timdaub
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Shameless plug, I've actually spent the last 2 years working on a HN alternative for crypto people because I got similarly frustrated with the HN community. It's still online and we're kinda trying to get an influx of people who'd like to use such a product. I'm not going to disclose the product name here because I feel like I'd be risking getting moderated. That said, if you wanna check this out please message me in private and I'm happy to send the link to you. My bio should have info
I always cringe when I hear the word "Nazism." Because the first time I heard it, it was when Putin said it in a speech after invading Ukraine. And indeed, if you check Google Trends, you'll see that the term had its peak around that time and has had an increased usage ever since. Nazism is not a word known in German either. We purposefully call it national socialism. And to be honest, I think it makes sense to be national socialism. Because it is nationally socialist. Meaning it is social towards the nation. Which is also a reason why there is the "Internationale." Because to me socialism that is constraint to a nation is inevitably nationalist, I mean how else could it not be?
Hey CupricTea,
I'm working on building a social media site that wants to improve on moderation and I've found the case of the Grokipedia curious. So I'd love to get in touch with your but didn't find any details in your bio. Please reach out to me and let's do a user interview (can be via email too). My contacts are in my bio
Hey clanky!
I'm building a social media product myself and I saw your comment here. So I wanted to reach out and ask if you'd be up to talk about how moderation could be improved online. My contact data is in my bio!
Hey, if anyone thinks this article was wrongfully flagged, please contact me via my email in the description and lets talk. I'm building a startup related to moderation on social media so I'd like to user interview you
Hey I'm working on a product related to flagged content. Would you be willing to talk to me?
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timdaub on Sunday September 21, 2025 @09:38AM
from the proofinprogress.com dept.
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timdaub on Sunday September 14, 2025 @12:58PM
from the proofinprogress.com dept.
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timdaub on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi,I'm allergic to grass pollen, and it has its season in May and June in Europe. So this year I want to try to escape Europe and to not get exposed to pollen. For this reason, I've been looking for places that:- Have a nice tech scene- No pollen in the air in May and June- Affordable- Safe- the closer to Europe, the betterThe best I could find for now was:- Iceland (bit cold lol)- Capetown (do...
This framing is a concession to people who are terrorists. Many people who are optimistically working towards a better future (and here I mean broadly almost anyone) are not arguing for "infinite growth in closed systems." Everyone is and has been trying to optimize things as well as it is in their capability to improve the situation.
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timdaub on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:34PM
from the bafybeifa3ulg3ryjtjksz73il6oaw5fu534wiyuknsrmh7r3jn4oo7ln34.ipfs.dweb.link dept.
yeah, precisely as I laid out in my post too. But Brian Armstrong took the "build what I want" option when it came to a "decision that could be life changing to thousands of people"
Posted by
timdaub on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:44AM
from the telegra.ph dept.
Yes, you are right. I'm blending the issues here. But see, I'm a EU citizen living in Berlin and naturally I've come to Milan for work and vacation, expecting to use ChatGPT. And frankly, I find it unacceptable that the Italian Garante took the initiative here and outright banned it.
POLITICO reports:
> The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.
> The national data protection authority said it will immediately block and investigate OpenAI, the U.S. company behind the popular artificial intelligence tool, from processing the data of Italian users. The order is temporary until the company respects the EU's landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-ba...
Ah yes? How do Milan and Berlin differ from Brussels?
Posted by
timdaub on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:42AM
from the proofinprogress.com dept.
Btw. I don't have a book in Nuclear/renewables. Not sure if my friend Mike can say the same.
Diversity is where it's at! Heatwaves can also drain the rivers that cool nuclear plants! We need a more resilient grid and diversity of production is probably the answer here, isn't it?
You're right. I just thought the nuclear debate in the last few days was so heavily in favor of "nuclear is silver bullet for climate change" that I felt like publishing my thoughts too. It's not all gold that shines.
> OP handwaves away issue of nuclear safety, incorrectly labelling it a straw man, and with it, the very real possibility of nuclear accidents. If there was a Chernobyl-scale nuclear accident in Germany, it would drastically shorten the lives of tens of millions of people, and it would make half the country uninhabitable.
IMO Solana's article is a maximalist position and I trust that no "nuclear-unsafe" argument would ever get through to him. It'd just be "agree to disagree.' Besides, there are great arguments that make the "nuclear is a silver bullet" argument of his bad if one exposes all of the nuances that went into the German decison - and that was my idea with the response.
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timdaub on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:03AM
from the piratewires.com dept.
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timdaub on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:41AM
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timdaub on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:09PM
from the newyorker.com dept.
you can run a node, build a frontend and knock yourself out with moderating. The frontend is like a VIEW table in a database. It rearranges the data but doesn‘t alter the underlying tables. So e.g. you can have a kiwi HN with HN-like moderation
yes, among other things
rampant crypto hate here is another one