WickyNilliams

That was fascinating and endearing. I wonder whether anyone there is still alive, and how profound/impactful that meeting was on those and the generations that followed. Thanks for sharing

Two wonderul stories, beautifully written. Thank you for sharing.

Yeah, it certainly feels that way. Utterly bizarre they'd still be at it, in a HN thread of all places.

It's not disingenuous? The person you responded to linked to articles which said it was one sided. You said the other opposite, but provided no sources. I asked for some. It's a simple request that was made politely

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The whole response is bizarre tbh. Talking about my "sudden" interest. I made one comment. "Deep in the chat". It's quite shallow. I am assuming this is a bot

Is there any writing outside of your recollection that says the Heard side was using bots? Afaik all reporting suggested it was one sided, and not her side

I was just explaining my reasoning. Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets. Affiliate fraud is far more serious and untrustworthy than a popup advertising their own product. But yes Mozilla have had their missteps too, no doubt.

In any case, thanks for explaining. There are some features there I was unaware of

Why use Brave rather than FF? Sincere question. Lots of tech minded people choose it, when FF seems like an ideal choice?

My reasoning for not using Brave: not only is it a wrapper around Chromium, but their crypto stuff and some dodgy affiliate injection in the past paints them as untrustworthy.

Second recommendation for newpipe. Fantastic app. I love that you can still have "subscriptions", playlists etc without an account. Set it as the default app for youtube.com and related domains and you'll never look back

It's a damn shame. Using FF on android with a fully fledged uBlock Origin is so good. Makes the web usable. I don't know how people stand browsing with chrome.

I recommend FF whenever the topic of ads comes up and hope that word of mouth with eventually do its thing. Most people don't know about it in my experience.

I'm always astonished when some cash for questions type scandal gets revealed and it turns out they got given like £10k to lobby for some cause. Frighteningly small amount of cash in comparison to the potential impact.

It leads me to wonder what I could get done for myself if I was to drain some savings and send a bung to a politician. But alas, I have scruples

I'd be happy if people threw them in garbage, but I often see them tossed on the street. Sickens me to see

No apologies necessary, that's perfectly helpful. Appreciate the response and the candour!

Awesome, thank you! I am starting to do some work building LLM workflows and would like to stand on some giant's shoulders to skip the initial flailing :)

Would it be correct to say you have experience building LLM based workflows like this? I'm guessing so, given by your critiques and suggestions of better approaches. Can you recommend any books/sites/other for learning these kind of dos and donts?