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There's this old meme where someone asks what will happen when AI bots posts helpful, curious and thoughtful messages!? That's mission accomplish :D They can't be better then the average human though because of training data, so I don't worry about AI comments getting up-voted by real humans, I am however worried about fake upvotes.

> They can't be better then the average human though because of training data

Is this based on the belief that an LLM can only represent an "average" human being?


If posting good messages is automated then the AI will post a good question and another AI will answer it and the humans will look and see nothing extra to contribute.

It is not a meme, it's an xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/

Auto update is basically a root backdoor, it's especially troublesome when you are not the customer, you are the product!

Yes, which is why I use paid-for OSes and browsers, instead of free ones like Linux or Firefox. I don't want to be the product.

I think with Windows you probably are the customer and the product

Cory Doctorow had an essay about that years ago, except he didn't artificially limit it to Windows:

"Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product: Incentives matter, but impunity matters more."

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar...


With Linux you can control up to the detail any auto-update, and any update in general, all the way to being able to inspect the code.

With GNU/Linux, yes. With Android/Linux, not so much. [1]

(I used to dislike this "GNU/Linux" term, it seemed unimportant - Android showed me why the GNU part of it is)

[1] https://keepandroidopen.org/


I don't think anybody implied or thought of Android in this subthread, just because it nominally runs the Linux kernel. I for sure understood it as just "Linux = whole OS-level distros of the laptop/PC bound type" not "anything with a Linux kernel even if it's a proprietary mobile phone OS".

Only if you have the closed-source Google Play Services... Just like desktop, there are plenty of Android distros like LineageOS

Why is nobody building a paid for browser with built in search engine and LLM assistant? Should probably make it open source for transparency. And before anyone says you would build/compile it yourself if it was open source, those ppl are already running their self compiled tools and are not the target market.

Isn't that essentially Dia? (Pro is 20USD/month.) https://www.diabrowser.com/

(I miss Arc, such a shame it only gets security/chromium updates now ...)

And I think Codex's desktop client has a built-in browser now? At least I've seen someone using something like that. Nevermind Atlas is a thing now too. https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/

(Tell me if I'm misunderstanding you?)


Who would pay for it when literally every other option has been free for a lifetime?

You are still the product with commercial OSes. Paying doesn't stop them from shoving ads and telemetry wherever they can.

Man, this is a dumb take even by HN standards.

No, the dumb take is believing that if you pay for something you are not the product anyway.

I definitely feel less a product on macOS than anything Google-orientated. I don't know where Windows fits into that exactly, given "paying for Windows" is not really how it's even seen, given major updates were 'free' (with extra ads).

He meant the face-value of your comment is dumb.

But I think it as sarcasm is also wrong.


To be fair these are mostly gotchas with Linux and not Rust itself, but I guess the std in Rust could handle some of these issues, in that a std should not allow you to shoot yourself in the foot by default.

I've sometimes seen a variable like "areyousure" which needs to be set to true. Sometimes there's a force flag. And "agree to eula" fields are somewhat common.

You can run several VM's or containers with isolation on your phone hardware, why even use the cloud when you just want to show your friends?


For me it’s so my coding agent keeps running when I close my laptop lid and it goes to sleep. VM in the cloud because I’m too lazy to set up a computer to be running as a server all the time.


I think that if you have one hour or more of free time and live in an area where you have easy access to a sauna, that would result in significant better health on it's own. Even if you choose to not use the sauna.


when it comes to some diets, some only work if you follow them wholeheartedly, like meat only diet, one speck of peppar might be enough to cause an inflammation. But generally you can't take a process that worked well for another person or company and apply it on you or your company. Like for example a training program, you can't just take a training program from a professional athlete and reuse it on your kid and expect him/her to become as good as the pro. Programs and processes are very individual tailored.


I'm pretty sure a religiously followed meat only diet can't succeed at anything other than achieving scurvy.


Meat have all vitamins. But if you plan to stay on the diet forever you should eat all parts, not just the steak.


Ah, fair enough.

I still doubt that your average person would see any real health benefits from eating only meat, even if they ate enough organ meats to actually get all their vitamins and minerals (the lack of fiber is a particular concern) but I guess you're right that there's a version of an "all meat died" that doesn't promptly kill you through malnutrition, you got me there.


It's really a hard-core diet and not for the average joe, the health benefits however are great: Fat loss, especially around your belly (because belly fat act as a protective barrier, and will go away if you don't eat carbs) and the inflammatory processes in the body will go down a lot. You will look more healthy and feel stronger. Just make sure you get enough calories, so you need to eat a lot of meat. You have to spend hours every day just eating.


A process that fails when you slightly diverge is process that fails. Because all human orgs diverge from stated process here or there. Including army which puts huge amounts of resources into making people comply with everything.


Could ask new users to send an email on a generated temp adress before sending the confirm e-mail. I do think e-mail should be not only opt-in, but also optional!


I find irony in that Git was made to get rid of central repos, and then we re-introduce them.


That is what we have been doing for quite some time now, from what I gathered. Every time I see something becoming popular, I am like "Hmm, I've seen this before", and I really have. They just gave it a fancier name with a fancier logo and did some marketing and there you go, old is new.


I love working for those companies also, where they are used to waiting months for a small software update and I can do it in hours and they think I'm a wizard.


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