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ndkap··on The Amazon tax
This also happens in physical stores. In Walmart and others, good quality and good price items are at hard to find, let alone notice places. That happens because lower quality more expensive products pay Walmart for better placement.
ndkap··on GPT‑Live
Maybe they are trying to outmatch the world's worst translator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT9rsHmS24
ndkap··on Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks
It has sign up wall, so here is archive link: https://archive.ph/NTxzU
ndkap··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
PhD students are already using AI models to work for them. Most of the PhD candidates I know have $200 Claude Max plan which they use to their fullest.

I see that they are able to do researches that they were not previously able to do. And although I see that using AI has certainly diminished their ability to code some stuff up, I see it the same way as someone using scikit-learn or Pytorch to code their ML models -- indeed the underlying details is abstracted away from you, and without AI, you won't be able to do much, but the research that you do is indeed happening because of you and wouldn't have happened with just the AI doing the research.

ndkap··on Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
It starts from the day of judgement
ndkap··on Java is fast, code might not be
I feel like most of these things can be avoided if people just think what they are going to write in abstract terms before writing the code. If they do it like this, I think they are going to choose the best Data Structure for the job, which is what most of this article was.
ndkap··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Currently, Tiktok US is owned by US Companies
ndkap··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
TikTok easily bends over backwards authoritarian government. In Nepal, during the GenZ protest, TikTok disabled the search for "NepoBabies" which is the term people used for the affluent lifestyle of leaders' children and which was why the GenZ protest happened. Every other social media was banned but not TikTok because they happily censor whatever the government tells them to
ndkap··on The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)
In Nepal, on Sep 8, teenagers and GenZ organized peaceful protests. They were there on school uniform -- but 21+ were killed on a single day of peaceful protest. The next day, all 3 branches of the government were burned -- the legislative, the executive and the judiciary too. Even the Fox News equivalent (Kantipur) was burned.

I think people always opt for peaceful protest at first, but when that is made impossible, people go for the violent one. MLK was successful because there was the threat of Malcolm X. Same thing with Gandhi.

ndkap··on Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents
There is a bypass paywall clean that is very useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean
ndkap··on Bugs Apple loves
Some other bugs:

1. Open a file using Preview, but it is behind all other windows. 2. If you connect to your own personal hotspot (iphone) on mac, you can't forget it and connect to someone else's hotspot.

ndkap··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
MS Office Online has been good with most of the things I need. Has that not been the experience for you?
ndkap··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
I think using an atomic distro like Bazzite would have solved your problem.
ndkap··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
To be honest, `awk` that the author references to as a good name, is not. It's just the initials of authors, which does not convey anything about what the tool does. It's yet another cognitive tax.

And I would go further, the extremely shortened names in Linux and other places is problematic too, given that most terminals now allow name completion on tab.

ndkap··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
As an aside, I didn't know what Comic Sans looks like, so I searched on Google and it rendered the whole page in that font. I tried with other Fonts too like Arial and Times New Roman, and it did the same there. So cool!
ndkap··on Nano Banana Pro
Did you check if the SynthID works when you edit the photos with filters like GrayScale?
ndkap··on Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations
>Long may it live

Off topic, I found out that my university blocks archive.is or any of its mirrors. Why does the university care about this?

ndkap··on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
It could be called "liberty-loading". You are at liberty to load/install software from anywhere
ndkap··on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
Isn't this the company that was commended for not bowing down to pressure from FBI?
ndkap··on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit
This administration is not going to apply said regulations, especially when the said regulations us punishing what they are favoring
ndkap··on VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
Here is AI being as close as possible to the most animated person I know and here I am sounding robotic in every conversation I have, despite my best efforts to sound otherwise. Sometimes, I just wish I could have an AI speak for me
ndkap··on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
Why would people publish a research with low population size?
ndkap··on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
How much is "more than a few bucks"? Several hundreds?
ndkap··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Does anybody know which technology most of these companies that support 1M tokens use? Or is it all hidden?
ndkap··on Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta
It may be because the account you used to post is relatively new or that you tried to post the same thing across multiple subreddits.
ndkap··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
This makes me think that UBO Lite wasnt possible without something Apple added in the latest version. Is this true? Did they finally add something to Safari allowing UBO Lite to finally be made? Is that why UBO Lite for Safari didnt exist until now?
ndkap··on IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'
The people who need to see it needs to see it in the entertainment hour of Fox News. I don't think Fox News would be disseminating this information at that hour
ndkap··on When we get Komooted
>In getting komooted, we feel the pain of not being represented in the companies we work for and the platforms we use. Komoot was supposed to be special, the darling of the German startup scene. A unicorn not only in terms of prospective valuation but also in its good working conditions and a progressive mission of enabling access to the outdoors.3 The owners’ assured their long-term commitment with the mantra “we won’t sell.”

Is there a legal way to ensure that a company adheres to claims like "we won't sell"? It seems that trusting companies with their word without any underwriting is foolish

ndkap··on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content
Agreed. When people say that we need to privatize something because the government is not doing its job effectively, I always think that the government is not doing its job effectively because of the lack of competition. If you just replace the governmental entity with a private entity, then you would end up with more problems than before. The better way to approach this would be to create a governmental entity that competes with the private sector. Each can keep the other in check with competition. For example, in the case of tax prep in the US, the government can set up a competing entity that makes the tax prep software and keep turbo tax in check.
ndkap··on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content
What I am surprised about the most is why do these payment processors care about these moral issues this much? They are a profit-making entity and money is money -- the more money you process, the more profit you get. What is the downside for allowing NSFW content be bought using their processor? Are the boards/CEOs of these companies puritans? Aren't they handing more credibility to these alternatives like Bitcoin Lightning or Monero with actions like these?
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