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Nice! I keep a tiny GM1 around just to use a couple nice m43 lenses that I can't depart with! :)

Take a look at a Ricoh GR III or IIIx. Lighter than Fuji's most famous rangefinders, great APS-C sensor. In stock, and cheaper.

There's a slight chance today they will announce its successor.

I feel that's true for everyone in many creative fields, until a slightly different, more personal voice emerges.

Louis CK talked about this extensively, especially in relationship to Carlin, Bruce, etc.

Keep doing it!

Learning? For humans? Visionary.

This would actually work well, but you'd have to be Steven Wright.

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I understand this apparently altruistic reason: rather than educate people to avoid massacres, you'd replace everyone with mannequins. So they're free to massacre mannequins. If we are to become saints because we made synthetic goo to save cows, I'd say we are still pretty lazy because we learned nothing about the ethics of killing other suffering beings like us on this planet. (Being provocative: of course there is already empathy in that reasoning, but the root cause is still out there; our lack of empathy and greed.)

There's a pretty good episode from recent (4 years-ish) South Park: “Let Them Eat Goo”(1), where Cartman only desired to "eat the same garbage" he always has, and since the “goo” is definitely garbage, he does not care that it is more sustainable or ethical.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Them_Eat_Goo

But how so? Encryption? Will it break at every other small change from Apple?

$30k/yr. (or so, I don't remember exactly) on their hu.ma.ne web domain and nothing concrete in half a decade. Must be nice.

Use brew.

“We.”

"Like EU citizens applying for ESTA when visiting the US, citizens of the United States will also have to fill an online form and pay a nominal fee when visiting Europe."

Not saying such restrictions should be encouraged, but the same has been needed to visit the US for a long time.

Europe, however , lets its citizens re-enter a border using automated password gates without the need for a "Global Entry" subscription (in the US, that's a product you pay for to be face-scanned and skip immigration lines when coming back home.)

More or less. My favorite lie ever.

“Orders,” or asks? I am unsure whether or not a private company's lawyers can “order” anything to anyone, especially outside their platform, or not hired by them.

Great point: we always think about physical posture, but need to watch our mental posture even more.

I think there's truth to that. A screen's mere presence can distort focus and commands attention.

Hey, I'm the author of this small post. I was surprised to see it on HN.

> The issue is that browser and certain apps are available to me on the phone instantly.

I think you are right, and it has to do with decreasing UX friction: quick unlocks, overall performance, and muscle memory. I try to add some layers of friction, such as disabling tap to wake, or forcing password unlocks, or even browsers that offer a good but less smooth experience (eInkBro on Android could be one to try.

Overall, I think it helps me to go through apps occasionally and ask myself, “Is it an infinity app? Could I use this forever without content exhausting itself, or a purpose never being fulfilled?”

It's a demanding exercise in deliberate usage, and it can't always succeed (at least for me, I'm not that strong.)

I wish there were a good AOSP eInk phone to still use all the necessary everyday apps, but slower. The new Assistive Access simplified display mode seems very interesting on iOS from a UX perspective:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...

It may help to just use Obtainium to download/track from APKPure and APKMirror. It’s open source and can also get binaries straight from sources like GitHub and GitLab—or even F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Mullvad, Signal, Steam, Telegram, VLC, Neutron.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Obtainium is open source and can download/update directly from source on GitHub or GitLab—or even use directly F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Mullvad, Signal, APKMirror, APKPure, Steam, Telegram, VLC, Neutron.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

> If we will be able to spawn an agent in a household humanoid robot and let them do the chores around the house, will we do it, even if it will imply killing that agent whenever it powers down? You betcha

> > Unless you're against writing to persistent storage and just keep everything in RAM-like memory, why would this be a thing?

It may be fear of not being in control. If you can’t remember, you can’t plan much or leverage experience—and you are closer to resembling an innocuous appliance rather than a being—which seems to align with the general lack of empathy towards life in that comment.

Some may not want to be replaced as individuals, as much as upgraded as a species.

Bene.

The title seems accurate and a main point of the article.

Still works great. You still get the download from Google.

You can use the Aurora store and no account.

I re-read it wondering the same, and I was under the impression that the article referred to the LLM’s hard work needed to match human intellect (but kudos to that German Microsoft employee if he can do it alone.)

> “Braun described GPT-4 as a game changer for the artificial intelligence sector, since the language model will take another step to get closer to the capacity of human interpretation. Obviously, he still has a long way to go to match it.”

He?

It?

(If this was generated with GPT-3, I assume it would have known the name of its main investor’s CEO, Saya Nadella.)

I was considering inside SF. In the past, I spent time in Soma and Haight :)

Maybe a car for a day or two to go around, either driver to Carmel and spend the night there or Monterey—or go watch the Bay Area at night from a bridge?

rdns is an awesome app, I am unsure why it’s not more widespread or more often mentioned here. You do great work, truly.

The only regret with rdns is that it’s either using that, or a VPN—from how I understand it.

The cumbersome part is the entire process of adb+whatever solution to mitigate an opaque firmware calling home everywhere across the oceans at any given time.

I like some BOOX devices, but I find them very stressful to trust, and rdns helps.

All I'd want is this phone (can still use Venmo, Uber, and other modern platforms) plus a stock ROM and relocking bootloader.

One could use adb and RethinkDNS to freeze or firewall connections and some processes, but it's a lot of work and a poor experience.