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philipdavis··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
Is this article written by AI?
philipdavis··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
didnt click Genuinely Just curious, did you write this with llm?
philipdavis··on How to earn a billion dollars
It’s more like only the true red families and their white gloves are allowed to be too rich.
philipdavis··on Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
i tried very hard to find a plugin that was deploying a Trojan but couldn’t find any. It looks to be a POC report. The title is so misleading and terrifying
philipdavis··on US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
When you wonder how much damage one person can do in 4 years...
philipdavis··on Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
nice! Here is trump speak

Input: i like burgers

Output: I love burgers, I really do. They’re fantastic, maybe the best food ever created, believe me. Nobody likes a great burger more than I do, it’s true.

philipdavis··on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
The MCP approach is brilliant! I've been solving the same friction problem from a different angle. I mostly use Anki to improve my vocabulary, and ended up building a tiny browser-side tool for myself (now called Wordwise / Anki Dictionary) that lets me double click any word on a webpage, get a clean definition + the sentence it appears in, and export it straight into Anki with one click.

It’s been a surprisingly good middle ground between fully manual cards and fully LLM dumps. If anyone’s curious: https://wordwise.me

philipdavis··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
It says ordinary people are sold AI, and billionaires are sold AGI
philipdavis··on Bored of It
I thought it was Trump
philipdavis··on Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
The badges are hilarious lol

career|saved stakeholders|impressed

philipdavis··on Layoffs Don't Work
Hmm Goldman has been trimming 5% or so every year, and looks they have been doing fine so far.
philipdavis··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
I feel only MAGA are happy & comfortable staying on X, voting for trump != maga

hence the question

philipdavis··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
I guess those smart, insightful people are staying on X because

- their targeting audience are on X

- they are rich and do not really care what the platform owner does

- they will be very happy to join the owner when offered such opportunities

For people who are the target audience of those people, I guess

- they voted for this, and they are happily watching the federal gov falling apart

- they convinced themselves that X is the place to grow / learn from smart and insightful people (I don't think one has to be on it for more than 10 min a day to grow & learn, unless one is a crypto trader)

- they convinced themselves that it is really nothing political about using X

philipdavis··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? What keeps you on the platform (so the owner is a tiny step closer to destroying your own country)?
philipdavis··on I built a lay-down desk
A phone is usually less than 200g, a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse
philipdavis··on When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
Question: do you think you will be arrested for doing the same thing if it was in your country? (A from myself: yes absolutely)