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Reminder about Firefox's built in reader mode, which is great for working around annoying styling or mobile rendering issues.

I haven't tried it myself but I have heard that LLMs can be much better at handwriting OCR than previous tech. This opens the possibility of handwriting and then scanning and digit…

Footnote in TFA: >Regardless of one’s opinion regarding pseudoscience and occultist horseshit — pro, con, or indifferent — one might reasonably think it wrong for Apple to disallow…

> Who consumes the goods produced by the factories and mines? Not all consumption is good. It can harm health, relationships, etc. And many goods have been ravaged by planned obsol…

"Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" So many of these things DON'T benefit the public, especially as automation reduces the number of jobs they produce. They mostly benefi…

AI data centers aren't the source of America's prosperity. In fact many arguments can be made that they will contribute to its loss.

People are going to assume any data center project will have all the worst possible qualities. And a this point I'd say they're justified given how much dishonesty and corruption h…

>An entire SimCity clone based on a different economy like this could be fun. There's this example of such a game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources...

I enjoyed his rant videos about soul sucking landscaping and the ways it could be better with lower maintenance native plants.

The Party was great at using Viewscreen technology to catch thought criminals.

I live someplace with abundant groundwater so my water comes from a well less than a mile away. But millions of people have aqueducts leading to their city providing a significant …

> People also thought aqueducts were the best way to move water for thousands of years. They still do because they still are? I'm hard pressed to think of a better way to move wate…

Looks like this is based off the TonUINO. As a new father looking to build a card based music player for my kid, I'm surprised how many projects I've found now to make these things…

Someday that GameCube will break and so will all the others. And someday that PC capable of running open source emulators will also break. And all that will be left is corporation …

Someone would complain that without ID verification kids would be able to sneak onto the regular Internet and therefore we should eliminate privacy on the regular Internet, just li…

Besides the page header and footer, the post has 0 use of the word "Android", which feels telling of Google's approach these days.

LineageOS is still a thing too.

Spoilers for the movies 'Her' and 'Bladerunner 2049': Both portray a love interest AI hiring a human proxy for intimacy with the protagonist.

My suburb got rid of Flock after enough people complained at a city council meeting. I think more places in our county are following or attempting to follow in our footsteps.

I do have to say that if you're interested in privacy, tap to pay or even a credit card is the opposite of that. Cash would be the way to go for private transactions.

Of coal use, yes. That's what inspired this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

But what if the work is useful beyond just crunching numbers for the sake of proving it?

How would this network protect itself against spambots? Is there any sort of reputation system or barrier to entry that would be fine for an average user but annoying to bot operat…

Is this really transitioning into another AI company? It's an integration for having a 3rd party AI vibe code plugins for their hardware's interface.

I see quite a few male nurses too, except for in the birthing and family care suites when my wife gave birth. All women across the several days we were in hospital, with the except…