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Comment · 24 days ago
I like the UI simplicity of posteo. They still have quite some advanced features like encrypted address books and more, with good documentation on the implications. No regrets so far, using it since beginning of the year or so.
Comment · 24 days ago
Why not? HN is not critical infrastructure. We do not depend on it even if we use it. We are also not anti-american, we just see that capitalism reached a fkd up state where it supports anti-democratic and specifically fascism patterns. Europeans that are very aware of this also avoid Spotify, even though it is EU. Using EU services is a good heuristic, though, simply because the issues are usually within the big players.
Comment · 24 days ago
And this have to be known, most importantly. Even within Europe, marketing of European products is limited compared to US or Chinese Marketing budget.
Comment · 1 month ago
This. But I indeed see some interesting features for me like better exploration and the difference between the list of updates apps and new apps.

It is really disappointing how much critique it gets, people complaining about stuff that has been bad for 15 years, but apparently the same people who were annoyed by it never contributed to fix it. I guess open source mentality is something else.

Also: while it is released, it is not yet marked as recommended. So I needed to upgrade manually. I assume they do this to get some feedback from early adopters. So I think people should either just wait or contribute.

Comment · 5 months ago
Does it really make sense? Right wing politicians are calling themselves patriots, why would they support foreign companies and give them so much power? Must be a dangerous mix of corruption and stupidity?
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
As Godot is still very simple from the UX perspective, I'd prefer a set of tools to fully replicate the flash workflow instead of a dedicated app. Why reinvent the wheel? Stuff like keyframe animation editor etc is already there anyway and the engine is powerful enough. Just missing some tools, which could be easily added via the asset store.
Comment · 8 months ago
Robot slaves is a funny phrase if you consider that the origin of the word robot literally is a term that meant slave or "forced work". Language doing circles.
Comment · 9 months ago
The same thing I wonder when one claims Jupyter notebooks to be literate programming.

I think cue might be close but to be honest, some practical examples would have been helpful to get a better impression of the point the article is trying to make.

Comment · 10 months ago
I use it for my music files and audio books as it is smaller than mp3. In average it was around 1/3 less space used, I think. I do not hear a difference, but just to make sure I usually convert from the highest available format available, often FLAC, to opus using ffmpegs default settings. No regrets so far. Doing this for a few years now.
Comment · 11 months ago
You never have only one requirement to satisfy. For example, if you'd welcome a certain amount of contributors, your language should be something people know or people like to learn. And of course it may just be the mood of the initiator, which I find completely fine.

Personally I find rust projects very inviting. Figuring out the amount of unsafe code is easy with grep/rg (to a certain degree), the project structure is pretty standardized, etc. All of this makes even a complex project relatively easy to start with. At the same time, the language is pretty usual (C-like and readable). I understand people like it, and writing "written in rust" is a good call for those people, I guess.

"Written in JS" would communicate something else than "written in D" or "written in C++". It communicates a lot of things implicitly.

Comment · 1 year ago
First of I think it is nonsense as I never got any NSFW content with filters enabled, and I actually always disable them and still get no NSFW content if I do not search for topics that can at least imply it.

But the main point here is that this is something generated in a chat-like product. The task and expectations and level of control are completely different. I am not saying it is impossible something like this comes up in a model even with good training data, but even in this unlikely case, this would be easy to catch with a filter.

AI is not search. It is a likelyhood-based text generator which can be useful for finding good terms for search and a lot of other uses, and while people use it for search, the mode and UX is completely different. That is why people use it as such!

If a Restaurant cannot provide proper hygiene, it will be forced to improve or be closed if noticed. And for Grok (and others) hygiene is in question due to such incidents. Society needs to discuss metrics for AI chat hygiene so we can have consistent law enforcement to shut down services like these when they are not hygienic enough.

Comment · 1 year ago
Still not Habecks legacy. This was decided under Merkel.

Besides, CO2eq are often wrongly measured with nuclear energy, ignoring building emissions and effect on the water temperature in rivers (every summer more and more plants need to shut down because of this), etc. Even if this would be done right, there are again and again longer periods where Germany exports energy to France because their reactors are often in maintenance. In the end I would say it is always a bad idea to rely on only one technology to a large degree. Only a well done mix makes you resiliant.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Not sure if there was an option, but I would not want to enable it anyway. I want to avoid baby fingers to enable the screen ;) I remember I enabled it with my previous phone, though, so could work for some.

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