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vivid242··on Have a fucking website
I disagree. It is not an attack on the developers, but the platforms‘ mechanics.
vivid242··on Have a Fucking Website
You‘re absolutely right. (I‘m not an LLM ;-)) And the fact that (I‘m looking at you, LinkedIn!) platforms actively block people from using external links is a good warning sign.

Connection with people- this is what I want from the internet, too.

vivid242··on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
In nature, sometimes death is the prerequisite of life: Think of the dead leaves on the forest ground.

I think the age of algorithmic curation is dead - but it may, through a „RenaiSSance“, bring back true human connection.

vivid242··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Pinky swear!
vivid242··on Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
Nice! I‘d be interesting in the things that went wrong during development. Which loopholes were discovered last, if any?
vivid242··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
We need new ways to prove our humanness.
vivid242··on Show HN: News Pulse – Real-time global news feed, 475 sources, no algorithm
Love the addition „no algorithm“
vivid242··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
I like it! There are, of course, challenges a la

https://novehiclesinthepark.com/

– the swamp of subjectivity ("This is about enforcing a political PoV" vs. "This is about enforcing respectful conversation") ahead!

vivid242··on I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye
Thanks for the effort!

I'm always intrigued by the German FE-Schrift ("fälschungserschwerende Schrift", "more-difficult-to-forge font") chooses shapes for characters that makes it hard for them to be turned into one another (like a 3 into an 8 or so):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift

vivid242··on AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Reminds me of the game DEFCON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON_(video_game)

Especially its subtitle/message: Everybody loses.

vivid242··on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
It would be wrong, though.
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