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starik36··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Yes, the story of Arabs trying to destroy Jews and failing. And then crying about it for all eternity. Great night time reading.
starik36··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
And your entire personality is being a bigot.
starik36··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
And working Israel into every conversation. What is that evidence of?
starik36··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
You've managed to work your favorite conspiracy into this completely unrelated conversation as well! Congrats!
starik36··on Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason
It's in the 3rd paragraph:

The Spiegel news magazine reported late on Tuesday that investigators were pursuing a possible connection to Azerbaijan.

starik36··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
I run my own custom version of BlueBubbles and a locally run clone of Wispr Flow. In addition, I've vibe-coded lots of nonsense throwaway apps that helped me with a one time boring task.

Wouldn't have been possible.

starik36··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
I had an issue with accuracy a bit ago. So I repeated a couple of things without understanding why and it solved the problem.

I am glad there is an actual reason.

starik36··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
What is the actual utility of using this model on Azure? It's twice as expensive, according to the link.

Do Azure offer something that simply hitting the OpenAI endpoint doesn't provide?

starik36··on GPT-6 Astra
I ran into the same problem as you, so I ended up by coding a local app that is very similar to Wispr Flow, but uses the small english Whisper model on my low-end Windows laptop.

It is still a quite fast. In fact, I just typed this in using this app.

starik36··on Hang on to Your Firefox
I use Claude all day long with Firefox - haven't seen your problem. Are you sure the issue isn't somewhere else?
starik36··on Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
I am not sure that it is. From what I understand, Tether requires a companion app running on your iPhone. And as such, is subject to being shut down by the OS for various reasons (inactivity, etc...). So sometimes you would have to restart the app.

I use LocalSend and every now and then the connection does not work and I have to restart it on the phone.

starik36··on Stop Making TUIs
I had the same feeling. I've since been using Claude Desktop and I have the convenience of the UI with Claude Code built right in. It even supports the same commands.
starik36··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
Yep, same expectation, but it's just click bait. I never learn.
starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Practically every word you uttered is a lie. It's the opposite of the truth. No one's asking you to read books but at least skim the Wikipedia so you don't make a fool of yourself with every one of your posts.
starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
That’s a nonsense statement. Ukraine got invaded. Similarly to Im Israel being invaded on Oct 7, 2023.

What exactly is your solution to this conflict. Other than making snide comments.

starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
> vaguely suggesting it was the Palestinians that rejected many peace deal

I am not vaguely suggesting it. I am firmly suggesting it. This is not false, it's completely true. 1936 Peel Commission. 1947 UN Partition. Post 1967 countless attempts to do land for peace deals. 1999 Camp David attempts, 2000 Taba. 2008 negotiations between Abbas and Olmert.

If not a 2 state solution, what exactly are you advocating?

starik36··on Norway Should Buy OpenAI
Norway's fund would first have to definitively find out what it takes to actually run all of OpenAI's compute. Monetarily wise. We still don't know that number.

Isn't OpenAI running on investor money right now?

starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
> News media is considered more reliable in Europe over the US

That sounds like nonsense.

starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
From the article:

How did we do this?

This analysis includes findings from a survey of 12,574 U.S. adults, 10,091 of whom are part of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP). The remaining 2,483 respondents include oversamples of Jews, Muslims and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members from SSRS’ Opinion Panel, Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel and NORC’s AmeriSpeak Panel. We conducted the survey May 4-17, 2026, and it has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 1.3 percentage points.

They drew conclusions about Jews from subset of Jews from 2,483 respondents that included an unknown amount of Jews, Muslims, Mormons, and whoever is a member of Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel and NORC’s AmeriSpeak Panel. I am not sure this is especially representative.

Even so, I don't know if I would characterize 54 to 47 as viewing as "abhorrent" as OP said.

starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
> Many non-Israeli Jews view Israel's actions as abhorent, particularly younger Jews.

And this comes of your own polling? As a non-Israeli Jew, I've seen quite the opposite. They closed ranks in the face of an external threat, especially the younger ones. Ignore Hollywood and Hannah Einbinders of the world - that is not the reality.

starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Apparently just one genocide against the Jews per 100 years simply isn't enough for you.
starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
I am from Eastern Europe and people here "assumed" a lot of things about Jews way before Israel was even a thing. Let's not pretend Eastern Europeans would have loved Jews if it weren't for "Israel".
starik36··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
If only there was a solution on the table that's been there for years and that one side refuses to accept over and over again. And that can put a stop to bombing or dirt or whatever.

Two state solution.

starik36··on App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
The other side of your coin is that I need to periodically visit my relatives and remove all sorts of malware and adware from their phones. Just like I've done with PCs over the past few decades.
starik36··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
> nation without a navy can now inexpensively counter a nation with one

I would argue that you are right with Ukraine vs Russia since the former has sunk so many of latter's assets. But that has not been the case with US vs Iran.

starik36··on Show HN: Super Dario
Nice and clever!
starik36··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Think of Breaking Bad. His wife literally asked him this same question. When is it enough?

It's a mentality where you can't stop.

starik36··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
Literally every country has a countryside problem. From US to Russia to Asia to any country in Europe.
starik36··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
Just came back from Japan and I found it vibrant and modern.
starik36··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
You are cherry picking. The sale of TikTok conversation goes way back and has little to do with Israel and more to do that they were caught spying on our phones.

> saying "we have a Tiktok problem"

All the more proving my point that TikTok is filled to the brim with anti-semitic content and "Palestine" content is in no way restricted.

> Twitch updated it's Hateful Conduct Policy to say "Zionist" is "hate speech"

Good. Calling for destruction of Israel is hate speech. Which is how "Zionist" is used most of the time.

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