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qxnqd··on AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
Why justify it, when it's public money? It's free!
qxnqd··on Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime
I'd like to see a comparison of what you can get with $3000 in Tuvalu vs. what you can get with $30000 in Mississippi.
qxnqd··on Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?
Both take more or less the same time to show a page, they just pushed it from the backend (old reddit) to the frontend (new reddit), but I'd say it is equally slow.

I'll stick to old reddit so they pay the bill (literally) for their ineptitude.

qxnqd··on Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
Why does everything need to be archived? Why can't the stupid things I said 20 years ago in a forum just vanish someday?

(I never posted there but you get my point)

qxnqd··on An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows
Even to bugs that have already been fixed?
qxnqd··on The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
Yes, they share the room with the Facebook executives who worry about the HN users who will quit the social network.
qxnqd··on FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm
For the record, I didn't pretend to give medical advice at all.
qxnqd··on FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm
>Maxigesic. Tylenol and ibuprofen in one pill.

What's the point of this, compared to just having half a pill of tylenol and half a pill of ibuprofen?

qxnqd··on Systemd Opened Security Hole in Linux, VPNs Could Be Compromised
SystemD should not be as big as it is.
qxnqd··on Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
The thread is full of "Duolingo sucks, just use XXX instead", for a wide array of XXX alternatives. Now to pick a good XXX...
qxnqd··on Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
Don't forget to disable Javascript on your browser too.
qxnqd··on Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
I don't think they can be compared. Brave profiles (well, Chrome profiles) are basically different browsers. They share nothing. They can have different settings, they can run a different set of addons, etc.
qxnqd··on Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
Same. For me it combines the best of Chrome (speed) with the best of Firefox (privacy). In fact I'd argue it's like having "privacy.resistfingerprinting" on, but without as many sites breaking.
qxnqd··on Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
Brave blocks cross-site canvas by default under their "Device recognition" option. You can also block first-party canvas access.
qxnqd··on Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down
What's wrong with Anthony Noto? Honest question as I am not American and I don't know him at all. His article on Wikipedia doesn't seem to show any controversies.
qxnqd··on Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down
I don't blame them. I signed up in 2009 and I deleted my account a few years ago because, well... Twitter now is not what I signed up for. But I guess they have to move on. Things change, but that does not mean I have to like the changes.
qxnqd··on No to Chrome
That is opt-in.

Edge hasn't been released yet.

Vivaldi UI is a buggy and slow mess (I invite you to try it yourself)

qxnqd··on No to Chrome
I use it because I've written many filters for my favourite websites. Also you can use lists which can block even more things. In my case I've blocked all social network bullshit, including icons, share buttons, widgets, etc
qxnqd··on No to Chrome
Then go with Brave. They stripped out the Google bits, and they won't remove support for the current uBlock Origin ad blocker.
qxnqd··on No to Chrome
Try Safari and/or Brave
qxnqd··on No to Chrome
Berlin based? Where's the impressum then?
qxnqd··on No to Chrome
Who is behind this website?
qxnqd··on Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel
ITT: AMD apologists.

Sorry guys but Intel is still king of single core performance. But that's not a problem because I'm sure by 2050 most desktop applications and games will correctly make use of many cores, then AMD will reign

qxnqd··on Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon
on my own instance of Mastodon
qxnqd··on Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
You should see the KDE greeter, then. It looks like a bad joke.
qxnqd··on Americans want paid family leave and affordable child care, why can't we get it?
They don't, because if they did, they would vote for candidates which want to do that, but they don't.
qxnqd··on Is Arm ready for server dominance?
>Open source app? Compile it yourself! Which takes noticeably longer than x86 for me.

Heh, it's funny, right? I switched from an x86 server to an arm server and now it takes seconds and seconds to log me in using ssh. It's like the server really struggles when crunching numbers.

qxnqd··on Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying
Just leave the clutch pedal down all the time. Proven method
qxnqd··on Librem 5 USA
Looks odd on Brave on Windows https://i.imgur.com/rikvSNw.png
qxnqd··on Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats
They expect to make €850 million in exchange for tariffs from the US which will hurt the already battered primary and secondary sectors. A flawless plan.
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