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Where I live currently in Europe utility companies need to inform me even in an offline way. There is no need for internet for this.

I'm reading the news with a two week delay for almost a decade, and I haven't missed anything worthwhile. There are exactly zero reasons to read Facebook/Twitter for it. For example, the value of the current US administration's word is zero. When they say something, there is no change in probability distributions in anything anymore. This two week delay makes this very obvious on the occasions when I checked the latest state of some issues. But others are the same, just for different reasons: in reality you have a very small effect on any highly politicized topics. When parents trust their kids less than politicians, then there is not much to do with everyday tools, like arguing (there are some places where there is a value, but those won't ever move the needle).

Not since then, but before it, I could read smart people's opinion there about random topics. Of course, when the takeover happened, almost all of them left already years prior.

There is no such place since. Most of them went back to anonymous internet presence, if at all.

None of your links work for me.

I'm using Kagi every day, and unfortunately, it is not true anymore. I think what happens is that the blanket banning of IP ranges because of LLMs, and flat out incompetence and laziness, affects them heavily. I get results, or just a few unrelated ones many times every day, while Google happily returns what I searched for. I think Kagi's index is shrinking, or they really made their algorithm worse.

I slowly shifted to use LLMs because of this in the past half years, making the situation probably worse for Kagi. They were the last usable search engines for years now. I still pay for it, but it's increasingly not that useful anymore.

The worst urinal which I used was in Brussels about 15 years ago, and with that "splash-back reducing" mat. And it covered every part of the inner wall of the urinal. The mat caused the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do. It made it worse, and I had to wash my shorts, because it started to smell disgusting the next day.

That 40 percent is definitely not true in the general audience. Also they will load ads, just not all of them. Surveys ask that. Especially on mobile, and apps. Also, when we measured on our car rental site, with near perfect precision (it's absolutely not difficult), then the number was around 20%. Also, according to download statistics, there are less than half a billion people who use ad blocking browsers or other solutions on Android. And that's downloads, which is obviously inflated, even obvious from browser statistics (no not 100% of Firefox users are on Android, it's almost the opposite).

It's not nothing, but it's probably around 20%.

Also as others stated. I pay for everything, if they give me the opportunity to pay them for ad free versions. I don't see ads on my Android, and I don't use a general ad blocker on it (except my browser, but I rarely visit sites which would contain ads, and basically all of them from Hacker News). I don't use free search, email, newspapers, I pay for YouTube, and I would pay for Facebook if I would use it. I don't even use Hacker News freely, because I paid for the app which I use to not see ads, and have more features. Heck, I pay even for my torrent, because I support them.

You're in the wrong neighborhood with this sentiment. But yes, the general populace is not like this.

Yes, but first of all, people make those decisions. And second, unlike those people, you don't need to have dissonant answers, and don't need to lie to yourself.

And you can still live quite comfortably.

Google should have been split up into shreds like 2 decades ago. Search wants to have income from ads? Good sell it to anybody who pays the most, just like every single newspaper does. Gmail wants to sell our data, or ad space? Good sell them, and not just reuse them internally. Chrome wants to monetize every single request you do? Go, sell them on the open market. And not this fake, "we're separate companies, but only on paper" way.

This should have been done a long time ago.

Firefox, and the browser market would be much more healthy. Btw, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, now even Twitter/SpaceX and all of these should have been forced the same way. And of course not just in this field, but all of them, like oil companies. They can pivot, of course, with some grace period, but that would mean giving up something at the end.

And if we are there, we can abolish most of trade secrecy too, which exists only to keep up the status quo while hindering progress.

But before ChatGPT,, models had already done that, like all the time, and nobody questioned that these types of models (LLMs) wouldn't be next token predictors, since this is just an inference input data topic. This is questioned only since some less knowledgeable people seem to not have the vocabulary to express emergent properties of large next token predictors.

Reading the article, they wanted to convey that the loss function is more complicated... But they are still next token predictors, just not the trivial ones. Unfortunately, that was true even before, because the input data had to be cleared even decades ago, so there is nothing new. This article just butt hurt that some people deny that there are emergent properties with those, and try to sell something trivial in the field for many decades now. Current LLMs are not different because of these. Also, if they try to sell generated data in the training set, then that's also not new at all.

Compared to 2016, it can do a lot of things, but it still fails for example with recommending a setup for my Raspberry Pi to have a 4G connection with some parameters (I want to use as a gateway between VoLTE calls and SMS, and my SIP server somewhere else). It failed miserably. I bought stuff according to its recommendation which was more or less a waste of money, twice. With miniscule knowledge compared to theirs, or even hobbyists', I could figure out all the details at the end, and order something which really works, but only after I sit down for 4 hours, and dig through exactly what I needed, because LLM lied flat out what Sixfab 3G/4G HAT can do. (Of course, not just LLMs lie, SixFab lied about something else too)

Of course, it's a moving goal post, because we have no clue what general intelligence is exactly. But it's definitely not general yet. Now the goalpost is to achieve that kind of level of thinking which I did in that 4 hours. When it reaches it, we will find something else it clearly lacks. Until we can't. Then, and only then we reached AGI. Until you see comments, reviews, etc about things which it cannot do, until then it's not general.

My experience with such problems, is that they stay for this long because nobody cares, not because it's impossible, or even technically too difficult. So hopefully, LLM will improve things, but that quote is a lie.

As several others have already said here, GrapheneOS is not necessarily rooted. So that's a lie.

Also, I've seen such audits internally, and they don't care about security at all. They care about the theatrics of security waaaaay more.

For example, I was at Santander in 2024, during its huge data breach. Here is the list of actions which are supposed to prevent the same kind of attacks again in the future:

-

Yeah, it's an empty list.

But of course, they made our life more difficult. In the end, I literally had more permission than before, because they were even sloppier than before. But of course, I had to change my password more frequently, and I had to type it about 5x more.

Malwares can possibly do that even on non rooted phones if a privilege escalation attack is possible. And just yesterday, there was an article here about exactly one of those.

Also I highly doubt that there is any real statistics anywhere about whether this is a real threat or not. I guarantee that nobody did such statistics properly. The only known data is from companies which sell root prevention tools, so totally unreliable. And internally I guarantee, that no banks collect such info.

So no, banks lie about this only because they can sell this to judges as safety feature, when they fuck up, which happens continuously.

This is even funnier than how some people defended Apple, that they allow changing OSs on Apple silicon MacBooks.

The stupid rules were imposed by member countries, and not by the EU. There are several countries, like Italy, Hungary who were not imposed that stupid rules, because EU didn't force anybody to have this level of stupidity in these rules. There is a reason why the article mentions only Germany, Austria, et al, they are the idiots, and not everybody or the EU... Also, nobody forced these countries to have incompatible systems. They chose this.

So no, it's not EU's ruling, but their idiot member states. As usual. And of course, everybody points to the usual scapegoat, regardless of the truth. And probably the truth is, that those specific member states wanted this mess.

So because of the hardship of renaming a file, creating a symlink, or importing another file, you rename a file.

If somebody switches because of this, then they lie.

Here is a constructive one then: delete it. It’s better for everyone. If I want to read AI slop about your open source code, I can ask LLMs directly. It’s cheaper for you, and everybody.

You are right, I remembered wrong. Netflix degraded the quality for me for years, according to them because of lack of DRM. It was because of lack of hardware DRM.

It’s still hollow and cheap. I closed those sites immediately even before LLMs. You need to pay me to waste my time, not the other way around. Even if that’s using your then not-so-free app.

The alt-right party in Hungary - Fidesz - at least since 2006, and the Republican Party since at least Trump, definitely targeted people who are fine with a broken belief systems, in other words, they are fine with continuous cognitive dissonance.

In case of Hungary, in the past 20 years, they moved contradictions inside an article, to inside a paragraph to inside a single word. Trump is on the single word/expression level since 2016 for sure: “alternative facts”.

But… but they allowed. For a long time. Netflix didn’t need that.

But every bank app which I used had a button to copy all of those directly.

Reasonable? A concern which is based on no real data?

You can also reason the same way on some complete nonsense. A lot of us do this all the time.

Technically speaking, it’s possible to have the same kind of requests for legit content and ads. It’s also possible to randomize the response type (ad or content). In that case the only way to solve this before sending a request is to break their random number generator. That’s definitely not on the level of ad blockers.

However, I have no clue whether the content delivery system is already like that, and if not, then why. My domain knowledge is slim.

There is a difference between bugs/failures, and false advertisement. The solution used here has well known shortcomings.

I was just interested how it works, because above it was sold as “it works”, when in reality, “it works*”.

Yes, I read it. That means that it doesn’t work in those cases. Btw, as a developer it’s very easy to have something like that. It’s not as trivial as it seems at all. I encountered with similar problems all the time, with similar solutions (mainly for security theater reasons) in the past. There are websites which simply doesn’t work if you replace certificates, regardless of browser or CA for example.

So, if the program or the proxy solution doesn’t support it, then it doesn’t work? Like with security solutions?

But how? Normally the TLS handshake and encryption/decryption happen in user space. Even the kernel doesn’t know anything about it.