manuelmoreale

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by manuelmoreale 4mo ago
A significant % of the population in rich countries, probably close to > 100%, benefits from transport infrastructure and sewage treatment and many other vital services. I don't see why 900M of free users on chatgpt is a relevant ar
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by manuelmoreale 4mo ago
Same experience. RSS is by far the most requested resource in the server logs. Sometimes up to 70% of the total traffic is coming from RSS. That said though, I wonder how much of that traffic is biological and how much is bots. I also wonde
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by manuelmoreale 4mo ago
Same here. RSS is by far the most requested resource in the server logs. That said though, I wonder how much of that traffic is biological and how much is bots. Because I also wonder how much is dead traffic. As in people who add a ton of
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by manuelmoreale 5mo ago
Closest thing I can think of is this one: https://feedland.org Or you create a blog for yourself and you make a blogroll. As for discovering new blogs, couple of options but there are more out there: https://ooh.direc
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by manuelmoreale 5mo ago
> If AI does increase people’s productivity then people should use it. Productivity is not the only metric worth caring about. If it increases productivity without negative side effects than sure, people should use it. But if it does at
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by manuelmoreale 5mo ago
Interesting how different perspectives work. It’s less than 400 per square mile in my corner of the country. It’s less than 80 in my area and this feels right for how I want to live.
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by manuelmoreale 5mo ago
> you can't meaningfully modify a layout with css alone. https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/ That statement wasn't true ages ago, and it's even less true now.
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by manuelmoreale 6mo ago
> ‘caring’ (what does that mean exactly?) caring: (adjective) displaying kindness and concern for others. If you look at this definition of caring and find a way to turn it into a politics issue that's your problem, not mine. If you
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by manuelmoreale 6mo ago
> Everything is politics. Everything you want to be politics is politics. Caring for other people shouldn't be politics. Being a decent human being shouldn't be politics. There are plenty of things that aren't politics unl
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by manuelmoreale 6mo ago
Webrings are very much still a thing and Ray has an awesome page on his site all about them https://brisray.com/utils/webrings.htm
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by manuelmoreale 6mo ago
If what you're missing is the big list of RSS I have something for you: https://blogroll.org/all.opml This will automatically download the OPML file for all the blogs that have an RSS address filed on blogroll.org Ther
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by manuelmoreale 6mo ago
It was awesome back then and it's even more awesome now: https://getkirby.com And there's a V6 in the making that should come out soon.
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> You’d have to have a very poorly RLHF’d model (or a very weird system prompt) for it to draw you a Terminator, pastoral scene, or pelican riding a bicycle as its self image :) How about a pastoral scene with a terminator pelican riding
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> Is it? They're all generalizing from a pretty similar pool of text, and especially for the idea of a "helpful, harmless, knowledgeable virtual assistant", I think you'd end up in the same latent design space. Encomp
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> Companies should be free to do whatever they want, as long as they pay for all their negative externalities. No they shouldn't. Sometimes it's not a matter of paying for the externalities. If you're doing harm at scale t
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> The vast majority of people want what's best for their societies, and have different views as to how best achieve that goal, that arise from diverse life experiences. I'd personally disagree with that assessment. I think the
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
Asked gemini the same question and it produced a similar-ish image: https://manuelmoreale.dev/hn/gemini_1.svg When I removed the plot part and simply asked to generate an SVG it basically created a fancy version of the
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
He wrote "learn your CSS conventions" which implies that every team and every project will have a different set of conventions. Hidden inside that statement is the fact that he just accepted that Tailwind should be THE CSS conve
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
Yeah exactly, right? Europe is the dystopian nightmare, sure.
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> But why are so many Europeans trying to move to the US? All I see in my circle is people refusing to even go on vacation in the US, let alone move there.
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
Where are you suggest we move to escape this dystopian nightmare?
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
And based on some of the replies in this thread we better act fast before it's too late.
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
You could say that about literally every single type of addictive behavior present on the face of the planet. You could just stop smoking and/or not buying cigarettes. You could just stop drinking and/or stop buying alcohol. It&#x
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
I mean, clearly the companies at the top can't be trusted to do what's in the best interests of the users. So at some point someone has to do something. If this is the correct something that remains to be seen.
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> I often zone out as soon as I expect I'm reading slop and that's the reason try to ensure my own writing isn't slop adjacent. And how is this a problem someone else has to address? Some people zone out when they see a te
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> Just allowing a service provider to receive a third party attestation that you "allowed" still allows the third party to track what you are doing even if the provider can't. That's still unacceptable from a privacy
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> Gemini tells me that for thousands of years, the swastika was used as "a symbol of positivity, luck and cosmic order". Try drawing it on something now and showing it to people. Is this an effective way to fight Nazism? I&#x27
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
You are not alone and fuck all the people that say that everything is doomed and that there's no way to still have a good internet full of wonderful content made by people.
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> I've been using it for decades now but these days, I almost always pause for a second. Wrote about this before [0] but my 2c: you shouldn't pause and you should keep using them because fuck these companies and their AI tools.
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by manuelmoreale 7mo ago
> but AFAIK a simple forum where kids can talk to each other about familial abuse or whatever would also qualify. I'm currently scrolling through this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verifica

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