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This reminds me of “en” vs “ett” in Swedish. No rules - just gotta know

I think there’s enough real conscious lifeforms in the world having a bad time that we should be focusing on them first.

> The scary part to me is that it actually works. Not practically, but that upper management and whatnot actually buy it.

That “below average” intelligence pool are well represented in upper management. FOMO is a powerful thing, smart people are often tricked by dumb ideas because they don’t want to miss out on something or be perceived to not understand the value of a bad idea

Counterpoint - the two major Australian supermarkets both sell in-store “finished” cookies that are like crack. They’re delicious. They come in a pack of 5 for $3.50 but 5 is way too much. I’d gladly pay $1 each for them as a snack while I’m shopping

There are occasions where shrinkflation does make sense. In the Mars case, I’d say there is consumer demand on the health side as well. Yes, a Mars bar is never “healthy” but 40g is less worse than 60g

Automatic filtering on modern iOS has been a game changer here. Assume Android has something similar, but I can't speak highly enough of that one feature

An MMO of Full Throttle would be amazing!

Reminds me of RAGEagain for the Australian viewers

https://www.rageagain.com/

10 years ago I would have agreed with you but these days.. Outlook has been crapped on so much that Google Workspaces are competitive imo

Meh, I enjoyed reading it. I could be LLM-assisted but also I have a bunch of younger devs on my team who do actually write like this

You’re welcome to not like the article, and it can even be LLM-assisted, but that doesn’t mean it’s slop

Naive question, but isn’t every output token generated in roughly the same, non-deterministic, way? Even if it uses its actual history as context, couldn’t the output still be incorrect?

Not trolling, asking as a regular user

Seems to be looking for a new maintainer. If anyone has the bandwidth, it’s a great piece of software

Giving the benefit of the doubt, could it be being used as a translation tool?

> Cloudflare isn't one of the good guys here

Came here to say the same thing, post was interesting until I got to that point.

> nuisance captchas

Try using the internet outside of the western world and major hubs. Cloudflare make it so painful with captchas and browser integrity checks

This is a great project! I like and use Wayland but the portal protocols and extension mechanism does leave a lot to be desired. Wayland is still quite a way behind Windows and macOS in terms of what productivity users need

An X11 rewrite with some security baked in is an awesome approach. Will be watching!

I use Firefox personally, where do people who care about privacy go? For those of you who’ve already given up on Firefox (I can understand why..), where did you go?

> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.

The point is that it doesn’t matter. A single site going down has a very small chance of impacting a large number of users. Cloudflare going down breaks an appreciable portion of the internet.

If Jim’s Big Blog only maintains 95% uptime, most people won’t care. If BofA were at 95%.. actually same. Most of the world aren’t BofA customers.

If Cloudflare is at 99.95% then the world suffers

Don’t mess with perfection

Definitely fair but for the candidate considering this, it's a numbers game. They're just looking to get their foot in the door for a new career path. You care, and you're right to care, but there will be others who don't.

Then next time, it's no longer a lie and they can (in theory) get by on merit

Lie on LinkedIn, get a foot in the door and explain in the interview

Mac only but if you want a local only version of this (which has been mentioned in other comments), Dayflow[1] looks decent. I think I'd actually love something like this but can't quite bring myself to run it.. even with local models

[1] https://github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow

Yes but many of us also complain about the lack of quality journalism. We can’t encourage good (presumably) people leave the industry and also want the standard of reporting to improve

latitude.sh do bare metal in the US well

I’m using Monal and it’s decent. Agree reactions are a big thing missing, but notifications etc have been flawless which was a harder requirement for me

If you're a normal person in a country that Cloudflare considers "scammy" - your internet experience is very different from someone based in the US. Your personal online behaviour is irrelevant

Sort of, I was probably a bit flippant in the comment but there’s also a short game that can be had even in a potentially hostile environment.

Because money is the priority for those people. If they can make more money by operating in a different regime then they will, the moral or political stance of that regime isn’t really relevant

Different book/author, but if you haven’t seen A Scanner Darkly then give it a go

I kind of think this is correct but not for the reason you think. To most engineers, users are the annoying thing on the other end of a ticket. They “don’t know how to use the product properly”.

I’ve also had great success dropping engineers directly in front of customers. I think it’s just because it humanizes the person behind the ticket