tortasaur

As someone who gleefully followed along as the Web3 hype train derailed, an important distinction is that crypto turns every believer into a salesperson, by design. There were some that were truly passionate about the potential applications for blockchain technology, but by and large they were drowned out by people who, having poured $10k into the memecoin of the week, wanted to see the price of that coin rise.

This doesn't feel like that. The applications of generative AI have become self-evident to anyone that's followed their rise. Specific applications of AI resemble snake oil, and there are hucksters who pivoted from crypto to AI, but the ratio of legit use cases to scams isn't even close.

If anything, the incentives for embellishment have flipped since crypto. VC-funded AI companies will dreamily fire press releases about AI taking us to Mars, but it doesn't have the pseudo-grassroots quality of cryptocurrency hype. The average worker is incentivized to be an AI skeptic. The rise of generative AI threatens workers in several fields today, and has already negatively impacted copywriters and freelance artists. I absolutely understand why people in those fields would respond by calling AI use unethical and criticize the shortcomings of today's models.

We'll see what the next few years hold. But personally, I foresee AI integration ramping up. Even if the models themselves completely stagnate from this point on, there's a lot of missing glue between the models and the real world.

I agree that it will increase Firefox's market share in the short term, but I'm concerned it will decrease the number of people using adblockers in the long run by adding friction to the process. I would expect most Chrome users on HN to switch to Firefox after this, but I wouldn't expect people outside of techie circles to make that move en masse.

I use Firefox, but I'm concerned that this move will change the narrative around the use of adblockers. Chrome is so dominant that if you have to go download a browser like Firefox with such a low market share, installing an adblocker can more easily be cast as something only techies who want to "pirate the web" do.

There was a bone-chilling moment when my (very young) kids were playing with toys together and when asked what they were doing, they responded with "role-playing."

If this was bone-chilling, I have some bad news: there's a whole genre of "role-playing games" that have been around for decades.

Yeah, Valetudo is the way to go. I have it on a couple of Dreame L10s. Integrates well with Home Assistant via MQTT, too.

They support actual Google Play Services in a sandbox: https://grapheneos.org/faq#google-services

“There definitely shouldn’t be a law against allowing people to do what they want within the framework of the rule of law,” McGeehan told WSAZ.

Well, technically true. Making operating within the law illegal would certainly be problematic.

The Simpsons episode was spoofing The Twilight Zone.

What sort of issues? I'm also running NixOS on mine.

I used to use Chrome for Google stuff, but recently I found the Multi-Account Containers Firefox extension. Works really well for splitting up a work profile, accounts tied to your real identity, and casual web browsing.

It isn't even slightly racist. It isn't a comparison of morals between the H1B worker and U.S. citizen; the employer simply has more leverage over the H1B worker.

You misread the parent comment. It didn't say the government could protect data well.

Isn't that where we currently are with centralization?

In terms of software, Signal and Jitsi are great alternatives to WhatsApp and Zoom. People don't use them because of network effects, not because the incumbents are inherently superior.

The parent comment didn't say they couldn't, it said they shouldn't.

Not sure what the parent was talking about specifically, but the ACLU has fallen into the trap of pursuing partisan politics. They have leaned hard into anti-Trump rhetoric to the point that it consumes almost all of their messaging, and at the same time they have distanced themselves from ideals they once defended (in particular, they have stopped providing legal defense support for free speech court cases if they find the speech sufficiently reprehensible).

The problem I personally have with this shift is that organizations like the ACLU, FSF, and EFF are really only useful if they defend a core set of ideals rather than towing the ever-shifting partisan line. There are plenty of ways to fund Democrat/Republican causes, but strikingly few ways to fund civil liberty defense, software freedom, and the rest of the values with less mind share.

Impostor syndrome is when you see yourself as an impostor but are actually competent, not vice versa.

There are relatively inexpensive Z-Wave thermostats on Amazon, if you'd like to avoid the internet-connected requirement in the future. I have a couple of GoControl's.

While this works, at a certain point it starts to make more sense to use something like Nextcloud.

Providing invitations to random people on public forums is strictly prohibited, and can get the inviter's whole invite tree banned.

Googling "RED interview" should provide you with an alternate pathway in, however.

Censorship is a concept broader than government.

I'm not convinced that online dating is quite the effective learning environment you're making it out to be. You are much more disposable online, and people tend to have less empathy. If the only feedback you get is ghosting, then it could be something you said recently, the person could be busy, or perhaps a more attractive match came along. It's usually challenging to narrow it down if you aren't making the most basic mistakes.

Some men bitterly turn misogynistic as a result of their failures, but that doesn't mean that their failures are entirely unique and personal.

We haven't run into issues with a self-hosted instance of Jitsi Meet. Might be worth a look.

You might have disabled some of the default filter lists.

After doing about a month of research (The Mattress Underground is a good forum) I bought a latex mattress from SleepEZ. Had it for a couple of years and been very happy with it.

One consideration to keep in mind is that if you sleep in the middle of your bed you won't want to get the split layers. They make assembly easier and allow for more granular customization, but a friend of mine who got the same mattress feels the crack between them where the layers separate slightly.

The title implies that LIDAR was $75,000 until Apple put it into the iPhone, but it's just clickbait. The answer to the headline is that it improvements to the tech made it cheaper over the course of a decade. It's like saying "a computer used to cost millions in government funding, but Samsung somehow put one in your pocket"; it skips quite a few notable steps for dramatic effect.

Dr. Fauci has since admitted that U.S. health officials intentionally lied about mask efficacy to prevent PPE shortages: https://techstartups.com/2020/06/17/dr-fauci-admits-health-e...

Free speech is a philosophical concept and ideal that extends far beyond the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

I don't read this as saying they'll prevent further breaches. It seems to be saying that they will improve compliance with data privacy regulation.

Yes, you should be able to.