> It’s made me realize that the sharing it with others part was always my favorite part of listening/watching and, without that, I can’t really become emotionally invested it the experience.
Perhaps this is a factor in the rise of reaction videos where people consume the content with you and react to it. A somewhat shallow experience, but someone pretending to genuinely like the same music video as I do is - in the vastness of the internet - slightly better than consuming completely alone.
"... brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
> To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force
One time, my dentist told me "I can't get it out, I am going to fetch my dad to do it" when she had trouble removing a tooth. What followed was a not so fun experience in professionally applied dental violence. (Her father was also a dentist)
We had to configure a daily reboot for a raspberry PI that just displayed a web page with the current status of emergency calls for local first responders on a mounted TV screen.
Purpose: if you come into the building to fetch the car with the medical equipment, you could see at a glance how many people acknowledged the alert and would arrive shortly etc. Sadly, the system tended to loose its WIFI connection and then the reloaded web page would display a network error. And since the web page was a 3rd party product, we could not hack the Javascript.
Wondering about that, too - I always use the website on my ipad since a browser allows me to enlarge the font size when reading novels on Patreon (a feature that the app does not offer).
Not only can you increase the font size, but Safari has an immersive "reader mode" where you can change the font and color scheme, and even have Safari dictate the page to you. A massive percentage of organizations that develop native iOS apps do so because:
* Users have been indoctrinated by years of marketing (e.g. the "there's an app for that" ads).
* Safari hides the "add to home screen button" deep within the share menu, and home screen real estate is incredibly valuable. Native apps have the advantage of Smart Banners [1].
* For several years Webkit didn't support notifications, and as much as I hate annoying notifications, it's undoubtably useful from a business perspective to be able to ping users and remind them to use your application. Even after allowing notifications in Webkit, they made sure to introduce Live Activities which are exclusive to native apps.
> Then Kunz started noticing strange things. She seemed to forget subjects they’d already discussed – a recipe for overnight oats, a picture of her own cats. He started asking questions.
I know a developer who wrote the software for an SMS call center about 2 decades ago - it would keep a log of all texts sent, so any agent could pretend to be any of the completely fake profiles of women looking for a relationship.
At 1-2€ per SMS, this was a quite profitable business for the call center, the dev and the telcos, who took about 50% and had no interest in shutting this down.
Sam Altman even said he want it to do adult content, as long as it is safe. So yes, that is a stated goal of theirs.
"we really want to get to a place where we can enable NSFW stuff (e.g. text erotica, gore) for your personal use in most cases but not do stuff like make deepfakes."
Looks like the screenshot and the text are different.
"Any business model that does not acknowledge this and does not seek proper compensation for artists is not of interest to us." -> screenshot of their reply is missing the first two "not"s.
I bought the server boost once, hoping it would improve the audio quality of my little channel. There was no discernable difference, and as I do not need more dancing blinking emojis, I canceled the subscription again.
Discord's voice codec, which seems to be based on Opus, delivers surprisingly high-quality audio even at lower bitrates. Additionally, its integration with Krisp for noise filtering enhances its performance, making it one of the best voice chat services I regularly use. This observation comes from my experience of frequently using voice chat over connections with high latency, where Discord has consistently presented the fewest issues. Ironically, this efficiency somewhat diminishes the appeal of boosting a server for improved voice quality, which is both unfortunate and amusing in a way.
Swiss pensions for foreigners are also only paid if the recipient proves they are alive once a year. My father had to sent proof of being alive for decades.
To be fair, it is much harder to verify this automatically if the recipient lives in another country.
That's also different, as it's a known and deliberate process that -- I suspect -- has both a set expectation that the recipient will check in and an explicit reminder before payment is stopped.
It is reasonably easy for the pension provider in the case at hand to tell when someone dies. A bit too easy, some might say.
DownloadNet reminds me of how I got really started with Perl programming over 20 years ago. Since I was using my parent's land line with a dial-up modem (which cost cents/minute), I wanted to speed up the process of looking for a job via the government's official job search site.
Turns out, on my slow computer it was faster to clean up a megabyte of HTML with regular expressions before giving it to Firefox than just rendering it as-is - by about 30 seconds per search result page.
Perhaps it's possible to sanitize often visited websites with DownloadNet? (currently getting aggravated by reddit hiding images via JS code to prevent download / viewing in another tab...)
> Perhaps it's possible to sanitize often visited websites with DownloadNet? (currently getting aggravated by reddit hiding images via JS code to prevent download / viewing in another tab...)
Many years ago, I remember using a utility called: privoxy, on Linux/Unix, for that very purpose. No idea if it’s still viable, but thought I’d mention it, in case you’re serious?!
That's a fascinating idea. I like the idea of "custom user script extensions" that folks can plug in, author and share.
If you're passionate enough you could contribute a write-up, some code sketch or even a full PR of how this works. I'm sure you're probably too busy for that, or just not interested, and that's OK. I really appreciate the contribution you've already made with this idea.
I think allowing folks to filter, or sanitize (for whatever purpose really, sanity, focus, etc), sounds very useful.
Perhaps this is a factor in the rise of reaction videos where people consume the content with you and react to it. A somewhat shallow experience, but someone pretending to genuinely like the same music video as I do is - in the vastness of the internet - slightly better than consuming completely alone.