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Zufriedenheit··on Is being bilingual good for your brain?
Same here. English seems to be a very invasive language for the mind.
Zufriedenheit··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
I am probably not the average computer user. I didn’t even receive this notification, but just reading about this makes me reconsider switching my devices from Apple to open source software. I have every possible ad blocked and I have been a happy user of Apple devices so far. But this behavior feels so scammy and cheap, not worthy of a premium brand.
Zufriedenheit··on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers
Eventually, we will figure out how to turn plants into milk then the cows themselves will be replaced by machines. If you think about it a cow stable is just a huge bioreactor, plants in on one side milk out on the other side.
Zufriedenheit··on Scientists: Protein IL-17 fights infection, acts on the brain, inducing anxiety
Is that „becoming happier“ also observed with TNF blockers like Adalimumab?
Zufriedenheit··on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
I think with these erratic changes, the US government is paralyzing the economy. How are businesses supposed to restructure their supply lines if policy changes every 48h?
Zufriedenheit··on Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri
I think the main issue is that you can't fully control what an llm will output. If Apple products output wrong/silly/dangerous content it is in the news and big reputation hit for them, whereas for a small ai startup people don't really care. Apple likes to have full control over the user experience.
Zufriedenheit··on Mistral OCR
How can I use these new OCR tools to make PDF files searchable by embedding the text layer?
Zufriedenheit··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
In Apples position I would set up a little task force that goes through everything single bug mentioned in this thread and fixes it.
Zufriedenheit··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Does Apple offer this type of encryption in China?
Zufriedenheit··on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
Same happened to me. After visiting many doctors, the last one told me he still has no idea what could cause my symptoms. After that, I uploaded all my test results to ChatGPT. Got the diagnosis right away. Asked it what test I could do to confirm it. Went back to the doctor. Did the test. Confirmed the diagnosis and started treatment.
Zufriedenheit··on Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
Is there an OCR arena out there, similar to lmarena? Would be very useful but couldn't find one yet.
Zufriedenheit··on Introducing ChatGPT Gov
I think Elon Musk will try very hard for OpenAI to not get any government contracts and with being in charge of government technology via Doge he has a good chance of succeeding.
Zufriedenheit··on [dead]
They had a win/win situation before. The news sites got free traffic and social media got free content. I don’t understand why they made this law but the outcome was predictable.
Zufriedenheit··on Apple Tweaks EU Core Technology Fee to Avoid Bankrupting Unexpectedly Viral Apps
Does this mean something like f-droid is now possible in the eu? Free open source app distribution unrestricted by App Store rules?
Zufriedenheit··on Sleeping Tesla driver caught on Swedish highway – after 25 miles
Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering about that driver facing camera. Didn’t know that the 2019 model didn’t have it. Other OEMs use infrared sensors for that. A camera is a bit spooky to me from a privacy standpoint. Nevertheless Teslas newer models should be able to prevent this situation with it.
Zufriedenheit··on Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
This reminds me of the recent movie “Perfect Days”. It’s about a japanese man who lives his ikigai cleaning Tokyo toilets.
Zufriedenheit··on EU right to repair: Sellers liable for 1 year after products are fixed
I wonder if this also applies to supplies like print cartridges. Would put an end to the practice of HP and other printer manufactures.
Zufriedenheit··on Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
Can Nextcloud News scrape the full article text if its not included in the feed?
Zufriedenheit··on Framework: We don't want to have to make a printer, but wow
We had a HP Printer for a long time and it was a nightmare. After it broke down, i noticed that Epson was the first company to make a printer with ink tanks, while the others where still arguing that its not possible because the ink would dry out. I figured this must be the least evil printer company then. It's been working fine for now. Also no need to buy third party ink because the original is reasonably priced. By now the others also offer printers with tanks.
Zufriedenheit··on How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people
One major factor is ignoring evidence based medicine. In India you can still commonly buy traditional medicines which have heavy metals like lead and mercury as ingredients.
Zufriedenheit··on Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing
But what about all the small, independent forums in the internet? For them it would really be impossible to comply with monitoring every post. Often they are hobby projects.
Zufriedenheit··on Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
Good that thunderbird just had some big releases recently. Ready to take over the role i guess.
Zufriedenheit··on SumatraPDF Reader
I have done extensive research in past when i was considering switching from mac to linux. Came to the conclusion that there is no viable open source alternative for the mac preview app unfortunately. My requirements where: - Fill forms. - Add text and markup. - Reorganize/add/remove pages. - Redact parts of the document. (should also safely delete underlying text data, without rasterization of the whole document) - Add image of signature without rasterization of the whole document. This [1] is a long discussion i found about the topic.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85873/how-can-i-add...

Zufriedenheit··on U.S. Deficit, Pegged at $1.7T, Effectively Doubled in 2023
Germany actually has the second highest tax rates of the developed world. [1] Also it is written in our constitution that the budget has to be balanced except in extreme cases like pandemic, natural disaster or war. Our problem is that companies are leaving because of high tax and energy costs. [1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/185987/umfrag...
Zufriedenheit··on Flexbox Froggy
Wonder how to finish the last level. Need to target the yellow frogs as items but in the editor there is only a selector for the pond?
Zufriedenheit··on Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (2020)
I use this to aggregate some RSS feeds. Also to generate a feed out of the HTML from sites that don't have a feed. Then i just publish the result as GitHub Pages and add this link to my reader. Thanks for this instruction it got me going on that idea.
Zufriedenheit··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
I really like this german channel for bike repairs: https://www.youtube.com/@nlz.fahrrad It also shows tricks to improvise if you don't have all the tools. Doesn't upload that often though.
Zufriedenheit··on Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
Gigaset. + Stock android afaik + 5 Year updates + Swappable battery and still IP68 - a bit older hardware and higher price

It's the only smartphone assembled in Germany so not sure if its available where you live.

Zufriedenheit··on Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
If i read this correctly they will also be delisted from google search, which is almost equivalent to being erased from the internet nowadays. The newspaper business model seems to be broken but i don't think this is the way to fix it.
Zufriedenheit··on DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube
This looks like a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, many websites that started out as social-networks have turned into places of “creators” seeking attention to make money on ads. Because of a bad incentive structure. It seems Twitter is now heading this direction as well. This extension might help to bring a bit of sanity back to the web. I also enjoy using the SponsorBlock extension made by the same guy.
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