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Re:Is Something Going on with Archive.ph? on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:02PM (#38232067)
'One more step. Please complete the security check to access'

Except I have JS disabled and can't complete the CAPTCHA interstitial.

> There's no option to report it specifically for being a deepfake

FB/Instagram is fueled by AI. It makes them money. They're not going to see this kind of 'pink slime' content as being a hindrance.

Re:The problem with writing cold emails on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:29PM (#38183930)
> Stop doing "{{ name }}"

Had to laugh at that. The amount of e-mails I received which were boilerplate and mistakenly included the actual template variable as a raw `{{ name }}` is staggering. I hope this tool addresses that.

> Knowing which screw to turn

"It took me ten years to know how do this in 10 minutes"

> Dating apps are designed to keep you single forever and owned by a single corpo.

Heard good things about Alovoa: https://alovoa.com/

> Free and open-source dating platform that respects your privacy.

> I don't own iOS devices on which blocking is less effective

But if you must use iOS, I recommend ADGuard Pro which intercepts ADs/Trackers at the network level using a pseudo VPN Profile. You can even load up your own custom filter lists.

Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to make ends meet? on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:20PM (#38183808)
Boring low paid 9-5 with half of my income subsidizing online side hustles that I work on at the weekends when I have extra time to play with.
Re:Ask HN: Do you think Adobe's AI will replace Photoshop? on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:14PM (#38183746)
> you need to know what you want to type

This is why there are 'prompt engineering' roles. AI plays an assistant role, but it has to see human agents being creative with prompts.

Re:Seeing Like a Bank on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:12PM (#38183720)
What about 'neo banks'? I am with Revolut free tier and I know why they have a free tier/basic tier, because I know they monetize my bank statements and purchase habits for 'market research' and other insights.
Re:iPhone 15 Latest Revelations on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:50PM (#37396056)
Yeah. Interesting feature. I would like to know how popular it is, or is it just more feature creep from Apple.

https://trak.in/tags/business/2022/07/10/iphone-15-phones-wi...

I hit CTRL+F to find the word 'neutral' in this article, but no such word appeared. But it did appear in another EFF article titled 'We Need to Talk About Infrastructure'[0], which is the crux of the issue here. My only question is; what is regarded 'internet infrastructure' these days? Is Cloudflare really just an ISP? Is VPN infra considered an ISP? Are mixer nets like Tor/Hyphanet an ISP?

'Essential internet infrastructure should be content-neutral':

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/we-need-talk-about-inf...

Re:Ask HN: What are you excited about? on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:14AM (#37309143)
The Singularity. At some point dots will be connected, and tech will start to converge. It's too spread out, it needs to be more tightly coupled, and also in the right hands.
Tech is sort of like a Penrose Stairs[0]. You level up your skills, then the whole industry levels up too, and you need to upskill yet again, and this keeps happening until inevitable burnout.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_stairs

Re:Ask HN: What do you use your personal site for? on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:13AM (#37223926)
I've been treating Github like a sort of public Dropbox lately. Anything interesting I've built gets dumped there.
Re:Study: Inflammation drives social media use on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:57AM (#37210419)
> What are the motivations for people to be daily activate users these days?

The sincere belief that real town squares don't matter and that the real ones are only online now. This is brought on by propaganda in the media that Twitter, etc is where things 'happen' now and real life should be shunned at every instance.

'If it's not online, it doesn't exist' mentality.

There's also Rachel's Whacker News: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/

And Filippo Valsorda's gem:

https://filippo.io/fakenews/

And of course my one (shameless plug):

https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/

I think everyone should have their own fake HN side project lol

I built `This Hackernews Does Not Exist` which is similar to this:

https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/

HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845946

Strikes me as unsurprising that they shun Facebook because their parents and grandparents are on that and they want to feel 'with it' with the latest up-coming social network.

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