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I hate the tracking too. But how to websites monetize free content otherwise? Advertising doesn’t work if you can’t price it. Without tracking, everything becomes a paywall.

Yet every website still has them.

No. The cookie banners have ruined the internet. The banners haven’t fixed anything. Business as usual, just click here.

100%. This is why many of us have a problem with the EU. And world governments in general — the more power they have and the further away from the elections that keep them accountable, the more tyrannical they become.

This is a country that has arrested people for social media posts. It’s also a crime in the UK to offend someone.

Orwell identified the genetic defect in the British genome 80 years ago.

Why do people vote for large, strong governments that are able to take the power you suggest Tech is enabling them to take?

FabFilter is another independent company that make some of the best plugins around.

People care about stories.

Apple doesn’t use Leetcode. It’s often an 8 hour whiteboard interview during with you write pseudo code for the most part. You can’t “cram” for an Apple interview typically.

It would be great if editors had some kind of terms limits to avoid the WikiMafia stuff we commonly see.

Good communication should be the goal of all writing.

Trackball?

Have you used Oracle, Salesforce, Windows? That’s why.

PTA isn’t the place. The school board is.

You could look at disposable income. That’s a more objective measure.

Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.

Completely agree. I hate kids being stuck in a Google ecosystem. Apple’s classroom app is really good.

Why doesn’t the market respond? If people don’t like Android, it seems like a market opportunity to make another OS. People love to complain about Apple and Google’s “monopoly,” but doesn’t that present an opportunity for someone to build their own thing and if enough people want it, they will be able to sell it?

Is anything stopping you from coding your own OS?

How is AI viewing content any different from Google? I don’t even use Google anymore because it’s so filled with SEO trash as to be useless for many things.

Very true. Just the other day, another “copyright is bad” post on the front page. Today its copyright is good because otherwise people might get some use of material in LLMs.

Considering this is hacker news, it seems to be such an odd dichotomy. Sometimes it feels like anti-hacker news. The halcyon days of 2010 after long gone. Now we need to apparently be angry at all tech.

LLMs are amazing and I wish they could train on anything and everything. LLMs are the smartphone to the fax machines of Google search.

So how do authors make money? Going on concert tours? The copyright system needs reform (Mickey Mouse for example) — but the system protects creators.

If there were no copyrights, no author would make any money.

It’s not just corporations. Look how much tracking nonsense goes into a recipe blog.

Is it factual?

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Did congress pass a law I missed? Government communication isn’t a 1st Amendment issue. When you work for any employer, you are subject to the whims of that employer.

No. It’s the idea that you’re renting your paid off home from the government. And the government gets to decide what it’s worth.

Just imagine giving sensitive personal, government-issued ID to a corporation to install an app outside Google Play

In Spain, I have to give my NIE (National ID number) and show my government ID just to send or receive a package from FedEx. Why should I have to give up sensitive information just to receive a package?

Hamas to this day still has hostages. People were still butchered and raped by Hamas. The meme that Palestinians are blameless is just not accurate. Not defending either side, just saying this is like the Soviets and the Nazis on the Eastern Front.

this is not the fault of scientists. This is a byproduct of a severely broken system with the wrong incentives, which encourages publication of papers and not discovery of truth

Are scientists not writing those papers? There may be bad incentives, but scientists are responding to those incentives.

“Visa Waiver” it’s right there in your comment. Waiver means “no visa required: the requirement is waived.”