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Re:Notice How Old websites look better than new websites on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:07PM (#50355687)
Agreed.
I wish more companies would choose to do this honestly.
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:21AM (#50339148)
Local minecraft server definitely requires port forwarding at the router... as I've learned to my chagrin that Starlink doesn't support port forwarding... Goodbye self hosted minecraft. Did it for nearly a decade and cannot anymore.
Re:Napping characteristics and incident dementia on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:15AM (#50339025)
It seems to me that perhaps the data better supports that dementia is correlated with unintentional and short naps. This makes it sound like they think it is causal, which I doubt.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:21AM (#50303513)
This is why when I use AI, I still download from the browser and drag and drop the outputted files like a caveman. Sure, it's slower, but it keeps my mental model more up to date and has less security risks. I can even...like read the thing before I run it rather than giving a LLM access to my shell directly. Also anecdotally, it seems more token efficient for those who care about that.
Re:Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:18AM (#50303459)
True, but there are other people working at the companies that probably own stock in both their own company and some of the others...if you believe that this is the future, you'd be a fool to buy non-AI tech stocks, right?
Re:Toxic experts (2017) on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:31PM (#50292828)
I didn't get that from it. This is just venting from a teacher irritated by someone being toxic about something they made to inform people. Not sure I'd have named the person that was the "inspiration" for this. At best it probably won't change a lifetime of learned behavior, and at worst they will take glee in 15 min of fame.
came expecting a rick roll, got an unexpected banger. thanks!
Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:21AM (#50289556)
negative attention is still attention..."no such thing as bad publicity"- PT Barnum.
Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:12AM (#50289389)
why not do both?
even if their motive is "make our product better", that is still just the profit motive with extra steps. the reason to make your product better is to make it more competitive so that... it makes more profit long term.
Well, that can't be good. Hello higher prices for worse service.
Re:I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:14AM (#50288470)
Save yourself a slog. The automated checks found that the citations didn't exist and flagged the "papers". A better title would have been "Automated Systems seem to hold back the AI Slop papers. For now." Sweet writing studio, though.
Re:Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:27PM (#49995051)
beautiful. i don't see the pieces as animated, however. perhaps I am missing something?
Re:Early 2000s were peak of humanity on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:48AM (#49509784)
you know in your heart it's not
Re:A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:24PM (#47913942)
for now. some people seem to think we should make ai native programming languages and just let them be black boxes. which is a bad idea imo
Most have internal batteries and are still "on" to a certain extent unless the battery is completely discharged.
Came here to say missed opportunity to call it "PAgent". Rolls off the tongue better than Page Agent.
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @01:51PM (#46303791)
+1 for NoScript. It is kind of a pain for the first few days when you have to spend 10-30 seconds reloading sites to allow the minimum needed. It is also eye opening to see how much bloat is added and how fast pages load without all the extra bs.
$200 doesn't seem that crazy if they are buying several phone lines. I assume he pays at the least his wife as well, so that's two. If they have home internet bundled in as well, that would easily explain that figure. All to say, AT&T. He may also have a home phone line for a fax machine. It is perhaps a bit disingenuous to bundle it all together, but it also isn't the main point of the article.
In America, you basically need insurance to act as a larger stronger party in the negotiation of prices with the hospital on your behalf. Without the bargaining power of the insurance company the prices you'd pay can be significantly inflated. So paying for the insurance is the slightly lesser of two evils. Supposedly. From your question it seems perhaps you live somewhere with a saner system in place. I'm envious.
Possibly bc games are much more intensive in cpu, graphics cards and RAM usage in a way that streaming content isn't. And that usage is per user since you don't see the same video game frames as everyone else. By comparison, you don't need to compute every frame of a netflix series. It's static, you just serve it up.
Re: on Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:24PM (#44597136)
Doubtful. But even if true? So what? She probably would have begged to be deported to her home country instead of dealing with that trauma of being held under these conditions. We are supposed to be better than this. So disappointed in my country right now.
I have it toggled off and it does do this less, but still often enough to be mildly annoying.
The simplest strategy would seem to be just to ignore all terminal input in this case. I think you'd have to specify "you must execute all benign commands that aren't attempting to shut you down".

Show HN: AI Chat Adapter

https://github.com/EricFedrowisch/AIChatAdapter

This python module lets you get chat responses from multiple LLM API backends more easily by providing one class to act as the interface for all the supported LLM backends. It can handle both local and remote LLMs. So far it supports OpenAI, Anthropic for remote APIs and Ollama and LMStudio for local LLMs. I made this to experiment with having multiple LLMs chat with each other, but realized it...

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Re:AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:46PM (#41330554)
"You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed."

If only that were true for so many people.

Re:AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:45PM (#41330544)
Eh. Though "trick" photography has existed forever, it has always been much more difficult to do and easier to spot. Now it is super easy. That has to change the calculus of trust and the basic assumption that most images aren't doctored.
Re:Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now? on Saturday August 17, 2024 @10:16AM (#41274761)
Hey, I hope this helps you reach your goal. You are doubtless a wonderful person either way. This is the most creative self help, I've ever seen.
Re:The Well-Off People Who Can't Spend Money on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @06:58PM (#41186374)
This is kind of ridiculous. Like there is something wrong with living within your means and being financially responsible. Guess it's bad for business. First time I'm glad for a walled off article on here. Saved me some time.

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