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I know you are right, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to fight against every injustice or underhanded business tactic. Plus it takes a toll on my mental health to obsess about these things and I have to force myself not to do it. If there were a viable open source alternative that I could run, or better yet, a pre built version I could buy and plug into my TV then that's about the right level of righteous indignation I can muster for this particular case.

I vaguely recall a news article about some company, I want to say Apple but I'm not sure, patenting a process to use the camera to track your eyes to verify you're actually watching an ad to make them truly unskippable.

Roku makes me so sad. They had a product I really enjoyed using and admired them for making. Then slowly over the years they keep becoming more intrusive with their ads and more invasive with their data/privacy practices. My first Roku didn't need any sort of account, you just plugged it in and went. Now you have to register an account and I'm sure they are tracking everything I watch. They blanket the home screen with ads and I'm convinced they have programmed their remote to enable the microphone when I press pause/play every rand(20) < 1 just to remind me I can talk to my remote. Just waiting for the day it's revealed the mics on the remotes are always hot and feeding into their advertising models.

We are using Amplify and I can't agree enough with this. The gen 1 to gen 2 migration docs are literally: just stay on gen 1.

What was the source data here? It seems like a lot of the graphs are just the author's intuitive feel rather than being backed by any sort of hard data. Did I miss it in there somewhere?

"I stopped checking Facebook so frequently." "I probably managed 4-6 hours a day".

Sounds like a real A player.

Another day, another article where Vox is hating on OpenAI.

First time in a long time I kind of wish I had a Windows machine to try this out.

Yeah, but their platform is basically a janky PDF parser which is why I don't understand what the hype is about.

It's easy to cherry pick a PDF for marketing purposes and claim you're better. I didn't miss it, I just don't believe marketing announcements at face value. I tried their parser on a PDF with a bit of complex formatting like multiple columns, tables and a couple images and it choked, spitting out one big markdown header with jumbled text. Not impressed.

Hmm, I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed with my initial experience here.

1. The sign up with email just endlessly redirected, click link in email, ask to sign up with email, put in email, click link in email, etc.

2. Fine, I'll sign in with Google.

3. A PDF parser? Seriously that's what all this fuss is about? There are so many options already out there, PDFBox, iText, Unstructured, PyPDF, PDF.js, PdfMiner not to mention extraction services available from the hyperscalers. Super confused why anyone needs this.

Personally, I have always struggled to find enjoyment and meaning while working at a big company so I would ask yourself if a big company is right for you. If you decide to stay, try to make a couple of friends. People need to eat so see if anyone wants to eat lunch with you. There are always people who have been there for decades who understand how everything fits together, so seek those people out. Play the "new guy/gal" card, and see if you can get some time with them just to tap into their historical knowledge and start building a relationship with them.

You can't have someone be an effective leader in the company who doesn't believe in the mission anymore. As the leader now, you need to give them the speech that as you build this company, people are going to get on the bus and people are going to get off the bus. We value their contributions and everything they did to help us build the company. You can get through this.

Is there a link without a paywall?

So, X is starting to show ads without labeling them as ads? One more reason to not use Twitter.

I know they don't rely on GPL much, but what does the ruling here suggest for OSS foundations like Apache and CNCF? Specifically this part: only the author can initiate the lawsuit.

Does that mean failure to adhere to the terms of licenses like ASLv2 or MIT would could only be settled in court if the person who wrote the code actually bring suit and that OSS foundations basically become (more) toothless?

Wow, sorry for trying to show some encouragement for someone online. Screw me right?

Wow, 40kbs is fantastic progress! Congrats to your wife. I've lost around 15 lbs by run/walking on the treadmill every day. I started at around 20 minutes/day, now I'm up 30-45 minutes per day 5x/week and just watching my calories, especially the sugar intake.

Haha, yeah I think it's the "fanbase" around it (don't want to offend anyone). It's like that old joke, how do you know someone is (a vegan, doing keto, plays guitar)? They'll tell you. There almost seems to be people who want to turn these diets into a competition, oh you're keto? Well, let me tell you how crazy keto I am. Like dude, I'm just trying to not hate myself when I look in the mirror not win the Mr Keto award.

Nope, just me. As someone who also struggles to lose weight I am tired of hearing about Keto and Paleo. I would be thrilled to be down 55 lbs. Sorry if it sounded insincere.

I was expecting this to end with the usual "using this to treat patients in clinical settings is at least 10 years away" (read: probably never) but this one is actually available now it looks like, although it's very pricey at $3-4000.

Wow, congratulations! 55 lbs is a lot of weight to lose. Your approach of gradual changes and focusing on caloric deficit is refreshing compared to the extreme diets and fad-based approaches that seem to come and go every few months. Keep up the awesome work!

Why does it seem like the average American doesn't care at all about exactly how much sway corporate interests hold in our government? Boeing's influence on politicians and regulatory agencies is a glaring example. The safety of passengers should come first, but somehow the 737 MAX keeps ending up getting the necessary approvals to carry passengers even after multiple crashes and now the doors falling off.

> When the rover had an issue they actually used the helicoptor's userspace command line GNU utilities to debug and get logs from the rover to send to Earth.

Wow, such a great testament to The Unix Philosophy of building small, modular, focused tools that can be combined together to do all sorts of interesting and more complex tasks. I'm sure no one imagined using these utilities from a helicopter to retrieve rover logs to aid in diagnostics, but here we are. What a cool story.

It's frustrating to see these updates that feel like a step back rather than an improvement. Why remove useful features and irritate your users? Guess this lets Google lay off more workers who were working on these.

Reading this, it really makes me wonder how content creators will adapt in the AI era. Even if LLMs can't reproduce their content word for word, I find myself going to ChatGPT more and Google less.