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There's enough high quality video and audio news that it's fully possible to be an engaged and informed person even if you can't read for shit. Plus, text-to-speech is very good no…

I actually love that it doesn't do this, because the sites that do are a headache (and sometimes entirely unusable) if using a VPN. And since you can bookmark it with your location…

toxoplasmosis doesn't actually do that to mice. It makes them less scared, but iirc, not even so much that they don't flee. it's one of those studies that got blown up into a world…

why are so many people so comfortable making this assumption, based on writing style or a checklist of supposed tells or notoriously unreliable detectors, and making kneejerk accus…

"So buzz off" (whether a direcy quote or not) seems like a sign they accept the consequence of some people buzzing off. If they didn't do this, they'd have to accept the consequenc…

That's disregarding that the people in power routinely make it as difficult as possible to have a choice. If you buy the cheapest foods, maybe it's because you want to eat and pay …

Yeah. It's like everybody's forgetting that github also bans things, such as certain projects that receive DMCA takedown requests. And github pushing its LLM garbage into Visual St…

I'd rather companies actually care (or even just care about seeming to care) about ethics, rather than only caring what makes the line go up the fastest, yes. A company that treats…

those bots are extremely effective at manipulating LLM results via comments and faking entire reddit threads. at least if you go to reddit, you know the answer came from reddit, an…

ublock origin (not to be confused with the lite version) can also do this, and is more flexible. But it's easy to miss this functionality because you have to know about and read so…

with the very AI "For example"??????????????????

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Yes. LineageOS, GrapheneOS, Arch, Sailfish, various other open distros, Windows Phone, and a surprising number of random proprietary options (these are sometimes based on Android, …

I've seen that a lot more often lately because of AI botnets. Supposedly the bots come (or appear to) from some countries more than others, and sometimes websites are just banning …

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Neither Anthropic nor anyone in the Trump administration can hold a candle to kabuki theatre. (I know that's not what you meant, but still! Art, the LLM and the Trump admin cannot.…

The rest of it sure does read like "content", yep. There's no substance. It's short. And then there's another book ad. It reads like someone used an LLM to cough up an article as a…

You can copy a shared link and use the browser url bar to open it in a private window, or delete the extra crap at the end of the url (anything after the ? in a lot of cases). Gran…

I think they want discount codes from "sign up to our mailing list!" emails. If it's in the promotions tab, they probably never have to look at it otherwise or get bugged with noti…

Ok, but I can't possibly be the only one who has no idea who that is, let alone what misconceptions they have.

That is definitely a difficult battle to fight, but why do you think kids can't bypass these government-level restrictions just as easily as they can your own? Especially since gov…

YES. Not just the Google class action notices - though those, which Google was court-ordered to send and deliver , are the most egregious - but ALL class action or settlement relat…

Have you not encountered the eleventy billion subscription services and merch stores? Those make a loooooot more money for creators than ads these days. Even the dirt cheap ones. S…

This is because of the Google I/O (developer conference) announcements this week. They're about to overhaul their regular search and make it even more garbage, to the point - so it…

If you don't use their sync service, all your vault files are local only, and there isn't any mysterious telemetry happening in the background. If you do use their sync service, it…