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Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:36AM (#50286941)
Their not-welcoming community has some guilty too.
Understanding how the models work, is it reasonable to say the generated visualisations are copy or, at least, derived from someone else's work?
Exactly! Always for the "greater good".
Re:Astra for Law on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:27AM (#49753419)
In a certain emergent country, government employees that work for the law courts, are ignorantly uploading private data (audio, WhatsApp messages, and personal documents) of citizens, at scale, to OpenAi using their free accounts, without checking the terms.
Re:Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:57AM (#49723337)
"Apple, Google, and Microsoft honor or have committed (in a specified time frame) to honor this setting."

Specified Time Frame ;)

printingpress.dev project is crying out for this skill.
Wow! Now you have my respect, UEFA.
It's typical to happen after IPOs. The same happened to: IBM, Meta, Google, Nvidia, Apple, and many others...

PS: I am not saying SpaceX is a good investment.

From the official documentation.
If you use LVM you can have a similar pool of storage with 1GB RAM or even less, instead 8GB (ZFS requirement).

Caveat: LVM does not have built-in snapshots like ZFS has.

Unfortunately, programmed obsolesce is the unspoken motto for most companies. Only fierce competition or regulation can push them to do a better job.
Yes. Very precise way to put that.

It's the same way the algorithm telling us what to see when we just want to see the raw feed.

In all cases, we could and can have both.

Re:Iroh 1.0 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:41AM (#48552804)
A relevant free and open source competitor: https://github.com/EasyTier/Easytier
Re:Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:30AM (#48504671)
They managed to create a business model relying in some sort of "slot machine" where customers buy the ticket to discover later they are "stupid" not noticing some rule hidden in the meticulously engineered dark patterns and, to board now and do not miss the planned trip, they will have to pay an expensive fee.

It is still impressive for me they managing to be this good in being nefarious at same time they have to worry about executing the service in such a complex industry.

The cherry on top is their social media, successfully bringing humour to alleviate and to make all of this acceptable, as it was just part of a bigger joke.

Re:Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:45PM (#48465674)
Don't worry about losing your job to AI. We will have a lot of mess to clean up.
It's very easy to fall in this trap of "surveillance for the greater good".

It reminds me the Mullvad pub campaign: https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk

Re:GitHub Is Down on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:05AM (#48020310)
The Internet infrastructure is not ready for all of these "generated" activity.

Eventually it will be!

Re:Layoffs at Block on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:54AM (#47181186)
It is a stupid trend happening between kids in the Internet. Dumbing down themselves to look more... rebel? I dunno.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Monday November 24, 2025 @11:34AM (#46035899)
Thanks. You understand me. Communication is hard and we have tools for doing a good job, why not using it? Individuals should raise the bar instead of embracing mediocrity.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Monday November 24, 2025 @11:32AM (#46035877)
Totally. It really annoys me.

I get distracted. The writer misses to accurately transmit the piece of information at its full extent.

Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters on Sunday November 23, 2025 @09:40AM (#46023896)
The deliberate choice of committing such a basic mistake of lower-casing the beginning of all sentences is an insult. I am afraid of reading it, becoming desensitized, and starting to do the same.
Re:Whole Earth Index on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:33AM (#45833223)
I would never hear of these magazines if wasn't hackernews. They eventually pop up here. I was taking a look on it and... it was so well written!
Re:Disqus Turned My Blog into an Ad Farm – So I Killed It on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @08:26AM (#45424588)
Disqusting is the copious amount of trackers they inject in the websites.

For small websites a good start is to get comments by email, publishing only the ones that adds value to the article or conversation. Why? Because we have lots of noise done by social media. A way of curating the comments increase the quality of the website.

If the website gets traction, than it's good to consider a tool to facilitate the commenting and moderation.

Re:Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image on Thursday September 25, 2025 @07:21AM (#45371555)
While many see it as a problem, kagi.com sees it as an opportunity.
> "...happiness to become one’s default state of mind."

I have read psychologists saying that "happiness as default state" is a social construct myth of modern times. You cannot be happy all the time, the fact of being unhappy sometimes is what drives you self-reflect and to chase meaning to your life. To feel pleasure you need to feel some pain.

Re:Open Source is one person on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:01AM (#45060717)
Yes, I know. My point is that writers could easily do it better.
Re:Open Source is one person on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:11AM (#45053194)
Yeah, the subtle way to plant an idea. It's a crime again to a person have "certain nationalities".
Re:The unexpected productivity boost of Rust on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:25AM (#45052565)
Reviews like yours are increasing my interested towards Rust. Apparently the tools and ecosystem are great, build on solid concepts and foundation.
Re:Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:02AM (#44960075)
My Linkedin feed is very bad. I am ok in reading about interesting companies milestones or my contacts sharing opportunities or work related opinions. What I get is endless self-promotion and corporate bullshit. A place where everybody is the opposite of authentic, acting weirdly and cringe as they were being watched by co-workers and possible recruiters (and actually they are).

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