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deafpolygon··on Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?
Talk to them, without a computer or device as an intermediary. You’ll find out quickly… as they often will have relegated the bulk of their thinking to LLMs.
deafpolygon··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
We have .local don’t we?
deafpolygon··on I Still Live in the Terminal
AI slop. There are many tell-tale signs that chatgpt or claude was being used. It’s very difficult to read, as it regurgitates the same thing over and over.
deafpolygon··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
To me, “AI” in their branding means data mining, collection and privacy violation.
deafpolygon··on NetNewsWire Status
This app is my daily driver! Love it, and hope the dev continues the good work.
deafpolygon··on I Fired Google
It might be quietly bold in a world of stunning declarations.
deafpolygon··on I Fired Google
“An adblocker is preventing this page from loading.”

No…, you are.

deafpolygon··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
Do you have a source for this ?
deafpolygon··on Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models
Drive it down so they can buy more equity?
deafpolygon··on Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
I just had an unsettling thought… those with access to Mythos/Fable finding these flaws — how many might be holding back and keeping some of these exploits in their back pocket?
deafpolygon··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
And before that: "The book originated as a short story of the same name, published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact."[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game

deafpolygon··on Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps
“React components”.. I stopped there.
deafpolygon··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Sure did.. it’s called Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card).
deafpolygon··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Complaints in this thread, yet no one will boycott Nintendo for doing this. Ultimately, they allowed this data to be collected and then sold.
deafpolygon··on Claude Fable 5
Before long, we'll be having Claude Cylon-class models.
deafpolygon··on I am giving up on VM Gaming
but the major game studio don’t want you to mod, they want to sell you the same game over and over again.
deafpolygon··on I am giving up on VM Gaming
Honestly, the future is probably going to be something like Amazon Luna, where you don’t run the game locally. Cloud streaming is going to be the norm unless we start pushing back.
deafpolygon··on Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics
Doing the lord’s work, advancing the human race forward.
deafpolygon··on Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform
What's wrong with the government taking over admin of DigiD? I just don't understand why the government won't consider funding it. It's a public infrastructure service at this point.
deafpolygon··on Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
I think the controller interfaces for FFXIV is worth a study in this. They designed an interface that is workable for an MMORPG with both mouse and controller (in this case, the controller can act as a proxy for our keyboard).
deafpolygon··on Bot vs human traffic
Dead internet theory gaining more credibility with every passing day.
deafpolygon··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
The cynic in me says Meta is culling the herd.
deafpolygon··on macOS needs its grid back
I get notifications that an item has added itself to your login items.
deafpolygon··on Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching
Needs the sound! Otherwise, even other Dutch people will look crazy at you. :)
deafpolygon··on Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching
I don't know. I know some older Dutch folks are more handsy, but the young'ins? Nah. The new generation of Dutch are less so.
deafpolygon··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
People don't love AI mode. It's just the only way to get good results on Google anymore.
deafpolygon··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
> Violent crime against children has fallen steadily since the early 1990s. Stranger abductions, the thing every parent imagines when they hesitate to let a 10-year-old walk to a friend’s house, were rare in 1985 and are rarer today.

Well, we stopped letting kids wander -- certainly that has an impact on the statistics.

deafpolygon··on Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
Oops. Yea. It works great as your first game. I recommend PSIV->PSII->PSIII and maybe skip the original unless you're really into it. It's quite outdated.
deafpolygon··on Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
Not sure if it was on PS (except as part of the Sega Collection disc), but I played it on the Sega Genesis. Loved it.
deafpolygon··on Vivaldi 8.0
> This is Vivaldi. It always has been.

Wonder if the site dev was thinking of the astronaut pointing a gun at another astronaut meme when they put this in.

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