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by sandcat_ 6d ago
> If you think "oh hey I was just talking about socks, how did they know to show me an ad for socks" Or you’re talking about socks because of the previous ad for socks you saw. I suspect ads drive our collective behaviour mor
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by sandcat_ 9d ago
That's fair. It got most of my stuff without issues, but there were a fair few I needed to fix. However, compared to Plex, I've found the remote experience (through Tailscale) to be a lot easier and better performing than the Plex
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by sandcat_ 9d ago
Not only that, it blocks access to users with an adblocker enabled.
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by sandcat_ 10d ago
Really? I've never really had this. I occasionally get a "huh, is this right?" in person but even that is rare now. And in the past decade, I've had my email rejected by a form maybe, once? twice? And most of the confusi
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by sandcat_ 11d ago
With the exception, maybe, of whole wheat bread (it seems they sometimes add extra wheat gluten, technically an additive but yes, silly), these all seem right to me? Especially meat replacements, they're often incredibly highly process
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by sandcat_ 13d ago
Agreed. If you don't want to care about backwards compatibility, there's plenty of space for you in tech. Just not at a domain registry!!
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by sandcat_ 13d ago
Your response seems to imply those people are irrational, but it's really just different priorities. Yeah, you need to make sure you don't lose the domain. With Google/etc, you need to make sure you don't break any of th
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by sandcat_ 13d ago
There's a difference between controlling the domain and self-hosting. You can still use Gmail and Outlook (I assume, I don't know for a fact) with a custom domain. But the difference is if any of those services become less reliabl
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by sandcat_ 16d ago
British, living in Canada :) but close enough. And ok, fair. But to be clear I’m not just downloading avengers-tier stuff! e.g. I’ve been downloading some French films from the 70s recently and had no trouble at all. But yes I can imagine t
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by sandcat_ 16d ago
Can anyone help me understand the benefits of joining a private tracker? I get it for music, or ebooks, etc. More niche stuff can be hard to find (even less niche stuff, in fact). But for TV or movies I don’t think I’ve ever really had trou
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by sandcat_ 19d ago
For sure. That’s all I wanted to provide: an alternative anecdote from the article which led with an anecdote of perhaps the worst case for withdrawals. If I’d read an article like this five years ago, I might not have gotten the help I nee
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by sandcat_ 20d ago
Sure seems like it to me, but my doctor seemed bemused when I mentioned it to him and I don't think they're routinely prescribed for them. I reckon if I'd have paired the SSRI with some exposure therapy, it would have cured m
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by sandcat_ 20d ago
Thanks, yeah, but if I’m honest I don’t really care enough to go through with it. I almost did once, years ago, the London Zoo have a programme. I mentioned it though as one of the most stark changes I noticed after getting on an SSRI was p
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by sandcat_ 20d ago
To provide one additional anecdote: I came off escitalopram with no taper after taking it for about five years (10mg). I got brain zaps for a while, got very irritated at times, but largely was fine after a few weeks. Not downplaying the wi
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by sandcat_ 21d ago
Same! I’ve quit Reddit, TikTok and Instagram this year without any effort whatsoever. I’ve tried unsuccessfully in the past but have always been dragged back. But all three have become so utterly boring and full of AI slop recently that I j
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by sandcat_ 22d ago
Video game tips. Constant mistakes and hallucinations, in my experience. Seen this across a lot of different games. Even in really well documented games, such as OSRS (which has multiple fantastic wikis). Anno 1800 was a recent one I had tr
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by sandcat_ 22d ago
Others have explained about not being able to see all content, profiles and such. I’ll add another reason why I redirect to it: XCancel is/was a lot faster than X and had IMO a much cleaner UI, especially when reading larger conversati
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by sandcat_ 27d ago
Thanks for sharing. My comment clearly struck a bit of a nerve amongst some and resulted in some mildly nasty responses, at least by HN standards. Admittedly it was one of my more heated takes, too. But it was worth it for your anecdote. En
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by sandcat_ 27d ago
Indeed. In fact I suspect that the destruction is the point. A book that Anthropic destroys the last copy of is a book that OpenAI will never have.
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by sandcat_ 27d ago
Then why does Amazon want them? Why train an AI on worthless books? Individually you might be right. Some cookbook from 20 years ago probably is worthless to most people. But then there'll be one person who spends an afternoon hunting
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by sandcat_ 27d ago
Security theatre is far too strong. It’s not perfect but it does solve real world, actively exploited privacy flaws, such as ISPs monitoring and selling insights from DNS, NXDOMAIN hijacking, etc. Your internet traffic is all MITMd by Cloud
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by sandcat_ 28d ago
One of the interesting things about the UK, demonstrated I suspect by this comment, is how incredibly tied to social status / class they are. Your supermarket is arguably more important than say, your car, or your watch, or whatever el
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by sandcat_ 29d ago
During this period however they’ve released models which lots of people report to be significantly more chatty. Framing it purely as a promotion ending feels like you’re giving them a bit too much credit. I doubt it’s a coincidence they sta
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by sandcat_ 29d ago
That did not go where I thought it was going! I thought you were going to say that the pink dolphins, the sloth, etc, were all more valuable than $100 ever… nevermind you missed some meetings, time to sue!
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by sandcat_ 1mo ago
I recently set this up on my homelab, not really expecting to switch to it, more out of interest. But wow, after I saw how unbelievably fast it was, I’ve moved everything over. I’ve now set it up to mirror things automatically to Github if
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by sandcat_ 1mo ago
Gemini is the only model that I still see regularly flat-out hallucinate, e.g. the other day it told me we were using a particular technology (Fivetran) on a project when we aren’t and I have literally no idea where it could have gotten tha
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by sandcat_ 1mo ago
Battery life was more what I was getting at. You’d basically have to have it plugged in and I couldn’t see Apple going for that.
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by sandcat_ 1mo ago
It allows iPad apps to run natively on macOS. Before Catalyst and later Apple Silicon, there were no touch-native apps for macOS.
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by sandcat_ 1mo ago
The main objection to touch on MacBooks so far is the software, by far. Apple may now, just about, be in a place where they could support it due to Catalyst, Apple Silicon and some of the latest UI changes in Tahoe. Back then, when they rel
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by sandcat_ 1mo ago
The immediate problems were software, but the hardware was what doomed it and I don’t see how they didn’t see that from the start. It could never be in all their products (e.g. iMac, well, without requiring a wired keyboard but that was nev

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