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as a Cloudflare customer, I am happy with their proposition. I personally do not want companies like Perplexity that fake their user-agent and ignore my robots.txt to trespass.

and isn't this why people sign up with Cloudflare in the first place? for bot protection? to me, this is just the same, but with agents.

i love the idea of an open internet, but this requires all party to be honest. a company like Perplexity that fakes their user-agent to get around blocks disrespects that idea.

my attitude towards agents is positive. if a user used an LLM to access my websites and web apps, i'm all for it. but the LLM providers must disclose who they are - that they are OpenAI, Google, Meta, or the snake oil company Perplexity

i'm curious, what's the worst-case scenario if one were to put their whole DNA data exposed publicly? would a future civilization re-make your image? or are there societal benefits?

i love small apps like these

just a feedback: app becomes super laggy when you try to edit a gif. if you do make a fix, can you share the solution here in the reply? i too struggle with it in some of my apps haha

also, i can't find the button to reset the canvas so i can upload again

majority of Filipinos DO NOT speak like that. the Filipino actors in the demo particularly perform a caricature of a what a Filipino sounds like that's exaggerated. i know for a fact the actors don't speak like that in real life.

in professional settings, Filipinos are known for a lack of accent. they are more known for mispronouncing words that are commonly accepted in Filipino-English.

i feel like it should be the other way around. accents should be converted FOR the caller or call center.

callers can be trained to speak a certain way. but it's more difficult for them to develop the "ear" to understand accents from other nationals.

there was a better LinkedIn, it was called Read.cv. unfortunately, they've been bought by Perplexity (which is a shame because Read.cv is a perfect product while Perplexity is snake oil)

i wish they picked a more unique name. to me, it just seems like they're a copycat by picking a name that's a synonym - or at least of the same nature - of the word "Discord"

same with the streaming platforms Twitch and Kick

looking at their UI, it's the exact same UI as Discord. no improvements while also inheriting the same flaws that make using Discord neurotic

i'd love to be able to build web servers in Swift. the language is such a joy to use

getting tired of these blog posts that end with "this post is AI-generated" as if it's going to surprise us. it's getting repetitive. imo, articles should be prefaced if they're ai generated or not to make the reader not feel stupid after reading the whole thing

with that said, i love the content! will be bookmarking for future reference

there's truth to your two statements. if not the CCP, then another foreign adversary.

The Guardian is notorious for being biased against Israel, along with other news organizations like the New York Times and even the BBC.

The UN and other organizations like Amnesty International are openly biased against Israel.

there are good people working in those organizations. and i genuinely believe people who work there want to do good in the world.

but there's no denying that those organizations they work for are compromised.

i looked at your profile and just doing a ctrl + f on pages 1 and 2, there's 82 mentions of the word "Israel"

why are you so obsessed with the State of Israel? and i thought i was a superfan of Israel

do you seriously believe Israel is behind the TikTok ban (as you claimed in your other comment)?

and do you seriously believe there are Hasbara in HN? most people in HN are anti-Israel

THANK YOU!

you articulated it perfectly

the issue is not that tiktok harvests user data, not free speech, not that China is refuses to let US counterparts operate in China - the issue is, TikTok is an insidious propaganda machine that influences our your people, and entire generation, to abandon their values and replace them with views favorable to the CCP

daily, hourly, and each minute young people interact with TikTok, they're influenced by a foreign adversary.

it's telling them Ukraine is the actual aggressor, that Putin is "based", that China is a paradise, that the West is falling, that China has a valid claim on all the maritime disputes, among other things that are non-truths

i owe the rise of antisemitism among young people to TikTok. young people who otherwise do not hold a negative opinion towards Israel suddenly became anti-Israel and hold hatred towards Jews

i have experienced the above first-hand. my account doesn't interact with any current affairs, yet I am bombarded with anti-Israel narratives. there are thousands - yes, thousands - of antisemitic comments and replies under each video. and young people read them and think it's normal - that it's normal to think this way and say such things at loud

i reported hundreds of such comments. all my reports, according to TikTok, did not violate their "community standards". instead, my replies to those comments were removed for violating their "community standards"

(to the people who'll say it's not true, i have data to back it up, and i can send a link to a huggingface repo that contains the dataset)

it is clear pro-CCP and CCP-aligned views are promoted while others are supressed.

i live in a country with tensions with China, and my TikTok FYP page is flooded with pro-CCP narratives and narratives that suggest my country is weak and hopeless

TikTok is a national security issue. it's not enough the TikTok divests from China. it must be banned for the sake of the next century.

this is the sane comment here. the parent comment this comment replies to is the insane one. and yet this one is downvoted and the other is not

a reply on this comment even accuse the commenter of being Hasbara

HN is the world-upside down. a lot of people here really should just stick to tech

can't help but smile watching the video

i expected a radical redesign, but this switch 2 is great too

can't wait to play old switch games on it, as well as new ones!

we use Claude

have you looked at their enterprise prices? one enterprise account pays for thousands (or millions of low-traffic accounts) of free accounts

I pay for 3 Workspace orgs, and I have Gemini disabled (or still not enabled) on all 3 of them. I'm angry that I'll have to pay more for features I don't use. Gemini should be an add-on cost, not included in the base cost

If they're raising the price of personal GMail, I don't have a problem. But Workspace with hundreds of users, now that's a problem, because it actually hurts my wallet significantly. When this increase comes, I'll have to move elsewhere.

why wouldn't one use sveltekit if they only have html and css? sveltekit compiles to a static site with a nice client-side router.

sveltekit is basically html + css in a .svelte file if you don't use javascript.

do you mean putting Bing on the start menu? Microsoft just made them opt-in by default and hoped that folks won't notice or care. you can disable them.

for Chinese devices, there's no way to disable them.

the difference is, for Windows, having Bing on start was a feature (although a bad one). for Chinese devices, you just get ads - you're stuck with ads while changing your brightness.

low-end Chinese phones, including Xiaomi and Huawei, show ads on system apps like Settings and Contacts. soon, smart home appliances might also display or speak ads. there's nothing stopping these Chinese companies from doing so - both technologically and ethically.

Xiaomi definitely should not lead the way in smart home automation.

as OpenAI released a feature that hit Google where it hurts, Google released Veo 2 to utterly destroy OpenAI's Sora.

Google won.

exactly! i'm so glad i found this comment. you said it so eloquently.

tried so hard to find a video i like, but i just couldn't. can't find a single video for current events, hobbies, or even tech. the search just doesn't work.

the only justification for peertube's existence is that it's libre. but the experience is terrible!!! a frontend engineer can build a better ui over the weekend. peertube existed for a decade, but they couldn't bother to innovate on the ui/ux side all those years.

edit: it's almost 2025, they're building a mobile app, but they chose Flutter. now i understand. they should outsource the tech decision-making

Solid.js is the real alternative to React

if you don't follow anyone, like me, the timeline is dominated by journalists, furries, and people who post nudity. i'm not saying these are bad, just an observation.

> dominated by software type (HN crowd)

i find this very surprising. i don't see a lot of technical people out there, except for the bsky devs or devs who are building apps on top of atproto.

i've visited bluesky enough over the months, and to me, there's 3 types of users you will always see on the Discover or What's Hot timeline - journalists, furries, and people who post nudity.

tech people are still on twitter. i feel like the "exodus" of tech people following the election are just them making an account, and then returning to X after some time. it happened then during the private beta, and i feel like the same is happening now

apologies, i meant i only have a linux device with only spotify installed, because it's the thing i use. no, i'm not talking about music players, only streaming services.

you're completely right other services and software are available on linux. but the point i'm trying to make is, this tool is spotify -> others, but a common use-case is others -> spotify.

this feels more like an art piece or statement, not an actual tool

what if i have a youtube link and i want to stream on spotify? what if i have an apple music link but want to play it on a linux device where only spotify works?

it's more likely that you discovered a song on youtube and wanted to add it to your spotify playlist, rather than browsing spotify and then deciding to listen on another platform.

someone should make a service like this, but make it universal for all platforms.

however, i found the ability of matching a spotify artist profile to the artist's platform profiles impressive.

can i have a dataset containing articles that were censored? these articles may be misinformation or openly sympathetic to terrorist organizations.

i'm quite happy with Meta handling the moderation on the conflict.

SO THIS! it's not about data protection, it's about the platform allowing misinformation and hate speech to thrive there. i've reported hundreds of videos, comments, and accounts - TikTok said they don't violate the community standards. the worst was yesterday - someone commented he was sad Hitler failed on a TikTok video about the Israeli hostages held by Hamas - and TikTok, after 30 minutes, said this doesn't violate community standards.

before anyone says "free speech" - views or comments that are not aligned with the CCP and its allies get taken down when reported. several of mine were taken down.

i owe the rising antisemitism among young people to TikTok and its lack of action towards misinformation and hate speech.

that's so true! you don't need a javascript framework to make a beautiful site - it's all css! nowadays, people reach for react and a component library when they plan to make a somewhat advanced site or app, but these aren't necessary.

the opposite is also true - just because you're using plain html and css does not mean your site must be super, super simple.

this leverages Durable Objects, but as i remember from two years ago, DO's way of guaranteeing uniqueness is that there can only be once instance of that DO in the world.

what if there are two users who wants to access the same DO repo at the same time, one in the US and the other in Singapore? the DO must live either in US servers or SG servers, but not at the same time. so one of the two users must have high latency then?

then after some time, a user in Australia accesses this DO repo - the DO bounces to AU servers - US and SG users will have high latency?

but please correct me if i'm wrong