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by cuu508 9d ago
It's a good time to reduce the reliance on technology. Throw out the IoT and "smart" stuff from your home. Remove apps from your phone and leave the absolute basics. Go through the password manager and close accounts for site
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by cuu508 9d ago
> 8. I understand that LGE will retain the collected Voice Information for 6 months to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, and after this period, it will be deleted or anonymized, depending on the case. Somehow feels like it m
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by cuu508 11d ago
If you are wealthy, it does not matter if they are expensive. If they have any impact, why not?
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by cuu508 13d ago
> 125 miles. That’s less than two hours of driving. Assuming you have a straight road in that direction with a speed limit that allows an average speed of more than 100km/h.
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by cuu508 16d ago
"You already have impressive event experience going, but do you know if AIs are recommending it? I will set up llms.txt for free for you, no pressure, not trying to pitch anything. If not interested, just reply 'not interested&#x2
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by cuu508 21d ago
Yeah, that's a very good counter-argument. I recently talked to a potter exactly like that, they said Instagram is their primary sales channel. Unlike for me, for them leaving would have significant financial consequences. The majority
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by cuu508 21d ago
The utility is not of existential importance. Yes, you can uninstall Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and the sky will not fall, life will just go on.
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by cuu508 23d ago
> Make sure you register mailing addresses with your credit card institutions Sorry for a dumb question but what would one use as a mailing address? Rent a PO box, or use a mail forwarding service, something like that?
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by cuu508 24d ago
I recently got one of those emails, interestingly leading with "I came across your profile on Hacker News". Once I understood the proposal, I thought this would be horror job cognitive dissonance-wise. So unethical. I also had a c
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by cuu508 26d ago
> I don’t think either of us is going to change the other’s mind, so I’ll leave it here. So so so disappointing.
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by cuu508 29d ago
Uninstall them.
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by cuu508 1mo ago
Isn't there a setting to turn auto-correct off?
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by cuu508 1mo ago
In one of the monthly update videos Andreas mentioned that although they are working on a basic built-in adblocker for Ladybird, long-term they want extension support and the adblocking functionality to be in an extension.
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by cuu508 1mo ago
> My writing is my work, and Anthropic’s current strategy is aggressively writer-hostile. If your writing is indeed your work then watermarking should not affect you.
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by cuu508 1mo ago
There's plenty of negativity of the technology itself as well. See for example how often the term "slop" is being used.
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by cuu508 1mo ago
> Where will my data be hosted Thundermail data is hosted on infrastructure located in Germany, supporting reliable delivery worldwide and prioritizing privacy. > Governing Law. Except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise,
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by cuu508 1mo ago
Delivery companies would adapt and drivers would have work-only dumb phones with correct country SIMs. Problem is, spam & scam callers would adapt as well.
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by cuu508 1mo ago
If you are not buying Apple products, you are saving yourself their suckiness. Win! And other people can make their own choices.
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by cuu508 1mo ago
The Anubis challenge took ~5 seconds. What do you propose instead?
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by cuu508 1mo ago
slop
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by cuu508 2mo ago
So... Is your suggestion to ban tracking, marketing, analytics etc. non-essential cookies altogether?
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by cuu508 2mo ago
Texting and driving is a real problem.
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by cuu508 2mo ago
When mastodon.technology shut down, the operator commented on this, see "Why Not Transfer to a New Admin?" here -- https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/
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by cuu508 2mo ago
Incredibly useful for some definition of incredibly useful. What I see: - I now regularly receive AI-written spam emails (marketing pitches, "vulnerability reports"). - I was receiving AI-written garbage quality pull requests. It
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by cuu508 2mo ago
Specs don't make it clear if it supports BLE sensors (HR strap, power meter,... ).
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by cuu508 2mo ago
uBlock Origin's "annoyances" filter lists also do the job.
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by cuu508 2mo ago
I think the viability of the fork primarily depends on whether it has enough people motivated to maintain it long term. A turtle can win a distracted hare.
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by cuu508 2mo ago
Please reconsider Kagi's partnership with Yandex.
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by cuu508 2mo ago
I have fond memories of Flash 5 in early 2000s. At the time I knew BASIC and Pascal. I could figure out how to draw things, how to animate them using keyframes and motion tweening, and how to make things interactive with ActionScript, all b
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by cuu508 2mo ago
What analogy might work better, i.e., be less charged but as precise?

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