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NietTim

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About NietTim

Niet Tim.

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    Comment #49074767

    Yea was scratching my head why this is news, 90% of dutch webshop for the past 15 years have had ideal (precursor to wero) lol Seems to be a weird marketing article

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    Comment #48979577

    So let me get this straight: - Currently travelers to the US need to give biometric data each time they enter - New DB connection between EU and US for this purpose - People will _…

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    Comment #48979192

    Supposedly it will be only requested for people crossing into the US. But it's not 2012 anymore and we all know better.

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    Comment #48979165

    So let the people who want to go to the US do that and don't send data from the vast majority of people who will never visit the US there. It's claimed that only data of traveler's…

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    Comment #48931354

    I used to have exactly one like that but without all the bogus 3.0 printing on it.

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    Comment #48896713

    Oh, duh, of course. One of those "how did I not think of that" moments

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    Comment #48892106

    > It turned out that my subscription, which had been going since 2013, was on an “Annual Paid Monthly” plan. Even though I was getting billed monthly, I couldn’t actually cancel an…

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    Comment #48685456

    What a fun idea for a game!

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    Comment #48671246

    Oh no, the thief is mad they get "stolen" from? I've had to hard block all of anthropic's scrapers because they seemingly ignore robots.txt and every other unwritten rule about 'po…

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    Comment #48617095

    Just use the browser, it's fine 99% of the time.

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    Comment #48617078

    > Apple added these restrictions because installed app lists can be used for fingerprinting and privacy invasive profiling. And this was heavily exploited by Facebook before Apple …

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    Comment #48538561

    The police of the Netherlands had them, Amsterdam is only a city in the Netherlands.

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    Comment #48537649

    Properly euromaxxing, this is the way.

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    Comment #48473354

    This is not a proper black-box reimplementation, I doubt they can get away with that. And that's not mentioning all other obvious ethical concerns of course.

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    Comment #48461530

    The issue with those solutions is that it would balloon my app size because I'd need to embed the model, or add a mechanism to download the models afterwards, for something that is…

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    Comment #48459788

    Thanks for the reminder, I made a very simple and small mac os guitar tuner and intonation app (all others are either paid, have in app purchases or are outdated) that I still need…

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    Comment #48459581

    Yes, small developers.

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    Comment #48458692

    It's 15% for small developers

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    Comment #48458684

    Can't wait to try it. Made a small log app for my IBS which allows free text input and uses LLM to create JSON. If that could be done on device with a foundation model, it would be…

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    Comment #48336209

    I am not Meta, neither are you, nor are we doing things on their level. You can just build small things for you and your friends that fits your specific usecase that other tools do…

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    Comment #48334265

    That just means you lack creativity, exploring new ideas and building new interesting things is easier then ever, all you need is an idea.

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    Comment #48313010

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48306796

    Planning is the same, implementation time is just way shorter, so we can spend more time on things that are fun. The barrier to see if some outlandish idea works is also nonexisten…

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    Comment #48306321

    I've never had this much fun at work. There was nothing more that I disliked in my job than months long projects with everything already planned out in advance. It made work extrem…

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    Comment #48306120

    Meanwhile you probably use Spotify or other streaming platforms without issue.