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  1. Are there any current Kagi extended trial codes?

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    Around this time last year, Kagi gave away extended (3-month) trial code for customers to share with others. I've done the standard Kagi trial (100 searches) and I like some of it, but I've been...

    Around this time last year, Kagi gave away extended (3-month) trial code for customers to share with others. I've done the standard Kagi trial (100 searches) and I like some of it, but I've been stingy in using my limited supply of searches, so I wasn't able to evaluate it in full day-to-day use.

    Are they offering the same extended trials this year? If so, would anyone here be willing to share one of their codes for my noble mediocre cause of evaluating if I'd like to pay for Kagi going forward?

    Thanks!

    20 votes

  2. Comment on Shrinking number of free news outlets in ~talk

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    I find what with virtually any individual source, including three of the four you listed—I don't use the fourth one—the quality articles and those that are worth the time to read are scattered...

    I find what with virtually any individual source, including three of the four you listed—I don't use the fourth one—the quality articles and those that are worth the time to read are scattered between opinion pieces and recycled filler. To me, this is the real difficulty: getting to what matters.

    In an attempt to solve this, I've been trying out Ground News and Perplexity's Discover feed. They are both aggregates that try to group articles from different sources reporting on the same events. (They also do LLM-generated summaries, which I often find less sensarionalist than most of the cited sources, but these can be ignored entirely.) Between the cited sources, I usually find a few paywall-free options that cover the matter adequately for my needs.

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  3. Comment on Unfuck Google Drive (It's Gemini garbage, of course) in ~comp

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    I'm pretty sure it's the same with OneDrive. I don't have a link now, but I remember people claiming that some mp3 files disappeared without warning, even though I don’t think there is a way to...

    I'm pretty sure it's the same with OneDrive. I don't have a link now, but I remember people claiming that some mp3 files disappeared without warning, even though I don’t think there is a way to check whether an mp3 file came from a shop, a Linux ISO, or your own CD.

    I also remeber a story about a guy losing access because his own pictures of his own children were classified as "CP"; I think that was on GDrive.

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Unfuck Google Drive (It's Gemini garbage, of course) in ~comp

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    Seafille is an alternative to Nextcloud for file syncing and sharing. Like Nextcloud, you get a desktop version to sync folders, and you can generate links for individual items. There are also web...

    Seafille is an alternative to Nextcloud for file syncing and sharing. Like Nextcloud, you get a desktop version to sync folders, and you can generate links for individual items. There are also web interfaces and mobile apps. The UI is more basic compared to Nextcloud, but can also be faster, especially on web.

    If you only want a solution for sharing file, not syncing between your own devices, I like Zipline. The web IU is simple but good, and you can set up various ways to upload from desktop, e.g. from the CLI or using ShareX on Windows.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Is chain-of-thought reasoning of LLMs a mirage? A data distribution lens. in ~tech

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    This is my intuition, too. I remember from reading about DeepSeek-R1 that a lot of the "reasoning" value came from being able to stuff a really long CoT inside the context window. I bet Gemini...

    This is my intuition, too. I remember from reading about DeepSeek-R1 that a lot of the "reasoning" value came from being able to stuff a really long CoT inside the context window. I bet Gemini Pro, with its 1M context window size, does the same, as you can see from the "thoughts" in the web interface, which sometimes go on for quite a while before the answer begins.

    I'm not saying anything bad about this study, but I think it's important to keep in mind that findings on small LLMs from just a few years ago don't necessarily generalise to the newest, largest models available today.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on New Android phones, stock or flash? in ~tech

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    I'm interested to know your thoughts on OnePlus vs Samsung. What did you like/dislike most about each? I keep seeing screenshots of UI/UX bugs and inconsistencies in the OnePlus software, whereas...

    I'm interested to know your thoughts on OnePlus vs Samsung. What did you like/dislike most about each?

    I keep seeing screenshots of UI/UX bugs and inconsistencies in the OnePlus software, whereas One UI feels like a much more mature and stable piece of software.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Redditors of Tildes .. what is the thing you can live without? in ~tech

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    Apart from your first and last point, everything else could be fixed or worked around by using a good third-party client or old.reddit on desktop. This is what reddit is to me; without them, it’s...

    Apart from your first and last point, everything else could be fixed or worked around by using a good third-party client or old.reddit on desktop. This is what reddit is to me; without them, it’s not a place I want to be…

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    /r/coffee and /r/espresso taught me a lot of things during the lockdowns. I'd love to see them here! Topic-specific news are another one. Reddit is a great place to find news on computing,...

    /r/coffee and /r/espresso taught me a lot of things during the lockdowns. I'd love to see them here!

    Topic-specific news are another one. Reddit is a great place to find news on computing, Android/iPhone, politics, health, and so on, and it would be great to get that here.

    6 votes