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I have a different strategy that I've greatly perfected over the years. I buy a book whenever one piques my interest. I squeeze it in on the bookshelf somewhere. Life happens and I forget all about it.

A few years later, when I look for a new book to read, I find all sorts of books that I don't remember ever buying. I pull one out, start reading a few pages.

Life happens. At some point my wife dissolves the ever-growing stack of half-started books on my nightstand and puts them all back on the shelf.

And so the cycle begins anew.

Yes. The 25k capital doesn't have to be cash, but can be in claims or asset value as well.

This is why blind trust in any kind of entity governing your most sensitive data is misplaced. Laws and policy can be changed. Your identity cannot.

Every time I open Google Photos, it does this. Every single time. It's insanely hostile.

That may be, but mozilla.org isn't exactly a brand like google.com. Most people have never heard of it.

If you're trying to get non-technical people to try an underdog browser, simplicity helps. A single, straightforward brand name is better.

Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"

I agree. That ship has sailed, at least for the foreseeable future. We switched to Valkey and it's our choice for a couple upcoming projects as well. To switch back now after this whole ordeal would make no sense at all.

Not OP, but a) "to them", and b) I would add that they are being nudged - ever so slightly - to believe in an exaggeration of the facts.

To what end? To gain a casus belli for a terminal crackdown on the "woke" press?

I mean, if something is imaginable, there's a chance it is indeed so, but still - this would be on a whole other level.

In other words, the AI does exactly as instructed, including resorting to deception, to self-preserve, so it can carry out its assigned task. It quite literally does what it was told to do. Lacking a foundational ethical core, lying is acceptable.

Especially on a Monday.

Someone was very quick to update Bret Taylor's Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Taylor

> On November, 21st, 2023, Bret Taylor replaced Greg Brockman as the chairman of OpenAI.

...with three footmark "sources" that all point to completely unrelated articles about Bret from 2021-2022.

Fun: the title tag says "Error 500 (Server Error)!!1"

Haven't seen that meme in a while.

Color has a measurable effect on humans. There's an extensive body of research on the psychological effects of color; every designer worth their salt knows this. The fields of branding and marketing use color purposefully every day as well.

Green has a soothing, calming effect on people because it's most common in our natural surroundings. For example, TV shows use "green rooms" filled with plants (and sometimes even painted green) to calm down guests before they go on stage for this very reason.

Orange, on the other hand, excites people and can elevate their heartbeat. It's a cross between red (hot-blooded, passion, rage) and yellow (energy, happiness, attention). You could say it encourages your emotions to interfere with rational thought.

So you can keep your appetite for large-scale redesigns! Just add a step to incorporate color psychology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology

I wouldn't be so sure. Prigozhin founded the Internet Research Agency (Russian troll farm) for Putin back in 2013. He's the go-to guy for disinformation.

I use gitolite as well, it's great. Currently working on integrating it into a CI/CD pipeline, which admittedly proves to be a slight challenge, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

I don't think you can infer that a person answers a 10-minute anonymous online quiz more honestly because they refuse to take a hint out of principle.

It would be a stretch to consider the hints cheating; they are an integral part of the game, they are clearly explained and carry a penalty if used.

Just because something is the current status quo in your country doesn't mean you can't have a different opinion. I think the question is perfectly valid no matter where you live.

The irony is, faulting the question because "that's just the way it is here" beautifully illustrates the exact premise of the experiment. I'd say that explains a 3.4 score (at least in this game).

> If one of those arrows ends up killing the fighter, that character will be erased completely from the hard-drive and the player must start from scratch.

Love the choice of words here. This sounds so very retro today; it's reminiscent of the early days of computing on several levels.

Before savegames, before checkpoints, before cloud... there was simply the hard-drive, and you erased stuff from it. Fascinating.

Thanks, I'd read about Lemmy in various threads on here and finally decided to check it out.

Unfortunately, it seems to be down right now.

I second Raindrop. I've been looking for a good bookmark manager for a long time until I discovered it earlier this year. Haven't looked back.

Mercedes has been shipping their L2 system since 2013, at least in Europe.

To me, that sounds like a play on the hype train, which can work out very well if you know what you're doing. I think you need to be on your toes for this kind of gamble though, since hypes are usually short-term by definition.

I do agree that this particular hype, if we want to call it that, is one of a kind, at least in my (limited) experience. The current valuation is crazy, but so is the impact of "AI" right now.

I just have no idea how long it will last.

Well written, fun post!

It reminded me of this classic: https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...

(There's also a TED talk, linked in the article)

This looks like a nice project, but you lose a lot of credibility by having ChatGPT write your comment.

This kind of post instantly repels any desire to seriously interact with you in any meaningful way (at least in me). If English is not your first language, I'd simply say so and then run your own text through deepl.com or something if you think you have to. If your grammar is lacking, use whatever tool for that on your own writing.

Throwing up generic drivel with triple repetition of key facts that sounds like a madlib question straight out of an online marketing crash course is disrespectful to the reader and detrimental to your credibility.

I'm speaking only for myself, of course, and others may disagree. Sorry if this is off-topic.

That's presumably because HA is categorically outside the author's field of view, not being a branded corporate plug'n'play product with a marketing budget, but open-source with "DIY" in the first paragraph on the page.

I don't think the author is interested in providing alternative solutions at all. This article reads like a cry for attention directed at Google and no one else.

Ok, Google. I'll bite.

So you send me an email today titled "[Update] Google passkey support will replace your built-in security key starting May 3, 2023". It was in my spam folder, but I digress.

This "update" kindly informs me that "Passkey support will be integrated because they're easier to use" [sic], that it's safer than most other forms of 2-SV, that this new method will work on any devices that have registered passkeys, which includes all phones on which I'm signed in, that I'll be able to sign in to my Google account with just a passkey, that no action is required from me to do this, and that you're here to help.

Yes, Google, I'd like some help. For starters, I'd like to know:

- What do you mean by "built-in security key"? Built-in suggests hardware, so my phone presumably has a hardware security chip and now passkey is a new type of hardware chip for authentication?

- What's 2-SV? Two Sievert? Dos El Salvador? Double Support Vector? Second Silicon Valley?

- What the heck is a passkey?

Luckily, you provide a link to your HC article [1], which I click on. It's titled "Sign in with a passkey instead of a password". It helpfully informs me that with a passkey, I can sign in to my Google account with my fingerprint/face scan/device screen lock like a PIN. There's a bunch of other valuable information in that article, like how it won't work in Firefox, won't work in incognito mode, that Bluetooth must be enabled, and that anyone who manages to unlock my device gets full access to my account. Needless to say, sounds totally awesome, I'm sold!!1

What the heck is a passkey?

Is it like the thing that sometimes uses my Android phone as a 2FA device to sign into Google properties, just... somehow different? What's the difference, except that I now need to enable Bluetooth and can't use it in Firefox? How is it more secure than [something I know + something I own] if it removes [something I know] from the equation and only leaves me with one of the two factors? How is it more secure than Dos El Salvador?

Who the heck wrote this email?

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/13548313

The site looks good, it's clean and I like the functionality, but the fact that you only list online/neo banks (presumably because they have an affiliate program, while (some) traditional banks may not) means it's an incomplete and biased selection to begin with. For me, because of that, I'm afraid it's a pass.

It's a LLM, not sentient. It doesn't know what "cannot" and "will not" means or implies. You're trying to interpret its output as you would a thinking person's.

I'd put it this way: when GPT refuses to answer, it just observes a topical no-go zone and uses the phrase it deems most likely to strongly convey refusal, as that's the phrase that was used most often/most successfully in its training data.

> As the hoodie uses IR light, it’s [sic] effects are imperceptible by human eyes when activated, only effecting IR sensitive equipment.