nirava

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by nirava 7d ago
This has been my line of thinking as well. I have developed a sort of paranoia when I'm working using AI on my projects. Who's to say Claude or OpenAI isn't using the final conclusion of all my ideas, trial and error, and add
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by nirava 11d ago
load some games you think you'll enjoy. carry it around in your pocket. pull it out when bored. don't put a case on it, let it gather scratches and dirt. I can lose 10 mins to a sudoku game or chase a highscore in some arcade-ish
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by nirava 1mo ago
Not web devs per se, I’d be hard pressed to find a serious web dev who wanted to “forcefully sodomize users”. Thats a management thing
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by nirava 1mo ago
I've been enjoying his videos for years atp, does really cool stuff, and has the same fascination with flight as I do.
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by nirava 1mo ago
I remember Flowise app being well-intended but bad. I evaluated the self-hosted version to be used as a component in an internal tool so non-technical people can tweak their prompt chains without writing code. As far as I remember: 1. it be
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by nirava 3mo ago
Would I sell you something if there was a 1 in 100 chance that I have to steal it back from you sometime in the future? Nope. Would I at least refund you for stealing back that thing you cherish and have possibly watched with your family an
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by nirava 3mo ago
there are obviously measures in place to ensure the added noise is statistically homogeneous. the changes don't affect the final aggregates significantly, just enough to avoid saying much *about any individual person*. know how you can
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by nirava 3mo ago
Couldn’t you do this by turning off Siri and Apple Intelligence, two global toggles?
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by nirava 4mo ago
I really enjoyed this comment! The right intersection of everything to fire reward receptors in my brain lol. Edit: "fire reward receptors in my brain" is probably nonsense scientifically but hopefully it gets the point across
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by nirava 5mo ago
Any (sealed) container designed to hold hot things should have a pressure release system. It can be seals that buckle before the lid. It can be a tiny hole with a soft rubber stopper. It can be one of many things that cost a couple of cents
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by nirava 5mo ago
at the same time, I've never had any faith in that software. maybe because of it's association with really cheap, buggy hosts i explored in my teenage years. maybe because of their largely unnecessary complications (except enterpr
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by nirava 5mo ago
Exactly. Any security person absolutely KNOWS that the distros are still going to be vulnerable. They're exploiting this process loophole to knowingly cause chaos and gain notoriety. At this point this is not really white-hat/ethi
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by nirava 5mo ago
If the return policy explicitly allows "change of mind", I'd say it's in the gray area. Though ofc it isn't sustainable if everyone starts doing this. I assume there's a ((returns:buys)/payment identity) m
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by nirava 5mo ago
No practical way I should say. Realistically, it's pretty clear that lawmakers really just want to shove it through in the simplest way possible. Which is probably private third parties. And private third parties are very shady. They h
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by nirava 5mo ago
Private companies now can link all your online activities to you. Not an advertisement ID, but directly to you and your loans and your health data and whatever they're selling in the black market. Every data breach is a 100 times. It w
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by nirava 5mo ago
That's true. But leaking an age threshold is not the same as private companies being able to link all your online activities to a single legal person.
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by nirava 5mo ago
Read every alternative volunteered here. Imagine any world where in the next 5 years they can't be enshittified, sold to a predatory private equity, their support lines AI-ified, their headcount reduced by 40% without your knowledge, e
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by nirava 5mo ago
500mg from a capsule and 500 from cough syrup 4 times a day is still fine. With a 100% safety margin still. If you’re taking more meds than that without clinical supervision Id say something is wrong in the system or your medicine practices
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by nirava 5mo ago
At this point not assuming malice is probably naïveté, but I respect your optimism
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by nirava 5mo ago
There is no other technology to do age verification at scale. Apple, Google and such will contract out this age verification to a third-party which will ask you to upload your ID and a 3D face captcha, which the third party will delete with
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by nirava 5mo ago
I agree. App store is really horrible. Why is it that when I'm searching for a first party or a very very popular, the first result and many of the other results are weird scammy malware like things? I don't particularly care abou
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by nirava 5mo ago
LOL at the risk of sounding like a shill, I think Apple was right on time with these features. They added it after on-device CPU/neural engine was finally powerful and efficient enough. These features arrived at once on macs, iphones a
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by nirava 5mo ago
That's the thing: you don't! The charset for passwords should be always inputable even if no one is using it. If you wanted to reduce the size of the charset, you'd basically create a transition plan, and ask everyone in the
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by nirava 5mo ago
I am 100% sure that Steve Jobs could have shipped a broken Czech keyboard if that was in pursuit of some random abstract like purity or minimalism. "iOS keyboard has too many keys. Reduce keys make them larger. People should not use th
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by nirava 5mo ago
I just have a cheap second hand PC with a couple of good drives running LAN only Immich and a few other backup tools. This, in parallel to cloud backup, makes the setup both mobile and reasonably fault tolerant. I'm quite wary of using
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by nirava 5mo ago
There is a list of valid characters accepted for a passcode. That list was created, the characters debated, and a consensus reached by Apple engineers (I hope, for all our sakes. I don't want to imagine a world where this bare minimum
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by nirava 5mo ago
He famously shipped the original Macintosh with a keyboard without arrow keys to force buyers to use the mouse. His vision of perfection didn't always match common sense. There are quite a few examples of this. I always cringe a little
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by nirava 6mo ago
Ok that's fair ig. I used to be a fairly heavy user of the middle click scroll feature on windows like a decade ago. Made the switch to Debian w/ Awesome, and that habit just casually fell away. The switch is probably a 3 day anno
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by nirava 6mo ago
Depends on whether using someone else’s windows machine leaves you crazy annoyed. My windows machine is also “fine” for the most part because i turned off whatever I could and tried to mod whatever I could not. Even so, every once in a whil
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by nirava 6mo ago
So you switched something as fundamental as the OS, and were pissed that it was … different? You can fault Linux as the primary desktop environment for a few things, but that it’s different to MS is not one of those. Do you also rant about

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