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Alexandre Testu

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atestu··on Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes starting December 4
I love Drafts, only for mac and iOS however: https://getdrafts.com/

Pro version is reasonably priced although I haven't found a need to upgrade.

atestu··on You have to be educated to be educated (1997)
A big difference I think is that religious truths by and large don't really change. For Christians, Jesus is Lord and always will be. It's been 2,000 years.

In those last 2,000 years virtually all "scientific truths" have changed. Scientists used to believe the Earth was flat, that it was the center of the universe. Doctors prescribed cocaine. And you can dispute those examples maybe but i hope you see what i mean.

It's not completely unreasonable to see how that might lead some people to not believe current scientific consensuses.

atestu··on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – it isn't working
no it's not. Very few public places in the US allow alcohol consumption.
atestu··on OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones
NextDNS (blocks ads in all apps) and 1Blocker for YouTube ads in Safari. Both free.
atestu··on Ireland Won the Global Tax Game, and Is Swimming in Money
WSJ has a new top editor... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/business/media/emma-tucke...

> At least 15 veteran editors and writers have left the paper in recent months. Long-held stylistic practices, such as the use of courtesy titles in articles, were disposed of overnight.

EDIT: for fun I asked GPT4 for a headline "in the style of the WSJ": "Ireland Capitalizes on U.S. Tech and Pharma Profits, Establishes €100 Billion Rainy-Day Fund Amid Global Tax Shifts"

atestu··on Researchers tested AI watermarks and broke all of them
Well, a lot of people don't trust the Washington Post and might want proof that the photos they're posting are of real events.

The Washington Post might not trust its photographers completely either (journalists making stuff up happens[0]), so they too might want proof the photos they're getting are real.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/us/correcting-the-record-...

atestu··on Researchers tested AI watermarks and broke all of them
What about adding other sensors like LIDAR to make it harder to fake what you’re filming? I think about it often too…
atestu··on iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues
You're right, of course. I try to think about it like a car. I would never buy a new car, and a 5 year old luxury car is cheaper and better than a brand new non-luxury car.

But the new ones are definitely shinier...

atestu··on Stop trying to make social networks succeed
> Make feeds more obvious (say, it was integrated into modern browsers. Some sort of first class “feed detected” icon)

Firefox and Safari used to have this during the web 2.0 years, back when RSS was at its peak: https://blog.markheadrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/fir... https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/image...

The browsers themselves were RSS readers.

atestu··on Fast
About those COVID hospitals https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/china-st...
atestu··on ‘His ideas resonate’: how the Unabomber’s dangerous anti-tech manifesto lives on
Manhunt: Unabomber https://reelgood.com/show/manhunt-unabomber-2017

I loved it too. It used to be on Netflix but they took it down.

atestu··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
WSJ yesterday for what it's worth: https://www.wsj.com/articles/linda-yaccarino-in-talks-new-tw... Good writeup

And to add to your comment:

> Mr. Musk, who has been CEO since buying the company in October, said his role will shift to executive chairman and chief technology officer. But Mr. Musk also made clear he wasn’t about to yield control over the platform, saying he would maintain responsibility for product, software and system operations.

atestu··on Gpt4all: A chatbot trained on ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo Generations based on LLaMa
4k for gpt-3.5 and 8k-32k for gpt4 (there are multiple versions: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4)
atestu··on Data-Free Disney
> Starting before my kids were born, I made sure no private companies collected traceable data about them—at least, nothing that could be aggregated across services or platforms to identify them or to target me as a mom. I bought everything—from pregnancy tests to diapers to clothes—in cash. At home, I built up an entire alternative tech ecosystem: privacy-oriented browsers and blockers, firewalled machines and accounts, and multiple concurrent email addresses. I’ve never even swiped a credit card or a discount card for children’s goods at the till. It’s been nine years and counting, and I have yet to see a single ad for diapers, daycare, or summer camp.

I love my privacy and my kids' but I don't understand this extreme behavior... She is worried that companies know she has kids? Can't they just pull public records to see that? Or read this article published under her full name with attached social media profiles?

Personally I don't want to be tracked by Disney in the real world, but wouldn't mind it inside the park. Or, like another commenter pointed, just don't go. Disney will track you with or without a band (isn't every square inch of the place under CCTV?)

atestu··on Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript
I agree. Hamburger buttons were popularized with smartphones so they are still relatively new. Here's a good breakdown on why they suck https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menus/

tl;dr "Discoverability is cut almost in half by hiding a website’s main navigation. Also, task time is longer and perceived task difficulty increases."

atestu··on Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage
Taking the average number of hours worked per year by Americans here https://www.freshbooks.com/hub/productivity/how-many-hours-d...

3,000 / 1,936 = $1.55 more pay per hour. Nothing to sneeze at when you make minimum wage (which they don’t all make), but hardly “transformative” imo.

atestu··on Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
Tallow. Lard. Duck fat. Butter.
atestu··on Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
According to WSJ it will include China:

> The new encryption system, which will be tested by early users starting Wednesday, will roll out as an option in the U.S. by year’s end, and then worldwide including China in 2023, Mr. Federighi said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-plans-new-encryption-syst...

atestu··on Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
The show “Manhunt: Unabomber” (Netflix) shows this whole story very well.
atestu··on There was a stretch where phone design went bananas
Do you mean T9? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)
atestu··on School vs. Wikipedia
The workaround is to use Wikipedia and quote the sources you find on the article.
atestu··on Biogen agrees to pay $900M to settle drug kickbacks allegations
Did physicians go to jail for endangering patients? Lose their license at least?

“The Pharmacist” on Netflix really opened my eye to how above the law doctors are.

atestu··on LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to privacy friendly services
Why does it need to access my data for all websites? Why not limit it to the websites it redirects?
atestu··on Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
I’m with you except making the battery bigger would make it heavier and I think my 13 Pro is pretty heavy already…
atestu··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
yes. Whether they're public or private doesn't change anything about how competitive they are.
atestu··on A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response [pdf]
No one’s mentioned the Ferber method yet, it’s what got my daughter to start falling asleep on her own and do full nights at 5 months old. Took about 4 nights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferber_method

atestu··on Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
Except the story wasn’t “fake news”. It was real.
atestu··on Finnish as a world language?
Same in French. I agree.
atestu··on To Hell with Facebook (2021)
I don't know how you found this but I stand corrected!
atestu··on To Hell with Facebook (2021)
That's fair. There are a lot of big news sites that don't have RSS anymore, like axios.com
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