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I last tried Ubuntu as a daily driver in 2009. How has Linux reliability improved for consumers since then?

It might have been that the OP wanted to try for themselves using an app or some source code.

I check prices on my reciepts. I shop at Costco, Walmart, 99 Ranch, Sprouts, and Trader Joe's. I'm fairly certain the error rate for all those shops is less than 5%.

Same as any other ad supported services- the service is useful or entertaining.

Provenance matters because LLM writing is cheap compared to actually having to think about what to say. I only have a limited amount of time to read. Skipping someone's Internet co…

Thank you for the keyword filter!

Not sure about internationalization but at least for English, constraining to ASCII characters seems like a simple solution.

There's an interesting paper on how to sandbox that came out recently. Summary here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/ TLDR: Have two LLMs, one privileged and quarantine…

Unless I'm missing something, the opt-out is one click away. I don't understand the problem. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/2tLoFkQ

Airalo works well on my iPhone for travel. I had super fast data in Europe (including UK), Japan, Mexico. IIRC the rates are not competitive compared to local plans though, so not …

> unattributed Plenty of AI models cite their sources.

I'm skipping 2 hours of ads per month for $15. IMO it's a pretty good deal. (Assumptions: I watch 10 hours of YouTube videos per week, YouTube shows 30 seconds of ads per 10 minute…

Twitch subs remove ads for subscribed channels, so OP doesn't buy subs. Which is the more likely scenario? 1. OP buys bits and throws them at their favorite streamers despite not b…

You think he could be personally liable for eight figure plus damages? Where is the precedent for this?

Unless D'angelo has some expensive eight figure lifestyle, he's not going to a poorhouse anytime soon. > He was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice pr…

> Free AGI Who pays for the R&D?

Emerging markets don't buy small cars as a conscientious environmental decision, they buy them because it fits their budget. Small cars cost less than large cars to buy and run.

- Google (Search, YouTube, Android) - Facebook (Groups, Messenger) - Amazon (Store, Audible) - eBay - Spotify

When my phone was taken in an armed robbery, it ended up in Ho Chi Minh City. No threats though... I assume they just parted it out.

> if paying these miners to stop has the desired effect of reducing the load on the grid, miners not existing would surely have a similar effect. In a privatized system, a large, p…

They are also in a race to the bottom. Some booking sites will have an option to show prices after all fees, but it will never be on by default.

Most people don't run an adblocker on their phone, and these torrent sites would cease to exist or become malware sites themselves if enough users used adblock. Let's not kid ourse…

> Search for torrent or download link, click, Hope that you didn't click a sketchy ad that looks just like the download link, because the site didn't police any of its ads.

I guess to be more specific, zero-days that they don't fix even after they're exploited.

Start by analyzing whichever email service you use. Add additional checkboxes: - [y/n] Is SMS the only 2FA method available? - [y/n] Is there no 2FA at all? - [y/n] Do they have a …