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johanyc··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Yeah I need more details too. Does Google play trial not auto charge by after the trial ends?
johanyc··on I don't like passkeys
> "what if we have a family Computer but each wants to access their private accounts and keep the others from accessing?"

That's what OS level user accounts are for. Tbf

> "what do Ineed do to login from an airport computer?" or "what should do if my phone is stolen?"

Indeed I don't know the answers to these either if I wasn't syncing passkeys in 1password. Honestly we should educate people to use password managers more than any thing. It's also a smaller jump than to passkeys. Passkeys can be more of an advanced convenience feature after they get used to using password managers already.

johanyc··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
> I highly suspect Apple and Google maps are auto tracing satellite images.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

they have been doing it for years.

johanyc··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Is that true? I find that unlikely. I would believe if normies don't know Alphabet or Bytedance even when they use their products every day. But Meta? You open every app they make it literally says "from Meta" in the splash screen
johanyc··on Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
We should all send them this video when we see a question like that: https://youtu.be/PGVLS6YHDlY?t=42
johanyc··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
People just expect browsers to be free. And there's no way that can be more than Google money.
johanyc··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
This is very shortlived
johanyc··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
> since social media, because they're really inefficient in finding the customers that actually wants to buy their stuff.

Is it really? I would think targeted ads are way more efficient than traditional non targeted ads. Eg I've never seen menstrual pad (something I would never use) ads online.

> take a look at facebook, they're trying to shove ads up your feed

That's the consumers experience, not advertisers

johanyc··on Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
I misread it as sarcastic. But that's on me. I don't think it's a misleading title after reading the article
johanyc··on My server is a phone now
It's interesting you gave the perfect example and yet find OPs title awkward.

> "| switched to using a Jeep as my car"

"My server is a phone now" is exactly the same: "I switched to using a phone as my server"

> because, short of a large merger, it's not likely that the same car changed its brand.

I find a server rack becoming a phone that I can carry around and call people equally unlikely. And because of the improbability, it's ruled out of my interpretation.

1. Server becomes phone 2. Phone becomes server

I guess more people find 1 more probable than 2? That's surprising to me and especially on hacker news.

johanyc··on My server is a phone now
my personal assistant is an AI agent now.

Do you think my personal assistant becomes an AI agent or do you think an AI agent is acting as my personal assistant?

johanyc··on My server is a phone now
> will avoid exactly this type of ambiguity.

Sure but they will have other types of ambiguity

johanyc··on My server is a phone now
It's a problem with all natural language. That's why we don't program in English and in programming languages that are formally defined and can never be ambiguous.
johanyc··on Discovery Loop
My first thought when I see the website too
johanyc··on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
I think simply because they are not aware of RSS
johanyc··on The session you cannot take with you
I'm so tired of this AI witch hunt and confidently using unreliable tools as evidence
johanyc··on Bitchat is now on Radicle
Yeah I always see zero peer lmao
johanyc··on Bitchat is now on Radicle
> which is a pun on "for sex"

Where did you hear that from? Doesn't sound close at all.

johanyc··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
I think it's just the Chinese market ones
johanyc··on Orion Browser by Kagi
Yeah brave is a well rounded browser. It's the only chrome alternative imo
johanyc··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
> model providers only allow you to use their subsidized plans through their own harnesses

true for anthropic, not true for openai.

johanyc··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
You have an 100% chance joining r/degoogled then lol
johanyc··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Isn't it just slang? Foobar be like ...
johanyc··on Show HN: TV Time to Serializd Importer
is this open source?
johanyc··on If you're a button, you have one job
It's not that iphone keeps that 4; it's that iphone pretty quickly starts accepting the next round of input after 1123 and then you type 4.

Perhaps a longer pause will prevent you from typing that 4 but that also means other people who mistype their passcode have to wait longer to retry. It's a tradeoff. I suspect there are more people who type the wrong passcode of the correct length than the incorrect length.

johanyc··on Organic Maps
comaps is a fork of organic maps
johanyc··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
TACO. What can you expect lol
johanyc··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
That's mnemonic not intuition.
johanyc··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
No it's pretty good. Pretty much always accurate. Was that years ago? Or are you talking about languages with less resources?
johanyc··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
gboard has voice dictation and it has real-time update
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