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notRobot··on Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women
The forest is for all to use and not exploit
notRobot··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
The corollary to this would be that deforestation hasn't make climate change worse, and a simple Google search tells me that:

> Deforestation plays a significant role in climate change, contributing 12–20% of global greenhouse gas emissions

notRobot··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
Trees absolutely can help with climate change, although like everything in this universe, there are nuances at play, such as type of tree, location, etc.

We have done a lot of deforestation, and that absolutely has negatively impacted our climate, and we should work to reverse it.

notRobot··on SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017)
He also gave a talk that greatly influenced how I look at relationships: https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/27a585fcf36d6e657db2
notRobot··on Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
I've been using it for a long time now and the honeymoon period hasn't ended. I do understand what you're saying, but luckily I keep it pretty simple with a standalone tw executable and no node.js or complicated frameworks, so I have been able to avoid these pitfalls.

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli

notRobot··on Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
I've never had as much fun doing front-end web stuff as I've had since I've picked up tailwind.
notRobot··on Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table
https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
notRobot··on Ask HN: How has your experience been with a Snapdragon-based laptop?
You don't need to run your text editor in a web browser, and you can do a lot of stuff, just not, like, run ML models.

People use RasPis as servers and PCs all the time, and a top-end android phone can often do more.

notRobot··on Ask HN: How has your experience been with a Snapdragon-based laptop?
Also depends on use cases. Everyone's is different. I could probably run all the code that's on one of my servers (dozens of different applications that server hundreds of users) off a modern android phone.

People use RasPis as servers and PCs all the time, and a top-end android phone can often do more.

notRobot··on Notepad++ is 21 years old
Thanks! Hope you publish more stats once you have the new stack in place!
notRobot··on Notepad++ is 21 years old
That's so cool to know! Is there anywhere one can go to read more interesting stats you've collected?
notRobot··on Notepad++ is 21 years old
Geany is great, but you can take a look at Kate as well if it doesn't meet all your needs.
notRobot··on Zapata AI Ceases Operations
> Originally, this payment was not due until a Valuation Date of March 28, 2026, but the company received notice from Sandia that this date had been accelerated to October 8, 2024. So the company had to shut down and terminate almost all of the employees...

Does anyone have context or can someone explain how payment dates can be arbitrarily accelerated?

notRobot··on LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
1. Pay for one.google.com using a secondary account

2. Add your former account to your family

3. Accept the Google One invite through IMAP

4. Contact Google One support from your secondary account

Hope this helps

notRobot··on A sensible Java key management tool for normal people
Personally? I didn't really. Enough to click on it, not enough to upvote it. I look forward to others weighing in.
notRobot··on A sensible Java key management tool for normal people
The answer is the same every time this question is posted: some people found it interesting and upvoted it.

Most things on /new have <3 upvotes, so 11 is definitely enough to get you at least a brief stint on the homepage.

You might find more insight if you ask why people found it interesting.

notRobot··on Ask HN: Do you use a non-mainstream distro/OS? If so, which and why?
Personally I enjoy ZorinOS as a daily driver for a great out-of-the-box experience with a UI that I really like.
notRobot··on Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
Often you're adding multiple lines programmatically from a script or cron or whatever.
notRobot··on Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
You would have received a notice to your recovery email when you added it to the account in question and you might be able to find that email in your inbox and figure out the randomised suffix in the "to" field.
notRobot··on Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
And I judge people who use ASP, lmao.
notRobot··on Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
I want users to know I use PHP! :D
notRobot··on Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
How do search engines figure out the date of webpages that don't contain it in the metadata?
notRobot··on What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images
Questions, out of curiosity:

What is your experience of dreaming like?

What is your experience of recalling memories like?

What is your experience of recalling media you've watched like?

What is your experience of imagining like?

What is your experience of reading like?

notRobot··on Hidden flaws behind expert-level accuracy of multimodal GPT-4 vision in medicine
Thank you, that's exactly how I view it!
notRobot··on Hidden flaws behind expert-level accuracy of multimodal GPT-4 vision in medicine
Hey guess what, it's terrifying to me too. But I don't seem to have a better option at the moment, as elaborated on above.
notRobot··on Hidden flaws behind expert-level accuracy of multimodal GPT-4 vision in medicine
The experts in this case are researchers trying to figure out new treatments, and ChatGPT helps me understand their research and advice. Most general doctors are not experts on complex chronic diseases that impact multiple parts of the body in different ways. If I had doctors accessible to me who were experts in this then I wouldn't have to rely on ChatGPT, but this is all I have.
notRobot··on Hidden flaws behind expert-level accuracy of multimodal GPT-4 vision in medicine
I would like to share my relevant experience here.

I am dealing with serious post COVID complications (Long COVID). Doctors in most places don't seem to be taking this condition seriously and believe it to be a made up thing, but COVID causing damage to bodies and brains is a very real thing.

Thus, for a lot of long COVID patients, treatment has to largely be figured out by oneself, often through reading upcoming studies and experimental treatment reports from online forums.

ChatGPT has been really helpful to me and other patients I know to help make sense of and get context around medication, supplements or other treatments we hear about. I'm not usually asking it what to do, but it really helps me understand what a given medication (say sulbutiamine or whatever) does and how it works and what potential interactions it has with other medicines etc.

The other day it helped me figure out which amino acid complex to take, I put in the nutritional information of different products and had a long conversation with it to figure out which one is a better fit for me, and then confirmed this with external web searches.

I've also used it to help figure out what bloodwork to get and what diets or exercise routines are feasible for someone in my position (with limited mobility and strength and other resources). I can confidently say that I would be much in a much worse place than where I currently am with my health if I didn't have ChatGPT to consult with.

It gives me important context and information to help me make informed decisions about my health.

These are conversations I'd ideally have with a doctor but at least ChatGPT fucking listens and knows some stuff. I don't want to have to rely on a damn chatbot for my health, but high quality doctors aren't accessible to me due to inequalities of this world. So while y'all work on that, I'mma do what I can to survive.

notRobot··on DeepL's LLM Outperforms Google Translate, ChatGPT-4, and Microsoft
Yeah exactly, and surely it would also vary depending on the languages being translated from/to. I don't see how you can make claims like that and not link to the studies backing them up, this is so disingenuous.
notRobot··on Google is turning off its URL shortener – breaking every link that ever used it
It is unclear to me if this only impacts developer URLs (are those a different thing?), or if all user created short URLs will stop working too. If it's the latter, then a lot of links on the old web will break, and that will be so sad.

This is the latest announcement in question: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li...

In 2018 they said goo.gl links won't stop working: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/goo-gl/246569/

notRobot··on DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)
Your reasons are valid and make complete sense to me. I wonder if you could write to them and explain your use case and offer to pay for a perpetual license? No idea if it'll work, but worth a shot maybe?

If you try this, do update and let us know what they say.

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