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Comment on Operation Bluebird launches Twitter.now in ~tech
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Stop Killing The Internet: No digital ID and no age verification
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Comment on How to find a new calling in life? in ~life
fxgn LinkHave you tried one of those questionnaires for career guidance? They won't reveal any shocking insights or choose a job for you, but they can be very useful for clearly understanding what type of...Have you tried one of those questionnaires for career guidance? They won't reveal any shocking insights or choose a job for you, but they can be very useful for clearly understanding what type of jobs you're interested in.
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Comment on Motorola’s GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentThere are also other YouTube-specific clients, such as NewPipe, PipePipe and LibreTubeThere are also other YouTube-specific clients, such as NewPipe, PipePipe and LibreTube
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Comment on What theme do you use with Tildes? in ~tildes
fxgn Link ParentI'm 18, so it's definitely not due to age. I think low contrast is just an inherent problem of most light themes. It was very hard for me to find a good light theme for coding for this exact reason.I'm 18, so it's definitely not due to age. I think low contrast is just an inherent problem of most light themes. It was very hard for me to find a good light theme for coding for this exact reason.
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Comment on What theme do you use with Tildes? in ~tildes
fxgn LinkDefault white. I dont use dark themes and the other light themes on Tildes are very low contrast.Default white. I dont use dark themes and the other light themes on Tildes are very low contrast.
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Comment on Motorola’s GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentYou can get a Pixel 8a for like 200$ and it'll be supported until 2031. There's no reason to buy a last year phone when Pixels are supported for 7 years.It's essentially pricing people out of privacy. It's making privacy a high-end feature instead of the status quo.
You can get a Pixel 8a for like 200$ and it'll be supported until 2031. There's no reason to buy a last year phone when Pixels are supported for 7 years.
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Comment on Fairphone Gen 6+ now available in the US in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentUnfortunately there's no interest from Fairphone to improve their phones' security and no interest from Graphene to collaborate with them on that...Be nice if I could get Graphene on this
Unfortunately there's no interest from Fairphone to improve their phones' security and no interest from Graphene to collaborate with them on that
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Comment on Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentShouldn't it be relatively trivial to just mimic the API request the Amazon website makes? You can just open the browser dev tools on the order history page and see the request that gets the...Shouldn't it be relatively trivial to just mimic the API request the Amazon website makes? You can just open the browser dev tools on the order history page and see the request that gets the history.
I've done the same with a different online marketplace and it worked well (although their website was directly returning HTML, which is still perfectly parseable, but I chose to reverse engineer their mobile app instead, which is a bit harder)
cc @goose
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Comment on McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentMaybe the problem is not McDonalds but American health insurance laws then.Then one day you’ll be denied health insurance because you eat too many burgers.
Maybe the problem is not McDonalds but American health insurance laws then.
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Comment on McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentI don't understand how that's related to gathering data about individual customers. They're adjusting prices for everyone, not just for specific people. They could've done this by tracking regular...I don't understand how that's related to gathering data about individual customers. They're adjusting prices for everyone, not just for specific people. They could've done this by tracking regular metrics without having an app and a loyalty programme.
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Comment on McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me in ~tech
fxgn LinkI am very much a privacy enthusiast, but I don't see anything wrong or bad about this data. The export doesn't indicate any sort of data sharing—the profile McDonalds makes is only based on your...I am very much a privacy enthusiast, but I don't see anything wrong or bad about this data.
The export doesn't indicate any sort of data sharing—the profile McDonalds makes is only based on your purchases at McDonalds, which are totally fine for them to track. The so-called "515-page dossier" is not as scary as it sounds, because it seems to just be a raw dump of CRM data, not some curated 515 page profile of the user. And the most scary exampled of the data they have is "here's your most bought product and a simple statistical analysis of your visits".
One comment from the HN discussion on this:
Personally, this kind of data doesn’t bother me at all, and is the type of data I don’t mind them having at all, and is the type of analysis I expect them to do. Using the data they have about my direct interactions with them to predict how I interact with them in the future seems fine. As long as they aren’t charging me extra, why should I be upset that they can predict what I will do based on my predictable behavior?
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Comment on Elon Musk on tomatoes in ~food
fxgn Link ParentI'd say luck is still a bigger factor. I'm sure there's a lot of sociopaths with no morals who would do anything to become a billionarie, and yet they're stuck being low income. You need insane...if you have a little luck and absolutely no morals.
I'd say luck is still a bigger factor. I'm sure there's a lot of sociopaths with no morals who would do anything to become a billionarie, and yet they're stuck being low income.
You need insane luck to come upon/be born into an opportunity to unethically make billions, and then abandon your morals to take that opportunity
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Comment on Looking for an effective self-block application for Android in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentMy parents installed some of those on my phone in my pre-teen years, and they are absolutely not impossible to circumvent. Restarting the phone in safe mode disables all user-installed apps, and...I believe those will be much harder to circumvent
My parents installed some of those on my phone in my pre-teen years, and they are absolutely not impossible to circumvent. Restarting the phone in safe mode disables all user-installed apps, and you can easily uninstall or permanently disable it from there.
The only one I haven't found a way to bypass as a child is Google Family Link, because it completely blocks your phone screen as soon as you turn it on and doesn't let you press anything at all. But that means it also blocks useful functionality, which OP doesn't want.
I think the phone operating systems are generally designed with the principle that the user can be trusted more than some third-party apps, so letting an app prevent the user from uninstalling itself isn't really something that's usually supported.
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Comment on How often are you eating plant based meals? in ~food
fxgn LinkMoving from a country where plant-based fake meat is a novelty to a country where it's a super common product costing the same as regular meat made it much easier to significantly reduce my meat...Moving from a country where plant-based fake meat is a novelty to a country where it's a super common product costing the same as regular meat made it much easier to significantly reduce my meat consumption recently
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Comment on Dictatorship in ~society
fxgn Link ParentNo clue, honestly. A representative of the Central Election Commission (the body responsible for registering parties and holding elections) was at the court hearing, and they sided with the...No clue, honestly. A representative of the Central Election Commission (the body responsible for registering parties and holding elections) was at the court hearing, and they sided with the plaintiff and supported the removal of Yabloko, so it's definitely not some completely independent decision of cronies that higher ups had no idea about. However, if the government just wanted to get rid of them after seeing the support they got, they have much easier and quicker ways for that.
There's also definitely an incentive for the party that filed the lawsuit. Out of all the Putin parties, there are only 4 big ones that consistently hold Duma seats, and this one is not one of them. It's possible that by doing this court case they hoped to get some of the anti-Yabloko voters to support them instead of one of the bigger parties.
So maybe the lawsuit was just a convenient opportunity for the government to get rid of opposition, or maybe it's entirely directed by them and they thought a court case is the best way to do it for whatever reason.
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Comment on Dictatorship in ~society
fxgn Link ParentIt seems like their tactic was to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. One of the accusations was that Yabloko posted an AI-generated image somewhere, and that image apparently violates...It seems like their tactic was to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. One of the accusations was that Yabloko posted an AI-generated image somewhere, and that image apparently violates copyright because it's owned by ChatGPT. They also claimed that Yabloko's logo violates the copyright of this painting, which is over 100 years old and has long been in the public domain. They said that the party illegally spent 80 million ₽ on advertisement, a number which they just made up and gave no source for. The entire court case was full of bullshit claims like that and Yabloko was defending against them for hours.
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Dictatorship
Despite being known as a dictatorship, Russia is officially a democracy. The trick is to have 11 parties in the ballot: the first is Putin, which always "wins" 50% of the vote. The next nine are...
Despite being known as a dictatorship, Russia is officially a democracy.
The trick is to have 11 parties in the ballot: the first is Putin, which always "wins" 50% of the vote. The next nine are also Putin, but under different names: Communist Putin, Liberal Putin, Nationalist Putin. The name is the only difference between them—the politics are completely the same.
There is only one opposition party: Yabloko (Apple). Every five years they run for the State Duma (parlament), but always get around 1% of the vote—not enough to be in the Duma, which requires 5%.
But next month, the first Duma election since the start of the war will take place. Yabloko ran with the shortest campaign slogan in their history; only 43 words long, it boiled down to "STOP THE WAR". A vote for Yabloko, no matter whether you agree with the rest of their politics, was the only way to vote against the war. The party was getting more and more popular, with the polls showing their support at a whopping 18%. Even more surprisingly, the party was not immediately designated an illegal organization and was actually allowed to run in the election. It was clear to everyone: the vote will still be rigged, and Putin will still win, but Yabloko has the full chance of getting 5% of the vote and winning a few seats at the Duma. A glimmer of hope for the country was spreading among the anti-war citizens.
Until today.
A hearing was just held by the Supreme Court on a lawsuit filed by one of the smaller Putin parties, demanding for Yabloko to be banned from the election. They won. Yabloko is no longer running.
The most infuriating thing is the cited reason for their removal. There lawsuit had some usual arguments: the party is extremist, the party receives illegal foreign funding; those arguments were quickly disproven and dismissed. Instead, the court focused on an interview with Yabloko's founder, in which the interviewer quoted a children's song and a popular line from a book without the permission of their authors. Yep, you read that right. It was a copyright lawsuit: since the interview was promotional material and violated copyright, that means the party engaged in illegal promotion and shouldn't be allowed to run. All because of two small quotes (which are so common they're basically proverbs) and some picture from the internet they put in the interview.
I'm so fucking done with this country.
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Comment on Tildos, let's be unserious for a while; show us your dankest memes and god-tier shitposts! in ~talk
fxgn Link ParentJoke's on you, I write my SQL in lowercaseIf you use SQL a lot
Joke's on you, I write my SQL in lowercase
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Comment on Google Assistant shutting down on Android and Wear OS in September in ~tech
fxgn Link ParentBtw, Home Assistant has their own official smart speaker device for their voice assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/They're going to be looking into switching to home assistant over the weekend
Btw, Home Assistant has their own official smart speaker device for their voice assistant
The favorite design feature of every AI is
See here for a few other examples.
I dont think the overlap is small, theres a very distinct look to vibecoded websites which sticks out immediately if you recognize it.
Change the meta for whom? Those hallmarks are an artefact of the training data. The AI companies have no reason to specifically finetune their models to change how they design websites, and most users simply don't care. Just how an overuse of random bold font, "it's not just X", "load-bearing" and stuff like that is usually a pretty obvious sign of LLM writing, and yet it still exists and people using the LLMs often don't bother changing the style.