hogwasher

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by hogwasher 1mo ago
There's enough high quality video and audio news that it's fully possible to be an engaged and informed person even if you can't read for shit. Plus, text-to-speech is very good now. You can listen to written articles as well
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
I actually love that it doesn't do this, because the sites that do are a headache (and sometimes entirely unusable) if using a VPN. And since you can bookmark it with your location setting, automatic IP location could only make the fir
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
toxoplasmosis doesn't actually do that to mice. It makes them less scared, but iirc, not even so much that they don't flee. it's one of those studies that got blown up into a worldwide news story sensation even though the act
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
why are so many people so comfortable making this assumption, based on writing style or a checklist of supposed tells or notoriously unreliable detectors, and making kneejerk accusations like they can do no harm and are already settled fact
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
"So buzz off" (whether a direcy quote or not) seems like a sign they accept the consequence of some people buzzing off. If they didn't do this, they'd have to accept the consequences of those people not buzzing off, or p
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
That's disregarding that the people in power routinely make it as difficult as possible to have a choice. If you buy the cheapest foods, maybe it's because you want to eat and pay rent, and spending any more than that would render
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
Yeah. It's like everybody's forgetting that github also bans things, such as certain projects that receive DMCA takedown requests. And github pushing its LLM garbage into Visual Studio. If banning crypto or LLM's is politic
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
I'd rather companies actually care (or even just care about seeming to care) about ethics, rather than only caring what makes the line go up the fastest, yes. A company that treats ethics as optional, or that thinks "it's a b
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
those bots are extremely effective at manipulating LLM results via comments and faking entire reddit threads. at least if you go to reddit, you know the answer came from reddit, and can be accordingly cautious.
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
ublock origin (not to be confused with the lite version) can also do this, and is more flexible. But it's easy to miss this functionality because you have to know about and read some documentation to learn how to turn ublock's &qu
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
with the very AI "For example"??????????????????
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
Yes. LineageOS, GrapheneOS, Arch, Sailfish, various other open distros, Windows Phone, and a surprising number of random proprietary options (these are sometimes based on Android, and have some social media apps, but can't run regular
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by hogwasher 2mo ago
I've seen that a lot more often lately because of AI botnets. Supposedly the bots come (or appear to) from some countries more than others, and sometimes websites are just banning a whole country because the load from bots is so bad th
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by hogwasher 3mo ago
Neither Anthropic nor anyone in the Trump administration can hold a candle to kabuki theatre. (I know that's not what you meant, but still! Art, the LLM and the Trump admin cannot.) Anyway yeah this is beyond absurd of them to fuss abo
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by hogwasher 3mo ago
The rest of it sure does read like "content", yep. There's no substance. It's short. And then there's another book ad. It reads like someone used an LLM to cough up an article as an excuse to show the book ads. Thou
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by hogwasher 3mo ago
You can copy a shared link and use the browser url bar to open it in a private window, or delete the extra crap at the end of the url (anything after the ? in a lot of cases). Granted, that doesn't help for the service you're usin
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by hogwasher 3mo ago
I think they want discount codes from "sign up to our mailing list!" emails. If it's in the promotions tab, they probably never have to look at it otherwise or get bugged with notifications, but they could still have it there
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by hogwasher 3mo ago
Ok, but I can't possibly be the only one who has no idea who that is, let alone what misconceptions they have.
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by hogwasher 4mo ago
That is definitely a difficult battle to fight, but why do you think kids can't bypass these government-level restrictions just as easily as they can your own? Especially since governments are usually slow to respond to whatever method
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by hogwasher 4mo ago
YES. Not just the Google class action notices - though those, which Google was court-ordered to send and deliver , are the most egregious - but ALL class action or settlement related emails get automatically chucked into to my gmail spam f
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by hogwasher 4mo ago
Have you not encountered the eleventy billion subscription services and merch stores? Those make a loooooot more money for creators than ads these days. Even the dirt cheap ones. Similarly, there's a reason so many youtube channels get
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by hogwasher 4mo ago
This is because of the Google I/O (developer conference) announcements this week. They're about to overhaul their regular search and make it even more garbage, to the point - so it sounds - of it being more just a Gemini chatbot i
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by hogwasher 4mo ago
If you don't use their sync service, all your vault files are local only, and there isn't any mysterious telemetry happening in the background. If you do use their sync service, it's end to end encrypted with your own local-o
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by hogwasher 6mo ago
When I started using them, they did this by checking against Paypal, with whom (admittedly to my regret) I had already verified myself. I wasn't asked to provide a copy of my ID to them directly, at least, or to provide it anew to one
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by hogwasher 6mo ago
Some electronics insurance providers will do that in the U.S. I'd say that kind of refund isn't typical otherwise. But if the RAM was sold with Umart's promise to replace it (or the local laws' requirement that they repl
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
Are you suggesting all messaged photos should be scanned, and potentially viewed by humans, in case it depicts a nude minor? Because no matter how you do that, that would result in false positives, and either unfair auto-bans and erroneous
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
I think it was clear what they meant.
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
Sure, but then everyone moved to Facebook . The monopolist changed, but not the monopolistic market and the lack of consumer choice. And nobody gained privacy in the process (I rather think everyone lost even more of it). The situation cur
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
Most people couldn't tell you how their car works, at least not enough to fix it. Is that handholding, too? People can't be knowledgable about everything. There's just too much information in the world, and too many different
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
It definitely ignores that many people don't have time . If someone is working over 40 hours per week, plus maybe doing unpaid labor taking care of kids or elders, where are people supposed to find the time and energy to brush up on a

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