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shapenamer··on AI is Taking Water from the Desert
I enjoy the implication that these massive cities we've built in the scorching desert that don't have any water of their own aren't to blame in the slightest. Like it's impossible to build server infra anywhere else than one of the hottest places on the continent.
shapenamer··on AI Regurgitating Propaganda
We're 4 levels deep on a comment specifically about gemini, good try with the dramatic subject change though. You tried to argue that intentionally injecting what you believe to be righteous bias into an LLM is a superior moral position than not doing so and I disagree. Your outrage about Palestinian children doesn't convince me otherwise.
shapenamer··on AI Regurgitating Propaganda
I like how you've painted "telling the truth" as some scummy moral failing.
shapenamer··on Gemini and Google's Culture
The very obvious patterns we're seeing are not patterns at all! Oh right, brilliant lol.
shapenamer··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
Ya it's hard to be sure that when people express disdain and/or hatred of "white" people that they are or aren't including arabs. /rolleyes
shapenamer··on Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
I'm a human and I don't have the slightest idea what you're asking for.
shapenamer··on Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
After running a bunch of models on my own PC (a pretty good one), I have to say by FAR the best results for coding has been with Deepseek models. However, I just spent 20 minutes playing with this Phind 70B model and it's totally nailing the questions I'm asking it. Pretty impressed.
shapenamer··on Why Don't We Teach People How to Parent?
"if you can't afford to raise a child and some other additional costs that are unrelated, like a dog, then you can't afford a child". Oh ok that makes perfect sense, thanks for holding the snide, lol
shapenamer··on Do Elephants Have Souls?
interesting, do all dogs go to heaven?
shapenamer··on The Miele Dialog: cook a fish in ice without melting the ice
Cool, but if I want raw fish I'll just not put it in the oven I think.
shapenamer··on Cancer Alley
It seems like lowest effort submission possible to me. It's not really related to tech news at all. There's no recent news or changes. The op didn't post anything about why they found it interesting. The conversation happening here is sparse and not interesting. Aside from the fact that I've had comments downvoted for "being low effort" in the past. People can find anything interesting but not everything is a good submission to HN.
shapenamer··on Cancer Alley
linking random wiki articles with 0 context is extremely common and seemingly accepted on HN. Always confused me as well but /shrug.
shapenamer··on Patriot Missile Software Problem
Ya if only we could be peaceful like ants!
shapenamer··on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached
Tech savvy and privacy-conscious enough to use TOR, but not enough of either of those things to both use a service like 23andMe, and not use password keeper or just be aware that reusing passwords is dangerous. What a strange intersection of users.
shapenamer··on Send Me to Heaven
Wikipedia is more obnoxious with the begging every time I look at it.
shapenamer··on Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
Firefox https://streamable.com/5omhv0

Maybe I'm an idiot but I literally can't navigate your website lol.

shapenamer··on Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
I've been looking at options, and while mega seems good they also seem to happily hand over your data to authorities, which means it's not really encrypted, or might as well not be.

I've seen skiff shilled a few times here and on the twitter thread but the website is too annoying for me lol.

Currently thinking I'm going to mess with filen.io tonight. It has a linux client and is e2e encrypted. Still looking and open to suggestions though.

shapenamer··on Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
I would like to check it out but I'm physically unable to select any product from the product drop down list... Not the most confidence inspiring thing I've seen.
shapenamer··on Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
Just checked my account and this option was on. Turned it off but it's completely unacceptable that it was on in the first place. If anyone has any good alternatives please let me know. Preferably encrypted options.
shapenamer··on Scholars who study the Middle East are afraid to speak out
"I deliberately suppressed this discussion and any claims of the discussion being suppressed are the reason I suppressed it and are also conspiracy theories and not real, even though I did suppress it."

ya uh... ok

shapenamer··on YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock
I've posted this a few times recently, but I used to pay for youtube premium, but it started showing me ads while using chromecast. The third time it happened I cancelled and went back to using ublock. I don't use the chromecast much because the ads are unbearable but I see exactly 0 ads ever on my pc. In short, I block ads because not only is it free, it also actually works. My guess is as soon as(if?) they manage to totally stop ad blockers, they will pull a cable company move and start showing ads to paying users as well. They'll say it's to help creators or something or course.
shapenamer··on Tell HN: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube”
I cancelled YT premium because it would still show me ads while using chromecast sometimes. 100% chance they will start showing ads to premium users if they actually manage to shut down ad blockers. Just like cable TV does. Pay for the service, watch ads half the time anyway.
shapenamer··on YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies
> never heard anyone else talking about

well now you have lol

shapenamer··on I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
right, the text content was AI generated, and people don't like that. But if any of the tech was AI generated then the author would receive praise.
shapenamer··on I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Well I never said the article had anything to do with AI art. I have simply noticed a pattern of almost everyone agreeing that AI generated art is bad and harms real artists, while simultaneously agreeing that AI generated code is great and only helps programmers. My post was fairly low effort though I'll give you that. It seems to have pushed a few people's buttons none the less lol.

There's another story on HN posted today about balancing money and meaning and one of the top comments is a sarcastic put-down about the AI generate image at the top of the blog post. If the author had used AI to create the web page they'd almost certainly receive similar praise as the comments on this one. Both AI's are trained on other people's work, yet you seem to think even pointing this out is unfair. Very strange imo.

shapenamer··on I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Why not? It was trained on other people's work.
shapenamer··on I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Kinda curious what the author's stance on using AI to create art is.
shapenamer··on YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies
I used to pay for youtube premium but it would still show ads sometimes so I cancelled it. I'll never watch ads and I sure as hell won't pay to remove them and still watch them. Turns out the most consistent and easiest option is also the cheapest, so I pay nothing and never see ads.
shapenamer··on Most Americans comfortable with solar panels, turbines in their communities
I think that was the point lol
shapenamer··on The American Illusion of Freedom
I didn't state anything like that, actually.
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