Fastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.
not if you use your own domain they don't.
Readit Newschias commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
chias commented on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? seangoedecke.com/model-on... · Posted by u/ingve
Snopes confirmed that McMahon began by referring correctly to “AI development,” but in the same response, twice said “A1 teaching,” clearly meaning artificial intelligence. Not steak sauce. Multiple outlets including Gizmodo, Newser, Yahoo News, Mediaite, and Cybernews all reported the slip-up as genuine: she erroneously said “A1” when she meant “AI”.
Did you watch the clip yourself? I assume not, so here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28zBv94?t=7562s
She was the chair of the board of the America First Policy Institute. She's not talking about AI, she's talking about pumping ultra-nationalist, Nazi-adjacent propaganda into Red state education.
chias commented on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? seangoedecke.com/model-on... · Posted by u/ingve
This is not true. I watched the clip. She referred to AI as AI. When she said A1 she was very clearly referring to America First.
Who is Dan?
Someone who is strong, like you.
chias commented on The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth nationalgeographic.com/sc... · Posted by u/Anon84
This article eventually links you to it, but what you probably want to look at is this:
https://spritacular.org/gallery
(photos of these forms of lightning)
chias commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger
Does anybody have stats on how many people are O.K. paying for their core services, i.e. how many people pay for paid personal e-mail services?
I just don't want to believe that our services have to be paid for through proxy by giving huge cut to 3rd parties. The quality goes down both as UX and as core content, our attention span is destroyed, our privacy is violated and our political power is being stolen as content gets curated by those who extract money by giving us the "free" services.
It's simply very inefficient. IMHO we should go back to pay for what you use, this can't go on forever. There must be way to turn everything into a paid service where you get what you paid for and have your lives enhanced instead of monetized by proxy.
I remember reading that one reason you often can't escape ads by paying for the service is that through the act of choosing to pay for the service, you are self-identifying as someone willing to pay for things, and are thereby ironically putting yourself into the most valuable ad-targeting demographic there is.
chias commented on Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard theguardian.com/world/liv... · Posted by u/Gud
They redact some part of the text on the ticket, but leave the scancode unredacted, which contains all of this text and more :P
chias commented on I'd rather read the prompt claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey
I’ve come across this analogy that I think works well:
Using an LLM to do schoolwork is like taking a forklift to the gym.
If all we were interested in was moving the weights around, you’d be right to use a tool to help you. But we’re doing this work for the effect it will have on you. The reason a teacher asks you a question is not because they don’t know the answer.
I love this analogy because it's also not a waste of time to learn how to use a forklift!
But the gym isn't the best place to engage in forklift training. And you engage in forklift training at the gym, expect to learn how to use a forklift to lift gym weights. Don't expect to also get the benefits that the gym is designed to impart.
chias commented on We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data levs.fyi/blog/we-found-in... · Posted by u/Ostatnigrosh
Now it's time for the devil's advocate-- if the title was "some people get in a lot of accidents", would the top comment be "actually it's more likely that insurance fraud is the answer"
For what it's worth, the headline here does NOT say "we find it more likely than not that there is evidence of insurance fraud in our crash data".
chias commented on I should have loved biology too nehalslearnings.substack.... · Posted by u/nehal96
Write that in Old English orthography and you'll make a more consistent argument.
Þis is án ungeswutellic andswaru. Wé ne sculon bǣgan spræce ymbe ungewitt. Þǣr is fægernes tō earfeþe. Bidd þé niman án ōþer tid tō smeagan þis sylf.