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snowe2010··on Fair Pricing
Nothing in any of your comments indicates that you are using an obfuscated connection to search Google at all. In that case there is little difference to using Google signed in or not, you are still trackable across numerous devices and your searches are correlated. So being signed into kagi has little difference besides them now being less incentivized to sell your information or track you in any manner.
snowe2010··on Fair Pricing
Your position is baffling. You think that Google, who maintains every search you’ve ever made, including correlating them across every Gmail account you have, and who routinely provides this search data to authorities, as well as sells access to this data is somehow more safe to use than a company based in Europe, who are funded off of a subscription model, whom are not VC funded even though you claim that, and who’s entire sales strategy is that they don’t sell your data or even retain it.

Your position is completely devoid of logic.

snowe2010··on He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along
He had his ID. They just didn’t believe him when he provided it.
snowe2010··on How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers
Thank you :)
snowe2010··on How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers
Well we can’t if we have no clue what pylon is. And searching is absolutely no help because I’m not sure if you’re saying pylon is a replacement for railway, or slack, or some other part of the blog post.
snowe2010··on How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers
Zulip is vastly better for people who are willing to learn an interface. But it’s not really very “pretty”
snowe2010··on Show HN: Werk, a simple build tool and command runner
We've been using Taskfile, which is fantastic and super understandable, but it's only a task-runner and as such wouldn't meet OP's needs. I hated `just` and did not find it at all intuitive.

Only problem I have with the article is saying that Ruby doesn't work on Windows is just categorically false. It's one of the easiest languages to install and use on Windows, even easier than C# and Java, and I'm a Java/Kotlin dev, so that's saying something. It's literally just a single exe/msi installer.

But you wouldn't want to be using Rake anyway, it's not really that good, and is only useful if you're working in an environment where you don't want to install anything and you hate Make. Then Ruby is very often installed by default with Rake and so you get a 'free' build tool. Rake was good 10 years ago, but not so much anymore.

Anyway, if you needed a specific kind of tool and built it then all the power to you. Can't blame you for not wanting to use the other options!

snowe2010··on A made-up name is better than no name
They are acronyms. Why do you think differently? And acronyms are abbreviations. If you want to argue more you could state they’re initialisms, but SAN is standard algebraic notation so it’s definitely an acronym, while EPD could be argued not, but instead to be an initialism. In any case Wikipedia says it’s not a settled matter so why even argue about it? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
snowe2010··on Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?
Lowcoder is fully open source and self hostable.
snowe2010··on Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
Much worse imo.
snowe2010··on The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser
lol it sounds so much more complex
snowe2010··on The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser
I don’t remember what Safari’s looks like but didn’t FF add an overview page recently?
snowe2010··on The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser
Sidebery is the only way to do vertical tabs in FF. It’s really good.
snowe2010··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
You’re literally moving the goalposts right now. These models _are_ adapting to what you’re talking about. When Claude makes a model for haikus, how is that different than a poet who knows literally nothing about math but is fantastic at poetry?

I’m sure as soon as Claude can handle 5MLOC you’ll say it should be 10, and it needs to make sure it can serve you a Michelin star dinner as well.

That’s not AGI. Stop moving the goalposts.

snowe2010··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
You’re commenting that on an article about how Claude literally can do what you’re talking about.
snowe2010··on BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its affordability
Please do provide a source for these “disgusting subsidies”
snowe2010··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Defining AGI as “can reason about 5MLOC” is ridiculous. When do the goal posts stop moving? When a computer can solve time travel? Babies have behavior all the time that is no more differentiable from what an LLM does on a normal basis (including terrible logic and hallucinations).

The majority of people on the planet can barely reason about how any given politician will affect them, even when there’s a billion resources out there telling them exactly that. No reasonable human would ever define AGI as having anything to do with coding at all, since that’s not even “general intelligence”… it’s learned facts and logic.

snowe2010··on Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send
The fbi literally only investigates if the ncmec tells them to.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/vcac

snowe2010··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
Then the equivalent business tvs with no apps wouldn’t be thousands of dollars more.
snowe2010··on Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send
That’s not how csam reporting works at all. You aren’t punished for csam being on your server, as long as you do something about it. You can easily set up cloudflare to block and report csam to the NCMEC (not the FBI) and it will all be handled automatically.
snowe2010··on Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting
Dang. I need this for Mac. I’ve been wishing I had exactly this for years.
snowe2010··on Beeper Mini is back
i mean... will the court understand that? Or will they understand the argument I framed (however dumb it is)? I think apple would easily be able to convince the court that anything exiting their servers is less secure, or gives the appearance of lower security, to their customers. Anyway, apple is implementing rcs next year so hopefully none of this matters.
snowe2010··on Beeper Mini is back
I was one of the first users of signal when it first released, over a decade ago. I could not, and still can not, get others to use it. We're long past that. The choices are Google's spyware, Facebook's spyware, or Apple's locked down ecosystem, which has been proven to not be spyware (fbi requests and all that). I think I'll take the latter.
snowe2010··on Beeper Mini is back
I was making fun of you. That seems to have gone right over your head. Here, I'll put it in your perspective. Facebook users (you, a whatsapp user) just want others to use facebook (spyware).
snowe2010··on Beeper Mini is back
>The solution is literally downloading a free app and encouraging others to do the same.

Absolutely not. I'll never touch whatsapp with a ten thousand foot pole. If you aren't tired of facebook ruining people's lives then I don't know what to tell you, but frankly most people who pay attention are sick of FB controlling the planet.

How about instead, you use apps that don't sell your information to literally anyone who will give them a dollar? Like Apple's iMessage.

snowe2010··on Beeper Mini is back
it would be incredibly easy for apple to frame this as a security issue, because, even in my mind, it is. I pay for apple devices because I trust apple with my data. I do not trust most companies with my data. I trust my data to only flow through Apple's servers, and to get a clear indication when my data is _not_ flowing through apple's servers (e.g. green bubbles). A company bypassing this causing messages to show up blue when they are in fact traveling outside of Apple's control is a security risk (to me). Clearly if it's e2e encrypted that's not the case, but that's not what apple is going to argue. They're going to argue exactly what I just did. And I honestly agree with them. That doesn't mean Apple doesn't need to allow other companies onto the platform, just that BLUE BUBBLES mean something to apple customers and bypassing that is something that apple needs to block.

Apple really needs to get that RCS implementation rolled out though. Wonder if it's still going to be green bubbles or something else.

snowe2010··on Apple's new video reactions are making therapy awkward
guessing it's a chrome thing then. I refuse to use chrome and it most definitely does not work in FF.
snowe2010··on Apple's new video reactions are making therapy awkward
might be browser based then. I tested in several different apps and google meet was the only one that didn't work, and I refuse to use Chrome, so it might just not work in firefox. point is, it isn't universal, there are apps it doesn't work in, else my testing wouldn't have shown failure at all.
snowe2010··on Apple's new video reactions are making therapy awkward
maybe it's a firefox thing? I am on google meet right now and I've literally tried several things and it does not work. But still, clearly it does not automatically work in every application, as I took the time to open several different apps and test which ones it worked in.
snowe2010··on Apple's new video reactions are making therapy awkward
I tested in google meet last week, it does not work there.
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