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falleng0d··on Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro arrested to prevent 'escape' court says
Brazil is a dictatorship in disguise. Supreme court is the executive branch. There is no law the court can do anything it wants, arrest anyone for any reason. There is no expiry date for their term.

As a Brazilian I can’t see a future where the people win. It’s not even close it’s full control and all of the power is concentrated in the government upper branch.

The system is designed to keep them in power there is nothing that can be done just leave the country

falleng0d··on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
I agree. What I really don’t like is that we have to choose between having smart search and giving up our data.

Is it too much to ask to be able to not give up data for “improvements” but keep the functionality?

falleng0d··on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
From the dialogues in the pictures it doesn’t sound like they are using anyones emails for training. The messaging indicates it’s more like using as context and/or generating embeddings for RAG. Unless there’s something else I’m not aware of.

I know that Google does a lot of bad stuff but we don’t need to make up stuff they just aren’t doing

This doomsday messaging an alarmism is only serves to degrade the whole cause

edit: and before someone say that they also don’t want that then let’s criticize it for what it is (opting users to feature without consent). We don’t need to make stuff up, it really doesn’t help.

falleng0d··on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage
Profit too. We lack profit.
falleng0d··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
Thats also fair. I agree.
falleng0d··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
I think it’s safe to say that by “We” we can assume it would be your country and its allies.

War and spying has been a thing for a long time now. I think it’s unreasonable to expect countries to not make use of their respective industries and enterprises to get an edge on each other.

The fact is that this kind of hardware is just very good for that so as I a costumer, I feel you and I think the best we can do is buy a custom hardware and install a custom OS. Like open-wrt.

But I will not complain of my country doing that because when I see adversaries doing it, it’s completely reasonable that it also do. In fact, game theory, mandates it.

falleng0d··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha? Of course this can happen. and not only I support it but I think they should do it more and use it to get a shot on any criminal or foreign power.

We can do it, but we shouldn’t expose ourselves for the possibility of our opponents doing it. That simple

falleng0d··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
This may be true, but until when? PRC can demand anytime and have you part of a botnet. Are you comfortable leaving it in their hands?
falleng0d··on Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142
Im looking for something similar for a JS/TS script
falleng0d··on OpenDesk by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty
how does it compare with nextcloud?
falleng0d··on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
if you're relying on such feature, you'll probably serve less time being charged with destruction of evidence...
falleng0d··on Tim Bray on Grokipedia
We may joke about it, but the fact is that it's releasing dumb ideas like this that you sometimes get masterpieces. Maybe this one is really just one of the bad ones, but eventually Elon will have some good ones just like he already has.

And a lot of us would be better off releasing our dumb ideas too. The world has a lot of issues and if all you do is talk down and don't try to fix anything yourself. Maybe it's time to get off the web a little and do something else.

falleng0d··on Helium Browser
its not MacOS only. just installed on windows
falleng0d··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Both things can be true at the same time, is not laughable at all.

Germany can be unsafe and US too to the extent they need national guard to get back control

falleng0d··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Don’t attack the messenger, attack the message.
falleng0d··on The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth
Oh yes, let's everyone stop posting links to twitter because someone disagrees with the political views of the owner. So much for having some tolerance right?

please keep this kind of rhetoric to reddit

falleng0d··on Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
It's not racist. It's all about the intention; as a company, you don't want to expend a single extra dime to comply with the regulations. since the population is pretty much homogeneous you can just blur out the Japanese and you are pretty much guaranteed to cover 99% of the cases.

Business don't exist to respect or care about people they exist to generate profit so the idea of a business "respecting" something is not even realistic.

The law is what outlines what are the limits and guarantees the basics rights to everyone.

falleng0d··on Show HN: StopX – AI-powered content blocker with 99.7%
it's funny when you imagine that now we're using AI ad-blockers to block AI generated content
falleng0d··on Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within
This is actually amazing. I wish there was something similar that for windows's keypirinha[1].

specifically would be interesting to have something like that for k8s resources.

1. https://keypirinha.com/

falleng0d··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
you can use the filesystem mcp and have it use the read file tool to read the files in full on call
falleng0d··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
You can use Copilot and a bunch of new Agents such as augment and firebender which are very good.

In the worst case you’ll still be able to use AI tooling similar or equal to what you have in VS code. Even Windsurf has an JetBrains plugin.

falleng0d··on OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
Maybe they should ask the new models to generate a better name for themselves. It's getting quite confusing.
falleng0d··on Moving away from US cloud services
Why move away though? The cloud subsidizes for "free" a lot of powerful services that the average user can only dream of self-hosting.

And the price is what? Your browsing history? Personalized Ad's? Provided you don't AdBlock that is!

I like the symbiotic relationship. I do believe in safeguarding yourself from getting locked out of your life due to your Google acc getting banned but outside of that I see no harm in getting free service in exchange for data. It's a fair deal.

falleng0d··on A 10x Faster TypeScript
I wonder how much faster DOOM will run on this
falleng0d··on Grok3 Launch [video]
Well, if you see any kind of propaganda, you can denounce and I’m sure this community will respond just like we responded to china propaganda and censorship on DeepSeek.

No good will come from of denying progress just because you don’t like someone else is opinions and worldviews.

falleng0d··on TikTok goes dark in the US
this is not really the main concern. the real danger posed by TikTok is the ability to easily influence on a large scale.
falleng0d··on Ask HN: AI coding tools like bolt.new or V0 for apps/Xcode?
Take a look at Windsurf: https://codeium.com/windsurf
falleng0d··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
I have observed the change in approach to use aggressive (clickbaity) thumbnails, but I do think the quality of the content has not changed.

And I can't blame her for adopting this trend, in many cases it is the difference between surviving or not on YouTube nowadays.

falleng0d··on More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, weeks before Christmas
Critics are a minuscule part of the audience. Also reviews can be bought.

To be actually successful a game needs to capture the target audience (gamers).

Problem is there seems to be a huge disconnect between critics and gamers gamers nowadays

falleng0d··on More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, weeks before Christmas
Gacha + waifus is definitely a huge hit. Especially because it also capture the female audience. Also cosplays on conventions do free advertising. (see Genshin Impact)

Never seen western studios release a game of this genre.

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