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sogen··on Google is feeling pretty pumped about a new way of showing you ads on YouTube
I wonder if they even considered all the possible scenarios.

Imagine there's a fire at a bar, but the TV is so loud that you need to pause it so people can hear you... but instead of absolute silence, you get an unstoppable 30s ad for Shein, blasting at full volume...

sogen··on Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
> iCloud is extremely slow

When it works.

Sometimes it won't even sync files between two devices in the same room, and just show an infinite progress bar. And I'm using the latest OS versions in all devices.

sogen··on How the internet became shit
Can't edit, but wanted to say _DNS_ instead of VPN in my original comment.
sogen··on Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
Newest repo location https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases
sogen··on How the internet became shit
Adguard (paid), has been working great out of the box on my iPhone. Tried others but this one has been the best so far. I don't use their included VPN, so don't have opinions on it.

Greatest advantage is being able to use Custom Filters.

One caveat: my aging iPad sometimes struggles or reload pages, and runs out of memory, not sure if I should attribute it to the adblocker or to the iPad's age, probably should restart it, or get a newer one.

I would also add to the mix:

• StopTheMadness Pro (paid too)

which can do two great things:

1. Show native video controls, and

2. Can skip YouTube ads

(and the developer is quite responsive)

sogen··on The web floods
So the solution will be to ask ChatGPT to summarize all these ChatGPT-generated articles and movies into a 2 line sentence…
sogen··on GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in
4X
sogen··on Erich's Puzzle Palace
Nonograms/picross.

Sorry have noprocrast on, so took me a while to get back.

sogen··on DALL-E 3 Is So Good It's Stoking an Artist Revolt Against AI Scraping
Gorillaz, The Residents, GWAR
sogen··on The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy
For investors slap on some buzzwords such as YOLO, NFTs, ASMR, Cambridge Analytica, Elon, Bezos and boom! to the moon baby!
sogen··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Looks like it is geoblocked, not available in my region
sogen··on Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
That might be true, for a while. After that, pagerank will move on to the new one.
sogen··on Nonograms - Japanese Crosswords
Been playing it since I read your recommendation, nice, but as others commented, I might need to move to the tablet to continue with the larger ones. Thanks again !
sogen··on Coffee in a Can
Update: Cold brew is a game changer, I'm a convert.
sogen··on Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
Thanks!
sogen··on Coffee in a Can
These past couple years I’ve been drinking my coffee black, will find out the taste of cold brew tomorrow!

Loved the coffee maker recommendation! looks practical and easy to use, thanks

sogen··on Coffee in a Can
> Pull the filter out when it’s done to avoid overbrewing/oversteeping

I’d never have thought about that! Thanks, appreciate it

sogen··on Coffee in a Can
Ended up doing a DIY homemade thing with a filter I had, will check the recommendations.

Many thanks! the coffee-water ratio was going to be my next question.

sogen··on Coffee in a Can
Do you have a pic or a link on how to prepare it, and how your setup looks like?

Thanks!

sogen··on Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
Excellent site! Used it for a couple minutes and it's a revelation.

And agree, RSS will be a great addition.

How are you going to monetize it so it continues? Subscription?

Also, it'd be great to have a filter to show only the Top or Best news from the Week

sogen··on Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
Nice!
sogen··on Broken Ownership
In Arrested Development his character solves everyone’s problems to the detriment of his personal life.
sogen··on How to stop the “login with Google” pop up window?
If you are using Safari, the extensions

- Hush,

And

- Stop the Madness

Will solve about 90% of these annoyances

sogen··on Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes
Some kind soul uploaded it and made it available for anyone at the Internet Archive
sogen··on Fabricated data in research about honesty
In my experience doing research, this question should go *at the bottom*.

Why: A basic 101 thing one learns in Market Research is that personal questions _always_ go last.

So, if you want to ask an interviewed person if their answers were honest, researchers should be placing them last, towards the end of the questionnaire.

But, this only works if the questionnaire is oriented towards asking first impersonal questions, then more personal ones.

As another commented said: This is a lot of work. Doing research, asking people questions, gathering and then analyzing data is no walk in the park. It's sad that this happened. And, most important of all: Always being honest, no matter what the results are, even if you don't like them.

sogen··on Death Metal English (2013)
I assume the first one is about playing Whack-a-mole?
sogen··on How we see ourselves and how we see others (2008) [pdf]
Sounds more like orwell:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Lan...

sogen··on ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense
And let’s not forget Google’s Snafu with Bard.
sogen··on ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense
At this rate LLM is going to mean Lazy Layman’s Marketing.

Maybe I should ask ChatGPT to help me come up with more ideas…

sogen··on The 115F Heat Is Killing Phones in Sardinia
Let me write all this down, great tips!

Add "blockchain-for-X" and you got yourself a new customer.

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