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I already cancelled my subscription. They've demonstrated far too reckless behavior for me to trust something this critical to them, especially as they present themselves as the private and secure alternative.

Okay, to me it reads like a lazy swipe. You seem to be aware of the power of AI to build you whatever you want, so why ask this question like this? It seems like you're just trying to tell people they should fully trust the software they install.

Sometimes you need to use a particular piece of software but don't want all of its functionality. You're allowed to want some but not all.

It used to be. The core offering is still functional. But with every update it becomes less usable. Orbs, badges, glittery avatar borders, aggressively animated, rainbow gradient text usernames, and now ads embedded directly into the UI.

> The Ultimate 4K System includes every 4K movie available (at the time of shipment) pre-loaded onto two Terra Prime 120TB movie servers along with one Strato K movie player.

What? How are they getting away with that?

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Firefox have all those features? Why put third party intermediary between you and the source?

Perhaps the average employee at this organization is ill-equipped to make good use of AI. Efficiency and effectiveness might be a function of a good engineer wielding it, while a bad engineer might burn through tokens just to keep up.

Or maybe that's just me in the bargaining stage of my career collapsing.

Do 404media links get auto de-ranked on HN? I know it's a contentious publication in the SV tech circles. I'm surprised this isn't higher up.

One would imagine they've run the numbers and found it to be unproductive to spend more on Claude.

Doesn't stop them from legally mandating you give them the device as-is and retain all data on it.

My philosophy: if the hardware doesn't belong to me I'm not doing anything personal on it, no exceptions.

Their economy relies on exports that just got a LOT more expensive to ship, and the US economy destructing would likely take theirs down with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OETnuwwsv9U

Translation software and text-to-voice has existed for many years, why does AI make this any different?

Horrid. What the hell are they doing?

Aren't we supposed to be living in a world of accelerated software abundance because of AI?

> Japan is an island. It has always been and not just from a geographical perspective. Its very culture and history are ones of isolation. The restrictions are not new, the perspective "Japan first" is not new - these have always been there, they are at the very core of the nation.

That's not at accurate from what I know of Japanese history. You seem to be over-indexing on the (relatively) brief Tokugawa-era sakoku policy and ignoring the thousands of years surrounding it where Japan was an active importer of culture.

Kanji, government structure, Buddhism, law, art and more were all imported from China and hugely influential in Japanese history. After the the Meiji Restoration, Japan explicitly set out to Westernize and went abroad to study European and American institutions, invited Westerners in to help build European-style banking systems and government systems, adopted Western clothing, architecture, military organization, legal codes, etc. etc.

If anything the Japanese are masters at importing the things they like of foreign culture and then modifying to make it their own. They have always been importers of culture.

Kagi Translate is good software.

I think Kagi's product team actually uses their own software. I often have a small frustration with something and wish for some mitigating setting or change, then go look in the settings and find exactly what I want.

For example: automatically choose Japanese when entering kanji, and automatically strip HTML markup from pasted content.

Why so? For most people a computer (in the traditional keyboard/mouse sense) isn't a leisure device, a phone is. They scroll social media feeds and watch YouTube or whatever.

I'm sure most of us on HN use them for leisure, but for most people a computer is a device for work, not for play.

For many people the phone is the only computing device they use. Keeping portability and offering a larger display is a compelling offering for those people.

I tend to agree with you.

> RoR and so poorly planned that it’s still biting Microsoft on a regular basis.

Disagree. The RoR front end was way more stable and usable than the mess they have made now.

> I was watching a video about Gen Z versus Millennial views on this subject and they talked about how when Millennials were in high school and college, tech innovation was moving fast and delivering really useful, fun technology. It was also a lot less pervasive and all-encompassing in scope. It wasn’t a massive machine of surveillance capitalism, or at least, not in the same way. Figuring out which banner ads resonate with each user was a lot more innocent than private surveillance cameras on our streets doing Minority Report-style policing.

I think millennials are even more upset by this than other generations. They grew up with a version of internet technology that was useful and non-exploitive, then watched greedy tech companies and CEOs about face and burn it all down to make extra billions.

Not exactly.

> Blinder and Watson reported that budget deficits tended to be smaller under Democrats at 2.1% potential GDP versus 2.8% potential GDP for Republicans, a difference of about 0.7 of a percentage point. They wrote that higher budget deficits should theoretically have boosted the economy more for Republicans, and therefore cannot explain the greater GDP growth under Democrats.[3] Since 1981, federal budget deficits have increased under Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump, while deficits have declined under Democratic presidents Clinton and Obama. The federal government ran surpluses during Clinton's last four fiscal years, the first surpluses since 1969. The deficit was projected to decline sharply in Biden's first fiscal year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...

> Btw is there a some “w3schools” for recent CSS?

No better resource than MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

I also like https://css-tricks.com

I empathize, I hate the bloated JS-heavy web and avoid it when I can. I just don't see a better solution. The options for me are: sacrifice some legit users by using Anubis, or sacrifice all users by shutting down my service because I can't afford to serve the bot traffic.

> For a business, blocking some of your paying customers isn't acceptable.

That depends on your business and the costs you're incurring from the bots. It might be justifiable to lose 0.1% of your customers if it means saving server costs from serving useless bot traffic.

How do you figure it hurts real users? The amount of compute/energy used on the proof of work is pretty minimal. You're using more when you watch a YouTube video or browse a JS-heavy web app.

Of course a sophisticated scraper can "figure out" how to bypass. It isn't trying to be foolproof, it's adding an extra cost to deter massive amounts of bot traffic.

I put it in front of my hobby project because I can't afford to serve hundreds of thousands of bot requests from residential proxies all across the world, and I didn't want to route all of my traffic through a third party company like Cloudflare.

I've been happy with Anubis.

Last I checked virgin birth remains in the realm of religion, not science.

Why only women?

I modified the title from "A player found out the ACTUAL name of my game's upcoming character from the Google Search AI - I had never told the name to anyone." because it was too long, and just cropping it to meet the character limit did not adequately explain the content.

SV has done enough to influence Americans to hate them without the help of foreign enemies.

https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgvTlt1VB8