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Automation is also for reducing drudgery - the work that prevents us from meaningful struggle by taking up resources that can be better applied elsewhere. Not all struggle (or pain…

Maybe the sycophantic behavior of AI models comes from rich people having them build to behave the same as their personal yes-men. A person accustomed to never hearing "no" won't l…

Another example: there are fallen countries that try to penalize abortion even in extreme cases (rape, incest) Having the data in your ad-exchange’s online profile that you bought …

Note that there is a difference between Panoramafreiheit (freedom to record a public building / space with people walking around) versus recording the street before your house with…

This reminds me of https://perldoc.perl.org/Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 Seems like to get it right for every use case / language, you would need functions to translate phrases - so swi…

Eventual source code access is an interesting idea. What language is Uruky implemented in?

> It’s made me realize that the sharing it with others part was always my favorite part of listening/watching and, without that, I can’t really become emotionally invested it the e…

For more calculations about the use of (computational) brute force: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_... "... brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys wi…

> To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force One time, my dentist told me "I can't get it out, I am going to fetch my dad t…

We had to configure a daily reboot for a raspberry PI that just displayed a web page with the current status of emergency calls for local first responders on a mounted TV screen. P…

> Why does patreon need its own app? Wondering about that, too - I always use the website on my ipad since a browser allows me to enlarge the font size when reading novels on Patre…

> Then Kunz started noticing strange things. She seemed to forget subjects they’d already discussed – a recipe for overnight oats, a picture of her own cats. He started asking ques…

Looks like the screenshot and the text are different. "Any business model that does not acknowledge this and does not seek proper compensation for artists is not of interest to us.…

> But, I’ve never met anybody who’s paid for it. I bought the server boost once, hoping it would improve the audio quality of my little channel. There was no discernable difference…

Swiss pensions for foreigners are also only paid if the recipient proves they are alive once a year. My father had to sent proof of being alive for decades. To be fair, it is much …

DownloadNet reminds me of how I got really started with Perl programming over 20 years ago. Since I was using my parent's land line with a dial-up modem (which cost cents/minute), …

Same with a friend‘s re-implementation of Battle Isle 2 ( https://www.kitana.org/arena/bi2/bi2.html ) You would need the original or the GOG version.

Yeah, searing meat in the pan will raise the PM2.5 levels in my flat by a factor of 30+.

Last weekend I used ChatGPT as an NPC generator, which works surprisingly well. I told it to generate a list of NPCs which guard a high security prisoner transport in a Shadowrun-l…

> It had obvious race-condition type bugs when it came to the user interface layer, but most frustrating was its tendency to succumb to some kind of memory leak on long drives wher…

Firefox reader mode helps - just a pleasant white background. White on black causes after-images for me...

A legacy system had an error message like „hahaha operation failed!“ with no explanation, which was most infuriating. They also had the ActOfGodException for things that should not…

Royalroad.com also directs a large amount of readers to authors publishing advanced chapters of their webnovels on patreon.

That sounds like an interesting idea - now I want to print ebooks in my favorite font size... but that feature is locked behind DRM. Still, for webnovels it may be viable.

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