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by prussia 7d ago
It's a bit more complicated than that because Reddit now automatically tries to translate comments not in the user's language.
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by prussia 24d ago
Southern Baptists don't specifically believe you have to be a Southern Baptist to be saved though, do they? And they believe in salvation by grace alone. Plus, the whole "once saved, always saved" thing. It's hard to arg
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by prussia 7mo ago
Whatever the motivations are, at least the end result is moving to freer (non-proprietary) and sometimes self-hosted solutions. If virtue signaling is what it takes to get there, I would like more of it. Virtue signaling gave us quality uni
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by prussia 7mo ago
The kind of people to use LLM to write news article for them tend not to be the people who care about mundane things like reading sources or ensuring what they write has any resemblance to the truth.
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by prussia 7mo ago
For large public servers it would be pointless. But for DMs and small private servers, it would be meaningful. Most people in DMs and small private servers would not appreciate their messages being publicly accessible like HN comments are.
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by prussia 7mo ago
Discord also calculates a whole lot of (inferred) demographic information. Estimated age, gender, and surely much more. They also feed all the messages into a ML model, which guesses what people are talking about, and pushes a notification
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by prussia 8mo ago
The pendulum has swung a little too far that way, for sure. But when the so-called "cryptocurrency" industry either have business models that are barely concealed ponzis/rugpulls, or run their own "cryptocurrencies"
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by prussia 8mo ago
There's no profit for the platform . As of now, both the "influencer" and platform are aligned in that they want children to consume more slop. If the platform doesn't have any incentive anymore, maybe most of those &qu
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by prussia 8mo ago
Terrorist attacks and perverts are every government's excuse to crack down on freedom. Refusing to comply with an authoritarian government like India's is a plus in my book.
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by prussia 8mo ago
Yes, seriously. The vast majority of people who read books or scholarly articles wouldn't have a clue how to bypass internet censorship (the "normies" in your definition). If you copy ebooks to a USB and put it at the summit
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by prussia 8mo ago
Sure, ultimately technical/knowledgeable people will be able to get around it. But preventing normies from accessing Anna's Archive is what they care about, because most people are normies.
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by prussia 8mo ago
To give them the benefit of the doubt, people who talk to AI too much probably start mimicking its style.
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by prussia 8mo ago
I think the worst of the crypto people are probably the worst of the AI people too. Power/money-hungry grifters naturally move on to the most profitable grift when the old one peters out.
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by prussia 8mo ago
Amen, GitHub is already a faustian bargain for FOSS projects, this kind of thing will just entrench it further.
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by prussia 8mo ago
Chrome is not FOSS btw. Google Chrome is proprietary software based on the open-source Chromium (also created by Google), which in turn is a fork of Webkit (by Apple, and with many corporate and non-corporate contributors), which itself is
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by prussia 9mo ago
Based on the population size and school system, I'd conjecture there's more ... though there is brain drain and emigration to consider.
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by prussia 10mo ago
I would wager some VP at YouTube in charge of shorts has their performance evaluations tied to how many hours of shorts are watched. So that's one incentive. Another is customer retention. Make current paying users addicted to shorts,
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by prussia 11mo ago
It's quite funny to me to frame Spotify as an underdog, though I suppose there's truth to that, because of the sheer size of Apple and Google. I've never thought of it that way.
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by prussia 11mo ago
> if you liked the company or product so much why would you take shots like that? Key word here is "liked". Seems like OP liked the company when it had a free tier, and no longer does after it axed the tier. They don't owe
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by prussia 11mo ago
I'm not familiar with YouTube or Spotify premium, so this may be a dumb question. But, doesn't Youtube Premium include Youtube Music? So why pay for Spotify premium too?
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by prussia 1y ago
> what I made But did you really make it? Or was it the AI? If someone commissions a piece of art from an artist, I don't think the commissioner would be able to truthfully say they made it, even if they had a specific vision for wh
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by prussia 1y ago
Not OP, and I'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but why? Reddit now blocks many IPs (requires login/signup to see the page now). Plus the site takes a few years to load, if you don't know about old.reddit.com. I imagine
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by prussia 1y ago
> Same reasons for why we mandate belts in cars. Hardly anyone in the "west" gets pulled over by police for seat belt checks (unlike say, India, China), yet nearly everyone still wears them, because they understand if they don&
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Show HN: Ming-wm: A 100% keyboard-operated desktop environment in Rust(github.com)
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by prussia 2y ago
The manga scanlation world is pretty big, but that's not been my experience and understanding at all. 1. For truly popular mangas, no serious group is going to wait for a chapter to be released in China or Taiwan[0]. Someone that liv
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by prussia 2y ago
reticulum.network perhaps? It certainly fits the "replace the IP layer" requirement, and I believe in theory it can be very large scale, though unsure how it would do in reality.
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by prussia 2y ago
Well, it's a lot easier to automatically scan and store emails than postcards (eg, flagging all emails with certain keywords or in certain languages)... I guess nowadays they can use OCR to scan postcards, but that would be of doubtful
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by prussia 2y ago
Njalla (domain names, VPSes, VPN), and Mullvad (VPN) both accept Monero.
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by prussia 3y ago
I thought all open source licenses allow commercial use, not just the major ones. My understanding was that is the definition, at least according to OSI [0]: > 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups [0]: https://open
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by prussia 3y ago
When I read the title I thought of Befunge ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge ). This seems easier to write though :)

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