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clippyplz commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired
>If web apps were any good, we'd see a plethora of them on Android. There are none (or very, very, very few).
This statement alone is evidence that you didn't understand the crux of the issue. You are also confusing cause and effect. I clearly explained the root causes for that. The reason there are not more web apps is not that they aren't "good" - what does that even mean? what is the criterion for "good" here? If you say that it's because they lack certain features, then you confirmed my point that it's due to active sabotage and denial of equal rights. Be specific, why are they not "good"? There wouldn't be coincidentally a mysterious opposing force that actively prevents developers from improving those aspects, right?
>There are none (or very, very, very few).
X (Twitter) - has PWA
Pinterest - has PWA
Spotify - has PWA
Uber - Hybrid
Starbucks - has PWA
Again, you're confusing cause and effect. It's like actively sabotaging a runner and saying: "See? that runner sucks!!" - Yeah because that runner is being actively sabotaged. You're completely ignoring all the evidence and simply claiming that they are unpopular because they are not "good" when in reality they are unpopular because they have been sabotaged to prevent them from challenging the gatekeeper's taxation funnels.
>If web apps were any good, nothing Apple "gatekeeps" would prevent you from building an amazing web app for iOS. The things Apple "gatekeeps" (such as mobile push) would not prevent you from making a smooth fast web app.
That's not even a coherent argument. Gatekeepers can sabotage competitors in many subtle ways to make the user experience subpar, it's not a 1-dimensional game where only feature parity can be weaponized. It's clear that you are actively refusing to understand the points being made. There is also documented evidence that Apple consistently engaged in practices that made any competing platform a worse experience. Gatekeepers have a conflict of interest and they consistently act in a manner that makes that bias glaring. Gatekeepers are also not morons, they know that it doesn't take much to introduce artificial friction while also maintaining plausible deniability. e.g. see court documents where Apple's engineers admit that they strategically use "scare screens" and that their managers would "definitely like that".
>They already are competing on a level playing field. It's not "lack of NFC" or "lack of Bluetooth" or "lack of <another moving goalpost>" that prevent you from having good web apps.
That's factually incorrect. As previously stated, it's not just a 1-dimensional form of sabotage where only feature parity is being weaponized but any form of artificially introduced friction, while being able to maintain plausible deniability - any of that will get the job done of shutting down any threat to the gatekeeper's taxation funnel. Furthermore, as open-web-advocacy.org states:
- #AppleBrowserBan Apple's ban of third party browsers on iOS is deeply anti-competitive, starves the Safari/WebKit team of funding and has stalled innovation for the past 10 years and prevented Web Apps from taking off on mobile. (https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban...)
-Deep System Integration
Web Apps need to become just Apps. Apps built with the free and open web need equal treatment and integration. Closed and heavily taxed proprietary ecosystems should not receive any preference.
- Web App Equality
All artifical barriers placed by gatekeepers must be removed. Web Apps if allowed can offer equivalent functionality with greater privacy and security for demanding use-cases.
> If you say that [PWAs] lack certain features, then you confirmed my point that it's due to active sabotage and denial of equal rights
How does that follow?
More generally, do you have any sources for your repeated claims of intentional sabotage? You make accusations of ignoring evidence but you have provided none - unless you're saying that apple has already poisoned the well and anything they do is suspect.
clippyplz commented on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files anuraag2601.github.io/gem... · Posted by u/anuraag2601
I read over the author's analysis of the `mkdir` error. The author thinks that the abundance of error codes that mkdir can return could've confused gemini, but typically we don't check for every error code, we just compare the exit status with the only code that means "success" i.e. 0.
I'm wondering if the `mkdir ..\anuraag_xyz project` failed because `..` is outside of the gemini sandbox. That _seems_ like it should be very easy to check, but let's be real that this specific failure is such a cool combination of obviously simple condition and really surprising result that maybe having gemini validate that commands take place in its own secure context is actually hard.
Anyone with more gemini experience able to shine a light on what the error actually was?
Glad to see someone else curious!
The problem that the author/LLM suggests happened would have resulted in a file or folder called `anuraag_xyz_project` existing in the desktop (being overwritten many times), but the command output shows no such file. I think that's the smoking gun.
Here's one missing piece - when Gemini ran `move * "..\anuraag_xyz project"` it thought (so did the LLM summary) that this would move all files and folders, but in fact this only moves top-level files, no directories. That's probably why after this command it "unexpectedly" found existing folders still there. That's why it then tries to manually move folders.
If the Gemini CLI was actually running the commands it says it was, then there should have been SOMETHING there at the end of all of that moving.
The Gemini CLI repeatedly insists throughout the conversation that "I can only see and interact with files and folders inside the project directory" (despite its apparent willingness to work around its tools and do otherwise), so I think you may be onto something. Not sure how that result in `move`ing files into the void though.
2 posts on that page are less than 6 months old and they are both posts of the same thing.
What? No, there are over 300 results when filtering by "last 6 months".
clippyplz commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
Find the webpage where you can buy googles user data. Not where you can buy ad slots, but where you can buy the raw tracking data like data brokers sell.
I'll wait.
Try looking for something like "cia ads track" in your favorite search engine. The data comes with the ads, it's not a secret.
clippyplz commented on Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally seangoedecke.com/inferenc... · Posted by u/ingve
I haven't looked for awhile but is deepseek online still about 1/100th the cost of its competitors?
Depends on who you think its competitors are - deepseek-chat ($0.27/M in; $1.10/M out) is twice as expensive as Gemini 2.5 Flash ($0.15; $0.60) but far cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4 ($3; $15).
clippyplz commented on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken whichyr.com/... · Posted by u/trymas
There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the location
Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203511
edit: found another game like OP in the linked thread https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html
Another for year + location https://whentaken.com/
>"But stalkers!"
The stalkers are already in the house, this list isn't exhaustive by any means:
USA:
N.J. cop used police databases to stalk ex-girlfriend, investigators say https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2023/01/nj-cop-used-police-datab...
Officer Fired for Allegedly Using Police Database to Stalk, Harass Women https://www.newsweek.com/officer-fired-allegedly-using-polic...
Australia:
Former policeman accused of using force database to stalk ex-wife and girlfriend https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/former-policeman...
Former federal police officer faces new charges over stalking of ex-girlfriend https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6138318/former-federa...
(Note the two above articles are not the same person)
UK: Met police officer 'used CCTV cameras to stalk his ex-girlfriend after telling her to take up sex work to pay her bills' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11868575/Met-police...
Creepy cop saw attractive woman on the road and 'looked up her license plate number so he could stalk her on Facebook' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178556/Officer-Jef...
Large miss-use in just California:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/california-police-misu...
I agree with what you're saying, but don't understand the point - if police officers in the US (about a million adult professionals) are abusing this data, wouldn't opening it up to ~300 million random people result in far more abuse than we're already seeing?
Still a cool project, but someone who does not understand markdown would wonder why pressing the heading button makes my text into a hashtag instead of making it bigger.