mclightning

Joined 14 years ago

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Member since
Oct 15
think, build, release
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Comment · 4 months ago
It is a lot more complicated than that. Your content is not simply used, copied, or even just simply distributed. The very terrain that you produce, distribute, represent your content has shifted due to the mechanics of it. Anything you produce is grabbed into AI summaries. They're grabbed into the training data. Humans produce free/open materials for many reasons. A lot of them don't have room to breathe and gain structure due to AI siphoning the entire atmosphere of web; eg communities
Comment · 6 months ago
Another reason to buy a Chinese android phone.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is why I built https://db4.app. This solves the biggest hurdle with using a PGLite instance from your browser, by giving you a universal postgres url. You can connect to it from anywhere with your credentials. Your data and queries are fully encrypted end-to-end. So it is only between your app, and your browser tab. Your data stays with you and db4.app provides the relay basically.

You can also host the Relay app yourself locally, if you'd like.

It comes with support for PG-vector, so you can use it for RAG in LLM Studio. We have a few MCP applications already built in the community apps section.

Happy to answer any questions.

Comment · 6 months ago
That is not a real account.
Comment · 8 months ago
I made the biggest donations in my life via Watsi. Thank you for building this site. I love you guys have an API as well. I thought of building an app on top of your API but never got round to complete it. If you are curious, I can share; I think there may be an opportunity to capture value in free giveaways and turn it into charity. Many people try to give away their things quickly on fb marketplace or letgo, ...what if they could ask for a donation to a charity? I know there are challenges like, what if they want to return. But there has to be a way to solve this with an escrow service or something. A similar model already works in used, 2nd stores that work for charities.
Comment · 9 months ago
Demographics and political complexity of Cyprus is not compareable to Greenland
Comment · 10 months ago
based on what their CEO is saying...he repeats like a broken record; "we do what other companies won't because of ethics and morals"
Comment · 10 months ago
Magic sauce is absolute lack of moral values.
Comment · 1 year ago
Vercel has been outdated for sometime and it is refreshing to see alternatives coming up. This one seems like superior to Vercel already, definitely worth the switch.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is very underwhelming. It seems like a step backward. Scam altman should be replaced before he runs the company to bankruptcy.
Comment · 1 year ago
I came here to write this will get flagged, and I was already too late. We need a new "HackerNews"

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