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Egrodoon Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities

I work there. The claims made in this article are just blatantly false, and so obviously so to any employee I'm not sure how this hasn't been thrown out.

Egrodoon It's not empowering to hand off the details

Found it (with the help of AI, naturally). Looks like "Wizard 2.0" by Scott Meyer.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18616975-off-to-be-the-w...

Egrodoon Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

You clearly don't work in a legacy codebase

Egrodoon My phone is an ereader now

On Whatsapp web you can now log in with your phone number via a 2fac text, no camera required.

Egrodoon Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

Just checked his LinkedIn and yes, literally lol

Egrodoon Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

Just checked his LinkedIn and yes, literally lol

Egrodoon Calculus with Julia

As a self taught programmer who never got farther than algebra, this looks awesome to me and I may be that small target audience haha.

Egrodoon Young men and women are drifting apart

What happened in the last 6mo to change your mind?

Egrodoon The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

If it becomes this easy to block traffic couldn't malicious applications really mess up a user by spamming out reject packets for common IP?

Egrodoon Snowflake

Not sure how new this is but very cool that users can host a node simply by toggling an iframe or installing a browser extension. I wonder if these methods have much lower bandwidth limitations than the CLI version

Egrodoon BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

Not OP but I also attended a part time Lambda School cohort around 5 years ago and the YC association was huge for me.

Egrodoon The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser

Have you checked out Vivaldi? Incredibly customizable UI over Chromium, if you do make the switch from FF.

Egrodoon Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions

I think about creating this project every time I'm on a Delta flight, great to see someone actually did it.

Egrodoon How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API

This is entirely false, stop spreading disinformation.

Egrodoon Group Video Calls

Curious how WhatsApp makes you feel screwed over? The work they do to ensure end to end encryption is impressive.

Egrodoon Google turned me into a serial killer

What damages were there though? You can't sue (in the US) based on the possibility something might have happened.

Egrodoon Brain-Computer Interface Smashes Previous Record for Typing Speed

https://monkeytype.com is much cleaner IMO if you're not trying to battle anyone.

Egrodoon NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap

Bro this made like no sense.

Egrodoon In Defense of Dumb TVs

The non-Apple equivalent is the Nvidia Shield TV. Excellent piece of hardware that gives you access to basically every streaming app, plus integrates with Android's casting setup.

Also fun fact, the Shield TV is the longest supported Android device in existence

(https://www.androidauthority.com/nvidia-shield-tv-25th-updat...)