it hasn't happened yet)

hosteur··on About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
In the beginning there will likely be bad ones that are obvious to spot like explicitly pushing products or services relating to the prompt.

Soon, I expect them to be almost invisible. The LLM will gently be nudging the user towards some products rather than others.

For example, let's say a user asks how to do X. The LLM could then respond with an itemised list of steps to accomplish X. But the steps might involve doing it in a way that would later require services from some company.

Obviously, there is a potential to do this in ways we cannot even imagine yet.

Blocking it using traditional adblocking technologies like uBO will not be possible.

Only solution I see is to run trusted LLMs locally. But it will require some sort of "open source"-like trusted training of those LLMs. I think we need a movement similar to what gave us Wikipedia and Free software in the 90s/00s.

hosteur··on About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
> The development of Firefox costs around half a billion $ per year.

Are you sure that USD 500 million goes into the development of Firefox each year? Or does it go to funding of questionable Mozilla Foundation projects?

Admittedly, I have not checked the numbers recently but last I looked into it I got the impression that Firefox development was an embarrassingly small amount of what Mozilla spends their money on.

hosteur··on A compendium of "open-source" licenses
While I understand these are mostly jokes, I do not like the racist and sexist one.
hosteur··on But good sir, what is electricity?
When does anything really touch?
hosteur··on The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86 [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_%2786
hosteur··on Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks
Care to elaborate on what they meant by that?
hosteur··on It Was the Programming Language of the Future – So Why Is Nobody Using It? [video]
tl;dw - it is about the programming language Actor. Why is no-one using it today? It was discontinued in 90s and outcompeted by Visual Basic and Delphi.
hosteur··on Apple Maps Might Start Showing Ads
What a bummer. It recently started being a good Map app. I guess apple is really starting to go down a bad path what with their AI stuff etc.
hosteur··on Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
Wow this is a clever trick.
hosteur··on Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence
Number of users AI users is someone's bonus target.
hosteur··on Apple Explains How to Keep Your Mac from Turning on When Opening Lid
Just what I needed!
hosteur··on Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
What makes this better than tcpdump/wireshark?
hosteur··on Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery
Perhaps related to this? https://www.reddit.com/r/oracle/comments/1hsjxz9/oci_what_ac...
hosteur··on Nobody cares
How would a better solution to the bike lane cost more tax or worsen situation for drivers?
hosteur··on Perplexity got ads
Well, 29K subscribers is quite alright considering that they are not doing any ads. So their marketing is largely word of mouth as I understand it.

Of course, they are not going to grow to the level of FANG with this approach but do they have to?

I am a very happy Kagi subscriber myself. And I loathe when I have to wade through SEO spam sites on the few occasions where I have to use Google, Bing, etc. due to being on someone else's computer.

hosteur··on My Time Working at Stripe
Probably because of the power asymmetry.
hosteur··on Phrase matching in Marginalia Search
Always nice to see updates on marginalia.
hosteur··on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
This should be illegal
hosteur··on Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious?
I thought reiserfs was abandoned.
hosteur··on Yi-Coder: A Small but Mighty LLM for Code
You should try GPT4all. It seems to be exactly what you’re asking for.
hosteur··on Okay, I Like WezTerm
I just want to say that I love your color themes! Would love one for Konsole and Sublime Text.
hosteur··on Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers
Why do tech savvy people still use a browser from an ad company?
hosteur··on Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement
> This isn't just defcon, this is how every company acts these days.

Does not make it less racist.

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